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Angelides Speaks At
WakeUpWalMart Rally In SF

Pictured above at Left, Local 648 President Mike Sharpe and Secretary-Treasurer Maggie Krug welcome Gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides to the San Francisco WakeUpWalMart.com rally; Right - Local 648 activist Jesse Tello speaks out for health care at rally;

Labor’s candidate for Governor, Phil Angelides, joined a standing-room-only crowd of supporters at the Aug. 28th WakeUpWalMart bus tour rally held at The Women’s Building on 18th Street in San Francisco. SEIU Secretary-Treasurer and President of the Change To Win Federation Anna Berger was on hand to show her support for Angelides and the 35-city national WakeUpWalMart.com bus tour to “Change Wal-Mart for the Better”.

San Francisco was the first stop in Northern California, which was followed by press conferences, town hall meetings and rallies held in Oakland, San Jose and Sacramento before the UFCW-sponsored Wakeup team completed their tour with stops in Oregon and Seattle, WA.

“Now is the time for Wal-Mart to seize the moment and become a better company. No hard-working American should ever have to live without health care or struggle to survive on poverty-level wages while corporate America makes obscene profits,” stated WakeUp Director Paul Blank.

State Treasurer Angelides and CTW’s Berger both blasted Wal-Mart for its failure to provide health care benefits to over 775,000 of its employees and families. This crisis not only costs American taxpayers $1.4 billion a year, but it needlessly puts the children of these employees at risk.

Angelides pledged that if is elected governor of California he will make it a priority to back legislation requiring all major corporations and large employers in California to provide basic health care to all their employees.

Local 648 President Mike Sharpe and Secretary-Treasurer Maggie Krug were on hand to greet the WakeUp bus and Governor-to-be Angelides at the rally. Two rank-and-file members from Local 648, Jesse Tello and (Need Name), were also on the program and speaking out for affordable health care on behalf of all workers.

The bus tour that started in New York city covered 35 cities in as many days. For more information on

the UFCW’s campaign to change Wal-Mart, go to www.wakeupwalmart.com.

WakeUpWalMart Director Paul Blank addresses the standing-room-only crowd at The Women’s Building conference room.