NEW YORK, NY – On Thursday June 21st, the Canyon of Heroes celebrated, not royalty or winning GL story DC1707 athletes, but “Everyday Heroes” as a procession of embattled early childhood educators and other staff marched up Broadway demanding wage parity with their counterparts working for the Department of Education.
NEW YORK, N.Y.—“The subminimum wage is a poverty wage, and it should be ended immediately,” Camille Rivera, political director of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, told a state Labor Department hearing in the Bronx June 19.
NEWARK, N.J. – With a new Governor in New Jersey, the AFL-CIO hopes to pass equal pay and strengthen public employee unions before Janus. The NJ AFL-CIO has a long wish of pro-worker and pro-union policies that they would like to see instituted. Two that are making their way through the legislature are a bill to strengthen…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Minimum Wage Workers’ Equal Pay Day, the day that marks how many additional days into the new year a minimum-wage worker must work to earn the same amount she or he did in 2009, when the federal minimum wage was last increased. According to an analsis from the Center of American Progress, a…
CHICAGO, Illinois – After more than two weeks on the unfair labor practice strike line, Teamsters Local 727-representing drivers employed by the American Bottling Company, a subsidiary of Dr Pepper Snapple Group, has overwhelmingly voted to reject the company’s latest offer. The Local 727 Bargaining Committee waited four hours to hear from the company during the June…
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.—A petition campaign led by former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn is threatening to nullify the $6,100-a-year pay raise Oklahoma teachers won after their walkout last spring. Coburn’s group, Oklahoma Taxpayers Unite, is collecting signatures for a ballot referendum that would void the about $430 million in tax increases on cigarettes, motor fuel, and…
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Fight for $15 campaign which started in New York City, has brought thousands of fast-food workers, service and domestic workers traditionally considered beyond the reach of the American labor movement into the union fold.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—A City Council committee approved a bill June 6 to levy a 1% tax on new construction in order to fund affordable housing, sending the measure to the full Council. The bill advanced despite criticism from the city’s building-trades unions and affordable-housing advocates.
WASHINGTON, DC – Unemployment rates in 44 states and the District of Columbia either held steady or fell in May, and job growth was positive in the vast majority of states, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
NEW YORK, NY – Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance has announced the indictment of PARKSIDE CONSTRUCTION and AFFINITY HUMAN RESOURCES, LLC, for schemes involving the theft of more than $1.7 million in wages, as well as workers’ compensation insurance fraud totaling approximately $7.8 million.