| Right-wing
Commentator Trashes Hunger Strikers at Camden Yards
August 21, 2007
RIGHT-WING COMMENTATOR TRASHES HUNGER STRIKERS AT
CAMDEN YARDS
For immediate
release
Right-wing commentator
Dan Gainor trashes the Camden Yards cleaners who are preparing
to hunger strike starting Sept 3, 2007 in order to secure
a living wage at the publicly owned stadium. The United Workers
demand an apology from the Baltimore Examiner for publishing
"hateful trashing of low-wage workers" and challenges
Gainor to a debate in any forum over the poverty conditions
at Camden Yards.
"When
I worked at Camden Yards the stadium pick-pocketed me, making
me work without paying me a dime. At first I joined the United
Workers because I wasn’t paid for my work at Camden
Yards," says hunger striker Carl Johnson. "It’s
been two years and they still owe me for the work I did there.
But I’m doing more than getting what they stole from
me. I am winning a living wage for everyone."
After three years
of broken promises the workers are fed up and have demanded
that the Maryland Stadium Authority pay cleaners a living
wage. If this demand is not met by Sept 1, 2007 cleaners will
hunger strike starting at 12 Noon on Sept 3, 2007. The Living
Wages Hunger Strike begins with a procession starting from
Light Street Presbyterian Church (809 Light Street). The procession
starts at 11 AM with a prayer breakfast before the hunger
strikers will march to Camden Yards (Gate F, Camden and Russel
Streets).
Gainor belittles
the cleaners as the "least-skilled labor" who do
not require training and who deserve poverty wages. Gainor
compares the Living Wages Hunger Strike to the "great
labor battles" of American history, including the Haymarket
riots and the Camden Yards railroad strike of 1877, but trashes
the cleaners for demanding more than a dime.
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