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May
Day showed visibility
By Alexis Kindig
On-line Forty-Niner
Despite low student
interest in information, Cal State Long Beach Labor Council
volunteers trumped the International Day of the Worker barbecue
Wednesday a success.
The barbecue was meant to show the labor council's visibility
on campus, as well as celebrate May Day.
May Day is a day celebrating labor.
According to Donald Wright, a member of the California State
Employees Association, around 300 burgers had already been
sold by 12:30 p.m. No profit was made, but the council's purpose,
exposing itself to students, was served.
Students were not as interested in the information tables.
Anne Stankewicz, of the California State Employees Association,
said the barbecue usually features a speaker. The Labor Council
decided against having a speaker this year, however, due to
a historic lack of interest.
"It's hard to get people to pay attention" to the
speakers, Stankewicz said. "It's more of a social thing."
Nevertheless, Jeanne Boyer of the Academic Professionals of
California said her union's table had seen traffic from staff
and faculty. Many people picked up a copy of the APC contract
and bought themselves a burger and a Labor Council T-shirt,
she said.
The contract was mainly picked up by new members so they could
look it over.
Despite a lack of student interest in the union information
tables, Mike Roth of the CSEA, who was helping to serve burgers,
was pleased with the size of the crowd and the opportunity
to get some visibility for the campus unions.
The groups represented by unions are the California State
Employees Association, the California Faculty Association,
the Academic Professionals of California, the State University
Police Council, the State Employee Trade Council and the Union
of American Physicians and Dentists.
Wright agreed, calling the event a "celebration of support
from faculty, staff, and well-wishers."
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