…Kickstarter United (KSRU), the first union in the U.S. to win wall-to-wall recognition at a tech company, voted overwhelmingly this week to ratify their first collective bargaining agreement with their…
…had just voted overwhelmingly to authorize a July 1 strike. Janet Booker, security guard and 32BJ SEIU member delivers the NJ AFL-CIO letter calling on the state to pay $100…
…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.”…
…several hundred city workers at a rally in Foley Square June 16, before leading a chant of “show me the money.” DC 37 members rally for livable wages and benefits…
…EMS does especially in New York at the height of the pandemic when EMS was the only resource that a lot of people had for medical care with the hospitals…
…press conference. The march organizers estimate that nationally there are 140 million poor and low-wealth people, including close to half of all of the nation’s children. SEIU International President Mary…
…country and for the nearly 4,000 employees in our 129 restaurants in the NYC area, the average hourly wage rose 11% to $17.37 per hour, the average hourly manager wages…
…emergencies. “This is long overdue. No one should be working 24-hour shifts,” he told LaborPress May 31, just before a rally near City Hall organized by the Ain’t I A…
…Alvarez he wanted to get off, but she was stopped at a light and had to wait until it was safe. The man eventually exited the bus only only to…
…work overtime and do weekend shifts, which are perennially hard to fill. It’s a hard job physically and emotionally, Short adds, but some employers are “actively working with the union…
