Greek SYRIZA Leader Tsipras in NY Condemns Austerity; NYC School Bus Strike Update
Greece’s Radical Left Coalition SYRIZA Leader in Alexis Tsipras in U.S. Says
No To Austerity Politics
with
Alexis Tsipras, member, Hellenic
parliament, Pres. of the Synaspismos political party, head of the SYRIZA
parliamentary group, and leader of the opposition since June
2012
The Radical Coalition of the Left (Syriza) has become
Greece's second-largest party following its dramatic success in
parliamentary election’s. It has campaigned steadfastly against the
recovery blueprint for Greece drawn up by
the European Union (EU) & the
International Monetary Fund (IMF). The party is led by the country's
youngest political leader, Alexis Tsipras. Tsipras talks about the
unpopular EU-IMF plan, known in Greece as the ''memorandum'' and says that
the election result represented radical change in both Greece and Europe,
showing that people are not prepared to settle for "barbarous memorandums"
and bailouts.
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ATU Local
1181 Strike Update
with
Jimmy Hedge, Exec. Board Member/Delegate,
Amalgamated Transportation Union (ATU) Local 1181
Members
of Local 1181 have been on strike, walking picketlines, with the weather in
the teens since Jan.16, in protest of NYC's most recent special education
contract bid, which would exclude their Employee Protection Provision (EPP)
guarantees. The bid fails to protect both special ducation students, &
NYC's most experienced and safe drivers and escorts jobs. Local 1181
members all come from modest means, and keeping their EPP’s, their job
security is about maintaining their livelihood and the integrity of their
union.
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