NEWARK, N.J.—Barely 24 hours after they voted to authorize a strike, New Jersey building-service workers reached a tentative contract agreement with a group of office-cleaning contractors. The four-year deal, announced
NEWARK, N.J.—New Jersey members of 32BJ SEIU voted Dec. 17 to authorize a strike if they can’t reach a contract with office-cleaning contractors by Dec. 31, when their current agreement
WASHINGTON—Two National Labor Relations Board actions in the past week will further undo Obama-era efforts to enable union organizing. On Dec. 12, the board voted 2-1 to order an administrative
NEW YORK, N.Y.—With speeches and chants in English, Spanish, and Chinese, about 100 home health-care workers and supporters rallied in front of the First Chinese Presbyterian home-care agency’s Lower Manhattan
NEW YORK, N.Y. – More than three years after workers at a small Bronx nursing home voted to join 1199SEIU, they’re still trying to win their first contract agreement with
WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO’s pension panel has roundly condemned proposals made by two leading Senate Republicans to shore up the nation’s endangered multiemployer pension funds that would cut benefits by up to
NEW YORK, N.Y.—More than 1,000 UNITE HERE members and supporters jammed a traffic island at John F. Kennedy International Airport Nov. 26, loudly chanting that American Airlines’ food contractors should
NEW YORK, N.Y.—In what organizers called “a major moment of escalation,” workers at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse and shipping center on Staten Island on Nov. 25 delivered a petition to management
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Chanting “No mas robo de salarios,” more than 200 people rallied outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Manhattan office Nov. 20 to protest his failure to sign a bill that
NEW YORK, N.Y.—“You’re standing in the space I built,” says Robin Sokoloff, who runs Town Stages, an arts and events space in Tribeca that hosted an open house for the
