January 26, 2012By Bendix Anderson, LaborPress Senior Editor Downstairs at the Woolworth Building, in the back barroom of The Kitchen restaurant, a few dozen labor advocates, elected officials and political
January 25, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter The 420 nurses at Flushing Hospital have been negotiating with management for a year for a new contract, but the nurses just authorized
January 24, 2012By Harry Kelber16 Million Indonesian Workers May Benefit from Changes in Law A revision of Indonesia’s labor law that paves the way for outsourced workers to have equal
January 24, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter The 190 members of United Transportation Union Local 1440 have been working without a contract for Staten Island Railway for five years. It
January 23, 2012By Richard L. Trumka, President, AFL-CIO Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney—who killed thousands of jobs as a corporate raider—recently said he “likes being able to fire people.” Romney’s record
January 23, 2012By Scott M. Stringer, Manhattan Borough PresidentMayor Bloomberg has announced a plan to sell three city-owned buildings in Lower Manhattan for a one-time infusion of cash into the
January 23, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter Cablevision is pulling out all the stops to stop 285 field technicians from voting next Thursday to join CWA 1109. Both the workers
January 20, 2012 Reprint from – Workers Independent News January 17, 2011 United Wisconsin has announced that more than one million Wisconsinites have signed a petition to recall Scott Walker, representing the
January 20, 2012 Last year, Governor Cuomo and the Legislature took significant steps toward aligning recurring revenues with recurring spending. New York
January 19, 2012By Bendix Anderson, LaborPress Senior Editor Construction Projects Aplenty in State of City Address For construction workers, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg promised a lot in his
