According to the progressive blog Daily Kos, members of The New York Transit Workers Union voted Wednesday evening to support protestors who as of Thursday, are in their thirteenth day of demonstrations. Business Insider says union members will be joining the crowds on Friday at 4PM.
The Local 100 New York chapter consists of 38,000 members actively working and 26,000 retirees. Whether or not Friday will bring out the Union's thousands of members remains to be seen. However if successful, the results could be the real push needed to regain momentum. Although hundreds still occupy Zucotti Park, numbers have dwindled and protestors are still struggling to define clear goals and demands.
4 comments:
The unions smell something they can use to garner public support. Something they have been losing steadily for years.
"... protestors are still struggling to define clear goals and demands..."
Do these people even know why they are protesting, if they don't know their goals?
What does that tell us about the whole affair?
They have NO CLUE what they want!!
12:17,
You are so correct. I heard a report on the radio yesterday where a reporter was asking the protesters why they were there and what were they protesting.
Of the 6 clips I heard, there were 5 different answers, and most of them were rambling that made no sense. "It's like, man, these bad guys, man, ya know, man, on Wall Street, man, got all the money, man, and it's time, man, that we get some of it too, ya know, because we are the oppressed, man!"
Maybe there are actually five different answers. What is wrong with that?
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