New York, NY – Eight city taxi drivers launched a hunger strike Oct. 20, demanding that Mayor Bill de Blasio add loan guarantees to the city’s revised budget, due Oct.
WASHINGTON—Latina workers with full-time jobs last year earned only 57-cents for every dollar made by non-Hispanic white men, the Economic Policy Institute [EPI] said in a brief report released for
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Workers on strike at the United Metro Energy Corporation fuel terminal in Brooklyn marked the six-month anniversary of their walkout October 19, with a rally outside the
WORCESTER, Mass.—The Massachusetts Nurses Association [MNA] has filed a federal unfair-labor-practices complaint against Saint Vincent Hospital here, after management attempted to quash the 7½-month-old strike by imposing a contract in
BUFFALO, N.Y.—New York State Attorney General Letitia James last week stepped into the strike over understaffing at Buffalo’s Mercy Hospital, issuing a cease-and-desist order to the company the Catholic
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The International Association of Theatrical and Stage Employees has set just after midnight California time on Monday, October 18 as the deadline for 60,000 film and television workers
NEW YORK, N.Y.—State Senator Jessica Ramos and City Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez are backing the New York Taxi Workers Alliance’s debt-relief plan, saying it will help drivers more and be more
Brookwood, Ala.—The strike by 1,000 miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama will reach the six-month mark on Oct. 1, but the company’s management is showing no signs of
NEW YORK, N.Y.—The city’s program to help taxi owner-drivers overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of dollars in debts is grossly inadequate, more than 10 drivers unanimously testified at an online
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Members of Laborers Local 1010 and supporters rallied outside the gates of City Hall Sept. 23, to call on Mayor de Blasio and the City Council to pass
