Triangle Factory Fire Commemoration

Join your fellow UCATS members and other labor groups at this year's Triangle Factory Fire Commemoration TODAY, Wednesday, March 20. This event marks the 102nd anniversary of a watershed moment in workplace safety and labor rights history, the death of 146 women and men in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911.  

Workers United/SEIU (ILGWU) Presents 
The 102nd Triangle Factory Fire Commemoration 
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 
12 noon – 1 pm 
Washington Place and Greene Street, NYC 

More information at http://rememberthetrianglefire.org

UCATS to Join Faculty in Taking No-Confidence Vote

PRESS RELEASE:

The Executive Council of the Union of Clerical, Administrative and Technical Staff at NYU (UCATS), Local 3882 voted March 12 to take to their membership the issue of President John Sexton’s leadership. The UCATS leadership joins the NYU faculty in taking a no-confidence vote.

The nearly 1,400 NYU staff represented by UCATS are experiencing stagnate wages, unmanageable healthcare costs and a deteriorating quality of work life. The enrichment of those that have, at the cost of those that have less, has been a hallmark of President Sexton’s leadership. The resources required to proceed with the NYU 2031 expansion portends three decades of disinvestment in faculty and support staff who deliver the education for which NYU students pay so dearly.

UCATS represents approximately 1,400 staff working throughout the various schools and divisions of New York University.

Contact Info:

Stephen Rechner
UCATS Local 3882, NYSUT, AFT, AFL-CIO
646-602-1485
ucatspres3882@hotmail.com

Rally against student debt TODAY

UCATS has endorsed 1 T Day, an event to raise awareness about the staggering levels of student debt in this country. From their website:

On April 25th, the total amount of student loan debt in the U.S. is due to top 1 trillion dollars. This marks a momentous victory for Wall Street—much to the despair of student loan debtors across the country. On this date, the profiteers on Wall Street will be popping champagne bottles, eating caviar, and sneering at the debt-burdened students and graduates who lug around this 1 trillion dollar ball and chain.

Occupy Student Debt Campaign is hosting a party of its own. Throughout the country we will be taking direct action to raise awareness about this crisis as part of a new movement to make education a right.

...[J]oin us at 4PM in Union Square, where Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir will preside over a debt jubilee - an emancipatory student loan debt write-off for all! ... Then, let's march to Wall Street banks and watering holes to spread the news about student debt and drink up the joys of our new-found freedom.

You can find more info at the 1 T Day website.

1 T DAY RALLY
TODAY
Wednesday, April 25
UNION SQUARE
4:00 PM start, march to follow

Pride and Solidarity in Action Annual Conference

LGBT UCATS Members and Supporters:
New York City Committee of Pride in Our Union
and the Empire State Pride Agenda
are pleased to present:

Pride and Solidarity in Action Annual Conference

Panels and break-out discussions, professional and social networking, and sharing of ideas and sustenance.

Date: Saturday, November 19, 2011
Time: 2:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Where: Center for Worker Education, The Joseph S. Murphy Institute
CUNY, 25 West 43rd Street (between 5th & 6th Aves.), 19th floor, New York, NY 10036

For more information, please download the official flyer