…their job security and benefits are on the chopping block. Saber Healthcare Group has already frozen wages at four facilities, SEIU spokesperson Jenn Landolina Wood told the Allentown Morning Call,…
…took Best Leading Actress in a musical and Ari’el Stachel Best Featured Actor. Best Revival of a Play went to Angels in America, playwright two-part, Tony Kushner’s 7½-hour epic about…
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—A City Council committee approved a bill June 6 to levy a 1% tax on new construction in order to fund affordable housing, sending the measure to the full…
NEW YORK, NY – The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment along with the men and woman of the American Federation of Musicians Union, Local 802, and other labor organizations,…
…to join together to negotiate strong contracts. CWA Legislative Director Shane Larson discussed recent legislative victories, including CWA members’ success at preventing anti-worker legislation and advancing bills at the state…
…called herself a “Teddy Roosevelt trustbuster” and promised, as attorney general, to use a 100-year-old measure called the Clayton Act originally enacted in 1914 to confront anti-competitive practices — to…
Unions are under attack as never before. There are now a growing number of anti-union organizations across the country determined to eliminate prevailing rate and dues check-off. These anti-union groups…
…Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia. “We will now restart our outreach and education work to ensure all city businesses are aware of the new rule, and prepared for its upcoming implementation.”…
…is we try to learn from experience and avoid lives catapulted into suffering. Here are the links—let’s all do what we can to resist deadly ignorance. www.propublica.org/article/the-demolition-of-workers-compensation and www.npr.org/2015/03/04/390441655/injured-workers-suffer-as-reforms-limit-workers-compensation-benefits ….
…bill would set nurse-to-patient ratios for hospitals such as 1:2 in intensive-care units and 1:1 in operating rooms, trauma emergency, and the latter stages of childbirth. It passed the Assembly…
