On March 6, 2009, the United Workers put the three worst employers on notice for violating the economic human rights of Harbor workers, but were blocked from delivering notices to the Baltimore Inner Harbor businesses.
Workers held a press conference across from the Inner Harbor and planned to deliver “notices” to the three employers. But police said that workers would be arrested for crossing the street and entering the Inner Harbor. Police did not even allow me to enter the Harbor and deliver the notices.
The press conference culminated months of interviews with workers from the various establishments detailing how they were being harassed, discriminated against, or paid poverty wages. The full report of their findings sheds light on how low wage workers are treated at the base of what has been called Baltimore’s cultural center.
After being prevented from delivering the notices, we gathered in a word of prayer, inspired to continue pushing for just relations between workers and employers in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
For more information, visit: www.unitedworkers.org
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I am so glad you posted this clip. I know we meant to begin with prayer, but I think that the prayer was incredibly powerful way to wrap up the event and center ourselves after being blocked from delivering the notices. As MLK said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”