Building Bridges: 250 UPS Workers Received Pink Slips; The Newark Schools Crisis

[Omaha Steve]

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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
The National Edition
with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
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Two Hundred Fifty UPS Workers Received Pink Slips
featuring
. Jairo Reyes, fired UPS worker
. Letitia James, NYC Public Advocate
. Tim Sylvester, President Local 802, IBT

United Parcel Services (“UPS”) workers, numerous elected officials and
Teamsters Local 804 members in Queens delivered 100,000 petition
signatures in support of the 250 drivers whose jobs are on the line. UPS
has issued termination notices to the Teamster drivers for participating in
a walkout and protest after the company fired a union activist in violation of
a signed agreement. What began as a routine disciplinary matter has
become a flashpoint for workers’ rights in New York City.
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The Current Crisis In Newark Schools
featuring
Larry Hamm, Chairman, People's Organization for Progress, Newark, NJ

Newark is in the throes of a broadening community based resistance of
parents, teachers and longtime city residents to draconian efforts to
privatize Newark schools without the communities consent by the state
imposed superintendent Cami Anderson. Anderson has proposed public
school closings and job cuts, while advancing Charter schools. She wants
charter chains in five troubled district schools that serve K-8 students. She
has proposed charters take over management of the schools entirely. She
is also establishing nine more “renew” schools, in which she will give
principals the right to select their own teaching staffs. Larry Hamm
analyzes the Anderson plan and what is needed to help preserve
and fix Newark’s troubled public school system.
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