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The
Greater Glens Falls
Central
Labor Council
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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.
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Winter
is only a month away, and...
Local
Elections are
already over!
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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!
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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. |
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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
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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. |
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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.
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here for directions, and a map! |
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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!
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2012 Labor
Actions will be coming...
and 2011
isn't over yet! What are YOU
doing?
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Check
here for more information as it comes in
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 New
schedules of films shown at the Rock Hill
Bakehouse and Cafe' will resume being posted
later.
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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.
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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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