Teamster Call for Reforms to Waste Industry
NEW YORK, NY—on May 9th, New York City Council Members joined Teamsters Local 813 at city hall calling for legislative reforms to our City’s commercial waste industry and the suspension of Sanitation
NEW YORK, NY—on May 9th, New York City Council Members joined Teamsters Local 813 at city hall calling for legislative reforms to our City’s commercial waste industry and the suspension of Sanitation
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Beer-truck drivers on strike for three weeks are urging Twin Cities consumers and bars to boycott 14 brands of scab-delivered beer, including Miller, Heineken, Guinness, and longtime local brand
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Five home health-care attendants and two Chinatown community organizations have filed a lawsuit against the state Department of Labor in State Supreme Court, seeking to void emergency rules
Reprinted: uft.org Mulgrew on April 30 slammed the city’s reluctance to extend paid parental leave to UFT members as “clear gender bias.”
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—In a ruling one labor-side lawyer called “an earthquake, a seismic shift,” the California Supreme Court on Apr. 30 drastically revised its standard about when employers can classify workers
SAN JUAN, P.R.—As teachers and other workers in Puerto Rico went on strike to protest privatization May 1, police in San Juan fired tear-gas shells at student protesters in the
SCRANTON, Pa.—Two local hospitals have locked out nurses for four days after they staged a 24-hour strike Apr. 25. When registered nurses at Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton showed up
TRENTON, NJ – Organized labor marked a major victory in New Jersey as Governor Phil Murphy signed a statewide Earned Sick Days policy into law. The result is that over one
NEW YORK, NY – On May 1st, a coalition of labor and immigrant groups spoke out in support of stroger protections for the rights of workers and immigrants. Members of
New York, NY – Organized labor gathered at Washington Square Park on May Day 2018, keenly concerned with a growing list of anti-worker attacks rivaling those that predicated the rise