NEW YORK, N.Y.—Will the COVID-19 pandemic be the impetus for New York State to enact a law to create a single-payer universal health-care system? The bill, the New York Health
NEW YORK, N.Y.— “To be a good man? Sure, who wouldn’t want to be one?… But circumstances just aren’t so,” Herr Peachum sings in Kurt Weill and Bertholt Brecht’s The
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Pat Kane, executive director of the New York State Nurses Association [NYSNA], laughs when she’s asked if the bill intended to lessen understaffing at hospitals, recently passed by
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Veteran nurse Sybilla Daniel Douglas has one wish for New Yorkers. “I just want everybody to get vaccinated,” she told LaborPress. “Vaccination saves lives. A lot of people
ALBANY, N.Y.—After more than 20 years of pressure from health-care workers, the state Legislature on May 4 overwhelmingly passed a pair of bills intended to ensure adequate staffing in hospitals
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Well over 100 people rallied in front of Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer’s Manhattan offices on Saturday, May 1, part of a week of more than 700 events
ALBANY, N.Y.—Two bills intended to reduce understaffing in hospitals and nursing homes are nearing a vote in the state Legislature. One of the two measures in the Safe Staffing Act
GAMBIER, Ohio—At least 140 student workers at Kenyon College in Ohio joined a walkout on Apr. 27, the second day of what the Kenyon Student Worker Organizing Committee (K-SWOC/UE) union
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include a statement we received from UMEC owner John Catsimatidis after the original article was published April 28. NEW YORK, N.Y.—After more
DETROIT, Mich.—A coalition of working mothers and restaurant workers are mounting a campaign to get Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to reverse the Republican legislators’ scheme that gutted ballot initiatives
