Submitted by Joe638NYC on Sat, 04/12/2008 - 6:28pm.
Local
237/NYCHA members are stretched to the point of collapse, and residents
of public housing – 500,000 citizens of NYC – are threatened with
destruction of core services.
From Central Labor Council e-update Teamsters Local 237 Rally at City Hall
to Stop NYCHA Cuts – Thursday, May 1st, 12:00pm at City Hall. During
the last eight years, the Bush administration has slashed the budget
for the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) by $611 million. As a
result of the latest cuts announced by Bush, NYCHA has now announced it
may be forced to lay off 190 more employees. Local 237/NYCHA members
are stretched to the point of collapse, and residents of public housing
– 500,000 citizens of NYC – are threatened with destruction of core
services. Teamsters Local 237, representing 8,000 employees of NYCHA,
has called a rally to spotlight the Bush destruction of public housing
in NYC. Show your solidarity by supporting our Local 237 brothers and
sisters at this rally!
The
layoffs, scheduled for mid-April, include only one of the 8,000 Local
237 members who work for NYCHA, but lacking support staff, “Members
will have to work even harder,” President Gregory Floyd was quoted in
The Chief Leader as saying. About 1,500 of our members both live and
work at HA facilities. “I hope the residents of public housing who have
been silent and who need these services desperately begin to speak out.”
At
press time, NYCHA was planning to send a caravan of 20 buses to Albany
filled with public housing tenants, tenant advocates and labor union
representatives to lobby for increased state funding for NYCHA. Read More
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