[OccupyCU] Fwd: [CentralILJwJ] Fwd: [Campuslabor] Flex-N-Gate Rally Thursday, April 26th

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FYI-More info on Flex-N-Gate Thurday Action received from Ricky and JwJ list serve. 

Sandra 


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Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 10:27:01 PM 
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This is a great explanation for why this is so very important! Thanks! 

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From: Ingbert Schmidt < ifloyd2 at gmail.com > 
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Sent: Sat, Apr 21, 2012 10:29:08 CDT 
Subject: [CentralILJwJ] Fwd: [Campuslabor] Flex-N-Gate Rally Thursday, April 26th [1 Attachment] 


[Attachment(s) from Ingbert Schmidt included below] 

Here's the Flex-N-Gate email Steph was talking about. 

Ingbert 

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From: Katie Walkiewicz < walkiewicz at gmail.com <mailto: walkiewicz at gmail.com >> 
Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:54 PM 
Subject: [Campuslabor] Flex-N-Gate Rally Thursday, April 26th 
To: campuslabor at lists.uigeo.org <mailto: campuslabor at lists.uigeo.org > 


Dear Friends, 

Please join the Undergraduate-Graduate Alliance (UGA) for a 12:00pm rally Thursday, April 26th at the Khan Annex (north side of Huff Hall) to ask the University to reconsider Khan’s alumni award. 

Shahid Khan, billionaire and U of I alumni, is receiving one of two “University of Illinois Alumni Achievement Awards” at this year’s commencement ceremony. Khan is the owner of Flex-N-Gate, a company that makes car bumpers. Some of the company’s plants (including the one in Urbana) have forced workers to handle hazardous materials, like hexavalent chromium, without the proper safety equipment. In March a “Speak Out” was held at Channing-Murray in Urbana for Flex-N-Gate workers to share their experiences with the community: 
http://justiceatflexngate.org/video-flex-n-gate-workers-take-a-stand-for-safe-healthy-workplaces/ 

In addition to owning Flex-N-Gate, Khan recently became owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars. While he is willing and able to invest in new business ventures, he and his company have refused to invest in better environmental and safety conditions for his Flex-N-Gate workers. The 26th is the day of the NFL draft, so we stand with UAW workers rallying in NYC on the same day to ask that Khan improve conditions for Flex-N-Workers. 

Despite his company’s bad business practices, the University of Illinois has still chosen to honor Khan with an alumni award. While Khan is a major donor to the University—he and his wife recently donated $10 million to build Huff Hall's Khan Annex to house The Center on Health, Aging, and Disability—he does not represent an ethical, socially-responsible role model for graduating students and U of I alumni. 

If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact me. The flyer for the event is attached and here is the link to the Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/events/156159101177066/ 

Hope to see you on the 26th! 
Katie 

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Katie Walkiewicz 
PhD Candidate 
Department of English 
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
608 South Wright Street 
Urbana, Illinois 61801 

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