Category: Blue Collar Buzz
Count Me In, Too!
On our last broadcast we had the distinct pleasure of welcoming Mike Hellstrom to the LaborPress family. Mike has spent over three decades of his life as a New York
This Week’s Buzz: #CountMeIn; More on the Spectrum Strike; FDNY Deaths, and Airport Raises
On this episode of LaborPress’ Blue Collar Buzz we’re talking about the #CountMeIn movement with Campaign Director Michael Hellstrom and the the fight against so-called “open shop” development in NYC; United
Blue Collar Corner: NYC Charter/Spectrum Strike – 1 Year And Counting…
Latest Buzz: Laid Off Wendt Workers Speak Out; Sheet Metal Workers Training Director; Workers’ Comp; Lowering Rx Costs
On this episode of LaborPress’ Blue Collar Buzz, we’re talking with two laid off workers at Upstate NY’s Wendt Corporation who were sidelined and replaced with temps after shop employees
Latest BCB Buzz: Ulrich Slams City On Spectrum Strike; CVS Workers Fight For Union Contract; Robinson Vies for NYS Senate; Wendt Worker Layoffs
On this episode of LaborPress’ Blue Collar Buzz, NYC Council Member Eric Ulrich criticizes the city’s inability to help bring about an end to the year-long Charter/Spectrum Strike; UFCW Local
Latest Buzz: Charter/Spectrum Audit; Steel Tariffs; Striking For a Year!
On this episode of LaborPress’ Blue Collar Buzz, Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers International President, discusses the impact announced tariffs on steel and aluminum imports are having on workers; Kate Blumm,
Latest Buzz: Wendy’s Fast; Spectrum Strikers Reflect on Nearly Year-Long Struggle
On this episode of LaborPress’ Blue Collar Buzz Uriel Zelaya-Perez from the Alliance for Fair Food and Oscar Otzoy from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers talk about the upcoming Wendy’s
Fighting for Worker Rights: It’s A Family Affair
We talk a great deal about “family values” in this country. I’m not opposed to that. I’m not one of those hard-line left wingers that automatically shoots down every phrase uttered