There is an organizing drive among workfare workers . . . After delaying for some time they decided to follow the national AFL-CIO perspective of organizing them into the union. There is also a group called Workfairness which operates out of the same center on 14th Street where the Peoples Video Network has its production center. They recently had a memorial for a woman who died recently because she was forced to work despite a debilitating health condition. The process of organizing workfare workers depends on the union's ability to sign up a majority as members.
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The success also depends on raising issues that affect worfare workers . . . Peoples Video Network has a number of videos available on the subject based on interviews with workfare workers and covering their protests. A number of them will be broadcast over the summer on cable public access stations . . . Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.