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The Green Party’s Howie Hawkins, a Teamster, is the only union member running for statewide office.
“Cuomo is … threatening to cut pay and jobs for public employees and cut essential services to close the budget deficit while the Wall Street and the wealthy pay lower rates of state and local taxes than working people.”
(Previous Hawkins statements on supporting workers.) Hawkins, the only union member running for statewide office, criticized Democrats Cuomo and Duffy for their attacks on unions. Hawkins said he would be a strong proponent of organized labor as Governor and would seek to raise the state minimum wage, unemployment benefits and pension protections. Hawkins noted that more than 800,000 New Yorkers are out of work yet the Democratic state legislators failed to pass legislation to raise either the maximum or average unemployment benefits.
via Green Party New York » Blog Archive » Howie Hawkins Stands with Working New Yorkers.
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