West Endicott Residents’ Lives Disrupted and Our Elected Officials Don’t Care

by Gary Russell

Our greatest concerns are coming to light. Since National Pipe & Plastic received the go ahead from our town board members they have started disrupting our lives and polluting our air. The town board members continue to act without any integrity or consistency by granting more variances for additional silos and offsets to allow buildings within 5 feet of the tracks. Read the rest of this entry »

Has Your Job Made You Sick? Occupational Health Clinical Center Can Help You

Are your symptoms work related?

Have you been exposed to substances on the job that might make a person  sick?

Have you recently left a job (through retirement, layoff, job elimination, termination, etc.) that caused your symptoms?

CALL TO FIND OUT HOW WE CAN HELP YOU… Read the rest of this entry »

There May Be Big Changes Ahead in the New York State Workers’ Compensation System.

Let’s make sure that the WORKERS” VOICES will be heard and that injured workers’ interests are protected.

We need as many of our patients and worker advocated as possible to show to the injured Workers In-Person Session on:

Monday, January 6, 2014

WHERE: Workers’ Comp Board District Office

44 Hawley Street

Binghamton, N.Y. 13901

WHAT TIME: Anytime between 9 and 3 pm, but we’re urging lots of folks to show up at

10 am!

If you can’t attend, but would still like to “give ‘em an earful,” go to https://www.surveymonkey.comm/s/WCB Business Re-Engineering Project Injured Workers Experience Survey

More than 1,000 workers have already sounded off!

How Would YOU Change the Workers’ Comp System? Give ‘Em an Earful! HELP US HELP YOU!

“OBAMACARE” AND THE BOGUS HEALTH CARE DEBATE

by Andy Piascik

The biggest secret of politics in the United States is that a majority of the population is to the left of both major parties. This can be amply demonstrated by comparing public opinion on a host of issues to the policies pushed by corporate and political elites. Whether it’s US aggression overseas, raising taxes on corporations and the Super Rich, expanding social services or any number of other issues, there is a vast disconnect between the people and those who purport to represent them. Read the rest of this entry »

100th Anniversary of Factory Fire

July 22, 2013 marked the 100th anniversary of the Binghamton Clothing Company factory fire. The factory, located at 17 Wall St., stood 4 stories high and employed 150 women. On that July 22, 1913, the sweltering heat necessitated that all the windows and doors be open to catch what little breeze was coming off the Chenango River. Read the rest of this entry »

Selected Shorts

That is the Demand

by Eugene V. Debs

The earth is for all the people. That is the demand.
The machinery of production and distribution for all the people. That is the demand.
The collective ownership and control of industry and its democratic management in the interest of all the people. That is the demand.
The elimination of rent, interest, profit and the production of wealth to satisfy the wants of all the people. That is the demand.
Cooperative industry in which all shall work together in harmony as the basis of a new social order, a higher civilization, a real republic. That is the demand.
The end of class struggles and class rule, of master and slave, or ignorance and vice, of poverty and shame, of cruelty and crime — the birth of freedom, the dawn of Brotherhood, the beginning of MAN. That is the demand.
1903, Speaking before the Western Federation of Miners            Founder of the American Railway Union Read the rest of this entry »