The Greater Glens Falls
Central Labor Council
 
Welcome-x9b.GIFAs our Website grows and improves, we'll use it to get the word out on Union activity in our area, our state, and our country, and we hope it will help to create a better sense of community among our members.   It will remain a "Living Document" as long as YOU help and send in material for it.
 
 Winter is only a month away, and... 
Local Elections are already over!
 
Elections are over, but Politics continue...
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Come and Criticize or Come to Innovate, but Come!
...to our Meeting, on
Thursday, November 10th, 2011, at 7:00 PM
 at the
Plumbers' and Pipefitters' Local Union 773 Hall, in Moreau. 
at 7:00 PM, November 10th, 2011.

Come and participate!
Volunteer!

   We will need more volunteers for more future events.   We support our Member Unions -- like UE Local 332 in their Rallies to prevent GE from cutting benefits in their upcoming national contract negotiations, and we support you.   'Phone, write, E-Mail, or come to a Meeting for details and times. 
EVERYONE HAS RIGHTS AT WORK:
Help spread the word that Wage Theft is unacceptable!   Planning for more events to raise  of existing inequities, theft of overtime and minimum wages, and eawarenessducating victims one-to-one continues. 

Sponsored by the Labor-Religion Coalitions of the Adirondack Area & Capital District, this Council, and other groups, in partnership with the NYS Department of Labor. 

Help prevent Wage Theft!

For more information, Visit 
http://www.labor-religion.org/worker-rights-wage-theft-main.htm
or  http://www.Adk-LRCoalition.org
Single-Payer Health Insurance can still be passed!
The weak Health Care Reform bill may have squeaked by and passed, BUT not only is this very weak bill is being attacked with"promises" of something better "later", they've voted to destroy what little we have by killing it for those born after 1957 -- to divide voters so "young" people 54 and under will want to get even by taking it away from the rest!! 
House Resolution 676 (House bill: HR676) for Single-Payer Health Insurance is much cheaper than existing insurance or the new Reform Bill, has better coverage, and like Medicare, allows you to choose any Doctors and the treatments they decide you need, without Insurance Companies turning you down to make money!
 Not just Retirees are getting cheated!

Click here for info on what happened to the workers in the auto industry when their "Plans" went bust!

Please write, FAX, and call the offices of   Kirsten Gillibrand, and Charles Schumer to thank them for what they have done - AND ask them not to stop yet: tell them their supporters also support HR676, as well as the Right to Organize act.
 Meeting Location Reminder:
    The Central Labor Council will be holding most of its regular 2011 Meetings at the Plumbers' and Pipefitters' Local Union 773 Hall at 7:00 PM at 30 Bluebird Road, South Glens Falls - in Moreau -- but continue to check this site for future changes and updates.
    Click here for directions, and a map!
 The Adirondack Chapter 
 of the 
Labor-Religion Coalition
   . . . usually meets on the third Wednesday of most months; at 7:00 PM, but is currently on hiatus.  Add it to your schedules and calendars.
           Click here for a map!
                       or to go to http://Adk-LRCoalition.org 

  Current planning for our Labor Council Meetings include local Union problems, as well as Political strategies to improve the lives of all Working Families.  Please plan to attend or send a delegate from your local.  We're looking forward to seeing you then.  There is a map posted on this site, but if you still have any question of how to get to the Meeting place, please E-Mail or 'phone us, and we will do our best to give you more complete directions.

Our COPE actions during Elections may have been only partly successful, but now it's time to make sure our Local Representatives pass The Right to Organize act!
 
2012 Labor Actions will be coming... 
 and 2011  isn't over yet!   What are YOU doing? 
Check here for more information as it comes in

New schedules of films shown at the Rock Hill Bakehouse and Cafe' will resume being posted later.
 
 
AFL-CIO http://ny.AFLCIO.org/GGFCLC
Labor Articles 
Click here to see more 

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Labor
Council 
News

 We are developing a new site and page on the National AFL-CIO webservers at http://ny.AFLCIO.org/ggfclc/ with feeds from the AFL-CIO, and invite everyone to take a look! Watch this site for more news and announcements! 

        Don't forget to reserve the date for our November 10th, 2011 Meeting on Thursday, November 10th, 2011, at the usual time of 7:00 PM.   We will hear how Labor minded Candidates came out, and be discussing what to do next to support honesty, fairness, and Labor ideals for everyone. 

      Most of our Meetings are currently at the Plumbers' and Pipefitters' Local Union 773 Hall at  30 Bluebird Road, South Glens Falls - in Moreau, but continue to check the Directions page for new maps and more info on our future meeting places.

      Our Meetings concentrate on our own local area plans as well as the wider "Up-State" plans from CDALF, and the State-wide activities of our NYS AFL-CIO   We also support and encourage Labor friendly government locally, state-wide, and nationally.   We coordinate with and help - and are helped by - other pro-Labor organizations such as the Solidarity Committee, and the Labor-Religion Coalition  Come talk with other Unions' Delegates who have already "been there and done that".

      Labor still has a lot of non-union workplaces to Organize -- and a lot of workers who would like to be Unionized, but are afraid of losing their jobs if they try to exercise their rights.  We also have other issues that affect the welfare of all workers, and we still need a Universal Health Care bill, which will also ease the pressure on employers to shift insurance costs to their workers in order to compete with other countries that already have it -- better health care at lower cost for everyone. 

      In other upcoming events, we will probably be voting on and adopting an updated Constitution for the Council, and may be holding an Election to syncronize terms with it at this Meeting.
    Watch this site and keep posted.

      All Union Locals can and should have full representation in Labor Councils regardless of other affiliation, so if you have any questions, come and ask. 

      Do plan to attend our Meetings and forums, and since we welcome extra visitors to our Meetings from Labor even if they are not voting Delegates, please feel free to bring along some of your other Members as well. 
 

 
 Some quick links and things:

Click here to go to our LINKS page to see some of our Member Union's websites.

Send in your own Local's Union links and news here!

Click here for an index and guide to our site
some of our Minutes
and here for our Officers' page.

Click here for an index to some of our Newsletters, Articles, and other archives as they're slowly updated.

Click for our Calendar and Area Union Schedules, soon to be updated to 2012!  Send us your own dates to add

Click here for maps and information about our Meeting places (to be updated as info comes in).

Start your own free Union Local website and mailbox here!also sign up for free personal or Union accounts - Click or call for details!

  The  Adirondack  Chapter  of  the  Labor-Religion  Coalition 
 


  Remember, except in unusual circumstances like ice and snow emergencies, our annual Candidates' Nights, or our Annual Holiday Meeting and Celebration, all of our meetings are held at 7:00 PM on the second Thursday of the month.
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Questions or comments? Get in touch with us at:
 Secretary@GGFCLC.org