The United Workers is a human rights organization fighting to secure the economic human rights of all Maryland residents. We have been organizing the cleaners at Camden Yards since 2004 with a single demand: A living wage for every cleaner at the publicly-owned stadium.
In April we set Sept 1 as the deadlne for a living wage solution to be in place. Yesterday Camden Yards told us that the deadline would be miseed. Today the Balitmore Sun reported on the struggle for living wages at Camden Yards:

For three years, the group representing workers who clean up plastic cups, peanut shells, spilled beer and hot dogs at Oriole Park at Camden Yards has been fighting for higher wages and better working conditions.

Each seeming breakthrough has fallen through.

Now, the United Workers Association, a human rights organization in Baltimore, and the 800 workers it represents are stepping up their campaign. Through protests, rallies and concerts, they're calling on the state agency that owns Camden Yards to act by pushing for higher wages. Both sides met yesterday to discuss the issue

On Sept 3 the United Workers will ramp up pressure, starting with a Labor Day Prayer Breakfast. We have plans for events each day after, including the Concert for Human Rights - a major protest festival. Check our website at http://UnitedWorkers.org for more information.
We will be making a major announcement on Aug 15. While we can't release the details yet, our plan for ramping up pressure will follow in the footsteps of Gandhi, Cesar Chavez and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. We are moved to action by the words of Chavez:

We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only the basic brutality of stoop labor, and the most obvious injustices of the system; they have also suffered the desperation of knowing that the system caters to the greed of callous men and not to our needs. Now we will suffer for the purpose of ending the poverty, the misery, and the injustice, with the hope that our children will not be exploited as we have been. They have imposed hungers on us, and now we hunger for justice.

After three years of broken promises, the cleaners at Camden Yards are fed up. We are prepared to take action to make our demands known. We are prepared to sacrfice for justice. We demand that our human rights be respected and ask that you join with us in solidarity. Starting today, we will be posting updates on Daily Kos as we build pressure to secure living wages at Camden Yards.