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*Media Advisory*
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Contact: Audra Makuch, UFCW
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FORMER A&P WORKERS, THROWN OUT OF WORK DURING THE HOLIDAYS, TO RALLY WITH SUPPORTERS AT BIG Y IN WEST HARTFORD
Workers and supporters—including Connecticut Attorney General and U.S. Senator-elect Richard Blumenthal—will rally and speak out for A&P workers and on Big Y’s refusal to hire many of them, and will ask Big Y to make a commitment to community this holiday season.
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West Hartford - Former A&P workers, United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 371 staff, shoppers, and supporters from the community will gather at the West Hartford Big Y store on North Main Street on December 22 to ask Big Y to make a commitment to community this holiday season.
Most A&P employees were not hired back after their stores were bought by the Big Y chain and re-opened as Big Y stores—despite workers’ many years of experience, skill, and dedication to their jobs. Entire families who had worked at A&P for generations were not re-hired at Big Y, and now find themselves out of work at the worst time—during an economic downturn and over the holidays. Workers, families, and shoppers in these communities are wondering, Why, Big Y? (For more information on the A&P workers, watch this video the workers made to speak out.)
As Big Y opens stores in Connecticut, these A&P workers, their customers and their supporters are asking Big Y to make a real commitment to our communities this holiday season. During tough economic times, the single most important thing that will help our communities prosper is jobs with real stability. Those at the rally will ask Big Y to rehire the A&P workers that are now out of work, and to commit to providing good jobs in our communities—jobs with full-time hours if workers want them—jobs that pay a living wage and come with good benefits.
What: Rally to Ask Big Y for a Commitment to Community
When: Wednesday, December 22, 2010
12:00 pm NOON
Where: In front of the Big Y
772 North Main Street
West Hartford, CT
Who: Attorney General and Senator-elect Richard Blumenthal will stop by to offer a few words of encouragement to the A&P workers. Workers, shoppers, local union staff, and other members of the community will be available for media interviews after the rally.
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) represents more than 1.3 million workers, primarily in the retail and meatpacking, food processing and poultry industries. The UFCW protects the rights of workers and strengthens America’s middle class by fighting for living wages, retirement security, safe working conditions, health care and immigration reform, and the right to unionize so that working men and women and their families can realize the American Dream. For more information about the UFCW’s effort to protect workers’ rights and strengthen America’s middle class, visit www.ufcw.org.