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Light Vigil for Living Wages at Camden Yards
September 4, 2007
CANDLE
LIGHT VIGIL FOR LIVING WAGES AT CAMDEN YARDS
For immediate
release
The United Workers
will hold a candle light vigil on Thursday Sept.6, 2007 at
7:00 PM, starting at 809 Light Street. Following a prayer
service at Light Street Presbyterian Church workers and allies
will walk to Camden Yards for a candle light vigil at the
publicly-owned stadium.
The vigil is being
held to either further pressure the Maryland Stadium Authority
(MSA) to turn words into actions and intentions into comitments
or to celebrate victory following Thursday afternoon's scheduled
vote by the MSA to re-bid the current contract and include
livng wages in the request for proposals for the new contract.
If the MSA fails
to keep the promise to pay cleaners a living wage starting
next baseball season, the Living Wages Hunger Strike will
start Saturday Sept. 8, 2007 at 2:00 PM - just before the
long-scheduled Concert for Human Rights.
If the MSA passes
a resolution to re-bid the current contract and included living
wages in the request for proposals, the cleaners at Camden
Yards will become part of Maryland's living wage legacy. Baltimore
City was the first city in the nation to pass a living wage
ordinance. The state of Maryland recently passed the nation's
first state living wage law. If the resolution passes, the
United Workers will be the first human rights organization
led by the poor to successfully demand and secure living wages
for day laborers.
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