"NYS WE ARE ONE" - 15,000 RALLY IN TIMES SQUARE

[Omaha Steve]

http://broadcastunionnews.blogspot.com/2011/04/nys-we-are-one-15000-rally-in-times.html


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15,000 union members rallied in Times Square on Saturday, April 9, 2011

All sectors of the labor movement stood in solidarity delivering one simple message:

"We Are One-Respect Our Rights"

Click HERE for media coverage

Click HERE for more photos of event

New York State AFL-CIO & Central Labor Council Hold Solidarity Rally On Behalf of New York's Working Men and Women

Labor's Message: "We Are One - Respect Our Rights"

New York City -- The New York State AFL-CIO and the New York City Central Labor Council held a giant rally in Times Square on Saturday on behalf of workers' rights in both the Empire State and throughout the country.

Workers from the public sector, private sector and building trades lined Seventh Avenue, starting at 42nd Street and stretching several blocks south, in a show of solidarity to deliver one simple message: "We Are One - Respect Our Rights."

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The rally was held in response to unprecedented attacks on the rights of working men and women to organize, to engage in collective bargaining and to hold safe those benefits won at the bargaining table over the past 50 years. It was one of more than 1,200 AFL-CIO Days of Action events - rallies, teach-ins, faith services and town halls - held throughout the week of April 4th.

FULL story at link.

[iwishiwas]

1. The Revolution is SPREADING. GO NYC!!

[OHdem10]

2. Yay NYC!!!

[xchrom]

3. Bravo! Very Awesome! Nt

[monmouth]

4. Was this reported in the media at all? This is why I love DU, I never

saw anything about this. Granted, I watch very little tv and the weekends are just awful, but still...

[SheilaT]

5. Just hope they continue

to show up there, like the union supporters in Wisconsin. If Madison could eventually get 100,000 to show up, imagine how many could possible show up in NYC?

[HockeyMom]

6. They should have demonstrated in UNION Square

Send a message to the rest of the country on that one. I am sure my Grandfather and Dad were there in spirit. NYC has a very LONG history of Unions.