NEW YORK, NY— New York City will be establishing designated passenger boarding areas for horse-drawn cabs at several Central Park entrances. Locations will be moved from heavily-congested nearby locations along Central Park South. “By limiting boarding of horse-drawn cabs to designated areas within Central Park, the amount of time that horses spend alongside vehicular traffic will…
Labor Day is a time for reflection. One issue dwarfs all others. Our losing battle to preserve Planet Earth looms over us as our self-cooling planet moves toward becoming a self-heating planet—the point of no return. This column isn’t about science—the increasing levels of carbon emissions, rising sea levels, and melting ice caps—it’s about the…
KALISPELL, Mt. – Nurses at Kalispell Regional Healthcare are organizing an effort to unionize, citing an array of grievances related to unfair wages, loss of benefits, unsafe work conditions, low morale and suboptimal patient environments.
WHITE PLAINS, NY – A fraudulent operation of Dolson Avenue Medical practice (DAM), a multi-disciplinary medical clinic located in Middletown, New York, has cost New York State millions.
NEW YORK, N.Y.—The Vireo medical-marijuana dispensary chain and Local 338 of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union announced Aug. 31 that they would begin offering discounts to labor-union members and retirees in New York State on Labor Day, Sept. 3.
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Home health-care aides trying to get paid for their full 24-hour shifts got a hearing in State Supreme Court Aug. 29—and no response from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his primary challenger, Cynthia Nixon.
People with a new baby know just how much “stuff” they have to schlepp around – there’s the diaper bag, the bottle bag, the car seat, the toys, etc. But there are many other burdens for parents. A new paper offers a look at some of these burdens, and unsurprisingly, the vast proportion are borne…
NEW YORK, N.Y.—After months of pressure from community groups and the Teamsters Union, the New York City Business Integrity Commission suspended the operating license of the Bronx’s largest private-trash collection company Aug. 24.
HUNTINGTON, W. Va.—About 200 people in purple Service Employees International Union Local 1199 T-shirts marched past St. Mary’s Medical Center Aug. 13, where management has resisted its campaign to organize workers. “These workers are being harassed, they’re being intimidated,” Joyce Gibson, SEIU division director for West Virginia, southern Ohio, and Kentucky, told the Huntington Herald-Dispatch….
New York, NY – In the ongoing battle against so-called “open shop development” at Hudson Yards and the assault on good middle class jobs — wages and benefits figure greatly. But so, too, do things like dignity, safety and respect.
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