UAW Joins Clergy And Farm Worker Activists Picketing 100 Chase Bank Branches

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/Channels/Story.aspx?ID=1324936

12/9/2010
By Doug Cunningham

UAW activists are joining with clergy and farm worker activists to picket a hundred Chase Bank branches across the country Friday. The International Human Rights Day protest urges Chase to adopt a one-year moratorium on home foreclosures. Protesters also want Chase to use its influence as the lead banker for RJ Reynolds to facilitate talks to improve living and working conditions for the farm workers who work the tobacco fields. UAW President Bob King says he’s seen the squalid conditions tobacco farm workers endure. He says Chase Bank has an opportunity and a social responsibility to bring RJ Reynolds to the table to stop this human exploitation.
By Doug Cunningham