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星期五, 7月 01, 2016

麻州個人護理工7/1起加薪

州的個人護理工人今年71開始得加薪
都市家居護理員談判合約有希望!

今年71日開始大約35,000個人護理工人將獲得每小時44美分加薪 , 該合同包括用於教育和培訓護理員培訓費用每年增加20美元,  州長查理貝克辦公室美東1199SEIU工會在數週前,共同宣佈一項為期三年的合同。州長貝克在聲明中說﹕“這份新合將確保35,000個人護理員執行這項重要的工作得到適當的補償和對教育及培訓經費增加

照顧成千上萬住在麻州的老人殘疾人仕能安然留在自己家中個人護理工人獲得為期三年的合同,承諾在2018達到薪為15美元, 此金額也全國工會低薪行業(如快餐工人托兒服務)的目標

國家的醫療補助計劃為低收入居民提供服務,通過健康,(MassHealth) 支付個人護理員,和由州府的Cerebral Palsy of Massachusetts 部門派發工資。工人幫助客戶基本的家務,如洗衣,購物,飯,和簡單的個人護理。SEIU1199工會的執行副總裁Tyrék D. Lee 說﹕這份新合確保專業的員工隊伍和強大的教育和培訓計劃,讓市民可以在家中享有優質護理服務

個人護理員於2006年前加入1199 SEIU工會。昨天,也是都市家居護理工人加入SEIU1199工會的一週年。都市是第一私人營利家居護理公司加入工會,工種與個人護理非常相似,但工資不是直接由州府付出。雖然都市工人還在合約談判當中, 正在努力談判的工人很有信心工資增長一定會在合約當中。

其實,工人有工會合約保障最好的是工人能夠得到基本工人權利外的保障。合同定下何時加工資解僱的過程福利條件等而公司必須按照合同的規定做。 違反合同規定等於違反法律.。另一個更重要的是有了這份合同也代表工人在工作上尊嚴,。 三年多前, 都市工人自發組,多次,,要求集體公司開會,但都無法達到。 只有加入了工會公司無法把工人視若無睹這份尊嚴和對工人的尊重不是金錢所能代替!


Karen Y. Chen, Co-Director
Chinese Progressive Association 華人前進會
28 Ash Street, Boston, MA 02111
p:617-357-4499 f:617-357-9611
www.cpaboston.org

紐約時報稱吳弭為14名值得關注的民主黨年輕人之一

紐約時報6月25日的一篇文章,談論14明值得注意的民主黨人,其中一人是波士頓市議會議長,吳弭(Michelle Wu)。
父母來自台灣,在芝加哥長大,哈佛大學法學院J. D.學位,已考得律師執照的吳弭,不僅在年僅28歲時,締造歷史,成為波士頓市議會中有史以來的首名華裔市議員,結婚,生子後,今年初再度打破紀錄,成為波士頓市議會歷史中,首名華裔市議長。
在吳弭之前,只有一名亞裔當選過市議員,也是哈佛大學畢業的韓裔年輕人,尹常賢。
他在嘗試角逐市長職位,中途轉與米高法拉提搭檔,參選副市長,但未能打敗競選連任的當年在為市長萬寧路後,轉往加州發展。
下附紐約時報原文鍊接:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/24/opinion/sunday/14-young-democrats-to-watch.html?_r=1

紐英崙中華總會 7/4 辦美國生日慶祝會


僑委會海外教師研習會美東站適逢僑教中心主任交接

波士頓華僑文教中心主任歐宏偉(前右四)和參加培訓的老師們合影。(僑教中心提供)
(Boston Orange) 波士頓華僑文教中心與新英格蘭中文學校協會合作,上週末舉辦  105年海外華文教師研習會,適逢波士頓華僑文教中心主任交接,出現返台主任郭大文主持開幕式,接棒主任歐宏偉為結業式致詞佳話。
僑委會今年派到美加東組教學的兩名老師,經驗都非常豐富,在625日至27日之間,加上當地老師的簡報製作,文化展演,共安排了不下10堂課。
持有美國加州聖迭哥州立大學教育科技碩士,香港中文大學高級水墨畫文憑的盧毓文,專長華語教師培訓,教學設計,編教材,作詞譜曲等,早從1969年就由台灣鈴鈴唱片公司出版過“兒歌精華專輯唱片”,1992年出版了“國字演進卡”,2014黏在僑教雙週刊上發表漢字文創,“我會說華語”。
虞毓文在三天會期中,講課內容包括“華語教學新知”,“兒童華語可運用之教學策略及具體教材教法”,“混班教學面面觀”。
陳素紅是經驗豐富的中文學校老師,曾在加州矽谷中文學校,褲菩提諾慈濟人文學校,又興中文學校執教,也早從2004年起獲僑委會聘任,到過許多國家做巡迴講師。
波士頓華僑文教中心返台主任郭大文(右起),介紹虞毓文
,陳虹素老師。龐維新英格蘭中文學校協會會長陳式儀。
陳素紅在三天會期中的講課內容包括“說唱律動遊戲學華語”,“三贏的班級經營”,“創意教具製作與應用”,“創新寫做引導與看圖作文教學演練”等。
波士頓華僑文教中心返台主任郭大文趕在離任前,歡迎參加教師研習會的老師們,提醒他們任重道遠,也懇切感謝他們在海外為弘揚中華語文所做的努力,還介紹了僑委會新編教材“學華語向前走”。
波士頓華僑文教中心接棒主任歐宏偉,儘管剛到任,仍立即上班,期許教師們在海外教學這條路上,互助扶持,促請教師們充分利用僑委會提供的資源。(所有圖片均由僑教中心提供)


MAYOR WALSH ADDS SOLAR POWERED SCREEN TO CITY HALL PLAZA TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO VISITORS

MAYOR WALSH ADDS SOLAR POWERED SCREEN TO CITY HALL PLAZA TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO VISITORS
Digital display is the latest in a series of improvements to Boston's most prominent civic space
Photo by Don Harney, Mayor's Office 

BOSTON - Friday, July 1, 2016 - Mayor Martin J. Walsh today revealed a new 32-inch solar-powered E Ink® screen on City Hall Plaza. The sign uses ePaper technology and will provide visitors to City Hall Plaza with information on local events and help residents and visitors locate nearby landmarks. Through a partnership between the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM), E Ink and Global Display Solutions (GDS), the prototype sign is the first of its kind in the nation.

"Over the past two years we have been taking steps to improve our city services and make City Hall more inviting for residents and visitors," said Mayor Walsh. "By providing residents with real-time information that is both helpful and easily accessible, we are building on our commitment to providing excellent City services to the people of Boston. The addition of this screen is just one more step towards making our most prominent civic space in Boston more resourceful and welcoming for all who visit."

The 32-inch E Ink display is connected to cloud servers, allowing City staff to easily update screen content online. The screen is solar-powered, requiring less energy consumption than a traditional digital screen with easy readability. The E Ink screen is also weather resistant, enabling it to remain in operation through the harshest of weather conditions. The City will alter the content and informational layout in the coming months as needed based upon user feedback, starting with basic wayfinding.

"There are thousands of visitors and dozens of events happening around City Hall Plaza each week," said Judy Wang, Innovation Fellow with the New Urban Mechanics who managed the project. "This screen will allow City Hall to share all of these events with public in real time, and this tool gives us a new way to engage with visitors, get them excited about upcoming activities and help them navigate all our city has to offer."

The City Hall Plaza screen is the first known civic use of an E Ink powered sign in the United States. The Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics collaborated with WalkBoston, an advocacy group focused on pedestrian issues, to refine the wayfinding design and provide accurate walk times to a variety of nearby destinations.

"GDS is proud to be part of the City of Boston's plan to improve the public experience by providing better information with an energy sustainable solution," said Andrea Ongaro, GDS Chief Technical Officer. "Our collaboration with E Ink has helped realize a product we hope Boston is proud of."

"E Ink is honored to partner with the City of Boston in realizing its smart city vision," said Harit Doshi, head of E Ink's Signage business. "Together with GDS, we have created an eco-friendly display that replaces paper signs with a dynamic ePaper display that will provide the public with valuable information."

About the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics
The Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics serves as the City's innovation incubator, building partnerships between internal agencies and outside entrepreneurs to pilot projects that address resident needs. Their streetscape work spans ways to make the transportation experience better for users, through products like the ParkBoston app, to providing ways for local designers to make public space more intuitive and delightful with the Public Space Invitational.

About Global Display Solutions, Inc.
For more than 35 years, GDS is at the forefront of developing and manufacturing leading edge technologies for the digital signage market.  We are passionately committed to pioneering new displays technologies while delivering total customer satisfaction in the design, manufacturing, installation and lifetime support of our display solutions. Our goal is to provide eye catching display performance at lowest total cost of ownership.

About E Ink Holdings
Founded in 1992 by Taiwan's leading papermaking and printing group YFY (1907.TW), E Ink Holdings Inc. (8069.TWO), based on technology from MIT's Media Lab, has transformed and defined the eReader market with its ePaper technology, enabling a new multi-billion market in less than 10 years.  Its corporate philosophy aims to deliver revolutionary products, user experiences, and environmental benefits through advanced technology development. This vision has led to its continuous investments in the field of ePaper displays as well as expanding the use of its technologies into a number of other markets and applications. Its EPD products make it the worldwide leader for ePaper. Its FFS technologies are a standard for high end consumer electronic products. Listed in Taiwan's GreTai Securities Market and the Luxembourg market, E Ink Holdings is now the world's largest supplier of displays to the eReader market.

MAYOR WALSH ANNOUNCES AMBASSADOR RAYMOND FLYNN AS ORATOR FOR 2016 INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION

MAYOR WALSH ANNOUNCES AMBASSADOR RAYMOND FLYNN AS ORATOR FOR 2016 INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION 
BOSTON - Friday, July 1, 2016 - Mayor Martin J. Walsh today announced former Mayor of Boston and Ambassador to the Vatican Raymond Flynn will be this year's orator for Boston's Independence Day Celebration, which will take place at 10:00 a.m. on July 4th at Faneuil Hall. Flynn has orated the celebration once before in 1986, making this year special as the 30th anniversary of his first oration.

"Through his lifelong commitment to public service, Ray Flynn embodies the spirit of America," said Mayor Walsh. "Ray has dedicated his career to his country, and the people of Boston, and I am pleased to welcome him back to Faneuil Hall to celebrate Independence Day."

Flynn will join a distinguished and diverse list of orators for the ceremony, which dates back to 1773. Past orators include: John Quincy Adams, John F. Kennedy, Horace Mann, Keith Lockhart and Julia Child.

"This 4th of July, I am proud to recognize all the dedicated and loyal Americans who continue to work hard, defend our nation, raise strong families and play by the rules. Our active citizens are what makes America the great country is it," said Ambassador Flynn. "I'm delighted to join Mayor Walsh for the historic Faneuil Hall Oration in celebration of Independence Day."

In addition to the oration, The City of Boston's Independence Day Celebration schedule is as follows:

All times shown are approximate and are subject to change.

9:00AM - Official celebration begins at City Hall Plaza with a brief ceremony at the flagpoles lead by Mayor Martin J. Walsh.

9:20AM - The marching units and dignitaries assemble and proceed from City Hall Plaza to Tremont Street.

9:30AM - The procession halts  at the Old Granary Burial Ground where Sam Adams, John Hancock, Peter Faneuil and Robert Treat Paine are honored and then continues to Bromfield Street to Washington Street to Old State House.

9:40AM - The Declaration of Independence is read by Brigadier General Robert Welch of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company at the Old State House balcony, from which the Declaration of Independence was first read to Bostonians in 1776, by a member of the Ancients.

10:00AM - Procession reforms from Congress Street to North Street and ends at Faneuil Hall.

10:15AM - Patriotic Exercises are held at Faneuil Hall, with remarks from Mayor Walsh, oration by Raymond Flynn and patriotic musical selections.

About the Mayor's Office of Tourism, Sports and Entertainment
The Mayor's Office of Tourism, Sports and Entertainment is committed to producing fun, free, public, family-friendly events for the people of Boston and visitors to enjoy.

For more information, please call 617-635-3911, visit boston.gov/summer, or check out @VisitBoston on Twitter. City Hall Plaza is accessible by MBTA via Haymarket (Orange and Green), State Street (Orange and Blue) or Park Street (Green and Red).

About Ambassador Flynn
Ray Flynn served as U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican and was elected Mayor of Boston three times by the highest margin in modern Boston history. Flynn is an honors graduate from both Providence College and Harvard Graduate School of Education. He was voted to the All American Academic Team, inducted into the NCAA Hall of Fame, Most Valuable Player in the National Invitational Tournament,  voted the Greatest Athlete in South Boston history and received 17 Honorary doctorate degrees from leading American colleges. Flynn served in the U.S. Army and was a Boston Public school teacher, college basketball and baseball coach, and best-selling author of The Accidental Pope, and John Paul II, A Personal Portrait of the Pope and the Man.

Ray and Kathy (Coyne) Flynn have been married for 51 years, and have 6 children and 17 grandchildren. He has become a leading U.S. advocate for Special Needs Children and still coaches baseball and soccer in the Challenge League, sponsored by the Teamsters Union. Ray is a Life Time Member of the International Longshoreman's Union where both Kathy's father, Frank, and Ray's dad, Steve, were also union dock workers on the Port of Boston. Mayor Martin Walsh and the Boston Redevelopment Authority recently renamed the Boston Marine Industrial Park - The Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park - after the former Ambassador and Mayor.

波士頓華埠居民不滿25號地段發展計畫


多名華埠居民忍無可忍會議中途離開
什麼時候居民的聲音會被重視!
昨天 (6月30日)麻州公路局和重建局為 2526地段的發展,由交通局出面召開第五次公共會議 ,公布招標書(ITB)最後草搞。投標書包括了很少居民的意見。 100多名居民來自皮革區和華埠參加會議。大概提到第六個意見時, 由華人前進會創辦人,華埠居民和長期活躍者,李素影的帶領下,四分之三居民起身離開了會場。
2526地段位於I-93公路附近,其中包括蒸汽廠Veolia,大波士頓地區排球運動員大量使用的黃述霑公園, 和屬於波士頓重建局擁有的一幅小地。
該投標書要求混合使用空間,零售, 餐館,空地和住宅。它要求更換Veolia蒸汽廠,將園區功能完善的外殼提供了空間。該ITB也包括27地段,這是列在2004年南灣/華埠牌樓特別研究地段。住宅部分包括20%的可負擔房屋。其13%房屋按照當前的包容性發展政策 。其餘的7%可負擔房將按中數收入 AMI50%至120 一家四口的50AMI$ 49,050 一家四口120 AMI為$117,750
公眾意見的環節由皮革區居民開始發表意見。雖然皮革區居民表揚麻州公路局的開放給投標商包括27地段在發展內的選擇,但他們仍擔心空曠地方的比例, 建築造成的影子,和使用密度去交換可負擔房屋。
亞美發展協會(ACDC)前主席,張黃玉鶯,讀了一封由黃述霑太太寫的信,再次強調25地段的黃述霑公園對社區的重要性和華埠缺乏娛樂地方的嚴重性。隨後, 波士頓劍紅體育館的司徒士英先生表達了他對改善黃述霑公園的概念需要明確些,而在建築期間需要有安排臨時球場的計劃,因為社區很需要打排球的場所。
亞美發展協會的劉安琪表示她覺得非常失望因為公路局根本沒有聽取居民的意見。可負擔房屋數量和可負擔程度不會解決華埠的逼遷危機或幫助現在的居民保留在社區 。她已經第五次提出這個問題,但這份投標書比以前的版本沒有分別,仍然沒有什麼更改。
李素影提醒大家,因為興建公路和高速公路,華埠社區為了公共利益失去了近三分之一唐人街的住房。她質疑,如果華埠再次為公共利益犧牲,什麼時候會輪到華埠的工人階層受益? 對公開過程覺得失去信心, 李素影和四分之三的居民站起來離開了會議。
李素影發表了她的意見後,離開會議時, 居民和前進會執委梁德生喊:“這怎麼是民主。唐人街已經是在高樓的陰影中,沒有海景了。”  華埠居民會的執委之一,伍姨也憤怒地說,“這樣做不公平。我們已經參加了所有的社區會議多次表達了我次們的意見,你們一點都沒有聽取居民的聲音。”
華埠社區認為,他們一直在不斷努力配合公眾的過程,提出意見 。但是,最終他們的意見沒有被採納,幾乎所有的書面意見都沒有包括在投標書內。在六月十七日,20多個華埠組織,集體寫了一封信給公路局和市府,概述居民參與的重要性,要求 30%可負擔房屋,其中20%的房屋是中數收入(AMI)的30 60%的,其餘的10%房屋是 60AMI120AMI,並擴大黃述霑公園,因為它是在唐人街兩個開放的空間之一,公園由市府和州府管制但有社區控制權,和在建築期間提供臨時公園。

Karen Y. Chen, Co-Director
Chinese Progressive Association 華人前進會
28 Ash Street, Boston, MA 02111
p:617-357-4499 f:617-357-9611
www.cpaboston.org

摩頓市亞美社區聯盟獲捐款五萬元

華人醫務中心行政主任衛優俊(Eugen Welch)(右一),和該中心董事April Tang(中)代表華人醫務中心亞裔健康基金( South Cove Community Health Center/Asian Healthcare Foundation of MA)發出五萬元獎助金,支持摩頓雅美社區聯盟的服務社區活動。聯盟董事余翠梅(左一)代表接受。(圖由余翠梅提供)