January 15: Stand with oil workers! Solidarity PicketThursday, January 15 at 7:00pm Stand with oil workers! Solidarity Picket The contract covering oil workers nationally will expire on February 1st, 2009. Oil workers- who work in the refinery industry and often risk their lives working in explosive neglected refineries, are organizing to get a new contract, and we're standing in solidarity with their demands that it provides safer working conditions. Solidarity with Oil Workers The Pittsburgh Organizing Group is organizing an action in solidarity with oil industry workers, to take place on January 15th, 2009. We will be picketing outside the Exxon station at Penn and Main. Our goal is not to harass or target the owner of the particular franchised filling station, but to draw attention to the injustices against workers that continues to be perpetrated by the Exxon-Mobil Corporation, like the rest of the oil industry. In a time of economic hardship for almost every American, something doesn't add up: The CEOs of the oil industry make, on average, $27 million each. While many people are losing their jobs, getting foreclosed on, or being evicted, these people and the shareholders of the oil companies continue to post record profits. Exxon and the oil industry have neglected working conditions at home and have a history of attacking critics and undermining opposition movement that has led to the murder of community organizers in places such as Nigeria. They continue to wreak environmental harm on low income communities and communities of color and they leave taxpayers and working people with the bill. We understand that it's not gas consumer versus oil worker, or transit rider versus bus driver, but rather worker versus boss. We invite you to join us in sending a message of solidarity to workers struggling for justice. Pittsburgh Organizing Group |
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