NEW YORK, N.Y.— Like most businesses in travel, airline caterer DO & CO laid off workers when the COVID pandemic hit in early 2020. United Food And Commercial Workers Local
New York, NY – Dissenting teachers challenging the safety of in-person learning during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic remain skeptical about fully returning to the classroom later this fall, despite AFT
New York, NY – A growing number of prosecutors around the nation are beginning to treat wage theft and other offenses by employers as a criminal matter, instead of relegating
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Will the COVID-19 pandemic be the impetus for New York State to enact a law to create a single-payer universal health-care system? The bill, the New York Health
NEW YORK, N.Y.— “To be a good man? Sure, who wouldn’t want to be one?… But circumstances just aren’t so,” Herr Peachum sings in Kurt Weill and Bertholt Brecht’s The
New York, NY – Confronted by vehement call-outs from home care workers and their supporters, the self-avowed progressive organization Chinese-American Planning Council’s (CPC) president Wayne Ho has recently paid lip service
New York, NY – Although COVID-19 infection rates are down, the pandemic’s impact goes far beyond statistics and hospitalizations. Nevertheless, the city is looking to fully reopen in the near
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Pat Kane, executive director of the New York State Nurses Association [NYSNA], laughs when she’s asked if the bill intended to lessen understaffing at hospitals, recently passed by
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Veteran nurse Sybilla Daniel Douglas has one wish for New Yorkers. “I just want everybody to get vaccinated,” she told LaborPress. “Vaccination saves lives. A lot of people
New York, NY – In the summer of 2016, a 30-year-old Bronx construction worker with the temerity to inquire about two weeks of unpaid wages was spat on, struck on
