NEW YORK, N.Y.—Barrie Smith, president of 100 Black Construction Workers, stands on a South Bronx street corner with the group’s political-action director, Anthony Williamson, below the unfinished towers of Brookfield
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Sporting sparkly party hats and lifting empty plastic champagne glasses, about 50 retired city workers gathered on the stone steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall Dec. 21 to wish
WORCESTER, Mass.—Nurses at St. Vincent Hospital have reached a tentative contract agreement that would end their nine-and-a-half-month strike, the Massachusetts Nurses Association [MNA] announced Dec. 17. The proposed contract would
WASHINGTON—The nine-month-old strike at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama happened “because of the conditions that private equity created,” AFLCIO president Liz Shuler said at an online press conference Dec.
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Four building-trades unions have backed Queens City Councilmember Francisco Moya’s bid to become the Council’s next Speaker, during a week of jockeying for position among the seven candidates
NEW YORK, N.Y.—More than 100 striking graduate student workers and supporters circled through the gates of Columbia University at West 116th St. and Broadway on December 8, chanting, “Picket line
New York, NY – The miners killed at Monongah and the other disasters of the early 20th century were collateral casualties of in the United States’ massive and rapid industrialization
New York, NY – The worst workplace disaster in American history took place 114 years ago, on Dec. 6, 1907. A coal-dust explosion at the Monongah Nos. 6 & 8
SCRANTON, Pa.—Members of the Scranton Federation of Teachers approved a six-year contract agreement on Nov. 23, ending a strike that began Nov. 3. The union described the vote as “overwhelming.”
NEW YORK, N.Y.—The City Council overwhelmingly passed a bill Nov. 23 to require restaurants and shops in future city-aided developments to sign “labor-peace agreements” with unions seeking to represent their
