NEW YORK, N.Y.—More than 200 airport workers rallied at John F. Kennedy airport April 21, protesting their employers’ refusal to include mandated health-care coverage in the contract now being negotiated.
AUSTIN, Texas—Last month, Georgia enacted a law making it illegal to give people waiting on line to vote anything to drink. Last week, the Texas state Senate approved a bill
ALBANY, N.Y.—Three bills to strengthen New York’s wage-theft laws are now pending in the state Legislature. The first, which the Assembly passed by a 123-27 vote on Jan. 26, would
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, almost 5,000 of the Amalgamated Transit Union 200,000 members have been infected, more than 15,000 laid off, and at least 148 died, says
BESSEMER, Ala.—After an overwhelming defeat in the election at the Amazon warehouse here, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union [RWDSU] announced it would file unfair labor-practice charges with the
NEW YORK, N.Y.—The Manhattan doorman and concierge fired Apr. 6, after an Asian-American woman was brutally attacked on the sidewalk outside their building have filed grievances contesting their termination, the
ALBANY, N.Y.—New York State’s new law legalizing the cultivation and sale of marijuana to adults contains some of the nation’s strongest protections for organized labor in the industry, including a
NEW YORK, N.Y.—In May 2018, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced the indictment of Parkside Construction, a concrete contractor that had worked on several extremely expensive Manhattan apartment buildings
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Diana Florence, one of the eight candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for Manhattan District Attorney in the June 22 primary, is pledging to make prosecuting wage theft a
New York, NY – A common thread in numerous articles I’ve written recently has been employers that are making large to ludicrous amounts of money while weaseling out of paying
