New Video on Challenges Facing Young Workers Screens Nov. 10

[Dan Clore]

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New video on challenges facing young workers screens Nov. 10
14 October 2009

MINNEAPOLIS - No matter how hard they work or how well they do in
school, young people know it can be difficult to stay afloat when you're
coming of age in a "McJob" economy. On Nov. 10, attend a free screening
of a new film about the challenges facing young workers � and how they
are taking the lead in addressing them.

The film �Eyes on the Fries: Young Workers in the Service Economy� will
be shown Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. at Minneapolis Community and
Technical College, 1501 Hennepin Ave. S. The screening will be in Room
L3000 of the library in Whitney Hall (take the elevator to the third
floor and follow the signs).

The screening is free and open to all. Following the 20-minute film,
workers active in the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) will hold a
panel discussion on organizing in the fast food sector in the Twin Cities.

Young people are coming of age in a service economy. Seven of the ten
fastest-growing jobs are in the service sector: jobs like cashier, sales
clerk, and fast food preparer. These positions are low-wage, part-time,
and offer few benefits, little training and no job security. Young
workers, who are concentrated in service sector jobs, bear the brunt of
the rapid and unregulated expansion of the low-wage, service economy.

The voices of young workers are rarely, if ever, heard in public debates
about issues that affect their lives. "Eyes on the Fries� features the
successful campaign to raise the minimum wage in San Francisco, and the
daily struggles of young workers from Oakland to Brooklyn. The video and
discussion give young workers the opportunity to talk about their
struggles to survive in the service economy.

The Nov. 10 event is sponsored by the University of Minnesota Labor
Education Service as part of its Labor in the Community programming, the
Minneapolis Community and Technical College Departments of Philosophy
and Political Science and the IWW-Twin Cities.

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Dan Clore

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