Rally & Picket for “Jobs, Peace, Equality and Justice”
April 4, 2011
Join the Bergen County Central Trades and Labor Council on Monday, April 4 from 12:30 to 1:30 pm as we rally for “Jobs, Peace, Equality and Justice" at the Bergen County Courthouse located at 10 Main Street in Hackensack, NJ.
Forty-three years ago, in Memphis, a long struggle for human rights and human dignity ended in the tragic assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
On April 4 this year, the anniversary of Dr. King's death, we will stand together across this country for those same human rights and human dignity for working men and women.
Wisconsin workers have been fighting on the front lines against Governor Scott Walker’s assault on working families and collective bargaining rights. At the Trenton State House on Friday, February 25, 2011, at 12:00 noon, a group of Wisconsin workers will be welcomed by the New Jersey State AFL-CIO, national AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, hundreds of our union brothers and sisters and community partners.
At this rally, we will stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity and speak out against the attacks on working families and assaults on collective bargaining rights which are taking place in Wisconsin and other states around the country. We will also send a message to Governor Christie that he bargain in good faith and not balance the budget on the backs of middle class families.
We urge all affiliates and community allies to join us at the Trenton State House on Friday and to hear first-hand about the events that are taking place in Wisconsin. Wisconsin workers are depending on strong demonstrations of solidarity in states across the nation to help them sustain their efforts back home. The attacks in Wisconsin are not just isolated to one state or one sector of our labor movement. These are overt attacks on collective bargaining that are relevant to all working people.
On Wednesday, June 23, 2010, members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ will be rallying in Fort Lee for a fair contract. Join the Bergen County Central Trades and Labor Council as we stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters from SEIU in their fight for a fair contract.
The rally will be held on Wednesday, June 23 at the corner of Horizon Rd and Palisade Ave in Fort Lee at 5:30 pm. Over 300 union workers at 16 high end residential buildings and condos in Fort Lee and Northern NJ are currently negotiating their contracts, which expire at the end of June.
These workers - service and maintenance employees, porters, doormen, concierges, handymen, repairmen, carpenters, painters and mechanics - are fighting to win a fair wage, and protect their health and pension benefits. Over the past four years, the consumer price index for the New York-New Jersey region has gone up 11.3%. In comparison, wages have gone up only 7.1% at the building paying one of the highest wages among the group of buildings at which a contract is currently being negotiated.
Join the Bergen County Central Trades and Labor Council on Saturday, May 22 as we rally with the labor movement and community allies to protect New Jersey’s families and our communities from Governor Christie’s proposed budget cuts.
We will rally in front of the State House in Trenton at Noon. Transportation to the rally will be available from Bergen County, leaving at 9:00 am. To reserve your seat on the bus, email info@bergenclc.org or call 201-967-5953. Seating is limited and is being provided on a first come/first serve basis.
Governor Christie’s budget cuts will result in a massive reduction in services, including reductions in education, prescription drug assistance for seniors, property tax rebates, public transportation, as well as resulting in significant layoffs, all while giving a tax break to the wealthy by not renewing the “millionaires’ tax.”
On April 29th, join AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and thousands of union and community activists from across the country marching down Broadway in the heart of the financial district to MAKE WALL STREET PAY.
Join the Bergen CLC as we join our brothers and sisters in NYC to rally for Good Jobs NOW!. We will meet at the Essex St Train Station in Hackensack at 1:45 pm to catch a NJ Transit train ($4.25 one way) at 2:05 pm to Hoboken.
Once in Hoboken we will meet with our sisters and brothers from the Passaic County CLC and take the Hoboken PATH train ($1.75 one way) the World Trade Center and walk 2 blocks to rally location. The rally will begin at 4:00 pm at the corner of Broadway and Barclay in New York City.
AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka, will lead a rally calling for the recovery to make its way to working people on Main Street. We will then march down Broadway through New York City’s Financial District.
>We need to make sure that the economic bailout does more than just protect CEO bonuses, that it helps to bring back the 11 million jobs lost since 2007.
Wall Street tanked America’s economy, killed jobs, took $700 billion in taxpayer bailouts—then went right back to business as usual, choking off credit, handing out $145 billion in 2009 executive pay and bonuses and fighting meaningful financial reform.
On Wednesday, March 24, 2010, the Bergen County Central Trades and Labor Council and the Passaic County Central Labor Council will join working families in front of Bank of America in Teaneck to demand good jobs now. America needs 11 million jobs and big Wall Street banks should pay to rebuild jobs and the economy they helped destroy.
The picket and rally will be held from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm in front of Bank of America at 790 Palisade Ave (corner of Palisade Ave and Cedar Lane) in Teaneck, NJ. (Please notice the change in location of the rally.)
Let us know you'll be there to fight for good jobs. Register here.
This rally is only one of hundreds being held across the country from March 15 to 26 to hold Wall Street accountable in our fight for good jobs.
AFL-CIO President Trumka Response to State of the Union
January 27, 2010
Obama’s call to make jobs his No. 1 priority in his State of the Union message is the right message, says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. As Obama said tonight:
Jobs must be our number one focus in 2010, and that is why I am calling for a new jobs bill tonight.
Obama called for small business tax breaks to encourage hiring and infrastructure spending. He urged passage of tax incentives for larger business to keep and create jobs in the United States, and an end to tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. He also proposed taking $30 billion of the money Wall Street banks have repaid and use it to help community banks give small businesses the credit they need to stay afloat—a proposal similar to one in our AFL-CIO jobs initiative.
Trumka: Massachusetts Voters Say Democrats Haven’t Gone Far Enough
January 21, 2010
When Massachusetts voters cast their ballots for Scott Brown on Tuesday, they were sending a message to Washington lawmakers that they have not gone far enough to create jobs, reform health care and fix our nation’s economy, says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. In a video message, Trumka says voters showed they don’t believe Democrats have overreached—they think that the Democrats underreached.
You see, they believe that Wall Street’s being taken care of. They believe that corporate America is being taken care of. They believe the insurers are being taken care of. But they don’t think that workers are being taken care of.
The corporate media is spinning the election results to make it appear that voters don’t want health care reform or funding for job creation. But as Trumka states: “Voters haven’t changed their mind. Their two top priorities are jobs and health care."
Trumka, Union Leaders Headed to Jobs Summit Dec. 3
December 3, 2009
President Barack Obama this week is convening a jobs summit to address the urgent need to create jobs for the more than 26 million unemployed or underemployed workers looking for work in an economy in which there are more than six workers for every one job.
An economy in which one in three Americans have either lost his or her job or live in a household with someone who has.
The summit, set for Thursday, Dec. 3, will include more than 100 experts and leaders from business, labor, government and community organizations, including AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman. Read
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AFL-CIO President Trumka to Launch Jobs Initiative
November 17, 2009
On the morning of Tuesday, November 17, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will announce a major new initiative to create and save jobs.
Trumka will be part of a noted panel in “Spotlight on the Jobs Crisis” at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
With unemployment at its highest rate in more than 20 years, Trumka says America needs bold, quick action to put people back to work, in addition to longer term, structural fixes for our economy. The AFL-CIO initiative he announces will include calls to extend help for the unemployed, rebuild the nation’s infrastructure, provide aid to struggling states and communities, create federally funded community-based jobs and increase lending to small and medium-sized businesses to spur job creation.
Join the Bergen County Central Trades and Labor Council on Monday, April 4 from 12:30 to 1:30 pm as we rally for “Jobs, Peace, Equality and Justice" at the Bergen County Courthouse located at 10 Main Street in Hackensack, NJ.
Wisconsin workers have been fighting on the front lines against Governor Scott Walker’s assault on working families and collective bargaining rights. At the Trenton State House on Friday, February 25, 2011, at 12:00 noon, a group of Wisconsin workers will be welcomed by the New Jersey State AFL-CIO, national AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, hundreds of our union brothers and sisters and community partners.
On Wednesday, June 23, 2010, members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ will be rallying in Fort Lee for a fair contract. Join the Bergen County Central Trades and Labor Council as we stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters from SEIU in their fight for a fair contract.
Join the Bergen County Central Trades and Labor Council on Saturday, May 22 as we rally with the labor movement and community allies to protect New Jersey’s families and our communities from Governor Christie’s proposed budget cuts.
On April 29th, join AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and thousands of union and community activists from across the country marching down Broadway in the heart of the financial district to MAKE WALL STREET PAY.
On the morning of Tuesday, November 17, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will announce a major new initiative to create and save jobs.