October 17, 2014 By Marc Bussanich New York, NY—The building trades were out in force outside City Hall on Wednesday afternoon because they want the City Council to deny a
October 17, 2014 By Oren M. Levin-Waldman The standard minimum wage model that predicts that increases in the minimum wage will result in lower employment rests on the assumption that
October 16, 2014 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Nurses staffing medical centers throughout the state say that some of the hospitals where they work are not doing enough to properly
October 16, 2014 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Activists pushing legislators to scrap the sub-minimum wage for restaurant workers this week are predicting that the Empire State will soon
October 15, 2014 By Stephanie West Skanska has signed a contract with the New York Hotel Trades Council and Hotel Association of New York City, Inc. to build its new
October 16, 2014 By Mike Hall Reprinted: http://www.aflcio.org Washington DC – The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked Wisconsin from implementing the nation’s strictest voter photo ID law that could have
October 16, 2014 By NJ AFL-CIO President Charles Wowkanech How could billionaire businessman Carl Icahn look himself in the mirror after proposing to end paid lunch breaks for casino workers
October 16, 2014 By Stephanie West Washington, DC – Home care workers from coast to coast have kicked off the Home Care Fight for $15 this past week by confronting
