SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 10 AM TO 2 PM
9AM REGISTRATION
McMillen Park Community Center, 3901 Abbott St., Fort Wayne
Workers’ Law and More
The Great Resignation and Beyond
THE GREAT RESIGNATION AND BEYOND:
A Workers’ Look at Hard Facts and New Possibilities
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1
5:30 PM Food/Beverages–6:30 Presentations & Discussion
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY-BASEMENT AUDITORIUM
900 Library Plaza, Fort Wayne, IN 46802
–FREE–
Presentations by Labor Market Analysts
Jerry Paar–Labor Educator and Analyst-Indianapolis
Gregor Koso–Labor Educator and Analyst-South Bend
Interactive Questions and Answers
What we all need to know and do to make our jobs work for us.
Workers’ Project Labor Market Survey
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Organizing in the pandemic – Part Two
Organizing in the pandemic
Workers’ Project Friend Documents His Own Covid Case
A friend of the Workers’ Project, 13News investigative reporter Bob Segall, documents his own Covid case.
Hispanic family sues Tyson for wrongful Covid death
The family of Isidro Fernández, who died of Covid-19 as a consequence of willful acts by Tyson’s management at a Waterloo, Iowa packing plant, is suing Tyson.
The cynical managers had placed bets on how many workers would become infected with Covid-19.
Ironically, for purposes of this Iowa article, Business Insider used a “file photo” of Tyson’s Logansport plant, located in management-friendly Indiana.
To contact the author, Sarah Al-Arshani, click here.
Let their voices be heard: A Workers’ Project Production
Sunday, April 23, 2017
2:00 PM
Allen County Public Library Theatre
900 Library Plaza, Fort Wayne, IN
The Workers’ Project invited attendees of the 2016 Organized Labors’ Labor Day Picnic to step in front of a camera and share their concerns about the most pressing community issues. This documentary is a compilation of these citizens’ concerns, hopes, and dreams for our community. The documentary also features several Workers’ Projects volunteers and their vision for developing a community of empowered workers. The creators of the documentary will be available afterward to discuss the film. Workers’ Project volunteers will also be available to share how they are bringing voice and power to workers in Northeast Indiana and beyond.
View the documentary trailer on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6oqpibEEvI&feature=youtu.be
Tickets can be reserved online https://www.eventbrite.com/e/let-their-voices-be-heard-a-workers-project-production-tickets-33358168179
Find this event on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/367108033682759/
LET THEIR VOICES BE HEARD
A WORKERS’ PROJECT ORIGINAL FILM
Sunday, April 23, 2017
2:00 PM
Allen County Public Library Theatre
900 Library Plaza, Fort Wayne, IN
The Workers’ Project invited attendees of the 2016 Organized Labors’ Labor Day Picnic to step in front of a camera and share their concerns about the most pressing community issues. This documentary is a compilation of these citizens’ concerns, hopes, and dreams for our community. The documentary also features several Workers’ Projects volunteers and their vision for developing a community of empowered workers. The creators of the documentary will be available afterward to discuss the film. Workers’ Project volunteers will also be available to share how they are bringing voice and power to workers in Northeast Indiana and beyond.
View the documentary trailer on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6oqpibEEvI&feature=youtu.be
Tickets can be reserved online https://www.eventbrite.com/e/let-their-voices-be-heard-a-workers-project-production-tickets-33358168179
Find this event on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/367108033682759/
Getting Frank About “Get Frank With Frank” Food: The Correct Term is “Working Appetizers”
GET FRANK WITH FRANK
SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 6-9 PM, CS3 HIDEAWAY, 1925 SOUTH CALHOUN
About the food, working appetizers? No, not hors d’oeuvres or canapes or tapas. Heck, according to Wikipedia, hors d’oeuvres means “outside the work” but what we’re talking about is at-work food. This is a time-honored tradition for which the Workers’ Project is claiming the trademark on this soon-to-be trendiest new cuisine. It spans from back-in-the-day of 20th century factory rats to today’s food and health conscious food service workers.
For those of us factory rats who worked at GE, Harvester, Freuhauf, Falstaff, or you name the totally depopulated workplace, there was a tradition, usually on Friday at lunch. An enterprising co-worker would sweet talk the boss into allowing the worker to take orders from co-workers and then slip out a little before lunchtime to bring back dozens and dozens of some raucously sinful lunch delight. Coney Island Hot Dogs, Powers Hamburgers, Pizza and Sausage Rolls, Brooks Bar-B-Que, were common foods. Other times someone’s mother would make big batches of tamales. In any case, everyone on the shop floor, overate together, and never complained as they stretched their belts and lunchtimes.
We’re honoring that tradition and updating it. For our working appetizers we’ll have small but plentiful portions of Coney Island Hot Dogs, Powers Hamburgers, River Bend (original and authentic Lexy’s) pizza and sausage rolls, rib tips from newly resurrected Brooks Bar-B-Que, and Mexican food from Los Cabos.
We’ve also update the menu from Northeast Indiana’s 21st century workers. We’ll serve Burmese samosas, vegetarian foods, healthy snacks, and, of course, a variety modern delicacies from Calhoun Street Soups, Salads, and Spirits (CS3).
One upgrade from eating at work, we’ll have an official cash bar.