Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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During the Great Depression The Homeless Created Hoovervilles,
Now Mayor Bloomberg’s Budget Cuts Are Responsible For Bloombergville!
With
New Yorkers Against the Budget Cuts
Students, labor, and communities united against the Mayor’s proposed budget
cuts occupying downtown Manhattan near City Hall for the past week, in symbolic
encampments they’ve called Bloombergville in a campaign to defeat the mayor's
cutbacks and layoffs. The campaign against Bloomberg's poverty budget has
resulted in arrests of some of the protesters and the NYPD has threatened arrests
on several other occasions, but Bloombergville is still alive -- and growing.
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Key Democrats Join Gov. Christie Cutting Public Worker Bargaining Rights
and Balancing the Budget on the Backs of the Workers
With
Barbara Keshishian, President, New Jersey Education Association
Hetty Rosenstein, Area Dir., Communications Workers of America N.J.
Despite a massive outpouring of protesters at the State Capital at Trenton,
Democratic leaders of the State Senate and Assembly, Stephen Sweeney and
Sheila Oliver, joined with bombastic bully Governor Chris Christie to get approval
for a measure to strip health care benefits from collective bargaining rights for state
public workers. This could triple health care costs to workers while the millionaires
tax went down in defeat. Combined with so called New Jersey public worker pension
reforms this will lead to lowering workers pay by 5 -10% while reaping big profits for
the insurance industry who charge high commissions for public worker health care
insurance.
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