We Rise With Kingspan Workers
CLUE is so privileged to rise with the brave workers of Kingspan Light + Air in Santa Ana, who are demanding clean air, living wages, and that their management provide a fair process to join the Sheet Metal Air Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART) union!
After months of organizing underground, these workers went public on Tuesday October 19th, along with a delegation of community and faith leaders.
“Kingspan and other corporations like them are responsible to the communities in which they do business. And workers negatively impacted by such enterprises have the right to ask that those issues be redressed in a fair manner.”
– Rev. Adiel DePano, lead pastor at Santa Ana United Methodist Church
Links
- LA Times/Daily Pilot: For unionizing factory workers in Santa Ana, indoor air pollution is more pressing than pay (Oct 20, 2021)
- Clean Up Kingspan website | FB page
- SMART press release
- Cal/OSHA complaint
- Cal EPA complaint
For more details contact faith-rooted organizer Adam Overton, aoverton@cluejustice.org
A Larger, Fairer Economy
Join us for Architects of Justice!
Join us for an inspiring evening to benefit CLUE and fuel the organized, connected interfaith movement of justice in Orange County. Early Bird Tickets are available for a limited time only. Plus sponsorships and tribute ads for honorees Kingspan Light & Air Workers, Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, and special guest Rev. James M. Lawson Jr.4 May 2022
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Join us for Architects of Justice!
Join us for an inspiring evening to benefit CLUE and fuel the organized, connected interfaith movement of justice in Orange County. Early Bird Tickets are available for a limited time only. Plus sponsorships and tribute ads for honorees Kingspan Light & Air Workers, Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, and special guest Rev. James M. Lawson Jr.
April 2022 Email Digest
During the worst of the COVID pandemic, our sisters and brothers who work in the grocery chains kept the shelves stocked, worked as cashiers, and staffed the deli and meat counters. In short, they helped us get our food. They did this at real risk to their own health. Some of them died.
April 2022 Full Newsletter
Grocery Workers Win * Architects of Justice Early Bird Tickets * Black and Brown Clergy and Community Coalition Supports County Workers * Boycott Chateau Marmont and more
Grocery Workers across So Cal continue to demand decent pay and fair scheduling even as they ponder a decision to strike.
A January 2022 Economic Roundtable report highlighted the desperate plights of grocery workers including low-wages and last-minute scheduling that sends them scrambling to find childcare and transportation. The study is a lot to digest, but the bottom line is this: Kroger (Ralphs/Food 4 Less) is extracting profit and exploiting workers to maximize CEO pay and
March 2022 Email Digest
As global turmoil continues to dominate headlines, we pray for peace across the world (because we must). And we work to create justice here in our backyard (because we can).
Indeed, CLUE supporters are engaging in the vital local work of organizing for just and fair workplaces all across Southern California.
March 2022 Full Newsletter
Call to Support Grocery Workers * Stand With Hotel Workers * Bakery Workers and Bus Drivers Win * Welcome CLUE’s Newest Member * And More
