NEW YORK, NY — New York City is moving forward with the proposed Brooklyn Queens Connector (BQX) streetcar following the completion of a two-year feasibility study. Despite two decades of rapid
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Missouri may be the only state where voters will have a chance to raise the minimum wage this year, as a Michigan ballot initiative got pre-empted by the
NEW YORK, NY –Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Stringer, have announced a new goal to double the investments of the NYC Pension Funds in climate change solutions to $4
LORDSTOWN, Ohio—The U.S. Department of Labor announced Sept. 12 that it will give an $875,000 grant to help workers laid off from the General Motors plant in Lordstown and three
NEW YORK, NY – New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, on September 17th, held a town hall style hearing in Harlem regarding the problem of lead-poisoning in children.
PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The week after more than 16,000 United Steelworkers members voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike at U.S. Steel, union leaders dismissed the company’s revised contract offer as “another clumsy
Factors to consider when determining the appropriate level of surplus In a recent Milliman report entitled “Status of collectively bargained benefits: Multiemployer health and welfare fund statistics,” Milliman analyzed the
TACOMA, Wash.—The 2,200 teachers on strike in Tacoma, Washington believe their walkout might last the rest of the month. “Teachers have the patience of saints,” first-year high-school teacher Megan Holyoke
NEW YORK, NY — The two major musical unions at the Metropolitan Opera, the Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802, AFM and the American Guild of Musical Artists
ALBANY, NY – New York’s jobless rate fell to 4.3 percent in July, according to the New York’s Labor Department. The number of unemployed New Yorker’s fell to 419,800, its
