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Response to Governor and MSA Chairman's Positive Comments
September 2, 2007
IN RESPONSE TO GOVERNOR AND MSA CHAIRMAN'S POSITIVE
COMMENTS, UNITED WORKERS TO POSTPONE LIVING WAGES HUNGER STRIKE
AT CAMDEN YARDS
For immediate
release
On Sept. 3, 2007
at 11:15 AM the United Workers will announce that due to positive
signs coming from both the Governor and the Chairman of the
Maryland Stadium Authority (MSA) that the Living Wages Hunger
Strike will be postponed until Sept 8, 2007. The announcement
will take place during the Labor Day Prayer Breakfast at Light
Street Presbyterian Church (809 Light Street), which was to
be the kick off event for the hunger strike.
The postponement
of the hunger strike is intended to allow breathing room for
the MSA to work out specific plans for securing a living wage
for the cleaners at Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium.
"On Friday
the Governor and the MSA Chairman came out publicly in favor
of living wages,” said Carl Johnson of the United Workers.
“We considered their public comments to be an indication
of a good faith effort at figuring out how to end poverty
wages at Camden Yards."
"We're postponing
the start date to give the MSA some breathing room so that
the MSA can turn words into actions and intentions into commitments,”
said Johnson.
"After three
years of organizing and fighting for a living wage we want
to make sure that a living wage is actually won in the end.
We'd prefer to call off the hunger strike altogether once
a binding living wages solution is in place, and we're hopeful
that the breathing room this postponement can provide will
help get the MSA to the needed living wages solution."
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