NEW YORK, N.Y.—Building-trades workers protested against one of the city’s main “affordable housing” developers in Staten Island Apr. 26, demanding that it use union labor on a largely publicly financed
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Two days after their strike reached its one-year anniversary, workers at the United Metro Energy Corp. fuel terminal in Brooklyn rallied at City Hall to demand that the
WASHINGTON—“This is nationwide,” says Julie Martinez, a licensed practical nurse in a Buffalo-area nursing home. “There is short-staffing everywhere. They could never pay us as health-care workers what we deserve,
NEW YORK, N.Y.— Graduate student workers at Fordham University in the Bronx have voted overwhelmingly to join the Fordham Graduate Student Workers union. “We did it!” one called out from
NEW YORK, N.Y.—More than 350 graduate-student workers at Fordham University will vote this week on being represented by the Fordham Graduate Student Workers union. The vote will take place Tuesday,
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Amazon workers in Staten Island have voted by a solid margin to join the homegrown Amazon Labor Union [ALU], while in Bessemer, Alabama, the vote was too close
NEW YORK, N.Y.— Airport contract workers rallied at John F. Kennedy international Airport March 30, part of a nationwide campaign to win living wages and the right to form a
NEW YORK, N.Y.—State Attorney General Letitia James joined 1199SEIU March 21 to urge Gov. Kathy Hochul to stop delaying the state’s new minimum staffing standards for nursing homes. “Laws that
NEW YORK, N.Y.— More than 200 home health-care workers, overwhelmingly women, packed a second-floor room at 1199SEIU‘s Seventh Avenue headquarters March 22, for a rally demanding the state raise their
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Fourteen labor unions have signed a letter urging state leaders to enact a bill that would prohibit landlords from evicting tenants without a specific “good cause.” “Too often,
