March 29, 2011By David Bacon BERKELEY, CA March 22, 2010 A strike of over 450 workers in one of the largest foundries on the west coast brought production to a halt
March 28, 2011Lillian Roberts, Executive Director, District Council 37 Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith’s acknowledgment today is, it’s more cost effective to cut private contractors and give the work to city
March 28, 2011By Billy Easton, Executive Director, Alliance for Quality Education The Governor and Senator Skelos appear to be the partnership that is standing in defense of millionaires and in
March 24 2011By Neal Tepel District Council 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts, head of the city’s largest public employee union, testified March 21, before the joint New York City Council
March 24, 2011 President John Samuelsen of Transport Workers Union Local 100, and Lillian Roberts, Executive Director of District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal
March 18, 2011By Linda Gomez Park Slope Parents, the popular network of Brooklyn parents, joined A Better Balance, Human Rights Watch, and the New York State Paid Leave Coalition on
March 17, 2011 By Bruce VentimigliaThe showdown in Wisconsin, in Ohio and other states seeking to eliminate collective bargaining for public employees is a dagger aimed at the heart of both
March 17, 2011By Neal TepelA report released by the Assembly, verified rent stabilized housing’s critical role in protecting millions of working New Yorkers. The document, The New Housing Emergency, revealed
Reprint March 16, 2011 By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd – March 11, 2011http://www.alternet.org Everybody knows the GOP’s biggest weakness is money, so why not hit ’em in the sweet spot? That’s
March 11, 2011By John T. Ahern, President, New York City Central Labor CouncilComptroller Liu’s initiative goes to the very heart and soul of organized labor in the City of New
