Launching the Step Up for Living Wages Tour

Days until the Living Wages Hunger Strike begins: 16
Days until the hunger strike ends: Strike ends when Camden Yards stops paying cleaners a poverty wage

Immediately afterWednesday's hunger strike announcementthe eleven workers who will strike started on the Step Up for Living Wages Tour.  The tour started at St. John's in Mt Pleasant with a lunch and planning session put on by the striker health and well being committtee.  We then headed to St Paul's by the Sea in Ocean City for retreat and planning.  Today we visited Harriet Tubman's region of birth and met with state leaders and policy makers.

Tomorrow workers will protest outside of the Maryland Stadium Authority convention center in Ocean City.

Strikers meet with health and well-being coordinator Iris to talk about health issues relating to hunger striking.

Smoke Eyes loads up the van for the tour.

Luis practices for victory, living wages are on the way.

The workers who clean Camden Yards are fed up after three years of broken promises and passing of the buck by the Maryland Stadium Authority.  Our demand to the Maryland Stadium Authority has been constant. We are demanding that poverty wages end, and that all cleaners at Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium are paid at least the Baltimore City living wage.  Baltimore was the first city in America to pay a living wage.  Maryland recently became the first state in the country to pass a living wage law.

United Workers
Low-wage workers leading the way to poverty'd end.