…4% immediately, another 3.5% in 2019 and 2020, and 3% in 2021, Mark Lash, president of Local 1066 in Gary, Indiana, told the Chicago Tribune. Workers would also get a…
…rains.” #CountMeIn yrade unionists fighting for middle class wages and benefits assembly between 49th and 50 streets on 6th Avenue. That, he said, was a metaphor for the strategy of…
…“resoundingly ratified” after more than a year of “challenging negotiations,” and that it “provides family-sustaining wages and continued access to affordable health care for AFSCME-represented city workers.” The deal still…
…2019 and again in 2021, and another round of budget reductions, the MTA projects operating budget gaps that total $262 million in 2020, $424 million in 2021 and $634 million…
New York, NY – Sixty-eight newly-minted Traffic Enforcement Agents graduated on Tuesday, October 9th, in a ceremony held at 1 Police Plaza in downtown Manhattan. Welcome to the NYPD family,…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—The ballot initiative to raise Arkansas’ minimum wage from $8.50 an hour to $11 by 2021 overcame one hurdle Sept. 24, when a magistrate ruled that petitioners for…
…annually. Most workers in other parts of New York State and those employed at smaller businesses won’t catch sight of a $15 an hour minimum wage until 2021. And tipped…
…2021. “With this first-time series, we’re stepping up the City’s already aggressive efforts to increasingly provide opportunity to M/WBEs,” said Phil Thompson, NYC Deputy Mayor for Strategic Policy Initiatives. “Mayor…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Missouri may be the only state where voters will have a chance to raise the minimum wage this year, as a Michigan ballot initiative got pre-empted by the…
…it.” Carolyn Happy and her family moved into nearby Battery Park City in 2006. She says that for her and her neighbors the re-development of the site is a bit…
