Union City News, Midstate Central Labor Council, January [2003]

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Midstate Central Labor Council. Meets the 3RD aol Central New York Labor ©

Tuespay of every month. The next meeting will & : |

take place JANUARY 21ST AT 7PM AT THE VFW 2272 Me A FL-CI O p

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STEERING COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS WILL TAKE PLACE
At THIS MEETING!

Street Heat: Building a stronger labor
movement requires change and a renewed
commitment to organizing and political action.
But it also means backing up our organizing and
political activities with the capacity to mobilize
union members and the community. And that’s
what “Street Heat” /s all about.

Union City
News eed

Midstate Central Labor
Council, AFL-ClO

CLC President: Linda Smith ~
607 849-3420

The Cortland Street Heat Committee is working
on a union density mapping project as well as
voter registration, The next Street Heat
Committee meeting in Cortland will take place
on February 11th at the Workers Rights Board.

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The Ithaca Street Heat Committee is working on
the establishment of a permanent Workers
Memorial.

To get involved in Street Heat activities please
contact the Labor Federation at 315 422-3363

“Health and Safety in the Workplace”

A 6 week course, every Wednesday, Feb. 12-
March 26 (except Feb. 26), 6:30-8:30pm,
Workers Rights Board, 26 Court St. Cortland.
The course will provide a practical introduction
to workplace health and safety and the tools
unions and workers can use to better protect
themselves. The course is free and open to the
public, participants will receive a Certificate of
Participation from Cornell University’s School of
Industrial and Labor Relations. For further
information contact Linda Smith, 756-5582,
smithsranch@hotmail.com

Address redacted

Central New York Labor Federation, AFL-CIC Py $3

404 Oak Street
i} Syracuse, NY 13203-2297
Mm) (315)422-3363
" FAX (315)422-2260
Http:/Awww.cnylabor.org

if you have an event you would like listed here
please contact the Central New York Labor Fed-
eration, AFL-CIO at 315 422-3363,

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Mas: ate Central Labor Counc?
G I Meeting
January 2.1, 2003
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2272 Oryion Ra. (Route 13) Oren
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Reports
Oommunioatons
Steenny Committee nommations
Antinvar resekition
Buyer

At the January 21st meeting of the Labor
Council, nominations for the Steering Committee
will be taken, The etection will take place at the
February meeting and the term of each officer is
for one year. If you are interested in a position
please contact Carol at the Labor Federation of:
fice at 315 422.3363, carol@onylabor.org,

When the President says that he expects
“class warfare” from those who Oppose his pre.
posals to give breaks to the very wealthiest tax.
payers, he is apparently hoping to deflect atten:
tion from the facts about who benefits from his
plans, But the truth— demonstrated once again
with his proposal to cut the dividend tax for in-
vestors under the guise of stimulating the econ-
OMmy= is that it is he and the rich who have de-
clared war on working people and the poer in
this country,

Working families have taken a beating
for the 22 months since the Official start of the
2001-2002 recession, Layoffs are mounting
and as the unemployment rate rises, urgently
heeded new jobs are nowhere in sight. Good

health care is under siege, When it comes to

What matters Host (0 average Americans, things
are Worse How than ever and there are no consis:
tent signs of recoven,

The plain facts are that excluding dive
dend noome from taxation will guarantee more
tax breaks for the well-off but it will not create
jobs, aid workers hard hit by the downturn or help
average Amerioan families.

Depending on how the new cut is struc
tured, taxpayers with Nnoomes of more than
$1,000,000 will get average tax breaks of as

much as $24,230 and claim hearly 25 percent of
the total benefit. The top 4 pereent= whose in
comes exceed $333,023-~ would receive more
than 42 percent of the benefit from the out. with
an average break of as much as $7,004, Three
Quarters of the total benefit would go to tax filers
with incomes exceeding $:.00,000,

Ih contrast, tax payers with incomes be-
tow $50,000- who file atmost 70 percent of all
tax returns= would get less than 10 percent of the
total benefit from the out. For them, the average
tax break is $76 or legs,

Cutting taxes on dividends will provide no
dang for the economy, either, American workers
and the American economy heed a recovery plan
that Kicks in quickly to create jobs that pay well
and provide good benefits. The mast effective
job-creation program is one that stimulates de-
mand by putting money into the hands and pock

ets of average families and laid-off workers who
heed Nand will spend it, Wealthy beneficiaries of
tax breaks are more likely to save and invest than
to spend any additional resources, and the pay
Out from the break comes too late to affect the
eeonomy How,

In making this choiee, the Administration
has apparently also decided Against tax relief that
would be more eventy distributed and widely
shared by all Amerioans, such as rebates OF tax
relief for all who work and make Payroll tax pay:
ments, Exempting workers’ first $10,000 in earn

ings from the employee share of Payroll taxes, for
example, would provide an AVETARE lar break
ranging from $334 for the workers with the lowest
@arnings to just over $1.00 for the highest in-

come earners, Every worker in Amerioa would

benefit, with the 70 percent of taxpayers with in
comes below $50,000 getting Aust over half of the
benefit- instead of less than 10 percent
President's blan,

The President should shelve the dividend |
and focus instead on @ targeted recovery pac AakO
that will help average American famities ang give
economy the lift it desperately needs

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Feanth amd? Safety Workshop

The Labor Coalition is working to develop a Health
and Safely workshop for local union Presidents, shop
stewards and members of union health ane safety
committees, The purpose of the workshop would }
*® toshare ideas about what health and safety is
sues we have in the workplace
How to promote H&S despite weak OSHA Support
Using the political process to advance H&S
Support the development of skills and know tripe
Develop a strategy to more effectiver Protect out
members from injun
* How do we use health and safety issues in reach

ing Out to Members as well ag unorganized labor

Strong local unions and effective Hhaalth and safer
Programs go hand in hand, White we may be on joint
labor-management committees, we know that the
effectiveness of our work depends upon the shop
stewards and health and safer representatives
Maintaining good contact with Members and voicing
their health and safety concerns.

The Labor Coalition would like input from fo
cal unions about their interest in such & WOrKSOD as
Well as ideas about what issues Should be ad
dressed , Contact Tony DeiPiato, 277 S670,

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tonydelplato@hotmail.com for more Information

The Labor Qoalition is aiso in the process of writing a
grant proposal to the NY State Department of Labo
Hazard Abatement Board to CONUNUE tT Exhand Ur
health and safety work for the UPCOMING year, The
Labor Qoalition is Seeking untong/ enplovers’ ors
zations who would tike to be tohuded A that ore
hosal, The proposal ean cove: GHECT LAMM to wo
SES, WOFKPlace agaessments, h&s committer ders
Spment, as well ag other aaues, Por Turther informa,
tion contact Cart Feuer at 27 7.6@ rO