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«Saturday June 09, 2007»
Start: 9:30 am
End: 11:30 pm

Action Alert: March & Picket to demand Justice for fired IWW* Warehouse workers

In the courts and in the streets, the IWW Food and Allied Workers Union (IU460/640) is refusing to back down against EZ-Supply and Handyfat Trading's illegal union-busting. --- What: March from EZ-Supply (a.k.a. Sunrise Plus) to Handyfat, two Food Wholesale Warehouses that illegally fired 21 workers in December in retaliation for organizing a union with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). --- When: Saturday, June 9th 9:30am. --- Where: Starting Location: E-Z Supply, 48-01 Metropolitan Ave. Ridgewood, Queens 11385. (Just on the border of Ridgewood, Queens and Bushwick, Brooklyn). --- Directions by Subway – Take the L train to the Grand stop. Walk east on Grand (you will pass a tortilla factory and then a block later a gas station on your left). Walk over a bridge then veer slightly to the right on Metropolitan Ave. Walk on Metropolitan past a fork in the road for a total of 6 blocks until you reach EZ Supply on the left hand side of the street. A map is included below or see Mapquest.com if you need to.