November 14, 2013 By Joe Maniscalco Brooklyn, NY – Public Advocate-elect Letitia James – one third of the progressive triumvirate assuming the levers of city power following this month’s groundbreaking general
November 12, 2013 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Organized labor on Long Island helped to make this weekend’s 6th Annual Run For The Warriors 5K/10K the most successful event
November 11, 2013 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – A powerful alliance of labor leaders and congressional representatives is spearheading a new effort to shake-up the vital, but problem-plague New
November 1, 2013 By Joe Maniscalco Staten Island, NY – Now that a new Project Labor Agreement (PLA) guaranteeing the redevelopment of the north shore will be 100-percent union is finally being
November 1, 2013 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Michael Bloomberg was booed on the steps of City Hall this week as DC 37 and a broad coalition of
October 31, 2013 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Tired of low wages, paltry hours and unfair favoritism, workers at the lucrative Dylan’s Candy Bar on the Upper East Side
October 29, 2013 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – A new bill slated to improve safety standards in an industry that claimed the lives of 36 construction workers and 13 others
October 25, 2013 By Joe Maniscalco Staten Island, NY – With only a handful of days left before the City Council votes on a $550 million plan to construct the world’s largest
October 23, 2013 By Joe Manisclaco Brooklyn, NY – The directors of the Brooklyn Bridge Park [BBP] are being urged to “change course” this week and adopt a responsible set of development
October 18, 2013 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Nurses defining the true “crisis” in healthcare as short-staffing, dwindling resources and increased privatization, got a boost from mayoral front-runner Bill
