Met Opera Stagehands Reach Tentative Deal to End Lockout
…lighting, sound, props, and building sets, were planning to begin returning to work July 7. The ratification vote is scheduled for July 18. The union will not release specific details…
…lighting, sound, props, and building sets, were planning to begin returning to work July 7. The ratification vote is scheduled for July 18. The union will not release specific details…
…Retirees says, is that they also typically have higher copayments, require referrals and pre-approvals for many medical procedures, and have a narrow network, in which patients have to pay drastically…
Editor’s Note: Joseph A. Geiger is Executive-Secretary Treasurer of the New York City and Vicinity District Council of Carpenters New York, NY – On February 9, 2021, we launched Carpenters…
…accidents that happen on or after July 1, 2021. The current maximum benefit rate (for accidents after July 1, 2020) is $966.78 per week, and in the year before that…
…Legislature in its just concluded 2021 session, finally confers First Responder status to 911 dispatchers in New York City, who are Local 1549 members, as well as others throughout the…
New York, NY – The July 29, 2021 final deadline for the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund applies to claims by two primary groups of claimants — all those who passed…
…the city have been killed and 1,029 injured in falls, “all of which were entirely preventable.” Overall, according to the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health’s 2021 “Deadly…
The six bills before the New York City Council also include a measure that would set minimum per-trip payments for the “deliveristas,” the heavily immigrant workers who deliver food for…
Unionized construction workers carry symbolic coffins to protest the deaths in NYC’s construction industry. New York, NY – On Saturday, May 22, 2021, construction worker Diego Lliguicota was tragically killed…