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Rensselaer in Brief
Workers talk union
After two months of fighting past hindrances, Rensselaer service workers have taken the first step in forming their own union by filing authorization cards with the National Labor Relations Board. Approximately 100 workers who serve to the benefit of the campus have chosen to affiliate with the 12,000-member Service Employees International Union Local 200 United, which represents workers at 20 colleges and universities in upstate New York.
“Forming our own union will gain us a seat at the negotiating table to make real improvements in our wages, staffing levels, and retirement benefits,” said one top committee member who asked to remain anonymous.
RPI has already served notice to workers that unionization is not supported by the Institute. “We have seen RPI attempt to keep us from talking about the union on our breaks and before and after work, unfairly terminate a committee person without just cause, and generally undervalue the work we perform on a daily basis,” said another committee member who also chose to remain anonymous. Speaker honors Latinos
In honor of Latino Heritage Month, poet/writer/storyteller Piri Thomas, author of Down These Mean Streets, a required high school reading book in New York City, will be performing some of his own works today in Mothers at 7 pm.
Thomas comes here courtesy of Alianza Latina and the Union as the month’s keynote speaker. Down These Mean Streets, Stories from El Barrio is a memoir of Thomas’ disturbed upbringing as a Puerto Rican and person of color in New York’s Spanish Harlem. Fair brings jobs
One of the largest student-run job fairs in the nation, the 24th annual NSBE/SHPE Career Fair will be held this weekend in the Armory. Historically known for being a joint venture between the National Society of Black Engineers and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, each group provides a member to fill positions as one of the seven committee co-chairs as well as one of the career fair co-chairs.
Preparation for the fair begins as early as January and continues through the summer up until the day of the event. While this fair promises to be smaller than in recent years, all of the companies in attendance will be hiring for summer, co-op, and full-time positions. Companies attending include GM, GE, AT&T, Target, P&G, and many more.
The fair will be held on October 4 and 5, from 10-4 pm each day in the Armory. Man your stations
After eight years of construction and planning, the Rensselaer Rail Station has finally opened its $53.1 million doors. As the 14th busiest station out of the nation’s 530, the old 23,000 square-foot station was inadequate for the over 621,000 departures and arrivals that the station accommodated annually. Just a few feet from the previous site, the new 72,000 square-foot station will be the home of Rensselaer’s main post office next spring.
Since its inception, the station has been subject to several public setbacks, including an original budget of $34 million dollars and a lack of a lease with Amtrak. CDTA hopes to overcome the negative publicity that it has received in the last several months by satisfying patrons of the new facility. There are talks of creating a fourth track which would run through the site of the old station as well as an adjoining hotel as the Rensselaer County Economic Development Committee hopes to attract new developers to the region.
Editor’s Note: Information gathered from The Times Union. Inspiration honoree
Jill Garfoli-Alderman, senior account clerk in the Rensselaer Union Post Office, has inspired many to act in the Breast Cancer Walk. Garfoli-Alderman served as a motivational figure to women as she fought for her life through multiple bouts in the hospital with cancer, a tragic car accident six-years ago and now open heart surgery to replace two valves, from which she is currently recovering at home. Taking place at Colonie Center Mall. RPI participants to raise $4,000 more than last year. |
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