…populations, however, many workers across the industry are actually undertaking 24-hour live-in shifts to support patients. Yet, home care agencies cannot compensate their workers adequately under current Medicaid rules. This…
…that turned out for pickets and protests, the unions couldn’t legally shut the job down. In July 2018, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Steamfitters Local 638 had violated…
…legislative and political director of communications for the American Postal Workers Union’s New York Metro Area.New York, NY – From COVID-19 to Postmaster Louis DeJoy purposely slowing down mail delivery…
…beat. We need to protect workers and we need to do it now. Right now, there is a devastating second wave going on at the other end of the world…
…bailout from the CARES Act and an untold amount from the American Recovery Act. Reigning in their inflated costs could save the city billions of dollars that could be spent…
…2018. “We are in a pandemic, and we are still talking about whether people should have paid sick time,” Danielle Atkinson of Mothering Justice said in an online town hall…
…themselves. Our systematic segregation in this country fortifies these false narratives. Like African-Americans, Chinese-Americans have played an important role in building our country. While technically not slaves, they were treated…
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…– in five industries that produce news: newspaper, radio, broadcast television, cable and ‘other information services’ (the best match for digital-native news publishers). By 2019, that number had declined to…
…is not the time for silence.” All workers need to come together as a “cohesive force” to remake the world, according to Prohaska. “Certain conditions continue to exist in our…
