Reply #5: Demonstrate against UW Nike contract 11/20

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Come join Jobs with Justice and the Student Labor Action Project to protest the University of Washington's decision to ignore workers' rights and sign a $39 million contract with Nike.
Date: Thursday, November 20th
When: 2:30pm
Where: University of Washington's Red Square (Seattle Campus) Map
(Accessible via Metro Routes from downtown - #71, 72, 73, 74)



Why: The Student Labor Action Project (SLAP) at the University of Washington's Seattle Campus is asking for broad community support and attendance for this action on Thursday, November 20th. Come to Red Square at 2:30pm to tell University of Washington's President Mark A. Emmert and the Board of Regents to defend workers' rights by adopting fair labor standards!


SLAP has been engaged in a campaign to get the University to toughen its stance on worekrs' rights for more than two years, and made a major gain when the University committed to the Designated Suppliers Program, the latest advance from the worker rights monitoring organization as the Workers' Rights Consortium.


In spite of the administration' s claims to support workers' rights, there have been continued documented abuses by both the Fair Labor Association and the Workers' Rights Consortium under the current rules. Workers in apparel factories worldwide are still living in conditions of modern day slavery, without the right to organize, without a right to have a family, in many cases without even the basic necessities of food, clothing, and shelter. This is due to multinational corporations want cheaper labor and higher profits - the same reason that they more our jobs overseas.
WE have a chance now to bring social justice to the workers: Come out to this rally and protest this process, and tell NIKE and the University that workers' rights come first!


For more information, call the JwJ office at 206.441.4969