BUFFALO, N.Y.—Saying that they are at a “breaking point,” nurses and other staff at Catholic Health’s Mercy Hospital announced Sept. 20, that they will go on strike Oct. 1, if
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Teamsters Local 553 has filed additional unfair labor practice charges against United Metro Energy Corp. after it fired another striking worker last week. The union, which has been
NEW YORK, N.Y.—With a 2019 decision by the state Court of Appeals giving home health aides the right to claim full pay for some 24-hour shifts, several home-care agencies have
NEW YORK, N.Y.— New York City’s roughly 65,000 app-based food-delivery workers typically work at least six days a week for well below minimum wage, according to “Essential but Unprotected: New
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Two years ago, ten union leaders at the city’s Labor Day parade identified three main themes for the labor movement: solidarity, turning back attacks on workers, and convincing
ALBANY, N.Y.—Governor Kathy Hochul marked Labor Day by signing four labor-related bills, including an anti-wage-theft measure that building-trades unions had called their top legislative priority this year. The wage-theft law
AUSTIN, Texas—On Sunday, Sept. 5, the mid-afternoon temperature reached 100 degrees in South Austin, on the shadeless concrete sidewalks of South Congress Avenue, outside the Riverside Drive bus as it
WORCESTER, Mass.—Striking nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital here filed unfair labor practice charges Aug. 30 after a deal to end their six-month-old walkout collapsed when the hospital’s owner refused to
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Democratic mayoral nominee Eric Adams joined a few hundred construction workers under the Major Deegan Expressway August 23 for “a rally for good jobs and to prevent violence”
OAKLAND, Calif.— A California judge ruled August 20 that the state ballot initiative that defines app-based taxi and delivery drivers as independent contractors is unconstitutional — but there is likely
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