Faith and labor leaders to withdraw millions from Chase Bank
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DETROIT -- At a news conference here Friday, Sept. 24, faith and labor leaders will announce
their intention to withdraw hundreds of millions of dollars from JPMorgan Chase Bank.
Their protest is driven by
the bank's refusal to declare a two-year moratorium on foreclosures in Michigan and its continuing ties with RJ Reynolds Corp. The tobacco giant, financed by JP Morgan Chase, has refused to engage in negotiations with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) over low wages and unsafe working conditions at farms of contract growers in North Carolina. UAW President Bob King, who has just returned from a fact-finding tour of the North Carolina tobacco fields, is prepared to remove all of its funds from the bank.
"Chase needs to help unemployed homeowners in Michigan and underpaid farm workers in the Carolinas," King said. "The bank could make a huge difference by suspending foreclosures and pressuring RJ Reynolds to do the right thing."
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