NEW YORK, N.Y.—New York University’s public-health school announced July 23, that it is beginning a series of studies to evaluate how the COVID-19 virus spread among the city’s transit workers and the effectiveness of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s actions to limit their exposure to the virus. “This will be the first time outside public-health experts…
Queens, NY – Unprotected airport workers have fought for more than a year for access to affordable healthcare — and as of Wednesday, they now have enough support from the New York Legislature to pass a bill that will achieve their goals. All that is left for the Healthy Terminals Act to become a reality…
On Thursday, July 16, a man was killed when a scaffolding collapsed at a non-union job at an 11-story apartment building in the Murray Hill section of New York City. Four men were working at the residential co-op building at 136 E. 36th Street. Aside from the one death, three other men were injured but…
STONY BROOK, N.Y.—More than 250 workers at Stony Brook University Hospital on Long Island rallied in 90-degree heat July 22, demanding that the state university system give them $2,500 in hazardous-duty pay for working extra during the COVID-19 epidemic. “We have workers putting their lives on the line.” Carlos Speight, president of Civil Service Employees…
There is still a lot we don’t know about the novel coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease it causes. While the world’s scientists and clinicians work to find answers, Americans are forced to live with fear and anxiety about what we don’t yet know. Immunity is one of those unknowns. In recent weeks, there have been…
New York, NY – Angry trade unionists on the front lines of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic stood up, on Monday morning, against the “three-pronged crisis” gripping workers in Donald Trump’s America, demanding an end to systemic racism and the immediate passage of the Heroes Act in the U.S. Senate. “Working people are suffering under a…
New York, NY – In early April, it became abundantly clear to Governor Andrew Cuomo that New York State would need to construct several temporary hospitals fast — in order to confront the COVID-19 crisis. Four locations throughout New York City and Long Island where selected for construction. Local 28 Sheet Metal Union members worked…
New York, NY – Workers in more than 150 cities staged walkouts and rallies as part of a nationwide “strike for black lives” July 20. Those actions included an early-morning strike by 1,500 office-building janitors in San Francisco; rallies by McDonald’s and hospital workers in Chicago; marches by fast-food workers in St. Louis and Durham,…
Queens, NY – Dr. Yves Roseus, a Haitian-American immigrant, occupational therapist and 1199 SEIU member, died from COVID-19 at the height of the pandemic — but he lived as the embodiment of the American Dream. The otherwise healthy 66-year-old was the son of an illiterate small farmer in Port-au-Prince who always taught him the importance…
Queens, NY – 32BJ members rallied at JFK Airport this week, just in time for an upcoming vote on the Healthy Terminals Act in the New York State Assembly, where it is expected to pass and make its way to the State Senate so that Governor Andrew Cuomo has a chance to sign or veto,…
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