Category: Retail

March 28, 2016 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Last week’s announcement that a New York City sightseeing operation must pay more than $50,000 to a half-dozen pro-union workers

January 20, 2016 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY  – The Brooklyn company that has been churning out sweeteners for roughly the last 75 years, is packing up its manufacturing

November 21, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Three months before Governor Andrew Cuomo took steps to establish a statewide $15 an hour minimum wage, Amalgamated Bank took the

November 12, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco  New York, NY – In the latest taping of LaborPress’ new radio show and podcast on WWRL 1600 AM, hosts Neal Tepel and Bill Hohlfeld

November 11, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco  New York, NY —  This week, home health care aides and other low-wage workers finding it increasingly harder to make ends meet welcomed Governor Cuomo’s

November 3, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Jack-O-Lanterns all around town were still grinning wildly on Monday morning as one of the state’s leading critics of the Fight

November 2, 2015 By Bill Hohlfeld The demise of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) has had a dreadful impact on workers in our tri-state area. While it’s

October 29, 2015 By John Quinn, LaborPress USA Roseville, Calif.– Concluding two years of collective bargaining, members of UFCW 8-Golden State have voted overwhelmingly to ratify new agreements with the

October 26, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco  New York, NY – Despite any number of metrics clearly showing Americans were a heckuva lot more prosperous when labor rolls were more robust than they