Jimmy John’s workers launch viral campaign for paid sick days

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http://www.workdayminnesota.org/articles/jimmy-john%E2%80%99s-workers-launch-viral-campaign-paid-sick-days



Jimmy John's workers are using this poster to promote their campaign for paid sick days.

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota September 1, 2014

MINNEAPOLIS
Three years ago, Jimmy John’s fired six Minneapolis sandwich workers for putting up over 3,000 posters publicizing a grisly truth: workers at the chain are routinely forced by company policy and low pay to come to work and make sandwiches while sick.

Following a National Labor Relations Board ruling last week ordering the company to reinstate the unlawfully fired whistle-blowers, the workers have escalated their campaign for paid sick days, this time putting up the now-famous “Sandwich Test” posters coast to coast in a social media challenge.

“Jimmy John’s thought that they could silence us by firing six core members of our organizing effort,” said Erik Forman, an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World, the union of Jimmy John’s workers.

“They were wrong. Starting on Labor Day, union supporters will be putting up copies of the poster Jimmy John’s fired us for publicizing in cities all across the United States, and sharing photos of the posters on social media. We have simple demands: give workers paid sick days, and comply with the NLRB’s order to reinstate the six of us who spoke out with the truth.”

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