February 18, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – The community and labor coalition fighting on behalf of unprotected construction workers throughout New York City is hoping that a powerful
February 18, 2015 By Marc Bussanich New York, NY—The Teamsters Joint Council 16, along with environmental and community-based groups, rallied at City Hall last week to provide support for Councilmember
February 12, 2015 By Bill Hohlfeld On Wednesday, February 4th, the Business and Labor Coalition of New York, (BALCONY) lived up to its name when it did an extraordinary job
February 11, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – The chair of the City Council’s Civil Service and Labor Committee is calling for a sit-down between developers, stakeholders and the
February 6, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Construction workers took to the streets of East New York this week to protest the proliferation of junk jobs associated with Mayor
February 5, 2015 By Marc Bussanich Queens, NY—That’s what the president of an insulator local in Long Island City said in a video interview as the insulators with the Heat
February 2, 2015 By Sean McGarvey, President of the North America's Building Trades Unions Washington, DC — The United States Senate gave further hope to thousands of skilled craft professionals
January 26, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Organized labor is still struggling to make a comeback in the United States, according a newly issued report from the Bureau of
January 21, 2015 By Neal Tepel, LaborPress Publisher Washington, DC — LeDaya Epps, one of First Lady Michelle Obama's guests at last night's State of the Union address, was given
January 20, 2015 By Sherrod Brown Cleveland, OH—The infrastructure that helped create America’s middle class is crumbling, while Republicans continue to block funding for high speed rail. Here in Ohio,
