<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">Picketing at the Paulist Center is cancelled! The Harvest Co-op board of directors has been turned away from meeting there. Thank you for your support! Also, our sincere thanks to the Paulist Center for their swift and moral decision.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">We also finally have a response from the Harvest board of directors (below). It doesn't say much, but at least we know we have their attention.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">Deon has received a copy of his personnel file. There is no secret information that justifies his termination as the board implies. The suggestion that we have misrepresented facts or jumped to conclusions is baseless. The only thing we are guilty of is putting the Harvest's lack of respect for its workers into public view. Deon's case is just one example.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">Volunteers who were planning to join our picket, should instead go to the Harvest in Jamaica Plain (57 South Street, near the Forest Hills T Stop), to join in leafletting and picketing there between 10:00am and 1:00pm. Our campaign must continue until Deon gets his job back and the community can be sure that union-busting is not occurring at our co-op.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">In Solidarity,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">~Matthew Andrews</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times"> IWW Worker / Organizer</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times"> Harvest, JP</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">From the Board of Directors, Harvest Co-op Markets:</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">Unfortunately, due to the plans for picketing that were announced on this list serve earlier this week, Harvest is no longer welcome at the Paulist Center for our retreat. The Board will not be meeting at the Paulist Center on Saturday. We appeal to all potential protestors to leave the Paulist Fathers and their community to conduct their activities undisturbed.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">The Harvest Board would be deeply concerned about any serious allegations of union busting at the co-operative. We have no evidence that anyone is union busting at Harvest.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">As people may already know, it is neither legal nor appropriate for management or a board of directors to discuss personnel matters related to specific employees with anyone else. Observers, whether staff or others, may not be aware of factors that play into unavoidably public personnel decisions such as promotions or terminations. This can also make it easier for people with other agenda to misrepresent fact. In any case, it is important not to jump to conclusions.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">As always, the Board welcomes Harvest members to contact us at <a href="mailto:board@harvest.coop"><font color="#0000f0" style="color: #0000f0">board@harvest.coop</font></a> and to keep up-to-date at <a href="http://www.harvest.coop/board"><font color="#0000ef" style="color: #0000ef"><u>www.harvest.coop/board</u></font></a> . Thank you to all who share our concern for Harvest Co-op, its members, and its employees.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">Sincerely,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Times">Jessie Myszka (board president), on behalf of the entire Board of Directors, Harvest Co-op Markets</font></div>
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