Members of the Chicago Worker's Collaborative whom I encountered last month protesting "No Match" firings in front of a west Bucktown Pizza Hut will hit the streets again tomorrow, this time at the corner of Lake and Wabash where perhaps the rising number of unemployed citizens should gather in support of the protesters, and to intercept the pizzas before they hit the trash bins.
But that could be missing the point. To eat Pizza Hut's "pies of affliction" would be to support the exploitation, and firing of nearly 100 Latino workers at Chicago-land Pizza Huts whom were released from their jobs on account of no-match letters requesting clarification on social security number matches.
According to CWC organizer Leone Jose Bicchieri, workers will ask Pizza Hut to "Hold the Exploitation!" They will also pitch Pizza Hut pizzas into the garbage, and distribute hundreds of bi-lingual leaflets during the lunch hour protest.
The CWC is joined by The National Immigration Law Center (NILC), which has contacted the national corporate leadership of Pizza Hut to express concern about the recent firings of Latino workers. Other local organizations who are calling on Pizza Hut to stop the firing of Latino workers include the Latino Union, The 8th Day Justice Center, the Chicago New Sanctuary Movement, ARISE Chicago, UE Local 1110 (United Electrial Workers), and the Centro de Trabajadores Unidos (SE Chicago Worker Center).
For more info, contact: Chicago Workers' Collaborative, 773-655-0815, leonejb@prodigy.net
Chicago Reader, and Link to Tori Marlan's story
http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/chicagoland/2009/03/25/no-match-bogeyman-strikes-again/#comments_last
Video from last month's protest, below:
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