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Krug Lockout Update 2-2-02
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Progressive Portal
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Feb 03, 2002 10:06 PST
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Thanks to everyone on this list who came to rallies, donated toys,
collected food or money, or wrote letters to the Napa Valley Museum for
its shameful omission of the workers from its Charles Krug Winery
exhibit.
The lockout has entered its seventh month, currently the longest lockout
in California. Your continued solidarity is urgently needed to help
these workers save the last union plant in the Valley. What you can do:
l) Get resolution of support from your organization. The SFSU chapter of
CFA just voted to endorse the boycott. Ask your union or church to do
the same. The Napa chapter of CTA donated $2000 to worker relief; these
donations go directly to the families to enable them to pay their bills
while they continue to picket daily. Letters from organizations can be
sent through
gressiveportal.org/letters/labor>www.progressiveportal.org/letters/labor
directly to the Peter and Marc Mondavi family who have chosen to
continue this lockout.
2) Organize a food or money drive. Donations of food are badly needed
and can be delivered directly to workers at the picketline; contact
kruglockoutcommittee-AT-hotmail.com (replace "-AT-" with "@") to find
out where the workers will be picketing on any particular day.
You can also drop by the picket line with donuts, hot chocolate, or
simply encouragement and companionship to this valiant multiracial group
of women and men.
3) Thank Supervisor Matt Gonzales for sponsoring a resolution of support
for the workers; contact kkochaver-AT-yahoo.com (in all email addresses,
replace "-AT-" with "@) for copies of the resolution; contact your own
Supervisor to vote for the resolution if you live in S.F.; urge local
newspapers to cover this resolution, as well as the ongoing lockout in
Napa. Write to Napa papers at editor-AT-sthelenastar.com and
editor-AT-napanews.com to express your outrage that oppression of union
workers would be allowed to continue amidst such affluence.
Contact your local representatives in Congress or Sacramento to see what
they can do to help; Napa legislators have been conspicuously silent and
should be ashamed.
4) Set up a benefit. Steve Zeltzer has organized a concert of folksinger
David Rovics at New College on February l5, and a visit to the
picketline by Rovics on February l4; contact him at lvpsf-AT-igc.org
(replace "-AT-" with "@") for details. Bake sales, house parties,
forums, all are needed to publicize the situation.
Invite the workers to come talk to your organization or benefit. They
are very articulate and eloquent, and you will be thrilled to meet them
and glad you involved yourself in their struggle.
Thanks everyone for your essential solidarity.
Lauren Coodley
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