Thursday, May 10th, 2012 #99PKTS
4:00pm
Yellow Cab SLS Jet
22-05 43rd Avenue
(Subway: E/M to Court Square OR N/Q/7 to Queensboro Plaza)
#99PKTS - Sneak peek at pickets on #MayDay! #M1GS #ows
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 — NYT Building, 620 8th Ave.
8 - 10 AM: Join Local 802 at Koch Brothers — Lincoln Center Plaza
8 - 10 AM: Stop Post Office closures with Community-Labor United for Postal Jobs & Services! — James Farley Post Office, 421 8th Ave.
8:30 - 10:30 AM: Join members of the Newspaper Guild at McGraw Hill — 1221 6th Ave.
8:30 - 9:30 AM: NYU Bobst Library — 70 Washington Square South
9 - 11 AM: Strong Economy for All at Paulson Investment Co. — 1251 Ave of the Americas
9 - 10 AM: Join NYCC at Chase Bank — 270 Park Ave.
9 AM - 12 PM: Support Teamsters Local 814, locked out from Sotheby’s — 1334 York Ave at 72nd St.
10 - 11 AM: Join NYCC at Chase Branch — 401 Madison Ave.
11 AM - 1 PM: UFCW Local 1500 workers at Target — East 117th St., Harlem
11 AM - 1 PM: Support NABET-CWA Local 16 workers at ABC — 66th and Columbus
Immigrant Worker Justice Tour:
—- 11:30 AM: Support the Laundry Workers Center — location TBA
—- 12:00 PM: Wells Fargo — location TBA
—- 12:30 PM: Support Coalition of Immokalee Workers! Chipotle — 9 W 42nd St.
—- 1:30 - 2:30 PM: Support ROC-NY at Capital Grille — 155 E 42nd btw 3rd and Lexington
12 - 1:30 PM: Support members of CSEA AFSCME at Investment Banker Stephen Berger — 46th and Park Ave.
12 - 2 PM: Repeal Employer Sanctions with NMASS & IWJ — 26 Federal Plaza
1:30 - 4 PM: March with the Freelancers from Digital Media Companies — Madison Square Park (start) to Union Square (finish)
3 - 4 PM: Support workers at Beth Israel with Workers United — 14th and Park
3 - 4 PM: Support workers at Strand Bookstore! — 828 Broadway
7 PM: Support TWU fighting for a fair contract — MTA, 2 Broadway
8 - 10 PM: Support jazz musicians fighting for fair benefits — Washington Square Park (meet at the arch)
Laborers Local 79 Picket today! Workers need safe working conditions! Stop the attack on the 99% #99pkts
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!
99 Pickets in action—-Come join in!
Richard Trumka Prez of the AFL-CIO Joins the 99 Pickets!!!
“These writers and producers are doing what workers have always done. They’re doing a great job in the TV industry, and now they’re joining together in a union to turn these jobs into great jobs with health care. I’m proud to stand with them,” Richard Trumka said.“If you consider a workplace fraught with violations of wage and hour laws, long hours, unfair pay and zero benefits to be a sweatshop, then any number of television production companies in New York City fit that bill,” said Lowell Peterson, Executive Director, Writers Guild of America, East. “Nonfiction is almost entirely non-union, but it will change as the WGAE continues to organize and bargain on behalf of writers and producers in this part of the industry. Creative professionals understand the importance of banding together to make their work lives better.”
Workers 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
Writers Guild East Picket Line! AFL-CIO President to walk two of the 99 picket lines this week!
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 abandon the race to the bottom on wages and benefits, and instead to join the race to the top.
When: 10am - 11am on Friday, April 27
Where: In front of the offices of Atlas Media at 242 W. 36th Street (between 7th and 8th Ave.)
RSVP: jmolito@wgaeast.org
