Gulfport Mississippi – Hand sanitizer was needed to keep both those on the job and their families safe. IBEW Local 903 in Gulfport Mississippi developed a plan to acquire a generous supply. Local 903 Business Manager Brian McMurry and his IBEW local’s executive board bought eight 5-gallon buckets from a local whiskey and moonshine distillery. The company had recently switched its…
New York, NY – School bus companies in New York City and Long Island are on the brink of collapse after some school districts in both areas refused to fulfill their commitments to honor contracts last week. Fulfilling the contracts would have paid drivers through June after the COVID-19 pandemic led to a statewide shutdown…
Long Island, NY – Americans want the government to help the post office the same way they helped the airlines. Like many businesses in the United States, the United States Postal Service (USPS) is facing huge revenue declines thanks to COVID-19. Postmaster General Megan Brennan told Congress in early April they would “run out of…
Suffolk County, NY – As a social worker, victim’s rights lawyer, and now as a candidate for NY State Senate in District 1 in Suffolk County, I have devoted my life’s work towards doing the right thing and seeking justice for those who have been the victim of a horrible crime. As the COVID-19 pandemic…
Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced that the city’s 11 public hospitals [NYC Health + Hospitals] will offer free antibody testing for first responders on the frontlines of the COVID-19 epidemic. The testing is being offered through a partnership with the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and…
New York, NY – The Covid-19 pandemic is hitting the underfinanced hospitals serving thousands of poor and working-class New Yorkers the hardest. The emergency federal funds for hospitals haven’t corrected their inequitable status vis a vis far better-off private hospitals, and have even reinforced it. Now it’s up to State and City policymakers to straighten…
Now is the time to build solidarity to tackle the Covid-19 aftermath. Clapping in solidarity with health care, transit, delivery, grocery and other essential services workers is important but the financial elites who run this country will only cede to our demands for adequate living conditions for all of us when they see our united…
Washington, DC – Seven leading labor unions, representing millions of working people across the country, have blasted the Trump Administration for skirting payroll requirements in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act at the expense of working families. In letters to Senators Chuck Schumer and Sherrod Brown and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Communications Workers…
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