YONKERS, N.Y.—With a one-year pilot program requiring publicly subsidized construction in Yonkers to use union labor about to expire, Westchester County building-trades unions are urging Mayor Mike Spano to extend
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Chanting “No more tax on drivers’ backs,” more than 100 taxi drivers protested outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Manhattan offices Dec. 19, in a last-ditch attempt to stop a
NEW YORK, N.Y.—An overnight strike by Teamsters Local 813 members at a Newark-based private trash collector Dec. 9-10 quickly persuaded the company to abandon its plans to pull out of
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Arlene Sano Henry worked non-union construction jobs for 25 years before she got the opportunity to join Laborers Local 79 last July. She provides “everything bricklayers need”—bricks, cleanup, cement,
DALLAS, Tex.—The Communications Workers of America’s efforts to organize workers in the financial industry helped uncover widespread deceptive practices by the nation’s leading subprime auto-loan lender—while the company was aggressively
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—The largest hotel workers’ strike in U.S. history ended Dec. 3, when UNITE HERE Local 2 members in San Francisco voted almost unanimously to ratify a contract agreement
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Katie Forss has wanted to be a Rockette ever since three sisters from her hometown of Edmonton, Alberta, who had joined the legendary Radio City troupe came to
WASHINGTON—The joint Congressional committee charged with finding a solution for the nation’s endangered multiemployer pension plans failed to make its Nov. 30 deadline for drafting legislation, but its co-chairs say
By Steven Wishnia NEW YORK, N.Y.—Citing Amazon’s long anti-labor record, the union representing New York City’s retail workers has come out strongly against the city and state promising the online-sales
WASHINGTON—Will Democratic gains in the November elections lead to the repeal of so-called “right to work” laws banning the union shop?
