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Posted on | January 8, 2010 | Comments Off
Public Workers Unite! is an organization dedicated to defending and expanding public services, and solidarity and building ties with private sector workers. We are organized around these points of unity:
- Tax the rich
- Single Payer health
- Expand public services
- End the wars; fund public services
- Stop privatization of public services
- Defend existing services and workers’ pay/benefits
- Pensions for ALL
- Improve labor laws
Videos
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Labor Beat on Blip.tv (click to view)
Events
Posted on | January 8, 2010 | Comments Off
Martin Luther King Day March for Jobs and Public Services
Join us in celebrating Dr. King’s legacy of struggling for social justice and defending workers’ needs
Rally at CTA Headquarters 567 W. Lake Street (1 block west of Clinton)
11:00 am, January 18th
March will go to the Board of Education and end at the State of Illinois Building at 100 W. Randolph
CTA management is threatening to lay off over 1,000 bus drivers and maintenance workers on Feb. 7th. This means fewer and more crowded buses and trains.
CPS plans to close another 25 to 30 neighborhood schools and hand over our public education money to private companies. This won’t help educate our kids.
Unemployment is at its highest in 30 years but caseworkers who approve Food Stamps and Medicaid have unworkable caseloads of 1100 to 2200 families per worker – so people can’t get the help they need.
The rich and their politicians steal our taxes to bail out Wall Street. They sell our publicly-owned resources to private companies, and then make us pay for it through higher fees and fines. We say: make the rich pay. They made this crisis; we’re not giving up our jobs and services to pay for it.
Join Public Workers Unite! to defend our public services. We say not on our backs! Fund public services, not the wars! Money for jobs, not for bankers! Tax the rich, not working people!
Endorsers: AFSCME Local 2858, Caucus of Rank and File Educators – CORE, Chicago GMB – IWW, Citizens Taking Action, International Socialist Organization, League for the Revolutionary Party, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, NoCTAcuts.org, Socialist Alternative, Solidarity
To endorse or for more information, contact publicworkersunite@yahoo.com
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Public Workers Unite! Next Meeting: 10am, Jan. 23, UE Hall, 37 S. Ashland, Chicago
