JERSEY CITY, N.J.—Teachers in New Jersey’s second-largest city went on strike Friday, Mar. 16, after months of negotiations failed to yield a deal that would lower their health-care costs.
NEW YORK, N.Y.—The federal government needs to be told “not to forget Puerto Rico,” says SEIU 32BJ member David Soto.
CHARLESTON, W. Va.—Country roads, take me home, to the place where teachers will get a 5% raise this summer.
WASHINGTON—Ronald Reagan was inducted into the U.S. Department of Labor’s Hall of Honor last week. No, this is not The Onion. You are still reading LaborPress. This actually happened.
NEW YORK, N.Y.—The heating problems that plagued New York City’s public housing this winter might have been mitigated if management had listened more to its workers, says an official of
WASHINGTON—Under marble Greek columns and gold-fringed maroon curtains, the Supreme Court heard arguments Feb. 26 on whether government workers who are not union members can be required to pay “agency
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Shaun François, president of District Council 37’s Local 372, wore a black shirt with the slogan, “If You Stay Ready, You Won’t Have to Get Ready” to the
NEW YORK, N.Y.—New York State’s largest union local, 1199SEIU, threw its purple-and-gold hat into the ring for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s re-election Feb. 21.
WASHINGTON—The wee-hours budget deal enacted Feb. 9 to avert another shutdown of the federal government doesn’t include legislation to aid the nation’s endangered multiemployer pension plans. Instead, it will set up
The suicide of longtime black-car driver Doug Schifter on Feb. 5 spotlighted just how badly off many people are in today’s economy.
