Below: Three Opportunities to Stand with Our Labor Allies

• Annual Letter Carriers Stamp out Hunger Food Drive

• Solidarity Contract Rally

• Labor Demonstration at FirstEnergy Shareholder Meeting

 Annual Letter Carriers  'Stamp Out Hunger' Food Drive

Your letter carrier will pick up donations of non-perishable food tomorrow, Saturday, May 11 as part of the 21st annual "Stamp Out Hunger" Food Drive, the largest annual food collection day in the United States. So you can donate to your local food pantry without leaving home!  Just leave non-perishable food items by your mail box with a note -- no postage necessary!

In 2012, the drive, sponsored by the Letter Carriers (NALC), collected more than 70 million pounds of food and it has collected nearly 1.2 billion pounds of food since it began in 1993. Donations are given directly to local food pantries and, in 2012, these donations served some 30 million people. While most food pantries get the bulk of their donations around Christmas and Thanksgiving, the NALC drive is done during the spring, when many food pantries are struggling.

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 Solidarity Contract Rally

To support workers during their upcoming contract negotiations, CWA Local 2001 and other WV Labor Unions are holding a solidarity rally to send a strong message to Frontier that labor is standing together for a fair contract:

Thursday May 16, 2001 11:00am-1:00pm,

1500 Mackorkle Avenue, Charleston, WV

(In front of the Frontier Building)

Speakers will include Ron Collins, CWA Chief of Staff and Ed Mooney, CWA Vice President Locals 2-13. The rally will feature musical entertainment, speakers and lunch!

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 Labor Demonstration at First Energy Shareholder Meeting

The Utility Workers of America, and the West Virginia AFL-CIO will be demonstrating against FirstEnergy  to protest their attacks on working families, their proposed cutbacks to consumer services and CEO pay schemes that hurt rate payers and shareholders.  FirstEnergy is the parent company of Mon Power and Potomac Edison that sends you an electric bill every month. Support the workers that fix your power when it goes out! Join them as they protest the FirstEnergy Shareholder meeting:

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

7 AM – 8:30 AM

(FirstEnergy Shareholder Meeting Begins at 8 AM)

Outside Waterfront Place Hotel

2 Waterfront Place, Morgantown, WV 26501

For more information contact: Charlie Rittenhouse @304-641-6852 / UWUAInfo@uwua.net

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