Long Island Labor-Religion Coalition

“Religion at its core...Labor at its best!”

Upcoming

Dates vary
Usually 10 AM—Executive Committee meetings are often held at CSEA offices, 30 Garet Place, Commack. Please call Candice Wetherell at 631/ 589-3576 to confirm the date, time and place.

Questions?
Candice Wetherell joined the Coalition as part-time administrator in November 2003. She can be reached by mail at P.O. Box 72, West Sayville, NY 11796 or by e-mail at LILaborReligion@yahoo.com. The LILRC Executive Committee is Nick LaMorte, Dick Koubek, Ernie Mattace, Mary Dewar, Gerry Manginelli, David Sprintzen and Candice Wetherell.

News

The Annual LILRC Thanksgiving Prayer Breakfast was held on November, 21, 2006.

"Examining Workers' Compensation" was the topic of a Prayer Breakfaast on September 29, 2006, with speakers Victor Fusco (Fusco, Brandenstein & Rada) and Robert Grey (Grey & Grey). The breakfast was held at IBEW Local 25, 370 Motor Parkway in Hauppauge.

Health Care For Everyone was the theme of a concert featuring world class rock, blues and folk music on Saturday, July 8 at the Boulton Center for the Performing Arts, Bay Shore, Long Island. Speakers represented the Long Island Labor-Religion Coalition, the American Medical Students Association, Physicians for a National Health Program, Long Island chapter, the Long Island Council of Churches and the Long Island Coalition for a National Health Plan.

"Commitment to Service on Long Island" honored two early leaders of the Long Island Labor-Religion Coalition, Sister Rose Sheridan and Hon. Bill Lindsay. Currently Lindsay is Presiding Officer of the Suffolk County Legislature. The luncheon and fundraiser was held on May 5, 2006.

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The Coalition's Labor Day Prayer Breakfast drew about 50 participants on September 9, 2005.

"Examining Poverty on Long Island" was the theme of the Coalitions's annual Thanksgiving Prayer Breakfast held on November 22, 2004. Speakers included Sr. Mary Beth Moore of Pax Christi, John Durso, RWDSU and United Food and Commercial Workers, Rev. Thomas Goodhue of the Long Island Council of Churches and Dr. Richard Koubek of Catholic Charities.

The LILRC organized a Cintas fact-finding event in March 2004 during which workers, clergy and representatives of the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice visited a plant in Central Islip.

The 2003 Breaking the Fast Prayer Service, "Hunger for Justice" brought over 60 together at the Our Lady of Miraculous Medal Church in Wyandanch on March 14, 2003. Participants prayed to protest NYS budget cuts that will fall most heavily on the elderly, children, sick people and poor people.

"Affordable Housing on Long Island" was the theme for the annual prayer breakfast at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union hall on November 25. On the program will be Rev. Thomas Goodhue, Director of the Long Island Council of Churches, Suffolk County Executive Robert Gaffney, the Central Islip High School Show Choir, Nicholas LaMorte, President, Region 1, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), Jim Mongo of the Long Island Housing Partnership and Ed Hernandez of Long Island for Affordable Rental Housing.

Sweatfree Schools: Long Island school districts are state leaders in adopting sweatfree schools policies.

Living Wage: TheSuffolk County law took effect on July 1, 2002. A Newsday article on July 2 quotes a child care worker whose pay has gone from $8.50 to $10.25 per hour. The task force appointed by Suffolk County officials issued its report this spring with the law "unscathed," according to task force member and co-chair of the Long Island Labor-Religion Coalition, Richard Koubek.

A Thanksgiving Prayer Breakfast sponsored by the Long Island Labor Religion Coalition and the Long Island Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, honored "World Trade Center Rescuers and Healers" on November 19 drawing over 80 participants.