Union Organization Meeting For Food and Retail Workers Monday Evening

On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 6 PM, the Providence branch of the Industrial Workers of the World will host a town hall-style organizational meeting for food and retail workers interested in unionizing their workplaces at 319 Broadway in Providence.  Called PRECARIOUS AND PISSED OFF! A FORUM FOR FOOD AND RETAIL WORKERS, the event is described by the hosts as the following:

This is a town hall meeting for and by food and retail workers in the Providence Metro Area to come together and learn about the future of the industry and why we need to organize together as food and retail workers today.

The IWW is one of America's oldest still-extant labor unions.  Founded on July 27, 1905 in Chicago, it is based around the syndicalist model of organization, where members of multiple trades are united in One Big Union instead of divided into different trade unions.  Famous members include Mother Jones, Lucy Parsons, Helen Keller, linguist Noam Chomsky, musician Tom Morello, anthropologist David Graeber, and Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the ACLU.
For more information or to register for attendance, click here.  Childcare will be available for free.