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Support for Azteca
Strikers Only
Gets Stronger

November 25th — As the word about the Azteca Foods strike spreads throughout Chicago, UE Local 1159 members are enjoying ever-greater levels of community support.

Workers met Chicago’s Cardinal George in front of the Mexican Fine Arts Museum, where the Cardinal attended a fundraiser for the Chicago area organization Casa Jesus. Azteca Foods CEO Art Velasquez is a member of the museum’s board of directors. Cardinal George agreed to look into the issues at the heart of the strike.

Strikers and supporters recently visited dozens of grocery stores in the Chicago area to encourage store managers and customers to support the national boycott of Azteca Foods tortillas, tortilla shells and chips. Also, strikers talked to Chicago’s Pilsen area residents and distributed leaflets that explain the boycott and reveal the "two faces" of owner Art Velasquez.

Strikers have been attending meetings of allies and participating in activities in and around Chicago, including a United Food and Commercial Workers press conference and a rally of Chicago Wal-Mart workers.

ADVANCED EDUCATION

The Progressive Student Alliance of Notre Dame University met with strikers to learn the Azteca story first-hand. The students agreed to contact the Azteca CEO by phone to remind Velasquez — a member of the University’s Board of Trustees — that he should adhere to Catholic social teaching and negotiate a fair contract.

Notre Dame’s progressive students also placed an ad in the campus newspaper, an open letter calling on Velasquez to end his unfair treatment of workers who have helped him a millionaire.

FESTIVE DETERMINATION

To send a message that they will last one day longer than Azteca Foods, the strikers have put up a Christmas tree on their picket line. "The cold weather will not get us to end this strike without a fair contract," said a striker. "They can’t freeze us out! When will Art Velasquez listen to us and learn?"

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