New York, NY – Mayor de Blasio has signed an executive order that will end the direct City purchase of single-use plastics in favor of compostable or recyclable alternatives. “Big Oil has been pushing single use plastics for too long – and it stops here,” said Mayor de Blasio. “They litter our beaches and parks, jam…
New York, NY – A grim observance held on a rain slick street in Manhattan this past Friday reemphasized, once more, that sometimes, when you work for a living, you don’t come home. Some 40 people died on the job in New York City last year. On October 27, Queens father of two Bing Wan…
New York, NY – Deaths on-the-job is a national crisis, said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. “It’s well past the time that folks in Washington, D.C., stop playing politics and take action to prevent these tragedies.” In 2017, the number of worker deaths totaled 5,147. Although the number was less than 2016 with 5,190, deaths on-the-job…
National Report from Washington–A monthly Series exclusive to LaborPress The number one issue in the congressional elections of 2018 was health care and could be again in 2020. Workers and unions have always understood that they will be the ones paying for healthcare for families if the government does not. Right now it’s a…
New York, NY – Another metropolitan area man who lost his job after he dared challenge Amazon’s piss-poor treatment of its warehouse employees is speaking out this week — just in time for the notoriously anti-union retail giant to be welcomed back onto National COSH’s annual list of “Dirty Dozen” employers. David Jamel Williams told…
Wouldn’t it be convenient if your eye doctor visited you instead? Then you could get an eye exam and update your frames without taking a day off. Well, that’s the first-class experience our Mobile Eyecare Centers offer. We believe that you shouldn’t have to choose between your eye health and job responsibilities, especially since poor…
New York, NY – This past week, the mournful wail of bagpipes honoring New York City construction workers killed or injured on the job were once again forced to compete with the rising lamentations of deep pocketed industry executives bemoaning the economic costs of enacting enhanced safety regulations. Never mind how incremental and insufficient any…
New York, NY – “Somebody needs to pass a law saying this can’t happen anymore.” That’s how Donald Nesbit, Local 372 executive vice-president, is reacting to the death of his friend since childhood, Gregory Echevarria — one of a trio of construction workers tragically killed on non-union job sites last week. Nesbit and Echevarria grew…
NEW YORK, N.Y.—In a deal one union official called “historic,” the New York State Nurses Association announced a tentative contract agreement April 9 with three leading hospital systems that will set minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios. If ratified, the four-year contract with the Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and New York Presbyterian hospital systems will lead to the hiring…
New York, NY – Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, on Thursday, gave his blessing to an upcoming Catholic Charities mission to Central America slated to depart the day after Easter — and the union leader taking part in the effort says its about “changing the narrative” surrounding immigration and being able to…
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