By Erica Varlese The AFL-CIO is proposing a plan to help the government fund infrastructure projects through union pensions at the Clinton Global Initiative on Friday. Because unemployment numbers dropped,…
…apartments. The financial secretary for Steelworkers Local 897 in Cheekatowaga, NY admitted yesterday to using union funds for personal use. If workers and management at Nine Mile Point, the nuclear…
By Erica Varlese State workers in Connecticut rejected a deal with Gov. Daniel Malloy that would lead to wage freezes and increased contributions to healthcare, but would have prevented thousands…
…to the plan to increase Yellow Cab presence in the outer boroughs. Tenants testified yesterday before the Rent Guidelines Board to stay the effects of the city’s expired rent laws….
…are going to do,” Trumka said. ” First, we are going to use that voice to end the Scott Walker as a visible political strategy by winning recall elections in…
…are set to vote for union representation next Friday. Yesterday, activists in Times Square protested Hershey’s and called on the company to end its use of child labor in West…
…on the red carpet in support. Gov. Andrew Cuomo is considering some hefty state layoffs 9800, to be exact. Cuomo also announced his new pension plan yesterday. A New York…
…first quarter of 2008 (from 85,600 to 65,800). Another 8,500 building construction jobs have disappeared (from 35,400 to 26,900) over the same period. The heavy construction and civil engineering sector,…
Reprint May 23, 2011 By Scott Stevens May 12, 2011 UFT/photo by Miller Photography http://www.aft.org/newspubs/news/2011/051211newyork.cfm AFT president Randi Weingarten told a rally of more than 1,000 child care workers and…
Reprint May 23, 2011 By David Bacon, May 20, 2011 Truthout http://www.truthout.org/city-worker-bargaining-rights-under-siege-silicon-valley/1305819127 SAN JOSE, CA 5/17/11) Members of the city workers union in San Jose, the capital of California’s Silicon…
