…the burden while Wall Street continues to receive breaks. Wall Street is breaking the backs of working men and women all over this state.” DC 1707 members started their…
…Quinnipiac poll explained that the African-American and Latino communities were broadly opposed to these policies. I quoted this poll’s findings to the Commissioner to demonstrate that black and brown communities…
March 17, 2012 “I am pleased to hear that representatives at the Hunts Point Produce Market have heard my office’s plea to revoke their recent rule requiring merchants and those…
March 15, 2012 By Ray Parker, Staff Writer While taking pains to emphasize his friendly comradeship with American unionists, RMT General Secretary Bob Crow, speaking a a left labor forum…
…the average holding period for institutional investors in stocks was eight years; by 2010, it was six months. But he’s encouraged by how pension funds are starting to think of…
March 13, 2012 By Ray Parker, Staff Writer An online petition generated by the labor-friendly Working Families Party is gaining some traction in the effort to persuade the often tin-eared…
…many, with the most unreasonable being: 1. Subsidized child care is anathema to his beliefs that all child care should be run by corporations for profit at market…
…their – and the City’s – health care costs in the long run. “Speaker Quinn recognizes the importance of comprehensive, affordable, and high-quality healthcare solutions that focus on primary…
…without depending on government handouts. The Republicans Offer a Dream World They Cannot Deliver While some of the Republican proposals for a smaller government appear enticing, but utopian, there is…
…base employee contributions and pay even more if the stock market declines – all to get less in their pension.” The truth is, tier VI – coming just two years…
