March 17, 2012 “I am pleased to hear that representatives at the Hunts Point Produce Market have heard my office’s plea to revoke their recent rule requiring merchants and those…
March 15, 2012 By Ray Parker, Staff Writer While taking pains to emphasize his friendly comradeship with American unionists, RMT General Secretary Bob Crow, speaking a a left labor forum…
March 13, 2012 By Ray Parker, Staff Writer An online petition generated by the labor-friendly Working Families Party is gaining some traction in the effort to persuade the often tin-eared…
…car wash owners see their employees as powerless in part because of their immigration status. “The majority of the workers are Latino who speak very little or no English.” But…
…many, with the most unreasonable being: 1. Subsidized child care is anathema to his beliefs that all child care should be run by corporations for profit at market…
…0.03 percent [FTT] on the trading of stocks, futures, bonds and credit default swaps.” Although the Harkin and DeFazio tax would have a “minimal effect on individual 401(k) or mutual…
…base employee contributions and pay even more if the stock market declines – all to get less in their pension.” The truth is, tier VI – coming just two years…
…and Human Resources produced a report showing how the reforms enacted will save Americans enrolled in traditional Medicare about $3,500 over the next 10 years. But Local One of the…
…Youngblood of Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church. “American workers have only one way of garnering power, and that’s to act together.” Contracts covering some 9,000 of these officers are set to…
…health benefits plans. This disturbing news comes from consultants at McKinsey and Co., which estimates that a third to half of employers are considering dropping health benefits for their employees…
