H<span>ere's an easy way to help the Flex-N-Gate campaign!! Please feel free to pass on to whoever is interested.</span><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Ingbert<br>
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<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ken Powell</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:KPowell@uaw.net" target="_blank">KPowell@uaw.net</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:04 AM<br>Subject: Flex-N-Gate update, next steps<br>To: <a href="mailto:ifloyd2@gmail.com" target="_blank">ifloyd2@gmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:stephseawell@gmail.com" target="_blank">stephseawell@gmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:walkiewicz@gmail.com" target="_blank">walkiewicz@gmail.com</a><br>
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<div>Katie, Stephanie, & Ingbert -</div>
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<div>Hope you're well, and that things aren't too crazy as the semester winds down. Wanted to update you on how things went last week in New York, and let you know what the next steps are coming out of those actions.</div>
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<div>Last Thursday we had a press conference in front of the NFL's pop-up store in Manhattan to highlight the health and safety issues faced by workers in Flex-N-Gate plants, and raise environmental and health concerns around a closed plant in Highland Park, MI. After the press conference we marched to the NFL headquarters, where a delegation delivered materials outlining these concerns to NFL Commissioner Goodell.</div>
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<div>The good news is that the Commissioner has committed to respond to these concerns by May 11 - next Friday. Ahead of that date we're collecting signatures for an online petition to the Commissioner, asking him to urge Khan to address these concerns and clean up his act. The petition is at <a href="http://www.justiceatflexngate.org/nfl" target="_blank">www.justiceatflexngate.org/nfl</a>. Could you get this out to GEO, the Campus Labor Coalition listserv, Occupy CU, and any other groups or individuals you think might be interested? Feel free to circulate far and wide!</div>
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<div>If you're interested in watching the press conference it's available at <a href="http://bit.ly/Iu8Wre" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/Iu8Wre</a>, and some NYT coverage of the day's actions is at <a href="http://nyti.ms/KfgTS7" target="_blank">http://nyti.ms/KfgTS7</a>.</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
<div>Ken</div>
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<div>Ken Powell</div>
<div>UAW Strategic Research</div>
<div><a href="tel:%28313%29%20405-2611" value="+13134052611" target="_blank">(313) 405-2611</a></div></div>
</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>==========================================<br>Ingbert Schmidt<br><a href="http://ingbert.org/" target="_blank">http://ingbert.org/</a> || skype/twitter/etc.: spacesoon<br>
<br>"Dream in a pragmatic way."<br>-Aldous Huxley<br>