…even the owner can’t enter until the dispute is settled. Strikebreaking is prohibited. A new labor law would change most of that. Companies would be able to hire workers in…
Letter to the Editor – Working People Deserve Justice Too! May 31, 2011 Dear Friends In today’s fast paced world, most of us are occupied with working vast hours so…
…Chris Christie’s plan to increase state worker contributions to pensions, traditional political allies are turning on each other. Despite its slight anti-union tone, the New York Daily News covers the…
…while it leads the anti-union bandwagon at home. More news on striking Kaleida Health workers in Buffalo, NY—management is claiming that the three unions representing the 7,700 workers aren’t “cooperating.”…
…year. An editorial in the New York Daily News speculates on the City Council’s role in Friday’s union vote for Target employees. The National Labor Relations Board is taking Boeing…
Reprint May 23, 2011 By Scott Stevens May 12, 2011 UFT/photo by Miller Photography http://www.aft.org/newspubs/news/2011/051211newyork.cfm AFT president Randi Weingarten told a rally of more than 1,000 child care workers and…
May 20, 2011 By Kismet Barksdale If the world doesn’t end this Sunday, people are going to need mass transit. And the MTA is going to need mass transit funding…
By Erica Varlese Two unions are grappling over jobs at a new Qatar Airlines gate at JFK International. The New York Daily News states that poor business practices, not unions,…
May 16, 2011 The following is an excerpt of Mayor Bloomberg’s weekly radio address on 1010 WINS News Radio for Sunday, May 15, 2011 “People used to think that you…
…Oscar winning documentary, “Gasland.” In the movie Fox, a self declared “natural gas drilling detective,” explores hydraulic fracturing, a controversial process of drilling and breaking rock formations to access oil…
