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Newsline: September 2001 Local Members March in Protest Against HA Plan for Unpaid Labor Representatives of Local 237 joined with thousands of other union members and concerned citizens at a rally outside City Hall August 21 to protest the Housing Authority’s union-busting plan to use unpaid labor. The demonstration was aimed at a proposal by the HA to include in their leases a new “community service” provision that would require public housing residents to work eight hours a month, without pay, or face eviction. The demonstrators protested that such service, in addition to providing no pay for work performed, also offered no training to assist the tenants in possibly finding employment, and no prospect of future jobs. There would be no dignity in some of the services the tenants would be forced to perform, and no union protection. Some of the work they might be forced to do could include jobs performed by union members. After they rallied at City Hall, the demonstrators marched across the Brooklyn Bridge and picketed the Brooklyn Marriott Hotel, where the HA was holding public hearings. |
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 Local 237 members, led by Business Agent Leroy Fleming (carrying the banner), beginning their march across the Brooklyn Bridge. |
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