Camden Yards Cleaners Threaten Hunger Strike on September 3 - 08/14/07

Cleaners at Camden Yards – home to the Baltimore Orioles – have announced plans to launch a living wage hunger strike starting September 3. The workers have been protesting for a living wage for more than three years and after all of those promises fell on deaf ears, they have decided that September 1 is the deadline. The workers are being supported by United Workers, an organization founded by day laborers seeking to lift themselves out of poverty. If Camden Yards and the contractor that hires the workers can not meet the deadline the hunger strike will begin.