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Labor Day Prayer Breakfast 2007.

Low-wage workers leading the way to poverty’s end.

The United Workers is a human rights organization led by low-wage workers. We are leading the fight for fair development, which respects human rights, maximizes public benefits and is sustainable.

Building a Human Rights Zone.

On October 25, 2008 we declared Baltimore’s Inner Harbor to be a “Human Rights Zone” and are now bringing workers’ human rights demands directly to Cordish and GGP, the developers who control the Harbor.

Bringing workers’ demands to the top of the profit chain.

We’re demanding that these developers enter into legally binding economic human rights agreements with the United Workers. The agreements will hold developers and vendors accountable by advancing the human rights of work with dignity (including the right to a living wage), education and health care.

Media Updates and Inquiries

Please contact Michael Fox for media inquiries:

mike@unitedworkers.org
410-230-1998 (office)
646-499-1484 (cell)

Previous press releases and press advisories:

June 30, 2010- Press Conference: ESPN violates WARN Act (PDF)

Background Materials:

Current Campaign: Fighting for Fair Development

Baltimore Sun: “Workers Unite for Human Rights”

About 80 United Workers Association members and supporters marched yesterday afternoon under threatening skies and blustery southeasterly winds from Camden Yards to the McKeldin Fountain at the intersection of Pratt and Light streets to plant a symbolic black-and-yellow flag declaring the entire Inner Harbor a “Human Rights Zone.”

“Our goal is to show how human rights have been violated for low-wage workers not only at Harborplace but all over the city,” said Bennie Witherspoon, a janitorial worker at Camden Yards, who is a leader in the United Workers Association, a human-rights organization established in Baltimore by homeless day laborers. read more (PDF)