A call to action from the Long Island Federation of Labor. Please make a call in support of those who can’t find work.
Across America, jobs just aren’t there. It can take a year, 18 months, or even longer for many job- seekers to find work.
Congress is back, but is only in town for a [...]
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(UPDATE: NYSUT has buses leaving from Woodbury and Hauppauge on 10/2 at 5 AM. One leaves Riverhead at 4:30 AM. The cost if $40 per person. The buses will return between 8 and 9 PM. We have a registration form in the office that is due back by 9/24. Please call 572-7198 if you’d like [...]
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Some guardedly good news in the face of state budget chaos. From NYSUT:
Good news came late Wednesday as a federal court in Albany issued a temporary injunction to stop until May 26 the governor’s abitrarily imposed plan to furlough many state employees for one day a week until the state’s multi-billion dollar deficit is closed. [...]
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I don’t remember the last time I was so moved by a speech as I was this morning when I heard Cecil Roberts speak at the NYSUT Representative Assembly. How fitting that it was also International Labor Day.
Roberts leads the United Mineworkers of America and spoke of course about the recent losses of life that [...]
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Today’s New York Times has a very poignant story about yesterday’s remembrances of the 1911 Triangle Shirt Factory fire, which killed 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women. Here is an excerpt from the story:
There were accounts of how the low-paid seamstresses who made ladies’ blouses — shirtwaists — were trapped in the blaze. How locked [...]
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Click here for an interesting post from the AFL-CIO blog. It outlines how we can ALL help move this country in the right direction for unions, workers and the Labor Movement in general. Here’s an excerpt:
Mass unemployment is intolerable. Action is required. The AFL-CIO calls upon the entire labor movement—our affiliated unions, our state and [...]
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