Workday Minnesota, an online labor publication in St. Paul, Minnesota, is helping to publicize a March 25 meeting at the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 789 union hall featuring Bill Estrada, one of the leaders of the Co-Op miners’ struggle in Utah to win representation by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). Other speakers include Militant editor Argiris Malapanis and Bernie Hesse, head of organizing for UFCW Local 789 (see ad in this issue). The meeting will “discuss a landmark lawsuit that threatens workers’ rights to free speech” says Workday Minnesota, referring to the legal action by the owners of the Co-Op mine against the UMWA, 16 Co-Op miners who were involved in the union-organizing fight, and the Militant.

Workday Minnesota further explains the March 25 meeting will help raise funds for the Militant Fighting Fund, “which has been established to win support for the Militant newspaper’s freedom of press rights and publicize the fight of all of the defendants to defeat the harassment lawsuit.”

Militant Fighting Fund organizers have set a goal of winning 500 new endorsers by April 1. So far, 305 union locals and prominent individuals have signed on since this effort began February 1.

Five new endorsers came in from New Zealand last week, most of them members of the Meat Workers Union.

James Bates, president of United Steelworkers Local 2122 at the U.S. Steel plant in Birmingham, Alabama, signed on too.

Endorsements and contributions can be sent to the Militant Fighting Fund at P.O. Box 520994, Salt Lake City, Utah 84152; Fax: (801) 924-5910; E-mail: MilitantFightingFund@yahoo.com  
 
 
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