WASHINGTON—Scabby the Rat is protected by the First Amendment even when directed at a neutral party, the National Labor Relations Board ruled July 21. In a 3-1 vote, the NLRB
WASHINGTON—Trying to sidestep an almost certain filibuster of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act by Senate Republicans, Congressional Democrats plan to include one provision of it in a forthcoming
WORCESTER, Mass.—Nurses at a Massachusetts hospital have been on strike for more than four months in a battle over safe staffing with Tenet Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest and
WASHINGTON—The average ratio of CEO compensation to their workers’ median pay increased to 299 to 1 at S&P 500 companies in 2020, up from 264:1 in 2019, according to the
NEW YORK, N.Y.—With the Municipal Labor Committee scheduled to vote July 14, on a proposal to switch retired city workers’ health care from traditional Medicare to a private Medicare Advantage
JERSEY CITY, N.J.—When Superstorm Sandy hit New York and New Jersey in September 2012, the PATH train system’s maintenance crews who worked around the clock to repair the flooded tunnels
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Stagehands at the Metropolitan Opera have reached a tentative contract agreement to end a seven-month lockout, their union announced July 6. The Met’s stage and shop crew
NEW YORK, N.Y. — More than 200 retired city workers and supporters marched through lower Manhattan June 30, protesting a possible deal to switch their health-care coverage from traditional Medicare
NEW YORK, N.Y.— This month, city inspectors halted work on more than 300 construction sites in a “zero tolerance” campaign begun after three construction workers fell to their deaths during
WASHINGTON—President Joseph Biden announced June 22 that he has nominated David M. Prouty, general counsel for the SEIU 32BJ union, to fill a soon-vacant seat on the National Labor Relations
