By Erica Varlese Concrete workers continue to strike after walking off the job yesterday at the World Trade Center construction site. Carpenters also joined the concrete workers in striking. Pharmaceutical…
…kept the sense of family alive and campaigned for support, even traveling to Brynwood’s corporate headquarters for a rally. There was a burst of elation when a federal judge ruled,…
…which produced a dramatic decline in office employment along with a sharp rise in office vacancies and a dearth of financing for office construction. The good news, however, is that…
…and Department Store Union (RWDSU), UFCW The RWDSU, which is affiliated with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), represents more than 100,000 workers in the United States…
…to think long and hard before diverting these dollars,” said Gene Russianoff, staff attorney for the NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign. Transport Workers Union Local 100 President John Samulesen said, “It’s not…
June 24, 2011 Today’s Daily News broke the story of what Local 100 President John Samuelsen called “one of the most horrifying near-misses” he had ever seen – a wheel…
…their strike. The U.S. Department of Labor has stepped in to help retired workers of the, now defunct, J.P. Maguire get their benefits. The New York Daily News covered the…
…Construction on the International Gem Tower may come to a halt today if management and workers from the International Union of Operating Engineers did not come to an agreement last…
By Erica Varlese Sen. Kristin Gillibrand is pushing for legislation to be passed that would help lower the number of unemployed veterans. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 97,…
New York Hotel Workers – We are With You June 14, 2011 Assemblyman Rory Lancman, Chair, Subcommittee on Workplace Safety The recent alleged sexual assaults against hotel housekeepers by International…
