By Erica Varlese
Verizon is threatening workers with suspending their health-care if they don’t return to work by the end of the month.
$86 million was paid in overtime last year to Port Authority employees.
Cuts to the health-care industry may have an overall negative effect on economic recovery.
Queens politicians are throwing their weight behind the Urban Jobs Act 2011, a bill that will help provide job opportunities to at-risk youth.
In Cheektowaga, NY, 98 percent of American Axle workers voted to reject their contract.
President Barack Obama is working on his Labor Day address to speak to a special Congressional committee about job creation.