Building Bridges Radio- Bangladeshi Worker's Dream & SEIU: Labor Must Organize or Die

Building Bridges:

Your Community and Labor Report - National Edition

Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash

presents

A Bangladeshi Worker's Dream

"If I could earn 4500 taka a month ( or 37 cents/hr).

For me this would be a dream. I could afford to buy milk for my baby, and baby food. I could repay my loans. I could buy fish and fruit sometimes. I could buy a new dress, so I could go out once in my life

without having to wear my dirty dress from work."

from testimony of Maksuda, a Bangladeshi garment worker, from a tour organized by the National Labor Committee

and

Labor Must Organize or Die

with

Tom Woodruff , Executive VP, Service Employees International Union in charge of National Organizing.

Tom talked at Cornell University Global Union Forum about the current crisis in the union movement and the pressing need for unions to restructure the

AFL-CIO including forming global unions and the need to formulate an AFL-CIO wide strategy to organize Wal-Mart.The SEIU is leading a coalition

of unions called the New Unity Partnership which is putting forth these and a number of controversial proposals to revitalize the union movement.

To download or play this 27:54 minute program:

go to radio4all download page:

http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=10410

Building Bridges is regularly broadcast over WBAI, 99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from 7-8pm EST and streamed at

http://www.2600.com/offthehook/hot2.ram

for more information email knash@igc.org