BUILDING BRIDGES: YOUR COMMUNITY AND LABOR REPORT presents

Introduction:
New York City to most Americans at first summons images of huge skyscrapers and theaters, museums and parks. But there is another New York City of workers' struggles just to get by and for justice on the job. This New York City is not that much different from the rest of America, for in both, workers struggle each day just to get by. The five vignettes which comprise this program bring together a number of different stories from that struggle.

And the Rich Get Richer:
We explore the growing income inequality combined with stagnation of real income for most of us.

City Workers Speak Out:
New York City municipal workers sacrificed in lean years to help balance the budget, but now that times and the new contract is being negotiated, Mayor Giuliani is still demanding sacrifices.

Sweatshop Fire Tragedy:
We bring you to a protest at the site of a garment sweatshop fire which killed one immigrant worker and injured two others.

It Ain't Sweet:
Workers at the Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn tell you why they have been on strike fo rnine months and why Domino should be boycotted.

It's Justice Time at the Apollo:
Musicians Local 802 with community and labor supporters throughout the city staged a demonstration for Ray Chew and the Crew, the Harlem theater's house band that has not had a raise in eight years and is demanding union recognition.