(Jewish Labor Committee) Marching with NYC’s "March for Jobs and Economic Fairness"

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.jewishlaborcommittee.org/2011/12/marching_with_nycs_march_for_j_1.html



The JLC delegation included (r-l): Executive Director Martin Schwartz {holding one edge of the banner}, Adelphi University Professor Leigh Benin, Associate Director Arieh Lebowitz, Robert Schwartz, Intern Brett Goldman, and Bennett Muraskin, a union representative for New Jersey college professors. Other JLC activists, from unions including the Communications Workers, the Electrical Workers, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and the United Federation of Teachers, marched with their respective unions. They and others joined our delegation at Union Square.

(Thursday, Dec 1, 2011) New York - JLC marched this afternoon and stayed into the evening at the “March for Jobs and Economic Fairness,” called by the New York City Central Labor Council, that according to one report transformed Broadway into “a sea of union workers.” The march began near Greeley Square and went straight down to Union Square, fifteen blocks south.

On the agenda of the city’s labor movement are an extension of New York State's so-called Millionaires’ Tax and the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, “living wage” legislation before the NYC City Council that would obligate companies receiving significant assistance from the city to pay retail workers a living wage. The United Hebrew Trades – New York JLC has been active in securing support from the Jewish community for passage of this much-needed legislation.

FULL story at link.

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1. My favorite line growing up was:

Jews live like WASP's and vote like Puerto Ricans.

People can't believe sometimes that I'm so far left of center...it's like "WTF?" My reply is that our job as individuals is to raise the less-fortunate, not vilify them.

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