Fatigue and Workplace Injuries
Robert Grey
November 22, 2021
New York, NY – Sleep is a key to good health, but most people don’t get enough of it. Not only is that bad for your general health, lack of
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A Few Words of Thanks This Holiday Season…
Ben Kimmel
November 22, 2021
New York, NY – Since Thursday is Thanksgiving, I wanted to take a personal approach to my column and offer the readers of LaborPress a heartfelt thought to support the
New Union-Busting Tracker Debuts Online
Steve Wishnia
November 18, 2021
Helena, MT.—On Nov. 6, a group of volunteers launched a Web page called the Union-Busting Tracker to post examples of union-busting. Eleven days later, they’d listed 180 separate cases, naming
NYC’s Largest Municipal Union Teams Up with MSK for Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Silver Krieger
November 17, 2021
New York, NY – November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and DC 37, the largest municipal union in New York City, is partnering with MSK Direct, a service of Memorial
Striking Union Coal Miners: Caught Between a [Black]Rock and a Hard Place
Joe Maniscalco
November 15, 2021
New York, NY – Steve Zimmerman, stepped off a chartered bus full of West Virginia coal miners in front of the 59th Street and 5th Avenue entrance to Central Park
How to be a Lifesaver Inside or Outside the Workplace
Ben Kimmel
November 15, 2021
New York, NY – As a columnist, this one is very personal to me. Substance abuse is an uncomfortable topic. But drug overdoses are on the rise. Reports show that
NYC Council Passes Bill to Regulate ‘Body Shops’
Steve Wishnia
November 11, 2021
NEW YORK, N.Y.—The City Council on Nov. 10 overwhelmingly passed a bill to regulate so-called “body shops,” labor brokers who supply low-wage workers to nonunion construction jobs. The vote was
How New York’s Expanded Paid Family Leave Applies to You
Robert Grey
November 9, 2021
New York, NY – Governor Kathy Hochul has signed a bill that expands New York State’s Paid Family Leave legislation to allow caring for siblings. Under the current law, employees
Workers Confronting Seasonal Depression and the Holiday Blues
Ben Kimmel
November 8, 2021
New York, NY – Now that November is underway, the foliage in the Hudson Valley and the tree-lined mountains in the Upstate counties have all taken on a colorful autumnal
U.S. Labor Dept. Awards $1.6M to Combat Opioid Crisis in Connecticut
Ben Kimmel
November 1, 2021
New York, NY – The opiate epidemic is another crisis that will not go away. According to data released by the CDC, overdose deaths reached a record high of 93,331