A Community Dialogue on Trade, Migration and Job Loss

Dec 08, 2008 09:00 PM

St. Andrews Church

Issues of trade and migration affect all workers' ability to fight for rights in the workplace and rebuild the broken economy. Join us for dinner and a dialouge. We invite you to hear from workers and share your own experience and ideas on these topics: The race to the bottom, Job Outsourcing, Job Loss and Immigration.

Hear stories from workers from both sides of the border whose jobs and livelihoods have been affected by Free Trade Agreements, workers in this country who have seen their employers undercut wages and benefits by hiring workers that can be exploited as cheap labor, and Immigrant workers about the conditions and exploitation that they face once they come to this country.

Current Co-Sponsors are The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Locals 8 and 5, the Northwest Worker Justice Project, Laborers Local 483, Laborers Northwest Regional Council, the Labor Education Research Center, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Locals 63 and 1005, Portland Peaceful Response, PSU Chapter of American Association of University Professors, State Representative Chip Shields, CAUSA, Oregon Fair Trade Campaign PCASC, SEIU Locals 49 and 503, AFSCME Council 75, AFSCME Local 88, The Inland Boatman's Union, the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 82, The American Federation of Government Employees Local 2157, Voz the Workers Rights Education Project, the Beaverton Education Association, Northwest Region American Postal Workers Union, Ainsworth United Church of Christ, the Amalgamated Transit Union Division 757, the American Friends Service Committee,  and more are in the process of signing on.