New York, N.Y.—“For 100 years, we’ve been feeding the tristate area,” Daniel J. Kane Jr., president of Teamsters Local 202 since 1999, told LaborPress in 2016. The 4,500-member union was
New York, NY – Kathleen Culhane, President of Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW), is committed to helping those in need. For the past ten years, she has been working for
New York, NY – As this week’s Blue Collar Buzz episode demonstrated, American workers may continue to be under siege, but when we fight back, we also win. [Listen Here]
New York, NY – On Wednesday, September 8th, the 2017 Building Futures Awards Reception was held at the New York Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, on behalf of the Edward
New York, NY – Now that the New York City Council has finally moved to enhance safety standards following the deaths of nearly 40 mostly non-union construction workers since 2015,
“Two construction workers died today, and another was severely injured. Two different New York Cityconstruction sites saw tragic reminders of this city’s failure to adequately protect workers. These preventable incidents follow more than 30
A $3.2 million Central New York Veterans Outreach Housing Project in Utica is new under construction. Once complete, the project will provide 17 units of supportive housing for homeless veterans.
NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo has stepped into the line of fire in a six month labor dispute between IBEW Local 3 and Charter Communications/Spectrum. The workers, who are members of
Last Thursday I sat having coffee with several other men. Most of them were “boomers” such as myself. All of them were what could be described in today’s parlance as
Atlantic Beach, N.C.—The North Carolina State AFL-CIO unanimously elected MaryBe McMillan president Sept. 15. McMillan, the state federation’s secretary-treasurer since 2005, will be its first woman leader. She succeeds James
