Teamsters Hold 20th Health & Benefits Expo
…mix at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ Health & Benefits Expo, held at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Manhattan on Nov. 8. The event, held annually for the last 20…
…mix at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ Health & Benefits Expo, held at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Manhattan on Nov. 8. The event, held annually for the last 20…
…8.5 percent in September, General President of LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America – Terry O’Sullivan issued the following statement: “Today’s jobs report shows the impact of…
…sanitation workers at a graduation ceremony out at the old World War II-era Floyd Bennett Field recently. One of the agents, Angenette Givan, said she was so happy and inspired…
…the last four years have endured ‘third world” conditions, including lack of hot water and non-functional elevators. “There is no reason why these residents should be forced to live under…
November 11, 2013 By Jay Hancock, KHN Staff Writer Reprinted From Kaiser Health News Weeks after denying labor’s request to give union members access to health-law subsidies, the Obama administration…
…took time to praise New York City’s Police Department as the finest in the world but noted that respect must be shown at both sides of the badge. He also took…
…education, and a major rebuke to the privatizers. The Other New Jersey Election: The bad news: Gov. Chris Christie won re-election. But New Jersey voters also backed a minimum wage increase that…
…competitive markets and heterodox economists who maintain that wages are also determined by the power dynamics between workers and management. In the neoclassical model, market clearing wages are achieved when…
November 6, 2013 By Neal Tepel Reuters and The Seattle Times are reporting that the Boeing Co. and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) are in talks…
November 5, 2013 By Neal Tepel Washington, DC – Rhode Island at-home childcare workers have voted to Join the Service Employees International Union. A secret-ballot election was held by the…