NEW YORK, N.Y.—With plummeting medallion values threatening hundreds of yellow-cab owners with bankruptcy, City Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez is introducing a bill that would let owners operate two taxis off one
New York, N.Y.—Drug costs are the fastest-growing expense for health-benefit plans, says EmpiRx Health senior sales executive Joseph E. Jurewicz—but he believes the pharmacy-benefits manager has developed a unique way
New York, N.Y.—The Affordable Care Act has been “a very large positive” for MedReview, says Spencer Young, its special vice president for operations. President Barack Obama’s health-insurance law, still standing
Washington—The Teamsters and other U.S. unions are sending hundreds of volunteers to Puerto Rico to help with hurricane-relief efforts, but that hasn’t stopped far-right conspiracy-theory sites from claiming that union
New York, N.Y.—“For 100 years, we’ve been feeding the tristate area,” Daniel J. Kane Jr., president of Teamsters Local 202 since 1999, told LaborPress in 2016. The 4,500-member union was
James Conigliaro Jr. is the founder of the Independent Drivers Guild, a nonprofit organization representing app-based drivers and fighting for a fair for-hire vehicle industry. Last year, the IDG became
Washington—The Supreme Court announced Sept. 28 that it would take another crack at ruling that public-sector unions can’t charge nonmembers fees for representing them—and the unions don’t like it one
New York, N.Y.—With Columbia University refusing to bargain with the union they voted for last December, its graduate teaching and research assistants enlisted the support of two local Congressmembers at
Burlington, Vt.—Teachers in Burlington, Vt. went on strike Sept. 14 after a nine-hour negotiating session with the city school board failed to produce a contract agreement. Burlington Education Association President
James Conigliaro Sr., general vice president of the International Association of Machinists’ Eastern Territory has been a member of the union since 1977. The son of a union member, he
