New York, NY – Unions continue to provide a critical role for all Americans. Through the years unions have enabled working conditions for employees to improve. Organized labor has been a critical force for worker pay raises, health insurance, job security and a voice in the employment process. When unions advocate for those in the…
New York, NY – AT&T is continuing to go ahead with another round of layoffs. Despite billions in tax breaks reductions are on the way. Our sources indicate that ongoing personell reductions and outsourcing aboard will continue indefinately. The company’s position is clear – the workforce needs to be ‘adjusted’. As managers are briefed on…
New York, NY – “For more than a century, New Haven line trains have utterly neglected Bronx and Harlem residents—allowing riders from Connecticut and Westchester suburbs to disembark in the city, but refusing service to local New Yorkers.
NEW YORK, N.Y.—The City Council unanimously passed a bill Feb. 28 that would give sanitation-industry regulators the power to take on company unions at private commercial-trash haulers.
The words “all rise” end the Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird, and the audience obliges with a rapturous standing ovation. Aaron Sorkin’s magnificent adaptation of Harper Lee’s 1960 novel brings a tour de force to the Shubert Theatre stage, tackling the issue of racial prejudice in 1930s small-town Alabama. It certainly rings true…
Long Island, NY – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo is gaining support on Long Island and across New York State for his Tax Fairness for the Middle Class Campaign. “New York has some of the highest property taxes in the nation and people were being taxed out of their homes until we passed our historic 2 percent…
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Andrew Gillum lost the gubernatorial election in Florida by 32,000 votes last November, but says the lesson of that should be “this idea that you’ve got to run as Republican-lite in a state like mine — I hope we’ve blown it into mythology.”
New York, NY – A new GoFundMe page aimed at aiding Ironworkers who choose to sacrifice a day’s pay rather than cross a union picket line, awarded its first donation to a hardhat outside 50 Hudson Yards on Wednesday morning, February 27, LaborPress has learned.
NEW YORK, N.Y.—“No more suicide, no more bankruptcy,” taxi drivers chanted across the street from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Manhattan offices Feb. 26. Mohammed Mahbub, the driver leading the call-and-response chant, stretched the syllables out into a mournful wail, like a muezzin at a funeral.
New York, NY — Friends of Karen is celebrating 40 years of providing emotional, financial and advocacy support for children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses and their families in order to help keep them stable functioning and able to cope.
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