Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report

National Edition

Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg

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Fed Up Food Service Workers

On the Picket Line at Bank of New York

with

ARAMARK Cafeteria Workers, Members Local 100 HERE

Bank of New York cafeteria workers employed by the giant food service company ARAMARK are on strike for a living wage. Their average take

home pay is $375/week. ARAMARK has brought in scabs to break the strike at two Bank of NY locations at 101 Barclay and One Wall. This is just the latest in a long string of labor problems that the giant food service provider ARAMARK has provoked in NYC and around the globe with its 250,000 employees worldwide.

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Indian Guest Workers In Gulf Confront US Employer and

Recruiters with Anti-Racketeering Lawsuit

with

Saket Soni, Dir.,New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice

and

Tushar Sheth, Attorney, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund

More than 500 Indian guest workers in Mississippi and Louisiana are caught in a human trafficking racket. Now they have revolted and have

filed a federal anti-racketeering lawsuit against Northrop Grumman sub-contractor Signal International, who they allege is conspiring with

gangster recruiters in India to defraud them and use them as virtual slave laborers.

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