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Building Bridges Occupies Air Waves

with a May Day Special!
May Day in New York City Part 2
With
Lucas Sanchez, Organizer, N.Y. Communities for Change, grocery workers organizing campaign
John Samuelsen, President, Transport Workers Union Local 100
Barbara Bowen, Pres., Professional Staff Congress,
City University of New York
Mario Rodriquez, Organizing Dir.,District Council 37, AFSCME and Occupy Wall Street activist


May Day began in the U.S. in 1886 as a nationwide general strike, led by immigrant workers, fighting for the 8 hour work day. While celebrated across the globe, it has been largely ignored in the U.S., until recently, when immigrant workers revived it.


Now, a new chapter in the history of May Day was written with the involvement of Occupy Wall Street, the organization making history with its public encampments and protests against the global financial community. And, Building Bridges presente! We were there for this new chapter in the
movement, reporting from May Day events throughout the day.


We spiced those events with commentary and analysis on the struggles of the working class in the midst of capitalist crisis and prospects for change, from leading champions of the working class, who build organization and class consciousness.

Occupy with Building Bridges as we acknowledge the blood, sweat and tears of workers, the workers who really create all the wealth and want it back. So, lock arms, unite and fight for the working class, for the 99%.

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Bloomberg’s Snow Job and
The NYC Council Inquiry Into The Blizzard Fiasco
with
NYC Councilmember Jumaane Williams, Chairman, Oversight and Investigations Committee

The NYC Council held hearings into how the mayor's administration took nearly a week to clear city streets after a holiday weekend snow storm and we’ll go inside the hearings with Jumaane Williams. Specifically on the agenda, was determining what made the mayor say that streets were plowed while everybody was telling him they weren’t. While, the media blamed the sanitation workers, we know the buck stops with the mayor and the managers he appointed and we dig out their negligence and incompetence and find out why.
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Stop the Layoffs: City Workers Protest Bloomberg’s Budget Madness

DC 37 Locals 1113 and 375 held an angry demonstration at City Hall Park recently protesting the layoff of 129 Dept. of Finance workers which is partof the 889 layoffs announced by Bloomberg for this year. Recent forecasts by the NYC Independent Budget Office and the City Comptroller say that NYC will have a budget surplus in excess of $1 billion this fiscal year. Bloomberg’s credibility has been further eroded by the $80 million fraud in the overbudget $800 million CityTime payroll contract which many speakers mentioned as the tip of an iceberg of waste in the City’s $9 billion budget for outside contracts and high paid consultants. They also called for higher taxes on the rich to prevent layoffs and increase NYC services.

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Stop the Layoffs: City Workers Protest Bloomberg’s Budget Madness

DC 37 Locals 1113 and 375 held an angry demonstration at City
Hall Park recently protesting the layoff of 129 Dept. of Finance
workers which is part of the 889 layoffs announced by Bloomberg
for this year. Recent forecasts by the NYC Independent Budget
Office and the City Comptroller say that NYC will have a budget
surplus in excess of $1 billion this fiscal year. Bloomberg’s
credibility has been further eroded by the $80 fraud in the
$800 million CityTime payroll contract which many speakers
mentioned as the tip of an iceberg of waste in the City’s $9 billion
budget for outside contracts and high paid consultants. They also
called for higher taxes on the rich to prevent layoffs and increase
NYC services.

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Bloomberg To FDNY Vulcans, “Burn Baby Burn”
with
Paul Washington, Past President, Vulcan Society, FDNY
Richard Levy, attorney for Vulcan Society

Rather than complying with a Federal court order to choose among five plans to increase hiring of African American and Latino candidates for the NYC Fire Dept. to reverse long standing discrimination, Mayor Bloomberg choose to suspend hiring for the next class of 300 firefighters. This will result in short staffing in the Department and an expensive increase in overtime pay. The class action lawsuit was initiated in 2002 by the Department of Justice and the Vulcan Society, the fraternal organization of NYC Black firefighters, against NYC’s discriminatory hiring practices.
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Laundry Workers Rally To Protest Privatization & Save Union Jobs

In the battle against filth, the workers at the Brooklyn Central Laundry in East Flatbush are stalwart foot soldiers. Union workers wash the dirty sheets, towels and uniforms for most of New York City’s hospitals, folding more than 10 million pounds of laundry a year. Employees say the linens sometimes hold body parts. They nearly always contain blood. But under a proposed reorganization plan announced in May by the Health and Hospitals Corp. (HHC), which runs the laundry, the service would be taken over by an undetermined private company. The city says private companies can beat the laundry’s price per pound, which the union estimates at $1.30. Privatization will cause the loss of 120 living wage union jobs. So while HHC says get back, the workers fight back.
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WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
March 2, 2009, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM 58 minutes ****************************************

Economic Aid To Feed Extreme Poverty
with
Jeffrey Sachs, economist is Director of the Earth Institute at
Columbia University, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-
General Ban Ki-Moon, is founder and co-President of the
Millennium Promise Alliance, an organization dedicated to ending
extreme poverty and hunger, and he’s authored numerous books
including his best seller, recently released in paperback Common
Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet.

Mayor Bloomberg’s Union Busting is Disgusting:
Bloomberg Contracts Out Housing Authority Jobs & Fires Workers
with
Fitz Reid, Pres. Health Services Local 768,
DC 37Faye Moore,Pres. Social Service Employees Union Local 371,DC 37

What Domino’s Pizza Dishes Out
Makes Worker’s Sick To Their Stomachs
with
Mike, a fired Domino’s Pizza Deliveryman
and
Josephine Lee, representative of the Justice Will Be Served Campaign

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Economic Aid To Feed Extreme Poverty
with
Jeffrey Sachs, economist is Director of the Earth Institute at
Columbia University, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-
General Ban Ki-Moon, is founder and co-President of the
Millennium Promise Alliance, an organization dedicated to ending
extreme poverty and hunger, and he’s authored numerous books
including his best seller, recently released in paperback Common
Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet. Prof. Sachs talks about how to
address the fact that one-sixth of the world remains trapped in extreme
poverty, and now we’re in a global financial meltdown and how to respond
to the challenge.
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Mayor Bloomberg’s Union Busting is Disgusting:
Bloomberg Contracts Out Housing Authority Jobs & Fires Workers
with
Fitz Reid, Pres. Health Services Local 768, DC 37
Faye Moore,Pres. Social Service Employees Union Local 371,DC 37


More than 200 social service and health-care workers employed in Housing
Authority community centers were laid off Feb. 20 despite community and
labor protests, and multiple lawsuits by the unions, The City Council had
agreed to provide $18 million to keep the centers open, then Bloomberg
administration decided to fire the city workers and contract out the
operation of the community centers.
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What Domino’s Pizza Dishes Out
Makes Worker’s Sick To Their Stomachs
with
Mike, a fired Domino’s Pizza Deliveryman
and
Josephine Lee, representative of the Justice Will Be Served Campaign


Domino’s Pizza forces delivery workers to work over 60 hours per week and then
refused to pay them overtime and minimum wage. And, when workers at a New
Jersey Domino’s Pizza stood up for their rights, the boss fired them, but, they’re not taking it lying down.

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