…dancing in the streets when they give us a $50 lump sum. But we have news for [the New School’s] President Van Zandt, we’re smarter than that. We don’t want…
…United Teachers President Karen Magee said March 16. Standardized tests can be useful, Magee told the Westchester Journal-News editorial board, but as diagnostic tools that show teachers what their current…
…safety and staffing.” The unfair-labor-practice strike, the largest in the industry since 1980, began Feb. 1 at nine refineries and spread to more than 6,500 of the 30,000 oil workers…
…10 times as much money and is leading in the polls. But SEIU Local 1 spokesperson Jerry Morrison was optimistic, saying, “we usually play to win in politics.” Read more…
…backer Joel Greenblatt. Greenblatt is a cofounder of the Success Academy charter chain run by Eva Moskowitz, who has frequently butted heads with both the United Federation of Teachers and…
…and in 2013, insurers had their most profitable year in over a decade. “They call them reforms,” says Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.). “That’s a real insult to workers.” Read more…
…$7.50 an hour to $8, but its opponents saw the anti-union provisions as a poison pill. New Mexico has relatively low union membership, about 5.7% of the workforce. Read more…
…a long time.” He still gets accosted by people complaining about the AFL-CIO’s support for President Bill Clinton after the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, he added. Read more…
…they are being forced to provide their services for nothing. The Indiana Supreme Court rejected a similar suit last November, but one in Michigan is still pending. Read more …
…enjoy a staff of 10, and count international news organization Al-Jazeera as their biggest client. “There is an old guard of the labor movement that hears worker coops and are…
