NJ Unions Hit the Bricks for Hazard Pay
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in NJ Insider. New Jersey – On the same day that dozens of unionized essential workers were lobbying in Trenton to convince the powers…
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in NJ Insider. New Jersey – On the same day that dozens of unionized essential workers were lobbying in Trenton to convince the powers…
…Metro’s Brooklyn terminal who went on strike in April 2021 after more than two years of trying to win their first union contract. Eight strikers were fired, or “permanently replaced.”…
…— have been working under an expired contract since May 2021, and negotiations with the city have not yet started. Money is a big issue. “We’re not getting the raises…
…In a July 2021 interview, FDNY EMS Captain John Burke, who covers the part of Queens where Elmhurst is located, said “right around the corner in that neighborhood alone we lost…
…pay in 2021, opting to spend billions in stock buybacks resulting in the already massive CEO-worker pay gap to grow even wider. The biggest buyback firm paying low wages was…
…from the multibillion dollar fast food giant that paid it’s CEO Brian Nicol $38 million in 2021, or 2,898 times the median pay of a store-level Chipotle employee, according to…
…said Lai Yee Chen, an attendant for eight years. “It’s the same old sweatshop labor that we’ve been trying to stamp out for generations,” Councilmember Shaun Abreu (D-Manhattan), one of…
…in the Bronx.” Alvarez has been a Bus Operator since August of 2021, but has already had her own terrible experience on the job. It happened this past February while…
…facilities in New York are really low. Dangerously low.” In the third quarter of 2021, according to figures from the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, New York ranked…
…Woman have supported legislation to end 24-hour shifts, but it has had little success in Albany. Bills introduced in 2019 and 2021 by Assemblymember Epstein and state Senator Roxanne Persaud…