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Montesano Urges Passage of NYS Legislation
February 23, 2015
By Stephanie West
Long Island, NY - Assemblyman Michael Montesano (R,C,I-Glen Head) is sponsoring legislation to allow spouses of military personnel to practice their licensed profession upon arrival in New York, free from the bureaucratic regulations currently in place.
UFT Chief Slams Governor Cuomo
February 19, 2015
By Joe Maniscalco
New York, NY - United Federation of Teachers [UFT] President Michael Mulgrew blasted Governor Cuomo from the steps of City Hall this week, charging the chief executive with ignoring court mandated funding of New York City public schools, while simultaneously pushing so-called reforms that many say are brazen attempts to corporatize the entire education system.
NYPD Misreading Vision Zero?
February 19, 2015
By Marc Bussanich
Brooklyn, NY—That’s what the head of Transport Workers Union Local 100 seemed to be asking when we asked him why a bus driver was arrested for striking a pedestrian last week when the union claims there is a stipulation in the Vision Zero legislation that exempts city employees from criminal charges when moving vehicles strike pedestrians by accident.
Good Union Jobs Slated For Essex Crossing
February 19, 2015
By Joe Maniscalco
New York, NY - The question of who actually builds the expansive Essex Crossing project in Lower Manhattan is still to be determined, but a new jobs training agreement between the development team and 32BJ SEIU means that as many 80 new union jobs will be created once the mixed-use site is built.
Immigrant Families Have Justice On Their Side
February 19, 2015
By SEIU Exec Vice President, Rocio Saenz
Washington, DC - Immigrant families remain on a path to justice. This ruling - issued by a lone, out-of-touch judge, singularly sought out by extremist Republican governors and attorney generals - is a temporary disappointment, but in no way a permanent setback.
Teamsters Approve New Contracts at MillerCoors Breweries In N.C. And Texas
February 19, 2015
By Stephanie West
Washington,DC - Teamsters at MillerCoors breweries in Eden, N.C., and Fort Worth, Texas, have ratified new, three-year contracts. The agreements cover more than 900 employees at the two breweries and provide lifetime retiree health care benefits.
Public Contract Fraud Case on Long Island
February 19, 2015
By Stephanie West
Long Island, NY - Charles Angelillo, 41, of Eastport, has been sentenced in his role of defrauding the state of over $200,000. He submitted false invoices over a two year period for HVAC equipment, supplies, and labor. Angelillo is banned from bidding on public contracts with the state and municipalities for five years.
New Video Depicts The Plight Of Non-Union Workers
February 18, 2015
By Joe Maniscalco
New York, NY - The community and labor coalition fighting on behalf of unprotected construction workers throughout New York City is hoping that a powerful new vide documentary depicting the daily struggles of one group of minority laborers will help change the way Mayor Bill de Blasio builds so-called affordable housing in this town.
Laborers Say Waste Equity Bill Is Job Kill!
February 18, 2015
By Marc Bussanich
New York, NY—The Teamsters Joint Council 16, along with environmental and community-based groups, rallied at City Hall last week to provide support for Councilmember Antonio Reynoso’s legislation that would equalize garbage disposal among different communities throughout the city. But the Laborers say the legislation, Intro. 495, is a job killer.
Union Victory In Cablevision Battle!
February 17, 2015
Joe Maniscalco
New York, NY - It’s taken three years to do it, but Brooklyn Cablevision workers fighting a fierce battle with media mogul James Dolan, have finally won jobs security and better wages and benefits for 262 unionized employees.
Raising the Bar on Training
February 17, 2015
By Bill Hohlfeld
There is one word to describe the apprenticeship training that takes place at Ironworkers Local 417 - serious. A small, tight knit team of people, all of whom wear many hats in the course of a day, hunker down together to produce the well disciplined, well rounded ironworkers that proudly emerge from their program.
Boston University Adjuncts Join SEIU
February 17, 2015
Adjunct professors at Boston University voted by a 2-to-1 margin to unionize Feb. 4, making it the fourth Boston-area college where part-time faculty have joined Faculty Forward, a part of Service Employees International Union Local 509.
Trumka Calls Illinois Anti-Union Move Unconstitutional
February 17, 2015
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s plan to end the union shop for state workers is "unconstitutional," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told CNBC on Feb. 10. “He's saying he wants to have people that don't pay for the services they get," Trumka said on the show Closing Bell. “They get a collective bargaining agreement and all the benefits under it and he says they don't have to pay for it. What he's doing is actually unconstitutional.”
Walker Caught Lying About ‘Teacher of the Year’
February 17, 2015
Late last month, Wisconsin Gov.Scott Walker told an Iowa audience that the state’s “outstanding teacher of the year” in 2010-11 had been laid off because union seniority rules. He was lying. The woman he mentioned had won a very obscure award for first-year teachers—and on Feb. 9, the woman who actually was Wisconsin’s high-school teacher of the year denounced him in an open letter.
Bent, But Not Broken: Airport Workers Must Continue Minimum Wage Fight
February 16, 2015
By Joe Maniscalco
New York, NY - The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey’s failure to include over 1,000 airport workers in a plan to bump up salaries to $10.10 an hour has left frustrated in-flight and lounge employees emotionally devastated and deeply distraught - but the union representing them is vowing to continue the fight.
1199 Joins Campaign for Stronger Rent Laws
February 16, 2015
By Steven Wishnia
Local 1199SEIU has become the first major New York labor union to join the campaign to renew and strengthen the state’s rent-regulation laws, which expire June 15. “More than 70,000 1199SEIU members live in rent-regulated apartments,” Helen Schaub, the health-care workers’ union’s policy director, said in a statement for LaborPress.
New Legislation Would Mandate Garbage Redistribution!
February 16, 2015
By Marc Bussanich
New York, NY—It’s not as popular as calls for wealth redistribution, but garbage redistribution is nonetheless a major issue that a variety of groups including environmental and labor called on the city to do on a frigid day on City Hall’s steps.
New RWDSU Director Is Ready To Rumble
February 13, 2015
By Joe Maniscalco
New York, NY - As the guy tapped to be the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union’s first-ever director for New York City operations, it somehow seems only right that talking tough and thinking broadly appears intrinsic to veteran organizer David Mertz. Organizing in this town and across the nation is both harder and more important than ever before — but Mertz says that those challenges will not deter the RWDSU from continuing to get out there and “mixing it up.”
Public transportation is right choice for Queens
February 13, 2015
By John Samuelsen | This article first appeared in Queens Chronicle
This year, as new leadership in Albany prepares to debate the state budget, the question of improving public transportation in New York City is again a top priority. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the debate over the Rockaway Beach rail line.
The Public Ought To Know
February 13, 2015
By Corey Bearak
Why Not Chance Some Real Property Tax Reform?
The recent stories on the accumulation of foreign, non-resident ownership of residential real estate, in particular housing that serves its owners as a pied-a-terre, renew attention to the outdated New York City real property tax system. It remains a system that begs for reform.
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