WHO: AFSCME President Gerald W.40 an hour and are not
provided with health insurance.

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UNICCO embarked on a vicious anti-union campaign including threats and
interrogation after janitors on the campus started organizing with Local 11
for better wages, benefits, and respect on the job.

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"For One Night" is produced by von Zerneck/Sertner Films in association
with Res Ipsa Media, Inc .

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Janitors Strike to Spread to Airport Tuesday March 14

Sertner, Frank
von Zerneck (Lifetime's "Gracie's Choice" and "We Were the Mulvaneys") and
Kyle Bowser ("For Your Love," "Midnight Mac") serve as executive producers.

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WHAT: Newsmaker event

WHEN: December 12, 2005; 10 a. At Harvard
University in Boston, UNICCO janitors earn between $13 and $14 an hour and
have fully paid health insurance.
Brianna's plight piques the interest of 32-year-old Desiree Howard
(Tyler), a Mercier native who left to become a newspaper reporter in New
Orleans . I think it's important to show that these things are
still going on and to really confront people 's preconceptions and their
comfort with the way things are.

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AFSCME organizes for social and economic justice in the
workplace and through political action and legislative advocacy.

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"For One Night" premieres Monday, February 6 at 9 PM
(ET/PT) on Lifetime Television. When
Brianna innocently suggests black and white seniors put on a single dance,
this sparks controversy among the school's parents, who still harbor deeply
ingrained prejudices..

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McEntee will preview ECAP's new strategy to persuade moderates to oppose
this Draconian plan and the union's efforts to hold accountable politicians
who vote against America's families. Janitors won the
higher wages and benefits as the result of a two-year campaign on their behalf
by students , the community, and SEIU.
"What I found fascinating about this story is that these are ordinary
people who started out with no social agenda," said Executive Producer Kyle
Bowser."
In discussing the film, 20-year-old actress-singer Raven-Symone noted that
like many young people today , Mercier students of all races think nothing of
socializing together while the town's older generation has a much harder time
letting go of its bigotry.

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AFSCME
represents a diverse group of service and health care workers in the public
and private sectors including nurses, EMTs, bus drivers, child care providers,
custodians and librarians. **Janitors at UM Strike Update* *

MIAMI, UNICCO Janitors who clean the University
of Miami will take their picket lines to the airport tomorrow after efforts to
resolve the strike failed.

**EVENTS FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 14**

Strike Spreads to Airport
When: Noon

Where: Miami International Airport (Justice Circle)

What: Janitors at UM will go to MIA and establish a picket line all
along the concourse.."
Aisha Tyler, who plays journalist Desiree Howard, added "This is an
important story to tell because since the '60s we've all gotten a little
complacent about race relations in this country.

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University President Donna Shalala has come
under fire by a growing coalition of students, faculty, religious leaders , and
community activists for not doing more to head off the strike by ensuring that
UNICCO respects workers' right to organize for a living wage and affordable
health insurance, free from intimidation . The teenager gets some unexpected
support from a New Orleans journalist (Aisha Tyler), who has her own complex
relationship to Mercier.
Ernest Dickerson ("ER," "Strange Justice") directs from a teleplay written by
Denitria Harris-Lawrence ("Any Day Now"). A diverse, multi-media company, LIFETIME is
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In an already poor city, janitors at the University of Miami are some of
the poorest, earning as little as $13 ,104 a year, less than half the county
median. they party together .
Immediately following the film's premiere, Lifetime will air an original
Public Service Announcement (PSA) with Raven-Symone to promote tolerance and
encourage viewers to make a difference in their communities.com.

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Only 66 janitors are allowed to be at the
airport and two janitors can be at each designated free amendment
zone inside the concourse and at each picket zone outside the
airport. Robert M.

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The campaign will include: vigils, sit-
ins, billboards, phone calls , direct mail, public relations and paid media.
About half of the janitors who work for UNICCO at the university are on
strike to protest unfair labor practices committed against them while they
united to form a union. It's no wonder she's chairperson of the black prom committee -- one
of the two prom committees at her school..

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It is about two women who, after
an initial period of mistrust , link arms to conquer adversity.

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AFSCME President to Kick Off Week of Action on GOP Leadership's Budget

Janitors at the University of Miami, most of whom are immigrants from
Cuba, Haiti and South America, earn some of the lowest wages for campus
janitors in the country.

Raven-Symone Aisha Tyler and Jason Lewis Star in the Lifetime Original Movie 'For One Night' About A Teenager's Courageous Effort to Integrate Her High School

, the Martin Luther King Foundation, Youth
Service America and other organizations to create an educational outreach
initiative -- on-air, online and in the community -- to highlight themes
presented in the movie of transcending racial barriers and encouraging
students to reach for their dreams by becoming leaders in their schools. for Lifetime Television.

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UNICCO janitors at the airport have the legal right to honor
picket lines established at their workplace. 11 - Raven-Symone ("That's So Raven,"
"The Cheetah Girls"), Aisha Tyler ("Ghost Whisperer," "Friends") and Jason
Lewis ("Sex in the City") star in the Lifetime Original Movie "For One Night,"
a moving drama inspired by a true story about a 12th grader who risks her
social and academic standing to end her high school's long tradition of
racially segregated proms. LIFETIME Television, Lifetime Movie Network, Lifetime Real Women,
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McEntee will
unveil a week of grassroots and public relations activity leading up to a
possible final vote in Congress on the Republican leadership's budget and tax
cut agenda. The
action could mean that hundreds of janitors who clean the airport will not go
to work Tuesday. Yesterday, striking janitors received $500,000 for
their strike fund from the 1., Jan. Set in present day, the town of Mercier, Louisiana
has come a long way since its past, where segregated proms are accepted as a
fact of life by both black and white students .

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The janitors at the airport work for UNICCO, the same
company hired by the University of Miami to clean the campus. When a gifted and popular
senior (Raven-Symone) innocently suggests changing the policy, it re-ignites
the town's smoldering racial tensions."
As part of the Network's award-winning public education and advocacy
campaign, "Our Lifetime Commitment," Lifetime is joining with leading
non-profits; including Girls Inc.

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Unionized janitors who work for the same company in
other cities earn higher wages and are provided health insurance. they're friends.

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McEntee will make this announcement at the National Press Club's
Newsmaker event on Monday, December 12 at 10 a. UNICCO janitors at the airport have indicated they
will not cross picket lines established by their striking co-workers.

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"In the movie, the mature people sense the
underlying racism but the kids really don't because it's present day. But
the parents are the ones that are kind of keeping this blanket of racism over
the town and are very set in their ways. We think we've done the work
and we're finished. Lifetime's
educational viewers' guide will be available at lifetimetv.

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WASHINGTON, AFSCME President Gerald W.

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BACKGROUND
Janitors at the campus earn as little as $6. Although Mercier High is an
integrated campus where black and white kids mix socially, its longstanding
tradition of segregated proms has remained unchallenged for decades.
But Desiree's visit to the town reveals something else: there is still
chemistry between her and her old flame Mark Manning (Lewis), now the school 's
assistant principal. "They are not crusaders, but are people who made a very principled
choice that ended up being a shot heard around the world. From my point of
view, this is not really a story about race..

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In October, McEntee launched the Emergency Campaign for America's
Priorities (ECAP), a coalition of unions and advocacy groups, to stop the
Republican-led slaughter of public services in order to pay for tax breaks for
the wealthy.

WHERE: National Press Club

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME),
AFL-CIO, is the nation's fastest growing public service employee union with
1. Learning of the prom debate during a rare trip home, she writes an
expose that thrusts the town's institutionalized racism into the spotlight. Everyone
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8 million members of the Service Employees
International Union (SEIU).
High School Senior Brianna McCallister (Symone) is smart, pretty and
popular . After the school principal issues a veiled threat to
Brianna -- to drop the single prom idea -- Brianna must decide whether or not
to stand up for what she knows is right, even if it means possibly ruining
prom night for everyone.