…cab drivers say that city streets have become too congested, and that there aren’t enough fares to go around anymore. “When Uber came on, it started off as supplemental income…
July 21, 2015 By Jim Smith, LaborPress Canada Toronto, Canada – UFCW Canada Local 102 members working at Toula Restaurant in Toronto have achieved their first collective agreement. Toula Restaurant…
…this vexing problem. If enacted, the measures below would net the pension system up to $1.6 billion a year without costing 99 percent of New Jersey residents a dime. –…
…flat open fields or expansive urban rooftops. But that’s only part of the picture. For a more comprehensive understanding about the real potential for solar energy, you have to go ask…
July 13, 2015 By Bob Smith, LaborPress Canada Toronto, Canada – After four days of voting across the province, members of UFCW Canada Local 1000A voted to ratify an amended…
July 9, 2015 By Bob Smith, Canada LaborPress Toronto, Canada – The president of Toronto’s 10,000-strong transit workers union says Vancouver wants to fund a transit system with expensive for-profit…
…families. “While this proposal will not solve our pension crisis, we have to do whatever we can – even if it’s a little bit here, a little bit there –…
…when fully renovated will offer labor not only a new outpost in northeast Queens but enable the local to better serve members who work in or from depots in Flushing,…
June 17, 2015 By Jack Levine, Canada LaborPress Toronto, Canda – Over 28,000 grocery workers at Canadda Loblaws will be gaining a contract. UFCW Canada local unions 1000A, 175 and…
…happen, then kill it. Kill it all together.” The administration’s insistence on excluding construction workers from prevailing wage language — while extending it to maintenance workers — has frustrated New…
