Category: Health and Safety

October 30, 2014 By Joe Maniscalco Brooklyn, NY – As the Big Apple continues to deal with the fallout from its first confirmed case of Ebola, contract negotiations between the city and

October 30, 2014 By Marc Bussanich Brooklyn, NY—In an interview immediately following a rally outside Woodhull Medical Center, the president of the Doctors Council SEIU said that the council has

October 28, 2014 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Two of the most influential labor unions in New York are helping to expand early child care and education to more working

October 27, 2014 Tom Canty, Vice President and General Manager, Empire BlueCross BlueShield Government, Labor and Special Accounts   New York continues to show improvement on a number of health

October 17, 2014 By Joe Maniscalco  New York, NY – Successfully confronting sexual harassment on the job can be daunting enough, but for women working without union representation, the challenge is

October 16, 2014 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Nurses staffing medical centers throughout the state say that some of the hospitals where they work are not doing enough to properly

October 16, 2014 By Stephanie West Washington, DC – Home care workers from coast to coast have  kicked off the Home Care Fight for $15 this past week by confronting

October 14, 2014 By Amanda LoMonaco Teamster Center Services, A Taft-Hartley Trust Fund, was established at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, in 1962. They provide employee assistance and other services

October 14, 2014 By 32BJ SEIU President Héctor Figueroa Reprinted From: http://www.seiu32bj.org Thursday, October 9, may turn out to be a milestone date in our campaign to organize airport workers.  The

October 13, 2014 By Neal Tepel The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a complaint against Alaris Health. The NLRB alleges that the company violated federal labor law during contract