June 17, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Despite a nationwide groundswell of popular and political support for a $15 an hour minimum wage — as well as a report
June 17, 2015 By Neal Tepel, LaborPress Editorial The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is bad for jobs, food safety, financial regulation, labor rights and environment. Labor, community and environmental organizations must
June 17, 2015 By Jack Levine, Canada LaborPress Toronto, Canda – Over 28,000 grocery workers at Canadda Loblaws will be gaining a contract. UFCW Canada local unions 1000A, 175 and
June 17, 2015 By LaborPress Two recent legal decisions have split on the question of whether workers at casinos owned by Indian tribes are protected by federal labor laws. On
June 17, 2015 By LaborPress Last May Day, a laid-off adjunct professor at a community college in the Chicago suburbs sent the faculty and its retiring president a mass e-mail
June 16, 2015 By Marc Bussanich New York, NY—A former aide in the de Blasio administration, Rebecca Lynch, announced today she’s jumping into the City Council race for the 23rd
June 16, 2015 By Andrew Cuomo At this point, both houses of the State Legislature have been unable to come to an agreement to pass new rent regulations. While today
June 16, 2015 By LaborPress A procedural vote in the House June 12 blocked President Barack Obama’s bid to win fast-track authority for the proposed 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
June 16, 2015 By LaborPress Workers from Maine involved in the four-month strike at FairPoint Communications last winter can receive unemployment benefits for the time they were out. The Maine
June 16, 2015 By LaborPress Airlines at Philadelphia International Airport have agreed to pay the city’s $12-an-hour “living wage” to the about 2,000 baggage handlers, skycaps, and aircraft cleaners who
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