The Cincinnati Beacon
A Rally in Support of A Living Wage for Rumpke Workers & More Recycling for the City
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Posted by Media Release
Day Labor Organizing Committee
Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center
JOIN US MAY 19 at 12:00 PM
The Finance Committee will meet May 19 at 1:00 to pass a motion that will affect the City’s negotiations with Rumpke. We will show support for the right kind of motion at Noon, and participate in the public comment session at the Committee meeting that starts at 1pm at City Hall.
What: A Rally in Support of A Living Wage for Rumpke Workers & More Recycling for the City: 12pm outside of City Hall on Plum Street.
Who is will participate: Community, Labor & Faith Based groups and individuals in support of Rumpke Workers, The Sierra Club, The Day Labor Organizing Project & The Blue-Green Alliance
Flyer available here:
http://www.dlop.org/city_hall_flyer.pdf
Phone contact: 513.621.5991
Background on the struggle for living wages and increased recycling in Cincinnati
MORE VICTORIES
Rumpke recycling workers with the help of the Blue-Green Alliance have succeeded in bringing change to their jobs. By bringing public pressure calling for Rumpke and TLC to change, they now receive free transportation to the job site and the right to choose their own transportation back to TLC (avoiding the previous mandatory $7.00 fee). Earlier, they won changes to pay policies that have eliminated the 2 hour wait after each shift. They have won freely supplied safety equipment instead of paying costly fees.
CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS
The employers have refused to pay the City’s living wage as mandated by law. Currently City Council is considering a motion that would require the City to include strong living wage language and increase recycling requirements in next year’s contract. The current contract expires on May 31.
One draft motion calls for a living wage for ALL recycling workers and an increase in the refuse diverted from the landfill to 30%-40%. We strongly support this motion. Please call the Mayor and City Council Members in support of this draft. Tell them you support a living wage for all Rumpke recycling workers and an increase in recycling to 30%-40% of the waste stream!
Please call Cincinnati Council members this week (May 12-16) to make sure that when the motion on Rumpke is brought up in the Finance Committee on Monday May 19 that it include a living wage for all day labor workers at the Rumpke recycling facility:
1.Vice Mayor Crowley: 352-2453,
2. Jeff Berding, 352-3283; jeff.berding@ cincinnti-oh.gov
3. John Cranley (Chair of the Finance Committee, 352-3653,
4. Chris Monzel, 352-3653,
5. Cecil Thomas, 352-3499,
6. V.Laketa.Cole, 352-3255,
7. Lelsie Ghiz, 352-3344;
8. Roxanne Qualls, 352-3604,
9. Mayor Mark Mallory: 352-3250,
In Solidarity,
The Cincinnati Day Labor Organizing Project
at the Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center
40 E McMicken, Cincinnati, OH
513 621-5991
Planning for the Rally
If you are interested in working with us on the rally, please contact us or come to a meeting to plan our strategy for the rally:
Saturday May 17, at 10:00 AM, Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center 40 E. McMicken (Nu BlendBuilding, entrance to our office is in back of the building.)
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