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DESCRIPTION:SUPPORT BEN DAVIS WORKERS!  Who: Supervisor Daly, Ben Davis workers, 
 UNITE-HERE, Chinese Progressive Association, Sweatshop Watch and other 
 labor and community supporters  When:	Tuesday, July 20th, 1 PM rally 2PM 
 meeting  Where: 	San Francisco City Hall, Civic Center Side (Polk between 
 McAllister and Fulton)  Since the 1930s, Ben Davis has been a union factory 
 that supported its workers. The MAJORITY of the workers have worked there 
 over 25 years. Now in its third generation, owner Frank Davis wants to 
 break his own family traditions by cutting his workers’ benefits.  Ben 
 Davis workers have been in negotiations with the owner since November 2003. 
 The owner has insisted on concessions in health & welfare, vacations, 
 holidays and sick days using the new San Francisco minimum wage as 
 justification. The workers have rejected the company’s proposals and now 
 have been threatened with the closure of the plant and moving the work out 
 of the country. The company has also terminated health care for some 
 workers to threaten others into accepting the cuts.  Now San Francisco 
 Supervisor Chris Daly has authored a resolution supporting the rights of 
 Ben Davis workers and defending the intent of our new minimum wage law to 
 raise wages. The resolution will come to a vote at the next Board of 
 Supervisors meeting.  Ben Davis workers need your help and support.  They 
 will walk off their job on Tuesday, July 20, 2004, in protest of the 
 company’s bargaining tactics. They need labor and community support at 
 the rally and the Board of Supervisors meeting to follow.   Call UNITEHERE! 
  For more information:  (510) 351-2554\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/07/19/43313.php
SUMMARY:Support Ben Davis Garment Workers!
LOCATION:San Francisco City Hall, Civic Center Side (Polk between McAllister and 
 Fulton)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/07/19/43313.php
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