Montana Insurance

With a look behind the scenes increase of Cardinal John O’Connor, a campaign to unionize in New York in black and nearly 12000 car drivers, it adopted a big step forward this week, if a limousine company, has struggled union to sign a contract for two years a European Union.

The company last radio group, an agreement with the driver evaluation of the European Union after the cardinal wrote letters to several Wall-Street-enterprises - whose main clients of the sedan companies - to seek to deprive unionized firms, health insurance and other benefits.

Last radio to reach an agreement with the Union, Wednesday evening before the day of its 150 drivers have planned a strike in what would be the first strike ever black and motorists in the city.

”We need a European Union because we were always there,’’said Humberto Montana, a Cuban immigrant, for sedans Last Radio since 1985. ”There were complaints that the driver could not be ironed. There was no medicine, no sick days, no coverage as well as more and more.”

Officials of the International Association of Machinists, began testing unionize the city in black and motorists, three years ago, she said Cardinal O’Connor asked by hand, because it is assured since long and unions have shown, is of particular concern to support low-paid work of migrants.

The city is in black and motorists are mostly immigrants, mostly from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Many complain that, despite their cars and dazzling costumes, they earn $ 20000 a year, after deducting payments for their cars, repairs, gas, insurance and franchise fees. Many nonunion drivers say that because the black car companies do not provide health insurance, it may be a financial catastrophe if someone in his family is seriously ill.

Kevin Lynch, machinists Organization director for the New York area, said:”We have asked the Cardinal to make contact with all the people he knows, Wall Street and tell them that this is a moral issue which is very hard working immigrant families. ”

Joseph Zwilling, spokesman for the archdiocese of New York, said:”The Cardinal has his whole life has been a strong supporter of the organization of work, and he was invited to help if he could, and he sent a letter to several companies requesting that they use limousine services, unionized workers.”

The union won support from several investment firms, including Merrill Lynch, Goldman, Sachs; Oppenheimer; Lazard Asset Management, and the INVESCO, machinists’ officials said. She added that she has received an important boost, U.S. Airways said it would association, car rentals, if ordered limousine services for passengers at the arrival of the La Guardia airport Shuttle.

Union officials said the Wall Street firms agreed parent association of enterprises in part, please contact the Cardinal, in part to help workers and oppressed in part to avoid angering Instead, unions billions of dollars in investments to the Wall Street. Mr. Lynch said that in the case of Wall Street began the company signalling unions wanted to use the car, he gently Last’s and other companies objection to signing a contract.

On Wednesday’s agreement, is the fourth black-Last Car Company in the city to sign a contract European Union on the approximately 800 the number of drivers under contract. Mr. Lynch is expected that the other two black-because “the company has been assigned by the last owner - Royal and the executive, which together 300 drivers - Union would soon sign a contract.

Last’s owner, Joseph Aracari Turgut Ozen and did not return several calls to their office.

The new contract provides dental benefits, life insurance and free legal advice Services - a blessing for drivers are often in disputes with the bus and Limousine Commission. Under the mission, Last radio has promised to begin the provision of health coverage within six months, and the European Union will have access to books of the company, to determine if the driver should have a contribution to health premiums.

In 1998, April machinists won the right to represent the company with 75 drivers, drivers last to join the European Union and 52 voted against. Last radio, the union has refused to recognize, however, expressly to emphasize that their drivers were not employees but independent of the partnership contract between the federal law, have no right to forming a union .