Wednesday March 12

War Affects Our Industry

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Saturday MARCH 15th
WORLD WITHOUT WAR

The Freightliner Five-Robert Whiteside, Allen Bradley, Franklin Torrence, Glenna Swinford and David Crisco- are members of the negotiating committee of United Auto Workers Local 3520 in Cleveland, N.C. They were fired by Freightliner in April 2007 after leading a walkout when management broke off negotiations without extending the union contract.

Since then, the workers have been appealing for support to keep up the fight as an arbitrator prepares to hear their case. Their speaking tour has included stops in Detroit and Chicago and upcoming visits include San Fransisco, LA. and Portland (Freightliner's corparate headquarters). The importance of a victory in the struggle is magnified due to the historic weakness of the U.S. labor movement to organize the South.

Join us in the spirit of solidarity with these dedicated and heroic trade unionist as they seek justice. Help raise money for their defence campaign and to find out how you can help win their jobs back!

Learn more at: http://justice4five.com

and also: five 4 justice

FEB13 PATFR MEETING

The Association for Union Democracy

The process of being active within your union can open up a lot of doors to information, A few of us here at PATFR have found a great satisfaction in educating ourselves on the labor movement . Through the course of this week we are studying an article from The Association for Union Democracy website The article comes from the book: Rebels, Reformers, and Racketeers: how insurgents transformed the labor movement, by Herman Benson. We encourage all to read up and share your comments , the article can be accessed by linking here at Chapter 5.

Happy Holidays

See you all at the January 11th PATFR meeting.

JAN 11 PATFR MEETING

DEC 12 PATFR MEETING

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

IUPAT

As things begin rolling around here at the PATFR blog, we welcome you to study the IUPAT web page , filled with information regarding our union on an international level. Its a good practice to keep up on our brotherhood, beyond the scope of our own local.