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United Way of Southeastern PA - Stuff the Bus Event!

Organized labor and the Community Supports Stuff the Bus!
We are collecting school supplies for kids living in shelters
Friday Night August 23rd
Hard Rock Cafe
12th and Market St.
Philadelphia, PA
9p.m. - Midnight
(UGO)Urban Guerrilla Orchestra will be playing! Come down and let's Rock the house!

United Way of Southeastern PA Stuff the Bus Initiative

Last year organized labor and the United Way of SEPA prepared and distributed more than 3,500 book bags to children living in shelters. Because of this effort these children were able to start the school year off on the right foot with all the tools needed to help them succeed in school. This year we want to repeat this successful effort by providing 5,000 children with book bags filled with supplies but we can't do it without your help.

The Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO and the United Way will collect school supplies through July 31, 2010. Please encourage everyone you know to donate. Drop off locations are located through out the city including the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO 22 S. 22nd Street, 2nd FL and the United Way headquarters 1707 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.

We welcome financial contributions with checks made payable to the United Way of SEPA and forwarded to the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO 22 S. 22nd Street, 2nd Fl Philadelphia, PA 19103 attention Janet Ryder. Local unions that donate school supplies may include your logo on the item. We need 5,000 of any of the following items:

book bags, notebooks, pens, pencils, crayons, rulers, erasers, three-ring binders, loose leaf paper, composition books, folders, glue sticks, scientific calculators and flash drives

Volunteers will assemble the book bags at United Way headquarters from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the following dates:

Monday through Thursday - August 23 - 26, 2010

More dates may be added to this schedule depending on the volume of the collection and the distribution schedule.

We hope you will support this worthy cause.

Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 492 Support Boycott

Kraft Foods announced effective June 19, 2009 that all Fig-Newton products would now be made exclusively in Monterey Mexico which would eliminate some (60) sixty jobs at their Chicago Bakery.

Then on August 14, 2009 they announced that effective summer 2010 that all Honey Maid Graham Cracker production would also be moved to their Mexico location. Costing the Philadelphia Bakery and the Atlanta Ga. Bakery around (50)fifty jobs each.

Please support BCTWGM Local 492 by boycotting all Kraft Foods Nabisco Fig-Newtons and Honey Maid Graham Crackers. Along with the boycott please call Kraft Foods 1-877-535-5666 and tell them that we will no longer purchase these items until their production is brought back to the United States.