Baltimore Jimmy John's workers announce IWW membership, present demands to management

[Omaha Steve]

http://libcom.org/news/baltimore-jimmy-johns-workers-announce-iww-membership-present-demands-management-12082014




A Jimmy John's Workers Union-IWW campaign has gone public in Baltimore, Maryland.


BALTIMORE, MD - Workers at Jimmy Johns have announced their membership in the IWW Jimmy John's Workers Union and have asked management to recognize their union and negotiate. This decision was prompted by the actions of Mike Gillett and Danny Dolch, owners of the Jimmy Johns franchise, who have targeted workers for their desire to have a more fair workplace.

Workers and supporters leafleted the Pratt Street location and presented demands this morning, declaring their membership in the IWW Jimmy Johns Workers Union.

The demands of the IWW Jimmy Johns Workers Union include union recognition and wage parity with their landlord hotel, the Hilton. Wage parity would bring Driver's wages to $10.75 an hour, In-shop wages to $11.34 an hour, and Persons In Charge wages to $12.34 an hour. They are also demanding that wage parity with the Hilton be maintained.

"We're not people to this company," says Jimmy John's worker and IWW member Isaac Dalto. "we're labor costs. We need a union to secure fair pay, guaranteed hours, and paid sick days, because those things are basic human rights. We will not be taken advantage of, and we'll keep fighting for as long as it takes."

FULL story at link.

[bigtree]

1. solidarity

k&r

[Maedhros]

2. Go Wobblies!

Unions may yet save our nation.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. Big Bill Haywood is smiling.

[redqueen]

4. That is excellent!

[hifiguy]

5. This warms my heart.

Twenty years ago I worked in a bookstore and one of the other guys and I threatened to form a chapter of the Wobblies as a prank on the owner. Great to some folks are doing it seriously IRL. Solidarity forever!

[Kingofalldems]

6. Kick and Rec.

[leftstreet]

7. DURec

[RufusTFirefly]

8. K & R for the Wobblies!

Thanks for posting, Omaha Steve!

[ReRe]

9. K&R

Yeah! Solidarity forever. Solidarity forever. Solidarity forever. The IWW will make you strong!

[TexasTowelie]

10. K&R

Thank you for posting Steve. I'm definitely an advocate for unions and non-union worker associations if unions cannot be organized because of legal restrictions.

[RadiationTherapy]

11. I am boycotting my local JJs because of their

numerous "decorations" that are mostly screeds about bootstrapping one's way too success and "the ONLY DIFFERENCE between a SUCCESSFUL person and an UNSUCCESSFUL person is HARD WORK!" For someone like me who has a father blinded at 42 due to a brain tumor and a brother who's body is severely disabled due to surviving cancer and radiation in his 20s, this kind of bullshit "simple-speak" enrages me.

[Omaha Steve]

12. Good for you

[socialist_n_TN]

13. Solidarity with the Wobblies......

nm

[PowerToThePeople]

14. +Gazzillion

Dude, they ROCK!!!!!