21st Annual NALC Food Drive: Union Volunteers Needed

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Does your local value community service? Do you have a couple hours on Saturday to help out for a great cause? 

If you answered yes to both of these questions, please commit to volunteering this Saturday and be a part of the world’s largest one day food drive!

This year’s NALC food drive will be on Saturday May 11th. Our goal is to get back to  80,000lbs of food collected, which was our 2010 level. All of the food is ultimately donated to the River Bend Food bank and then distributed to tens of thousands of Quad City area families who are struggling to provide enough food for their families.

More information available here:

http://www.nalc.org/commun/foodrive/

http://www.riverbendfoodbank.org/

The need is greater than ever before, and the supply is not keeping up. With your help, we can achieve a record breaking year and help thousands of families have adequate meals.

The information for volunteering is listed below.

Please email or call specifically with what shift you’d like to work, and what location you’d like to work at. Email quadcityfed@netexpress.net or call 309-738-6536. 

Volunteer shifts:

11am-3pm (1st Shift)

3pm-6pm (2nd shift)

12-4 (Optional 3rd shift)*

Needs:

1st Shift volunteers will be needed to follow postal workers on routes to pick up food. Folks with trucks, vans, and large vehicles are encouraged to volunteer for the 1st shift

2nd Shift volunteers will be needed at the postal facility to box up food and assist in loading up on pallets to be placed in semi-trailers via fork truck.

*3rd shift volunteers are assigned as needed per location needs

Locations:

Moline – 514 17th St

Contact Jeff Roudebusch

Cell: 563-579-4571

minimum 10 Volunteers needed

Rock Island – 2633 11th St

Contact Tony Bultinck

Cell: 309-292-0618

minimum 10 Volunteers needed

Davenport Post Offices 933 W 2nd St & 4018 Marquette St

Contact Brenda Quinlan

Cell: 563-579-1275

minimum 20 volunteers needed (10 at each location, 5 per shift)

Thank you for your help!

In Solidarity,

Joshua Schipp

309-738-6536 (cell)
AFL-CIO Community Services Liaison
United Way of the Quad Cities Area

Trivia Night – Saturday April 13th

 

Email quadcityfed@netexpress.net or call 309-788-1303 to RSVP your team or to be an event sponsor!

2nd Annual QC Next Up Trivia Night a HUGE Success!

More than 120 people turned out to help young workers raise money for their 2013 initiatives. Thanks to all who helped make this night a tremendous success! And Congratulations to the winning team, Davenport Education Association.

Calendar for 2013 Labor Center Classes in the Quad Cities

We will host 4 classes this year, details below

http://quadcityfed.wordpress.com/building-committees/

December QC Fed Meeting Cancelled

Dear Brothers and Sisters,   A reminder card was mailed out this month in error for a December meeting.    As you will see in the minutes, the issue of a December meeting was voted on and it was so moved that there will be no meeting in December.    The next Fed meeting will be Monday January 21st. Please inform your delegates.    Our apologies for the confusion.

Organized Labor, Alliance for Retired Americans say “NO” to Cuts

On Monday December 10th, International Human Rights Day, workers across the nation in over 100 planned events will participate in a national Candlelight Campaign to urge Congress to say no to cuts to benefits for Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security, and to end tax cuts for the richest 2%.

Working families across the country will commemorate International Human Rights Day and hold candlelight vigils, town halls, rallies and other events to highlight the right to healthcare and the right to retire with dignity.  Working families will also deliver over 50,000 petitions to individual members of Congress asking them to honor their commitment to voters.

Here in the Quad Cities, members from organized labor unions, Alliance for Retired Americans, Progressive Action for the Common Good, MoveOn, and numerous faith-based organizations in the Quad Cities will be rallying outside Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) office in Davenport, Iowa at 4:00pm to make clear the following: “NO to tax breaks for the Richest 2% and NO to cuts in Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits.”

In one of the most prosperous countries in the world, everyone should be able to retire with health and dignity. Working families across the country have made it clear that we need to protect Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits. Millions of working people, jobless people and retirees shouldn’t have to sacrifice their health care and retirement security so that the richest 2% can continue getting more tax breaks. It’s time for our elected leaders to focus on creating an economy that invests in jobs, healthcare and education for all.

Sen. Chuck Grassley’s Davenport office is located at 201 West 2nd Street.

For further information, please call 309-788-1303.

Calling all Union Activists and Labor Leaders!

The Labor Center at the University of Iowa is putting on a Union Communications Program on December 6^th and 7^th

Current registrants will be representing the following locals: UAW  838, AFSCME 183 and 12, APWU 166 and 451, UFCW 617 and NALC 314.

Come one, come all to learn about this vital and timely topic!

“Local union communications with members have become more important than ever in our current climate of economic and political challenges.  As technology continues to transform the communications landscape, today’s union leaders and communicators must analyze whether and how to integrate traditional message formats with new electronic media.”

For more information or to RSVP for the class, please contact Sarah Clark. Her contact information is below.

Sarah Clark

Labor Center secretary

100 BioVentures Center, Room W130

Iowa City, IA  52242-5000

319-335-4146 (direct line)

319-335-4144 (main number)

sarah-j-clark@uiowa.edu