…unions can do more. In addition to fighting for better wages, working conditions and promoting national policy that benefit the middle class, they can also bargain for increased worker education…
…cusp of the most progressive government in decades he doesn’t expect there’ll be rest for investigative reporters come January. Watch Video Gonzalez has been a journalist for over 36 years…
…Jackson is blaming it on an effort by some to “raise the Confederacy again.” Watch Video “When we have members who don’t do their jobs, they’re terminated,” Cheryl Jones told LaborPress…
…plan that includes strengthening the borough’s industrial base, growing the tech sector and expanding ferry transportation. Watch Video In an interview with Labor Press, she talked about how the borough…
…all that. Watch Video Numerous major cities across the United States, including Seattle, Washington, Miami, Florida and San Jose, California, have already found that imposing a franchise system on private…
…to everyone that bashes labor.” City Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley of Queens said the honorees “show the true spirit of New York.” Watch Video In the ceremony at EmblemHealth’s offices in…
…National Grid, Long Island’s power company, from moving its customer-service call center from Melville to Brooklyn. On the national level, the federation plans to lobby Long Island’s congressional delegation against…
…Manhattan when voters again go to the polls next month. Watch Video Affordable housing has been an important topic for Councilwoman Brewer and will continue to be as the city’s…
…– was part of a highly-trained safety crew that helped avert disaster at One World Trade Center when a fellow construction worker fell, but was saved thanks to painstaking precautions…
October 4, 2013 By Stephanie West The magazine’s 2013 “Hot List,” out on newsstands this week, features fast-food workers’ nationwide campaign to raise wages. “Something extraordinary happened before Labor Day…
