Boston School Bus Union West Coast tour shares lessons of victory
Posted on August 9, 2016 on workers.org, article by Hannah Kirschbaum and Stevan Kirschbaum A...
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‘til Local 8751’s Health & Safety Task Force says, “Go!”
>Massachusetts and Connecticut TPS-holders from El Salvador, Honduras, Haiti and Sudan gathered in Boston. Union members comprised almost a third of the crowd. Roxana Rivera, Vice President of the 175,000-member Service Employees 32BJ, spoke along with steward Doris Reina-Landaverde, a national TPS activist and custodian at Harvard University. Reina-Landaverde mobilized the largest labor contingent, the multi-union Harvard TPS Coalition, including SEIU, UNITE HERE Local 26 and AFSCME Local 3650 members.The primarily Haitian Boston School Bus Drivers Union (Steel Workers Local 8751) also provided amplification to uplift the voices of impacted families. Youth activists and DACA recipients spoke of struggling for permanent residency for their parents. “La Libertad” will make five New England stops, Nov. 1-6.
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Lechat is active with Boston FIRE, Harvard TPS Coalition and AFSCME Local 3650. Coordinated, coast-to-coast press conferences were staged by Temporary Protected Status activists on Sept. 15 after the ...Mobile UploadsLast week, SFUSD Superintendent Dr. Vincent Matthews published a statement on Medium titled "Support Bus Drivers." (medium.com/@sfusd_supe/support-bus-drivers-f961e7bda82f)
Despite the title, it says the District is unable to assist struggling school bus drivers. And it does so through misleading and incorrect statements.
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They didn't kill an animal; they killed a human being... I want justice for this man and this young child that is left without a dad, said Yola Martinez, close friend of Nicholas Morales, Immokalee fa...‘The unions are really the military wing of the working class. If the unions band together to collectively shut down the system – a one-day, 24-hour shutdown – that’s going to send a definitive message that these actions by the police will stop. The people are sick and tired of carrying the burden of white supremacy, of racism, of sexism, of all the different forms of discrimination. We are at a very ripe moment for a major victory if we continue to organize a bottoms-up struggle to change the dynamics of this capitalist system, a grassroots movement that’s going to change the face of the future of this country.’
—Chris Silvera, Secretary-Treasurer and Principal Officer of Teamsters Local 808, served as the first chair of the Teamsters National Black Caucus. Silvera spoke on the Sept. 10 webinar, “Workers Defend Black Lives.”
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‘The unions are really the military wing of the working class. If the unions band together to collectively shut down the system – a one-day, 24-hour shutdown – that’s going to send a definitiv...September 17, 2020
>IN A DRAMATIC VICTORY for the beleaguered American labor movement, 1,800 nurses at Asheville, North Carolina-based Mission Hospital will now be represented by a union, National Nurses United, as officials finished counting votes early Thursday morning. The victory is the largest at a nonunion hospital in the South since 1975, and is the first private sector hospital union win ever in North Carolina.
>The hospital is owned by the largest hospital corporation in the country, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare. The company was previously run by Republican Rick Scott, whose ill-gotten gains from Medicare fraud helped fund his successful run in Florida for Senate. HCA has received nearly $1.5 billion in coronavirus-related CARES Act grants.
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North Carolina Nurses Win Union in Landslide After Bitter Opposition
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HCA Healthcare had brought in a phalanx of union-busting firms to intimidate nurses into voting no.Solidarity with 5,000 Striking Chicago Healthcare Workers!
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University of Illinois nurses, SEIU Local 73 strike moves downtown
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CHICAGO —Hundreds of striking University of Illinois nurses and health care workers marched to the Thompson Center Friday morning to ask Gov. JB Pritzker for support. In addition to at least 800 nu...MASSACHUSETTS & CONNECTICUT TPS ALLIANCE PROTESTS MONDAY’S FEDERAL COURT DEPORTATION RULING: DEMANDS #RESIDENCYNOW !
On Tuesday, 9/15/20, immigrants, and advocacy groups such as Comité TPS Massachusetts, Harvard TPS Coalition , Cosecha Massachusetts, including union leaders & activists in SEIU 32BJ, 1199SEIU, AFSCME, Boston School Bus Drivers United Steel Workers Union Local 8751, other unions and political leaders attended a joint Massachusetts & Connecticut TPS Alliance Emergency Action at Boston City Hall Plaza protesting Monday’s Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ green lighting of President Trump's 2018 directive to the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] to expel from the U.S. more than 300,000 undocumented immigrants from 4 countries that Trump racially targeted when at a White House meeting he referred to those countries as "sh*thole countries", and called for ending the Temporary Protected Status [TPS] these people have enjoyed for as long as two decades. The Appeals Court overturned a 2018 San Francisco federal judge's block on the Trump administration’s move to terminate deportation protections for nationals of four countries- El Salvador, Nicaragua Sudan, and Haiti - because of natural disasters, wars or violent persecution in their homelands. If the Appeals Court's decision stands, Salvadoran citizens could lose protections as early as November 2021, while citizens of the other countries could lose their status even sooner, in March. In as little as six months, over 300,000 US citizen children stand to be separated from their parents. They face the impossible choice of choosing between their country and their parents.
Undocumented immigrants from Haiti -for the moment- have some protection from Monday’s Appeals Court ruling because a New York federal judge’s injunction preventing Haitians from being deported remains in place, though the outcome of their case is still pending with the 2nd Circuit Court.
The Ninth Circuit’s ruling could also sway the fate of TPS holders from Nepal and Honduras, whose separate legal fight to prevent deportation was on hold pending the outcome of Monday’s Appeals Court decision.
What the Appeals Court decision entails for our country and for Temporary Protected Status [TPS] families:
1) Thousands of employers; including the significant number of employers with TPS, will not only lose their businesses, but also lose a highly qualified workforce.
2) Our country will lose thousands who make important contributions to our economy. TPS beneficiaries pay an annual $4.6 billion in taxes. … 30% of TPS holders have mortgages.
3) In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, our country will lose more than 130,000 essential workers who have been on the frontlines of this crisis.
4) Our country loses its soul: the TPS program reflects the highest values of our country as a nation of immigrants, for the most part. TPS beneficiaries come from countries that have
been impacted by violent conflict or natural disasters. TPS holders are among the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free…
5) Racism, bigotry, and white supremacy win in our country with this decision.
Our community is demanding of President Trump and Congress:
#RESIDENCYNOW, not “Temporary” Protected Status!
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