This May 1, WIN invites you to join us as we make May Day our Labor Day!
First Annual May Day Picnic
Friday May 1
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Christ Lutheran Church on Capitol Hill
105 University Ave. W. Saint Paul, MN
Eat! Celebrate! Act! Join us as we celebrate our work and take action that calls on the Governor and legislative leaders to pass a budget that sustains the important work of public employees and hospital workers in our communities!
Over two weekends in March, WIN congregational leaders brought 162 people together to learn about the organization’s work and to take action on two critical campaigns: a campaign in solidarity with public employees and a campaign in solidarity with Twin Cities hospital workers.
The organizing began in January, when 20 congregational leaders gathered to organize an action designed to get more people of faith involved in WIN’s work. In February, 80 people gathered at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, learned more about these two campaigns, and committed themselves to hosting house parties and gatherings to spread the word. [Read more →]
WIN leaders have been organizing since last November to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation at the federal level that would make it easier for workers to form unions and harder for employers to interfere with and punish union supporters. Worker leaders from WIN’s Interfaith Center for Worker Justice and Congregational Leaders organizing in their religious communities have collected over 1000 postcards calling on Congress to pass the legislation. [Read more →]
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