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Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
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Protest Demand NY's MTA Brings Back Laid Off Workers
With
Transport Workers Local 100
and
OWS Labor Outreach Committee
TWU Local 100, elected officials, and community supporters called on the MTA to
use nearly $500 million dollars in its GASB 45 Fund to restore services cut in 2010,
and to rehire over 120 laid-off Station Agents, and settle a fair contract for 38,000
TWU Local 100 members. According to MTA budget documents, the agency holds
approximately $489 million in a reserve fund called the GASB 45 Fund (Government
Accounting Standards Board). Since 2006, the MTA has been depositing tens of
millions of dollars every year in this account. Even in 2010, when bus and subway
services were reduced or eliminated al-together, the MTA stashed money away
instead of drawing from its reserve fund to avoid service cuts.
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Thousands Joined The Line Saying “NO MORE PINK SLIPS”
With
Arthur Cheliotes, President, Communications Workers , Local 1180
On Super Tuesday March 6, from 8:14 to 8:28 am New Yorkers joined to form the
world's longest unemployment line for 14 minutes - 1 minute for each of the 1 million
currently unemployed Americans. This visually stunning and politically significant form of protest symbolized the 14 million Americans who lost their jobs during the last five years, and the 10 -15 million people who have given up hope of finding a job and are not even counted in current unemployment statistics. More people were living in poverty last year than in any year since the Census Bureau began keeping records half a century ago, while the richest 1% has tripled its wealth and corporations are being bailed out without giving back. The Line, a creative action stretching arms and joining together to say, No to Pink Slips, Yes to Government and Business Putting America Back to Work!
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