Author: Stephanie

NYS Combats Worker Exploitation

July 20, 2015 By Jerry Cohen, LaborPress Albany Bureau Albany, NY – Building on the Governor’s  initiative to protect workers in the nail salon industry, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has

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IBEW Verizon Employees Consider Strike

July 20, 2015 By Diane Meade Boston, Massachusetts — Leaders of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) System Council T-6 have announced that Verizon employees in Massachusetts and Rhode

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O’Malley: Fix Our Immigration System

July 17, 2015 By John Quinn Baltimore, Maryland  –   On July 14h, Governor O'Malley outlined a progressive plan to fix the immigration system. O'Malley is proposing a series of  executive actions to

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Little Grads, Big Dreams

July 17, 2015 Reprinted: http://www.1199seiu.org/ Bronx, NY – On June 26 the Recreation center in St. James Park in the Bronx, was aglow with pride and big smiles. Four pre-k

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Sidewalk Shed Design Competition

July 16, 2015 By Stephanie West New York, NY – The New York Building Congress has announced it is launching a competition inviting the City’s leading architects, engineers, and construction

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Justice for Immigrant Workers

July 15, 2015 By UFCW Exec VP Esther López New Orleans, Louisiana – In the midst of an ongoing legal battle that has suspended President Obama’s executive actions on immigration,

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