NYC: Tues., April 26 press conference on May Day / IMPORTANTE-TOD@S A LA CONFERENCIA DE PRENSA DE UNIDAD!

MARTES, 26 DE ABRIL

12PM MEDIODIA
CITY HALL

MEDIA ADVISORY April 25, 2011

Contacts: Scott Levenson (212) 239-7323
Tony Murphy (347) 602-1584

IMMIGRANT WORKERS AND UNION WORKERS TO UNITE IN MASSIVE NYC MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS

Leaders From Immigrant Workers Organizations and Unions Will Announce May Day Plans Tomorrow at City Hall Press Conference

Tuesday, April 26, Noon
Steps of City Hall

Tomorrow on the steps of City Hall, leaders from the city’s major unions and immigrants’ rights groups will announce joint plans for major May Day demonstrations, in which thousands will march for workers’ rights.

Press Conference Speakers:

Chris Silvera, Secretary-Treasurer, Teamsters Local 808

Sonia Ivany, President, NYC Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, LCLAA

Teresa Gutierrez, Co-Chair, May 1 Coalition

Kevin Lynch, Co-Chair, Labor Rights, Immigrant Rights, Jobs for All Coalition

The decision to hold joint activities on May Day comes amidst a national reawakening of the labor movement in the wake of massive pro-union demonstrations in Wisconsin.

In New York City that movement is now joining forces with the immigrant workers’ rights movement, which rose up in 2006 against the anti-immigrant Sensenbrenner-King bill and brought out hundreds of thousands of protesters on May 1 that year.