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[TD]October 3-4, 2011 -- Bloomberg says "we'll see" if protests are allowed to continue
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has thrown down a gauntlet to growing numbers of protesters in New York who have been using the private Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan as their rallying place. Bloomberg, on his weekly radio show, said "we'll see" when asked if protesters woujld be permitted to stay in the park indefinitely. Bloomberg indicated that sanitation laws and other municipal impediments might be used to disperse the protesters from the park.
Several labor unions, including the Steelworkers, Transport Workers, Teamsters, Airline pilots, and others have announced they are joining other protesters in downtown Manhattan this week in the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, which is gaining steam in New York and across the United States and Canada. Over the weekend, New York police officers arrested over 700 protesters after most of them were "kettled" on to the Brooklyn Bridge roadway by police acting as agents provocateurs. The protesters were charged with disrupting traffic.
The "Occupy Wall Street" movement is spreading around the nation, with demonstrations being held in Chicago, Baltimore, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, and other cities. On October 6, protesters will take over Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC for an indefinite protest aimed at the federal government. WMR will cover the Washington demonstration.
Bloomberg has always been an enemy of labor. On December 27, 2005, WMR reported: "New York's GOP mayor Michael Bloomberg, a darling of so-called 'progressive Democrats' who think of him as some sort of 'Republican in name only' (RINO), called striking Transport Worker's Union (TWU) leaders and members 'thugs' after they walked off their jobs to protest reduction of pension and medical benefits. The late TWU President Michael J. Quill, after being ordered by a judge in 1966 to send his striking New York transit workers back to work after imposing an injunction, told the judge to "drop dead" and was declared in contempt of court and jailed. Quill's quote: 'Just as we promised you, the judge can drop dead in his black robes. We will not call off the strike.' Ironically, Quill died in prison just shy of age 60." The Transport Workers Union was the first union to announce they were joining the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
It is also noteworthy that Bloomberg has the same sexual harassment and perversion problem as disgraced former International Monetary Fund director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. On October 24, 2006, WMR reported: "New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, while heading up his media empire, consistently made rude and sexist comments around female Bloomberg employees . . .Bloomberg certainly was not liberal when it came to his workers' rights. According to former Bloomberg employees, the now Mayor once told a pregnant employee who requested maternity leave that she should have 'killed the fetus.' A male employee who requested time off to be with his hospitalized ill wife was told he would be fired if he took off. He quit right on the spot. It was Bloomberg's sexist comments that were his trademark at his Manhattan Bloomberg News media headquarters. He had a spiral staircase installed, reportedly so he could peer up the dresses of female employees. Bloomberg also was known to make crude sexual-related remarks around his female employees."
There is little wonder why New York's police and legal establishment, many of whom are in the same "club" as Bloomberg, lined up behind Strauss-Kahn after he was charged with rape by a Guinean chambermaid at the Sofitel Hotel in Manhattan. Although DNA evidence clearly pointed to Strauss-Kahn's guilt, the tables were turned against the maid by New York's elite establishment. All charges against Strauss-Kahn were dropped, he was permitted to return to France, and the maid was charged with lying on immigration papers.
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[TD] Unions supporting Occupy Wall Street [/TD]
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[TD]Transport Workers Union
United Federation of Teachers
Service Employees International
Teamsters
United Steel Workers
Air Line Pilots Association
Communication Workers of America
Workers United
AFL-CIO
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http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20111003_1
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[TD]October 3-4, 2011 -- Bloomberg says "we'll see" if protests are allowed to continue
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has thrown down a gauntlet to growing numbers of protesters in New York who have been using the private Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan as their rallying place. Bloomberg, on his weekly radio show, said "we'll see" when asked if protesters woujld be permitted to stay in the park indefinitely. Bloomberg indicated that sanitation laws and other municipal impediments might be used to disperse the protesters from the park.
Several labor unions, including the Steelworkers, Transport Workers, Teamsters, Airline pilots, and others have announced they are joining other protesters in downtown Manhattan this week in the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, which is gaining steam in New York and across the United States and Canada. Over the weekend, New York police officers arrested over 700 protesters after most of them were "kettled" on to the Brooklyn Bridge roadway by police acting as agents provocateurs. The protesters were charged with disrupting traffic.
The "Occupy Wall Street" movement is spreading around the nation, with demonstrations being held in Chicago, Baltimore, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, and other cities. On October 6, protesters will take over Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC for an indefinite protest aimed at the federal government. WMR will cover the Washington demonstration.
Bloomberg has always been an enemy of labor. On December 27, 2005, WMR reported: "New York's GOP mayor Michael Bloomberg, a darling of so-called 'progressive Democrats' who think of him as some sort of 'Republican in name only' (RINO), called striking Transport Worker's Union (TWU) leaders and members 'thugs' after they walked off their jobs to protest reduction of pension and medical benefits. The late TWU President Michael J. Quill, after being ordered by a judge in 1966 to send his striking New York transit workers back to work after imposing an injunction, told the judge to "drop dead" and was declared in contempt of court and jailed. Quill's quote: 'Just as we promised you, the judge can drop dead in his black robes. We will not call off the strike.' Ironically, Quill died in prison just shy of age 60." The Transport Workers Union was the first union to announce they were joining the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
It is also noteworthy that Bloomberg has the same sexual harassment and perversion problem as disgraced former International Monetary Fund director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. On October 24, 2006, WMR reported: "New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, while heading up his media empire, consistently made rude and sexist comments around female Bloomberg employees . . .Bloomberg certainly was not liberal when it came to his workers' rights. According to former Bloomberg employees, the now Mayor once told a pregnant employee who requested maternity leave that she should have 'killed the fetus.' A male employee who requested time off to be with his hospitalized ill wife was told he would be fired if he took off. He quit right on the spot. It was Bloomberg's sexist comments that were his trademark at his Manhattan Bloomberg News media headquarters. He had a spiral staircase installed, reportedly so he could peer up the dresses of female employees. Bloomberg also was known to make crude sexual-related remarks around his female employees."
There is little wonder why New York's police and legal establishment, many of whom are in the same "club" as Bloomberg, lined up behind Strauss-Kahn after he was charged with rape by a Guinean chambermaid at the Sofitel Hotel in Manhattan. Although DNA evidence clearly pointed to Strauss-Kahn's guilt, the tables were turned against the maid by New York's elite establishment. All charges against Strauss-Kahn were dropped, he was permitted to return to France, and the maid was charged with lying on immigration papers.
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[TD] Unions supporting Occupy Wall Street [/TD]
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[TD]Transport Workers Union
United Federation of Teachers
Service Employees International
Teamsters
United Steel Workers
Air Line Pilots Association
Communication Workers of America
Workers United
AFL-CIO
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http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20111003_1
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