…by carwash workers, among others. We recognize, however, that right-wing billionaires’ extremist politics, a rapacious Wall Street and insufficient advocacy from political leaders thwarted further progress. In the State of…
…tested, they are all prominent and none of them even hits 40% — a very bad sign for a national party. But essentially, Clinton simply running against herself is not…
…organized labor is North Carolina, where the percentage of wage and salary workers belonging to unions sadly hovers around two percent. The news coming out of New Jersey was more…
…last day as he stood with striking sanitation workers in Memphis, urging them to “rise up with a greater readiness”, to “stand with a greater determination” and “to make America…
…LaGuardia a “Third-World” Airport, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday that New York would be committing resources to wrest LaGuardia from “Third-World” status to prominent “First-World” status. The governor spoke…
…With inflation, Martin Luther King’s fight for $2 an hour in 1963, is the fight for $15 today. So, we will keep organizing and raising the pressure.” Others have been…
…to make it in time to swear in Local 237’s incumbent president, Greg Floyd, to another five year term. In the accompanying video, we interviewed Mr. Floyd at Local 237’s…
…focus on raising wages through collective bargaining, better paying jobs, a fairer tax code, fair overtime rules, and expanded access to education and earned leave sent the right message at…
…distribution. The second message, of course, is that the model, like so many other theoretical constructs cannot be applied in the real world because there are so many extraneous variables…
…the urgency has only increased following Hurricane Sandy. The market is located on an East River peninsula. Hunts Point Market is the largest produce market in the world, serving most…
