April 13, 2011 By Kismet Barksdale Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Housing Committee Chair Vito Lopez announced the passage of legislation today that would extend and strengthen New York City’s…
…professional faculty in higher education, professionals in education and health care and retirees. The union is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, National Education Association and the AFL-CIO. …
…with them to their new homeland. A former president of the International Labor Communications Association and longtime editor of The Unionist, the publication of AFSCME Local 371 in New York,…
…makes the unemployed toil for public assistance checks. According to the New York Daily News article, the Metropolitan Transit Authority eliminated 173 cleaning positions and wants to replace those folks…
April 11, 2011 By Kathleen Fox Casale, M.S. Ed. “Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever…
…globe. The games are the second largest multi sport event in the world, surpassed only by the summer Olympics. This year the World Police & Fire Games will be held…
April 5, 2011 By Anthony M. Figliola Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today announced an agreement on a 2011 – 2012…
…hell for the living,” said Hilda Solis, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor. Local and national leaders joined workers from New York’s most active public and private sector unions…
…reduce salaries by 15% to bring the economy in line with the real world. They should make sure anyone who is in the country illegally should be remove from…
…the lives of all Americans were made better. Today, those hard fought gains are under threat in communities across the United States by those who seek to go back to…
