NEW YORK, N.Y.—You take a six-dollar pay cut and what do you get? Five years older and no respect for the sacrifices you made to get your employer out of
WASHINGTON—A coalition of Congressmembers, labor unions, and rail-related businesses is urging Congress to appropriate $205 billion to develop high-speed rail routes around the country, far more than included in pending
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Two weeks after the Legislature passed a bill intended to curb wage theft, about 200 building-trades workers and supporters rallied outside a Manhattan construction project to protest its
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Spurred by the deaths of three construction workers within eight days in May, the city Department of Buildings has begun “zero-tolerance sweeps” of the city’s larger construction sites.
NEW YORK, N.Y.— Arrayed behind a phalanx of red, blue, and purple electric bicycles, several dozen workers for app-based food-delivery companies and supporters rallied in City Hall Park June 8,
CONCORD, N.H.—“Right to work for less” legislation will not gain its first beachhead in the Northeast. On June 3, the New Hampshire House of Representatives rejected Senate Bill 61, which
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Wage theft and safety are the biggest issues facing New York construction workers, says Gary LaBarbera, head of the state’s building-trades unions. “We’ve been making it clear across
ALBANY, N.Y.—Both houses of the New York State Legislature have passed a bill that would hold general contractors on private construction jobs jointly responsible for wage-theft violations committed by subcontractors
NEW YORK, N.Y.— Like most businesses in travel, airline caterer DO & CO laid off workers when the COVID pandemic hit in early 2020. United Food And Commercial Workers Local
New York, NY – A growing number of prosecutors around the nation are beginning to treat wage theft and other offenses by employers as a criminal matter, instead of relegating
