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The Baltimore-based United Workers Association (UWA) kicked off its Summer of Justice Campaign on April 1 to highlight the poor treatment of Camden Yards stadium cleaners by Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos. Angelos agreed to pay these workers a living wage back in 2004, but has yet to follow through. Instead, he gave opening day profits--about $250,000--to five soup kitchens in the area.

This donation would have been more than enough to pay all the stadium cleaners a living wage for two years. UWA believes the donation was an attempt to shut them up. The Summer of Justice Campaign is gearing up for its June 24 March Against Poverty with an all-night vigil on June 23. It will be followed by a pancake breakfast the next morning at 9:30 am and then the march to Camden Yards at 12:00 noon.

Find out more at unitedworkersassociation.org or call 443-803-9574 to get more information or to volunteer.

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Fri, 06/30/2006 - 6:00pm