January 22, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – There’s a yawning chasm between the worker-based drive for a $15 an hour minimum wage and the tiny bump in pay
January 22, 2015 By Marc Bussanich New York, NY—The Teamsters’ national president James Hoffa traveled to New York last week in under three hours via the Amtrak Acela high-speed train
January 22, 2015 By John Zogby Washington, DC—The battle for the presidential elections in 2016 has begun. A President who has taken credit for extricating the U.S. from two major
January 22, 2015 By Richard L. Trumka, AFL-CIO President Washington, DC – President Obama eloquently and forcefully advocated for working families throughout his State of the Union Address. The President’s
January 22, 2015 By Oren M. Levin-Waldman, Ph.D. It has become a staple of the neoclassical economics model that when productivity increases, then so too will wages. Why is this?
January 22, 2014 Neal Tepel Bronx, NY – Workers at Hunts Point Market voted on January 21st to approve a three year contract with 97% of workers voting "yes." The 1,300
