January 12, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – The state’s Wage Board convened this week without issuing an anticipated recommendation on the future of the sub-minimum wage as members
January 9, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Last fall, Jake Lemonda, head of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association [UFOA], urged federal lawmakers to show some backbone and finally
January 8, 2015 By Joe Manisclaco New York, NY – More than a million kids throughout the state presently don't have a safe and engaging place to go after the school
December 29, 2014 By Joe Maniscalco Brooklyn, NY – Whether out on the streets or inside the shop, the bicycle mechanics of TWU Local 100 spend every day of the year
December 22, 2014 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Two years ago, while evacuating more than 50 psychiatric inmates from the top floor of Bellevue Hospital in the aftermath of Hurricane
December 19, 2014 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Organizing is, and always has been, one of the toughest challenges that unions have. But 101-year-old Charles Ponti, Sr, OPEIU Local
December 17, 2014 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – The City of New York’s continued reliance on large-scale housing developers who hire problematic building contractors brought an angry response from organized
December 15, 2014 By Joe Maniscalco Brooklyn, NY – Councilman Brad Lander [D-39th District], may have stood up for low-wage workers fighting for their jobs at a Brooklyn car wash this
December 15, 2014 By Joe Maniscalco Brooklyn NY – Striking “washeros” from the Vegas Auto Spa at 555 Seventh Avenue got a big boost in their ongoing fight with business owner
December 15, 2014 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – If Mayor Bill de Blasio and other supporters of the horse carriage ban in the city council didn’t already get the message
