Posted on 12/03/2007 12:10:35 PM PST by CastleMan95
Fifth-graders still several years away from becoming part of the workforce protested union relations at Beth Israel Deaconnessas part of a school program designed to teach them social advocacy.
Lisa Gallatin of the Brookline-based Workmens Circle, an organization founded in 1900 that considers social justice a core part of what it means to be Jewish, said the protest supported union elections for hospital workers throughout Boston and coincided with topics the fifth-graders were learning about in Sunday school, including immigrant history.
Each of the children wrote a letter to a hospital CEO explaining why they felt that the workers were not being treated fairly and why they wanted the hospitals to agree to free and fair union elections. A group of 10-year-olds went in to deliver the letters at both hospitals, Gallatin said.
The protest of between 100 to 150 people included parents of the fifth-graders, as well as some hospital workers and their children.
Noli Rosen, 10, who attends Dallin Elementary School in Arlington, said, A union will help the workers get better wages, better health care, more training for the jobs they do, and more respect for how they help the hospital.
Gabriela Marks, 11, who attends the Park School in Brookline, said, We protested so that we could tell people up there that its not right and we can change things, she said.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center declined to comment.
Liberal citizens in MA always pull a page from the Democrat Handbook.
I grew up around folks who belonged to the Circle, and saw zero outreach of this kind.
They really are capital C Commies.
What they aren’t telling you is that people look at the Unions as controlled by the Italian Mafia. The truth is that they are actually controlled by the Jewish Mafia. The Italian Mafia just do their bidding for them.
WHEN these “kids” start paying TAXES and EARNING money.....MAYBE then I’ll listen.
With enough brainwashing, you can get a kid to say ANYTHING.
Isn't that special.
A cross section of the people that elected Romney.
I’ll pass on anything they would vote for.
Is MASSACHUSETTS Colletively Insane??..
Apparently the answer to that question: NO!? Literally!
You were right on target, and I understood exactly where you were coming from. Good post.
Nope. When I look at Kennedy and Kerry being elected to office all the time, I have to wonder if their elections aren’t fixed. I can’t believe that everyone in that state is that stupid.
Couldn’t agree more.
So, a bunch of 10 year olds who have never worked at a job know something about workers’ rights?
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure they do.
“...will help the workers get better wages...”
Here is a concept- how about the parasitic steaming piles try enhancing their value in order to “get better wages.” Want more money? Become worth more money.
Union Labor makes my blood boil. Extortion, Communism, and ignorant thuggery is all it is.
If you were worth the wage you were asking- you would not need to hire brain dead gorrilas to beat it out of your employer for you.
Better yet- if your employer is so bad, go into business for yourself, hire all of your union buddies, and pay them tons of money.
Nothing fires me up more than liberal asshats being generous with other people’s money. Perhaps the ten year olds are the only ones simple minded enough to buy the argument.
They know what they were told by some individual who told them to question (someone else’s) authority (but never the authority of the person trying to upset the apple cart).
Leftists use children and victims as human shields, because it would be “mean” to refute them.
Lisa Gallatin - Boston, lisa@workmenscircleboston.org
(617) 566-6164
Lisa Gallatin, director of Boston’s Office Technology Education Project, an organization that is sponsored by union women’s groups.
The Workmens Circle is Americas longest-standing Jewish labor organization. The Workmens Circle was founded by Jewish immigrant sweatshop workers in 1900,” says District Director Lisa Gallatin. “In the union movement, its strike support activities, from picket line support to money and food to medical care provided, earned it the nickname, The Red Cross of Labor. Today, the Workmens Circle is a thriving membership-based Jewish community and is the Jewish home for many prominent Jewish labor organizers.
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