Labor Day

Labor Day: the big holiday for the working person. As I was growing up, Labor Day meant the Last Hurrah before school started again. To some, it’s the signal that the summer picnic season is almost over. But of course, the first Monday in September should remind us all that men and women have died [...]

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Raffle Tickets!

Another super-duper exciting reason to go to the Labor Day Picnic: a 50/50 raffle drawing at the conclusion of the picnic. The winner gets half the pool; the Workers’ Center gets the other half. And there’s top-secret talk that maybe this year a t-shirt or two will be thrown in as other prizes. Remember that [...]

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‘Demand the Change We Voted For’

Two events to note on your calendar: September 15, 2010: Ithaca NY.  Jobs Emergency Day of Action. Join us on the Commons, Bernie Milton Pavilion, at 5:00 when the Workers’ Center’s Unemployed & Underemployed group hosts our local event tied in the Jobs With Justice‘s national effort to force the government to pass legislation like [...]

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Tell Cuomo we want progressive tax reform!

If you’ve been watching the gubernatorial race, you’ll know that Andrew Cuomo has been knighted as Democratic candidate. What you may not know is that he appears to have his head in the clouds about what could help New Yorkers: progressive taxation. It is true that the average worker is paying more taxes than they [...]

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We’re Back!

Everyone is invited to join the Tompkins County Workers’ Center and the Midstate Central Labor Council at our annual Labor Day Picnic. The Labor Day Picnic will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., on Monday, September 6th, in Ithaca’s Stewart Park. Special musical guests this year include Ithaca’s own hip-hop group Gunpoets featuring [...]

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