March 21, 2014 By John Zogby I am reading and watching a lot of the same crap as everyone else about the November 2014 elections. There is a growing consensus…
March 10, 2014 By Joe Maniscalco Susan Kent. Brooklyn, NY – On Sunday, March 9, union heads representing thousands of workers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center helped kick off a three-day…
February 24, 2014 By Joe Maniscalco Mayor Bill de Blasio. New York, NY – Although the “historic” new plan to save Long Island College Hospital from dissolution offers employees at the…
February 12, 2014 By Joe Maniscalco The NYC Council is answering back at Albany. New York, NY – On Tuesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s allies in the New York City…
January 28, 2014 By Stephanie West Governor Cuomo, New York City Mayor de Blasio and State legislators are demanding that the federal government approve New York State’s $10 billion Medicaid…
…and our own members’ jobs. This is a plan that provides a longterm solution.” “The Brooklyn Hospitals Safety Net Plan” envisions a network of satellite ambulatory care centers running round-the-clock…
January 22, 2014 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Don’t put away your wallet just yet, Andrew. LICH RN Linda O’Neil calls hospital closings Now that Governor Cuomo wants…
December 11, 2013 New York, N.Y. – City Comptroller John C. Liu made the following statement in response to questions about his vote against $42 million in tax breaks and other…
November 15, 2013 By Joe Maniscalco Demonstrators protest outside 250 B’way. New York, NY – Demonstrators, some of them residents living and working at NYCHA developments citywide, descended on the agency’s…
October 2, 2013 By UAW President Bob King Bob King Washington, DC – Today is a sad day for working Americans and our democracy. Tea Party Republicans continued their extremist…
