The Daily Read – July 19, 2011
…its bylaws to make it easier for union members to approve a concession agreement. The union for employees of the New York City Opera has asked the State Attorney General…
…its bylaws to make it easier for union members to approve a concession agreement. The union for employees of the New York City Opera has asked the State Attorney General…
…trade Unionist Sweeney, who’s an official with the Iron-workers. Earlier in Trenton the new social order was on full display with organized labor left to yell from the sidelines. Four…
…Parsippany, NJ, 500 State Farm employees are facing layoffs. The United States Postal Service is planning to shut down 3,700 postal offices across the country, and 34 in New York….
June 17, 2011 By Zach Campbell New York’s Local 375, a union representing some of New York’s engineers, architects, city planners and other technical positions, held a press conference and…
…there to stop these service cuts and layoffs.” George Gresham, President, 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, said: “Working New Yorkers from across the city came together today to tell…
…ranks of WalMart as one of the next “targets” for New York labor unions. The New York Times has an in-depth article on the labor disputes faced again and again…
…Associate Director Oliver Gray, Treasurer Maf Misbah Uddin, and Executive Director Lillian Roberts, slammed the Mayor for hiring “contractors making two and three times what you are making,” and for…
…New York City are too heavy. One in five kindergarten children is obese. This has to stop. With overweight kids, it’s not just that they’re more likely to be taunted…
…get.” “Many of our workers at Macy’s are barely surviving in New York City and the surrounding metro area because they are just not earning enough. It is offensive for…
…by the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, a member of AFL-CIO, which represents nearly thirty thousand hotel and motel workers in New York state. (Here is a link…