July 13, 2015 By Pablo Ros Reprinted: http://www.afscme.org/ San Jose, California – AFSCME Strong campaign tactics to energize and mobilize members, Local 101 was able to win 9% wage increases
July 13, 2015 By LaborPress The Service Employees International Union’s efforts to organize America’s fast-food workers are complicated by that the overwhelming majority of them, including more than 700,000 McDonald’s
July 13, 2015 By LaborPress President Barack Obama hopes that his proposed Labor Department regulation expanding the number of workers eligible for overtime will help repair his relations with organized
July 13, 2015 By LaborPress AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has sent a memo telling state and local branches that the “endorsement for president and vice president belongs to the national
July 13, 2015 By LaborPress On July 9, 1966, 35,000 members of the International Association of Machinists (IAM) across the country working at five airlines went on strike. Sixty percent
July 10, 2015 By Bill Hohlfeld On July 1,1892, thanks to the machinations of Andrew Carnegie and Henry J. Frick, a new business entity came into being. It’s formal name
July 10, 2015 By Neal Tepel New York, NY – Former Queens Borough Public Library (QBPL) CEO and President Thomas Galante and other Library executives spent over three hundred thousand dollars
July 9, 2015 By Stephanie West Albany, NY – Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that New York’s Medicaid spending per person dropped to a 13 year low over the past
July 9, 2015 By Jerry Levine, LaborPress Albany Bureau Albany, NY – Comptroller DiNapoli and A.G. Schneiderman have announce charges against a Georgia resident for stealing New York State pension
July 9, 2015 By Bob Smith, Canada LaborPress Toronto, Canada – The president of Toronto's 10,000-strong transit workers union says Vancouver wants to fund a transit system with expensive for-profit
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