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
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The Changes We Have Just Achieved Are Huge
A Testimonial from Jose Preciado, Lead Cook at Laguna Cliffs Marriott “We had so many brothers and sisters behind us, pastors and faith community, who were up there when we needed them at protests at the hotel. God talked to us and said, ‘You are not alone anymore. I promise to stay with you.’” –
A Thanksgiving Message from the E.D.
Dear Friend, I wanted to drop you a quick video note of thanks as you celebrate this holiday weekend. Watch the Video Here Thank you for being a part of the movement to create a more sacred and just society as a member of CLUE. We are in this together across regions and
September 2021 Newsletter
If you read nothing else, read this:
More than 100 members of the Shut Down Adelanto Coalition met virtually to hear about the harsh conditions and urgent need to close the for-profit immigrant detention center. |
Clergy and community members are hopeful that efforts to secure fair wages and protections Port Truck Drivers are about to pay off. Read about the community-wide effort to pass three new state bills. |
After 10 months of nonstop struggle, 800 NUHW members at medical centers across Orange County won a new contract that offers living wages and a more sustainable workload. Workers are saying THANK YOU!
November 2021: Updates from Across the Southland
Kingspan sheet metal workers go public with their campaign for safer working conditions. Disney workers hold a town hall to expose Disney’s inclination toward paying poverty wages. Catch up with the efforts to block the re-opening and expansion of the James A. Musick detention facility, and more!
Long Beach and South Bay Update November 2021
Our People Our Port Coalition CLUE has been working closely with LAANE and a part of the coalition Our People Our Port, to fight for fair wages and protections for port truck drivers. Since the beginning of the year, we have been advocating for two-state bills, SB 338, AB 794, to create consequences for law-breaking
