Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Student Worker Solidarity

SWS: Solidarity in the Snow

Workers and students demonstrate in the snow at Columbia University

Students and Workers Together

DEMONSTRATION  FEBRUARY 8, 2013. 

MEET AT THE SUNDIAL ON CAMPUS WALK AT 3:30

 MARCH AROUND CAMPUS TO FACULTY HOUSE 

THEN TO 116 AND BROADWAY FOR RALLY 

WITH THE UNION OF THE WORKERS.

Columbia University is systematically stealing tips and

wages from their workers at Faculty House – support

these workers in their negotiations for a new contract.

Faculty

House Rally

February 8th @ 3:30pm

Columbia University

116th and broadway

This fight is part of the global movement for jobs for

ALL at LIVING WAGES WITH BENEFITS.

Student -Worker Solidarity

Students Support Columbia Faculty House Workers

A TEACH-IN BY STUDENT WORKER SOLIDARITY WILL BE HELD JANUARY 25 AT 6PM IN HAMILTON HALL #602

Students Worker Solidarity marched to the Faculty House where workers were negotiating.

The workers who prepare catered meals for Columbia events and the dining room at the

Faculty House are demanding that they receive the gratuities which were removed from

their customary end of the year benefits.  Columbia now charges a 22% "Service Fee" instead of the Gratuity which was divided between workers in the past. (Sometimes as high as $2000 lump sum at the end of the year.) Instead, Columbia now keeps the funds which many faculty and other users assume (incorrectly!) are going to the workers.

The workers have had little increases in their wages and are forced to be laid off during school holidays (amounting to several months every year). They are not allowed to collect unemployment for their work as schools are exempt.

Workers are expected to pay for and clean their own uniforms, a considerable cost.

 There will be a teach-in on this issue this Friday, January 25. Location to be announced.

SCREENINGS OF THE VANISHING CITY

THE VANISHING CITY exposes the policies and economic philosophy behind
New York's finance dominated economy, the concentration of wealth, and
the process that has subsidizedluxury development and jeopardized the
social fabric of neighborhoods thathave always made New York unique.

The first screening is at:
Columbia University
Wednesday, May 9
at the Teachers' College in Russell 306 (part of the Gottesman Library)
from 7pm - 9pm
as part of the Coalition to Preserve Community
A Q&A panel will follow with the filmmakers and,
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Author, Saskia Sassen and,
Hip Hop Artist, Activist and Writer, Propaganda Anonymous
Free to the public. Make reservations online:
http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/viewfile/104801


The second screening is at:
The Catholic Worker
Friday, May 11  at 7:45pm
55 East 3rd Street
Between 1st and 2nd Avenue
A Q&A panel will follow with the filmmakers and,
Joseph Bolanos, President of Block Association Landmark 76 and,
David Mulkins, Chair of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors
Free Admission

THE VANISHING CITY events link:
http://www.thevanishingcity.com/events.html

Occupy Harlem Leaders in Court on Monday, April 30

Rev. Earl Kooperkamp and Nellie Bailey will be on trial starting tomorrow.  Bring ID and come early so that you can get through security in time for the 9:30 start.

 Put NYPD Stop & Frisk Practice on Trial NOT those who challenge it!

On Monday, April 30 Dr. Cornel West and Carl Dix, leaders of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and 18 others to be tried for disorderly conduct arrests protesting NYPD “Stop and Frisk."

Press Conference 8:45 am; Trial 9:30 am
Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, 100 Centre Street, on street and in trial Room 506

The arrests stem from an October 21, 2011 non-violent civil disobedience protest of “stop and frisk” policy at the
NYPD 28th Precinct in Harlem. 

Defendants include Dr. Cornel West, Princeton University Professor of African Studies;  Carl Dix, Co-Founder of the Revolutionary Communist Party;  Randy Credico, social comedian and former director of the William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice; Rev. Stephen Phelps, Senior Minister of The Riverside Church; Rev. Earl Kooperkamp, rector of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Harlem; Prof. Jim Vrettos of John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Debra Sweet, Director, World Can’t Wait; Nellie Hester Bailey of Occupy Harlem and activists from Occupy Wall Street.

In 2011, the NYPD stopped almost 700,000 people, or more than 1,900 people each day. More than 85 percent of those stopped and frisked are Black or Latino, and more than 90 percent of them were doing nothing wrong when the police stopped them.  “Stop and Frisk” is the first step in a pipeline that has ultimately placed 2.4 million in prison.

“Stop & Frisk,” a policy heavily promoted by Ray Kelly and Michael Bloomberg, is also being challenged in court by the NYCLU and Center for Constitutional Rights.