FOR A WORKERS MARCH AGAINST WALL STREET

New York
October 18, 2011

An Opportunity for Action

An Open Letter

We, the undersigned Wall Street protesters and union members, think the response to Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has shown that broad layers of working people are ready to support a movement that stands up to the ongoing attempt to solve the economic crisis on the backs of working-class and poor people. Union solidarity has contributed a growing momentum of protest that we should build on and not let fade away.

To that end, we have endorsed the motion shown below that calls on the NYC Central Labor Council and other union organizations to build for a march of hundreds of thousands on Saturday, November 5, with the following slogans and demands:

Working People Shouldn’t Pay for a Crisis That They Didn’t Make!
No to Layoffs, Budget and Service Cuts!
Create Jobs, Build Infrastructure with a Federal Program of Public Works!
Stop Police Harassment of the Wall Street Occupation!

We will be leafleting the next CLC delegates meeting on Wednesday, October 19, starting at 5:30pm at:
IBT Local 237
First Floor Meeting Room
216 West 14th Street (between 8th and 7th avenue)
New York, NY

We hope to draw attention to the opportunity for and need for broader action, and to provide an opportunity and focus for those in and outside the unions to agitate for the unions and other organizations to commit themselves to broader action.

We ask activists and organizations who see the need for this to:
endorse this call; publicize this motion and letter on websites and through other means; raise similar motions in unions and other organizations; and help build for the leafleting of the CLC meeting.

We wish there was more time to circulate this proposal more broadly than we already have to allow for more discussion and improvement, but the next CLC meeting where we can push for action is just days away on October 19. We trust that activists understand our sense of urgency and support this initiative in the spirit of solidarity that inspires it. For more information or to be listed as endorsing, please e-mail us at Workers.March.Against.Wall.Street@gmail.com.

Also, when this and related motions are voted on in other unions or organizations, please let us know!
MOTION for a Massive March on Wall Street

Whereas, the response to ‘Occupy Wall Street’ (OWS) has shown that broad layers of working people are ready to support a movement that stands up to the ongoing attempt to solve the economic crisis on working and poor people’s backs;

Whereas, unions can best defend their members’ jobs, wages and working conditions by standing up in defense of all working people;

Whereas, OWS and trade unions’ solidarity with the protests have created momentum toward a fight-back in defense of working people’s living standards against layoffs and budget cutbacks that should be built on and not allowed to fade;

Whereas, it is necessary for our struggles to go forward to bring into action much larger numbers of workers and other people facing the brunt of this economic crisis,

We move that:
This body call on its member unions as well as all other unions and community organizations to build a massive march on Wall Street of hundreds of thousands, mobilizing organized and unorganized workers, on November 5, the first Saturday of next month,

That this protest raise demands that can unite all workers, poor people and all those facing the brunt of the crisis:

Working People Shouldn’t Pay for a Crisis That They Didn’t Make!
No to Layoffs, Budget and Service Cuts!
Create Jobs, Build Infrastructure with a Federal Program of Public Works!
Stop Police Harassment of the Wall Street Occupation!

And to this end, we appeal to other union bodies, council and federations around the country to organize similar protest actions across the country on November 5.

Endorsers include the following:
CCNY Chapter of PSC-CUNY
Christine Williams, Executive Board Member, TWU Local 100,* Stations Division*
Juan A., SEIU Local 32BJ* and Wall Street protester
David Abramsky, unemployed actor, Wall Street protester
Austin B. Arrington, Wall Street protester
Paul Armstrong, Ironworkers 433*
Elizabeth B., public interest lawyer, Wall Street protester
Wendy B., non-unionized worker and Wall Street protester
Cesar Luis Brito, Wall Street protester
Gregory A. Butler, Shop Steward, Carpenters Local 157*
Stephen C., student
Ben D., restaurant worker, CUNY student
Bob D., Local 57 carpenters,* Wall Street protester
Sean D., USW 6500*
Naomi Dann, Wall Street protester
Chetram Dhanroy, Wall Street protester
Richard Diaz, Occupy Wall Street*
Barbara Drum, Wall Street protester
Jorden Eck, Boston University student, Wall Street protester
Emma Elbaum, Wall Street protester
Anne Marie Elliott, student, Wall Street protester
Gabrielle Engh, Wall Street protester
John Ferretti, Shop Steward, TWU Local 100,* Wall Street protester
Michael Felisme
Rust Gilbert, CWA/Washtech*
Mike G., Project Manager*
Julim Gashwan, LREI*
Carlos Gomar, Occupy Wall Street*
Marty Goodman, TWU Local 100*
Darryl Goodwine, Wall Street protester
Georgiana Hart, Nurse Practitioner, PLP*
Theint Heinn, Wall Street protester
Jason Hicks, TWU Local 100,* Wall Street protester
Diego Ibanez, Occupy Wall Street*
Eric Josephson, Shop Steward, TWU Local 100,* Wall Street protester
Miranda Kahn, Wall Street protester
Andrew Kelly, photographer, Wall Street protester
Maya Klein, Wall Street protester
Margaret Kwateng, Wall Street protester
Bob Lang, UFT Delegate*
James Leighton, Wall Street protester
Teddy Mapes, L.U. 638*
Yadel Muhigeta, Wall Street protester
Jason McGaughey, Wall Street protester
Anna Mocti, student, Wall Street protester
Michal Nemcok, Wall Street protester
Rick Nensesian, Wall Street protester
Sue P., Wall Street protester
Benjamin Prouse, CEPU Plumbers Union*, Australia
Abdul H. Qumiyn, Wall Street protester
Christina Robohm, Wall Street protester
Penny Rosenblatt, Wall Street protester
Seth Rosenberg, Shop Steward, TWU Local 100,* Wall Street protester
Dave Ryan, artist, Wall Street protester
Keshet S., DC37 Local 2054*
Michael S., City College student, Wall Street protester
Barbara Sher, Wall Street protester
Max Simkins, Bard student, Wall Street protester
Krishna Singh, NYC High School student, Wall Street protester
Elyssa Soto, Wall Street protester
Stefan Superti, Bard College*
Mark Turner, CCNY Chapter of PSC-CUNY,* Wall Street protester
Glenn Jonathan Waldrip III, unemployed, Wall Street protester
Erik V., Wall Street protester
Francis Vazquez, CUNY*
March Young, Wall Street protester
Bob, Boston construction worker, Wall Street protester
* Organizations listed for identification purposes only
e-mail: Workers.March.Against.Wall.Street@gmail.com