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Council Member Cabán expresses support for Resolution 66 on unionization rights
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Council Member Tiffany Cabán delivers remarks in support of Resolution 66, which expresses solidarity with unionization drives across New York City's workforce and affirms the right to have union elections free from anti-democratic union-busting practices. She emphasizes the importance of workers' rights to organize and unionize, especially in the face of challenges from the Trump administration and anti-union billionaires.
- Cabán highlights the historical importance of the labor movement in securing workers' rights and fair treatment.
- She criticizes common union-busting tactics such as captive audience meetings, surveillance, and retaliation.
- Cabán urges her colleagues to support the resolution as a statement of New York City's core beliefs in supporting workers' rights.
Tiffany Cabán
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Good morning.
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Excuse me.
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I wanna thank chairs De
Tiffany Cabán
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La Rosa and Lewis for the opportunity to speak about res o sixty six expressing solidarity with unionization drives across New York City's workforce and affirming the right to have union elections free from antidemocratic union busting practices.
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With the Trump administration attacking workers and unleashing anti union billionaires like Elon Musk to dismantle the National Labor's Relations Board and perhaps attack the NLRA itself, it has never been more important for the city to reassert our commitment to all workers having the right to organize, to unionize, and to bargain collectively without intimidation, retaliation, or obstruction.
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From the fight for the forty hour work week and minimum wages to the establishment of child labor laws and workplace safety standards, the labor movement has always played a central role in the struggle for justice and fairness for working people in this country.
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But despite this, and even in the face of overwhelming public support for unions, too many workers are met with union busting campaigns, disinformation, and scare tactics when they try to exercise their rights.
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Captive audience meetings, surveillance, retaliation, and the use of high priced anti union consultants are all too common.
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These undemocratic and often illegal practices are an assault on our basic democratic values, and now they are being backed up by the union buster in chief in the White House.
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This resolution is a statement of our core beliefs that New York City supports the workers who make this city run and that we will not stand by as their rights are trampled by corporate money and fascists in Washington DC.
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As someone who comes from a working class union family in Queens, I know how important these rights are to every New Yorker.
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I urge you to join me in supporting this resolution and showing our solidarity with our siblings in the labor movement.
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So thank you, chairs.