…Warehouse Union announced Aug. 29 that it was breaking off from the AFL-CIO. The biggest reason was the West Coast-based union’s jurisdictional disputes with other AFL-CIO unions over handling grain…
…wage and overtime. Non-Union W. Va. Construction Fined for Breaking Safety Rules The Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined a subcontractor building a Marriott hotel in Charleston, W. Va….
…make $14 an hour and have no pension or health benefits. The strikers are represented by the Industrial Workers of the World, and being helped by the cross-union group Railroad…
…the way into the 21st Century economy. Bill Rudin is Chairman of the Association for a Better New York and Vice-Chairman and CEO of Rudin Management Company (http://abny.org/Content/News). …
…from seven to five was welcome news to the American Federation of Government Employees. Upon hearing the news, the American Federation of Government Employees National President J. David Cox Sr….
…attendees were asked to opt in by texting “LICH” to a certain phone number. Later the union could instantly reach these people with texts such as: “BREAKING: City Council to…
…which 5,599 were children. News that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene wants to shut down walk-in immunization clinics in Queens and the Bronx right before the start of…
…America’s economy—and the economies of most of the world—is based on the contemptuous use of the work of many people to make profit for a few. I’ve also learned that…
…the Cold War. A resurgent Russia, led by a former wrestler and KGB-operative, flexed its muscles and decided to give Edward Snowden a one-year asylum. So Russia now supports transparency?…
…was to protect civil liberties during the ferocious period of government repression during and immediately after the First World War. Baldwin, imprisoned for exercising his First Amendment right in opposition…
