'Occupy Wall Street' ignites solidarity
On Oct. 7 a Haitian community group will march from Brooklyn across the Brooklyn Bridge and join the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Liberty Plaza in downtown Manhattan’s financial district. On Oct. 5 Columbia University students plan to walk out of classes and join a giant union march to the same site. A People of Color working group is now part of the encampment and meets regularly.
Occupy Wall Street’s Labor Outreach committee, comprising some 50 people, has organized actions like a disruption on Sept. 22 of a Sotheby’s auction to support the art house’s locked-out workers. On Oct. 4 American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 372 held a City Hall rally with Occupy Wall Street support to protest layoffs of more than 700 school support staff.
Calling the arrests “a blatant act of political retaliation,” Transport Workers President John Samuelsen said: “TWU Local 100 supports the protesters on Wall Street and takes great offense that the mayor and NYPD have ordered operators to transport citizens who were exercising their constitutional right to protest — and shouldn’t have been arrested in the first place.” (Daily News, Oct. 2)
At the same time, many students taking part in this movement are saddled with tens of thousands of dollars in debt with no job prospects. Another finding from the congressional report is that even though workers without a college education are more likely to be unemployed, jobless workers with bachelor degrees, and thus more school debt to pay off, are just as likely to become 99ers as jobless workers with high school diplomas.
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The Cuomo administration has quietly authorized a $50 million bailout of an insurance fund for the 1199SEIU health-care workers, a decision that a union official said helped secure its endorsement of the state's Medicaid budget.
The major news is that the city's biggest unions — A FSCME DC 37, United Health Care Workers East (1199 SEIU), SEIU 32BJ, United Federation of Teachers, the United Auto Workers and the Transport Workers Union — have joined forces for a major march on
Expanding training for home health care workers to help more New Yorkers get jobs in the growing health care sector. The Council is working with SEIU 1199 and the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute ( PHI ) to create more capacity at PHI's training
Her former right-hand man, Democratic National Committee executive director Patrick Gaspard, formerly an SEIU 1199 official and Obama White House political director, also goes way back with the party. WFP's confusing, ACORN-like organizational
The agreement, which covers approximately 38000 employees at various freight railroad companies, provides a 17 percent wage increase over the 60-month term, a cap on employee health care contributions, and improvements to health benefits.
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