April 2012
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#99PKTS - Sneak peek at pickets on #MayDay! #M1GS...
Join us at 8am at Bryant Park to participate in one of the 99 pickets! Below is a partial list of the pickets planned for the day.
7 AM - 3 PM: Join the Laborers 79 at Savannah Partners — 1375 Broadway
7 AM - 3 PM: Join the Laborers 79 at St. Giles Hotel — 120 East 38th St btw Park and Lexington
8 - 9 AM: Join members of Legal Services of NYC fighting for a better contract...
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99 Picket Training 4/30 @ 6PM @ Zuccotti Park →
Sign Up for A shift on the Picket Line to Support... →
Thank you for your on-going support of the workers at Golden Farm! On Saturday April 28th, we will be holding at 24-hour boycott of the store and we need you to come out and show your solidarity with the workers. Use the form below to sign up for shift during the boycott.
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Taxi Workers Alliance's 99 Picket on NY1! #99PKTS →
#99PKTS Support fair wages for workers at... →
A cartoon about worker struggles at Golden Farms. Join them for a 24 hour vigil tomorrow! 329 Church Ave, Bkln
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Emergency Picket Now!
If you have time RIGHT NOW, please come to 63rd street and Second Avenue Hot and Crusty location. A union-busing firm is sitting the workers down for a closed meeting and we are planning on picketing outside. They want to close the bakery for several hours to do this. Please join us if you’re anywhere in the area, we need your bodies! The Laundry Workers Union need your solidarity!
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Justice for Jazz Artists
On May Day, at 8pm we’re fighting for a pension and fair wages for jazz musicians in NYC’s most famous clubs. Older jazz musicians are living in poverty while jazz club owners are getting rich… yet they refuse to contribute to pensions that would let musicians retire with dignity.
Meet under the arch in Washington Square Park. We’ll march from there to the Village Vanguard...
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WatchWorkers from Flex n’ Gate in front of the NFL Draft Store picketing owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars Shahid Kahn’s abuses of workers, immigrants and the environment. #99pkts
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@occupywallst NEW: #99PKTS MAP of #mayday... →
99 Picket Lines
The 1% crashed our economy, forecloses on millions of homes, destroys jobs. Enough is Enough. Another city is possible, but we need to build it. As we approach May 1, we will be setting up 99 Picket Lines. This is an opportunity to fight back against austerity, union busting, the attacks on immigrant rights and the entire system of the 1% rule with a tactic and framework that is...
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Writers Guild East Picket Line! AFL-CIO President...
Friday Morning! Join AFL-CIO President Trumka in a Race to the Top Writers and producers in nonfiction basic cable TV work long hours for low pay and no benefits. Hundreds of these employees have asked the Writers Guild of America, East to represent them. AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka will join WGAE officers and activists to urge one of the production companies to provide health benefits – to...
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#99PKTS Leading up to #MayDay! Support workers...
1) SAVE OUR N.Y. TIMES! April 25, 8:30-10:30am, The Times Center, 242 West 41st Street, NYC.
NY Newspaper Guild, CWA Local 31001 members protest at the NY Times annual shareholder’s meeting. Frozen pensions, compensation cuts of more than 10 percent, under-fund the medical plan — these are a few of Time’s Corporate Management’s Demands. A few weeks ago, the Guild asked a number of the...
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@OccupyWallSt - #occupySOTHEBYS on #MayDay -... →
ON MAY 1ST: Come walk the picket line from 9AM-12 noon at 72nd St. and York Avenue with Teamster Art Handlers and help them fight for the future of their Union against Sotheby’s - a company who has locked them out of their jobs for over 8 months to try demoralize them into accepting wage and benefit cuts and the gradual elimination of their Union.
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RT @occupywallstnyc Federal Judge Finds... →
MINNEAPOLIS- A federal judge has ordered Jimmy John’s to reinstate six workers fired by franchise owners Mike and Rob Mulligan over a year ago for blowing the whistle on company policies that expose customers to sandwiches made by sick workers. Jimmy John’s workers can be written up or fired if they take a day off without finding a substitute when they are sick. A union survey revealed...
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@occupywallst - Latest from OccupyWallSt.org re:... →
The 1% crashed our economy, foreclosing on millions of homes, destroying jobs, and wrecking our city budget. Enough is enough. Another city is possibe, but we must build it.
As we approach May 1st, we will be setting up 99 picket lines to expose, disrupt, and shut down the 1% who rule our city. The 99 pickets will be an effective way for people to plug into the morning activities on May Day. A...
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#99PKTS - #ows & #labor pickets leading up to/on... →
This is one of the many picket lines we will support up to and on Mayday! All out to shut down the 1%. • TUESDAY April 24, 4-6pm - Gotham Garage 33rd Ave and Miller St, Flushing with New York Taxi Workers Alliance. Freeze the Lease! Raise the Fare! http://www.nytwa.org/
On May 1st, legions of guitar playing supporters...
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“History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do...”
– Howard Zinn
99 Picket Lines
The 1% crashed our economy, foreclosing on millions of homes,destroying jobs, and wrecking our city budget. Enough is Enough. Another City is Possibe, but we need to build it.
As we approach May 1,we will be setting up 99 Picket Lines to expose, disrupt, and shut down the 1% who rule our city.The 99 pickets will be an effective way for people to plug into the morning activities on May Day. A few...
