Building Bridges: LIU teachers Locked Out; FCP Home Attendants Fight Back; African American Unemployment Still Double White Rate - Audio de Archivo Gratis

Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., Sept 12, 7 â 8 pm EST streaming @ www.wbai.org/playernew.html smartphone streaming @ http://stream.wbai.org & to listen, or download archived shows www.wbai.org/server-archive.html ***************************** Classes start at Long Island University-Brooklyn without key participants: the professors! with . Sara Campbell, Adjunct Professor, English Composition and Literature, Member Executive Committee, Long Island Faculty Federation . Ralph Engelman, VP, LIU Faculty Federation (LIUFF); Chair, Jounalism Department . Kiyonda Hester - Social Worker Graduate Student Long Island University, President , LIU Activists for Social Justice After failing to reach an agreement on a new faculty union contract, which expired on Aug. 31, the universityâs administration then locked faculty members out of their offices and their email accounts and canceled their health insurance over the Labor Day weekend. "Thatâs never happened before in the history of L.I.U. to my knowledge, or in the history of higher education,â said Jessica Rosenberg, a professor of social work and the president of the faculty federation, which represents about 230 full-time faculty members and several hundred adjunct professors. On Tuesday afternoon, the union membership rejected the administrationâs latest offer by a vote of 226 to 10. âThe faculty has spoken,â Professor Rosenberg said. In that offer, according to the union, the administration asked for a reduction in salaries for new adjuncts. It also eliminated a clause in place since 2000 that promised parity in pay for Brooklyn faculty members and those at the largest campus within the universityâs system, C. W. Post in Brookville, N.Y. So, whatâs the key to âunlockingâ the now locked out teachers? ***************** FCP workers invite all home attendants to join them in demanding stolen wages, and ending mandatory 24-hour shifts with National Mobilization Against Sweatshops(NMASS) Aint' I A Woman Campaign Home attendants who have worked as many as two decades for First Chinese Presbyterian Community Affairs Home Attendant Corp. (FCP) caring for elderly and ill patients in their homes, were forced to work 24-hour shifts for as many as seven days a week, but paid for only 12 or 13 of these hours. The workers were also denied overtime pay. But, theyâre not taking this lying down. Joined by workers from Chinese American Planning Council and workers from other agencies, the FCP home attendants are demanding that FCP resolve their case immediately by paying the workers their owed wages, and theyâre headed to court. ***************** Institutional Racism in the U.S. labor market - What is to be done? with William Spriggs, Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO and professor in, and former chair of the Department of Economics at Howard University. Bill is also former assistant secretary for the Office of Policy at the United States Department of Labor The so-called recovery of the US economy has not been equally kind to everyone. Even as the unemployment rate has decreased, the unemployment rate for African Americans, is currently more than twice as high as that for white Americans. Indeed, nationwide in 2015, 9.6% of African-Americans were unemployed compared with 4.6% of whites. This 2 to 1 ratio of Arican American to white unemployment has persisted for at least the last 50 years. This unemployment gap is not one of skill or education , it is becuase of the very real and presistent discrimination prevalent in the U.S. labor market. And, did you know that it would take 228 years for African-American families to amass the wealth of white families ? **************** Tune in at 6 - 8 am to Wednesday Edition hosted by Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** In addition to being broadcast over WBAI, 99.5 FM in NYC and the tri-state area 7 - 8 pm EST Mondays, Building Bridges is syndicated to 50 broadcast and internet radio stations in the US, Canada and the UK Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over: WLSL, Dade City, FL WMNB, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina WZBC, Boston, Mass. 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