Meet Edgar Sanchez: LP Outstanding Apprentice of the Year
Silver Krieger
April 4, 2018
Local 14’s Outstanding Apprentice Nominee, Edgar Sanchez, 24, was born in the Bronx and joined the Navy while still a teen.
Category: Building Trades
Mayor Extends City Rent Regulations, Urges Stronger State Laws
Steve Wishnia
March 29, 2018
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Mayor Bill de Blasio signed legislation Mar. 27 that will renew the city’s rent-stabilization and rent-control laws for the next three years.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire is Remembered in Lower Manhattan
Silver Krieger
March 24, 2018
New York, NY – An eerie silence fell over the crowd at Washington Place and Greene Street in New York’s Greenwich Village on the morning of March 23, as the
Slush Can’t Stop Solidarity at Hudson Yards
Steve Wishnia
March 23, 2018
NEW YORK, N.Y.—In the cold hour before dawn on Manhattan’s West Side March 22, the previous day’s snow now slush and ice on the sidewalks, construction workers streamed down 34th
Unfair Trade Hurts American Workers
Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO President
March 22, 2018
Washington, DC – Wall Street’s hair is on fire about steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, because closing mills and factories in the United States and moving
Meet LP Outstanding Apprentice of the Year Matthew Barr
Silver Krieger
March 22, 2018
Local 94, International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE), is proud to name Matthew Barr as their LaborPress Outstanding Apprentice Nominee.
Building Trades Nurture Union Solidarity Outside Hudson Yards
Joe Maniscalco
March 21, 2018
New York, NY – Looking at the gleaming Hudson Yards towers punching holes in the clouds over Manhattan’s West Side at W. 34th St. and 10th Avenue, members of New
Crane Operator In Deadly Crane Crash Insists the Collapse Was Not His Fault
Neil Kalra
March 21, 2018
According to The National Safety Council Machinery accounted for 4,920 nonfatal occupational injuries and 92 fatal injuries in 2014. Many of these injuries and deaths may have been preventable with
Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters Endorses Patrick Burke for NYS Assembly
Stephanie West
March 16, 2018
ALBANY, N.Y. — The Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters (NRCC) has endorsement Erie County Legislator Patrick Burke for New York State Assembly District 142 seat. Burke, a Democrat, is facing
Muzzled Security Guards Defy Elite Bosses; Protest Wage and Benefit Cuts on Sixth Avenue!
Silver Krieger
March 15, 2018
New York, NY – Dozens of members of 32BJ SEIU, the largest property service workers union in the country, held a demonstration outside of 1180 Sixth Avenue in midtown Manhattan