NEW YORK, N.Y.—A State Supreme Court judge extended an injunction Jan. 17 against the state’s congestion-pricing surcharge on taxis and for-hire vehicles, preventing it from going into effect for another
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—After a strike that lasted six school days, Los Angeles teachers reached a contract deal with the Los Angeles Unified School District Jan. 22.
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Tools and Tiaras’ Web site features a video of girls in a London elementary school drawing firefighters, surgeons, and pilots as almost exclusively male—and then being presented with
NEW YORK, N.Y.—“Amazon must be broken up,” Sharan Burrow, the Australian general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, told a Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union forum on the
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Wind-power farms are emerging as a source of both renewable energy and union construction jobs in New York State. But building-trades locals could miss out on a lot
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to bring the estimated 600,000 New Yorkers without health insurance into the city’s public health-care system has won praise from two unions—one representing
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—More than 30,000 Los Angeles Unified School District teachers and staff went out on strike Jan. 14, demanding smaller classes, more staffing, and limits on privatization and charter
HARRISBURG, Pa.—As the 2019 legislative sessions open, measures to raise the minimum wage have been proposed in eight of the 21 states where it’s been stuck at $7.25 an hour
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The United Teachers Los Angeles union says there was “no movement” in last-minute talks Jan. 7 with the Los Angeles Unified School District. Another session is scheduled for
WASHINGTON—More than 5 million U.S. workers will be getting a raise this January, as minimum-wage increases go into effect in 19 states and at least 21 cities and counties.
