SEIU Local 2: Workers to rally at Java Blend Sunday, launch boycott
April 26 2024 - 8:00AM
Java Blend employees terminated by Java Blend earlier this year
will be holding a public press conference and rally outside their
flagship North St café on Sunday April 28.
WHAT: Press Conference and Rally to
launch Java Blend boycott campaign
WHEN: Sunday April 28, 2024 @ 1
pm
WHERE: Java Blend Café at 6027 North
St., Halifax
Unless a deal is reached in short order, a boycott of all Java
Blend businesses and their products (to be considered hot cargo)
will be launched Sunday.
Community leaders will be speaking at the rally, including:
- Java Blend workers
- Poet, Journalist, Activist,
Professor El Jones
- Rapper, community-organizer, and
newly organized SEIU member, General Khan
- Actor & director of Mayworks,
and Bus Stop Theatre, Sebastian Labelle.
BACKGROUND
Nine Java Blend employees, including the four leaders of a union
drive, were illegally terminated on January 23 according to an
Unfair Labour Practice complaint filed by the Service Employees
International Union. The employer’s conduct has all the hallmarks
of an orchestrated campaign of retaliation aimed at crushing
workers’ rights, according to the complaint.
For more information please visit
https://seiulocal2.ca/campaigns/spill-the-beans-on-java-blend/
SEIU Local 2 represents 20,000 workers in Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick, Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta. We are proud
members of the largest, fastest growing and most dynamic union in
North America.
Media ContactTina Oh |
902-955-9966toh@seiulocal2.ca