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Support Locked-Out Con Ed Workers: Rally for a Fair Contract!

Posted 12 years ago on July 15, 2012, 5:38 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt

Flier from the AFL-CIO, see below for text

Where: Union Square, Manhattan
When: Tuesday, July 17 at 5:30pm

Join #OWS and many others as we rally in solidarity with NYC LABOR & UWUA 1-2. Assemble at the Con Ed HQ Picket Line At 4 Irving Place at 4:30pm, then march with the locked-out Local 1-2 workers to Union Square!

This is not a walkout:
It’s a LOCKOUT!
FAIR CONTRACT NOW!!!

For more information: uwua1-2.org | www.nycclc.org

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[-] 1 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 12 years ago

I also twittered this post as well as the Working Families Party request for support of the striking workers.

[-] 1 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 12 years ago

Shared out on twitter.

People Unite to support ALL Workers.

We start in separate issues with separate businesses - PERHAPS - But this issue goes to the heart of all Employer/Employee inequality issues.

Employer/Employee fairness is a national matter/issue - it is a World matter/issue.

[-] 1 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 12 years ago

8500 Con Ed workers have been locked out for more than two weeks.

You know the dispute: Con Ed's multi-millionaire top brass want to slash health and retirement security for the workers. They turned up the heat by locking out their workers -- right at the peak of a serious heatwave.

And now, it's time to turn up the heat on Con Ed. Today, we'll be standing with the workers from Local 1-2, showing our support as their lockout continues. And we'll be delivering the nearly 10,000 petitions you signed over the last two weeks.

Nearly 10,000 petition signatures is a lot of signatures, but we want to have more than 10,000. Can you help us out by sharing the petition with everyone you know who uses electricity?

Click here for a sample email to forward, or share on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

And if you're in the city this afternoon, join us for a solidarity march with the Con Ed workers:

Con Ed Solidarity Rally Union Square 5:30pm

Thanks for your support. Hope to see you there,

-Bill Lipton

Deputy Director, WFP

P.S. -- Please help us spread the word about this important petition. Make sure to share this link with your friends, neighbors, and anyone who uses electricity: http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6276

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