…2016 financial disclosures of 705 multiemployer health and welfare funds. One of the more interesting statistics analyzed was net assets (shown as months of total expenses). This measures the number…
…campaign. As most Commercial Observer readers know, the Supreme Court ruled that public employee unions in more than 20 states may no longer collect union dues on an automatic basis…
…from the prior year. On January 25, 2018 a complain had been filed with OSHA concerning a forklift safety issue in the XPO Albany facility which remains unresolved. A UPS…
…a net loss of income since 2009. This is not fair trade or normal competition. American steel mills, for instance, are more efficient than Chinese mills. The Chinese mills only…
…Council an open letter calling the measure “antibusiness” and “dumb,” saying it “would have the net effect of ending the recent prosperous run of new construction that is transforming neglected…
…debt, with no net worth, while the top 1 percent have more than $10 million each. In 2013 1 percent of our population had 43 percent share of all wealth….
…CityCemetery.” One of the dead was Ironworkers Local 433 member Harold “Rusty” Billingsley, 46, who was killed Oct. 5, 2007 when he fell almost 60 feet through an opening in…
…furnaces and the loss of more than one-third of steel jobs. The onslaught has been so aggressive, and so unfair, that the entire American steel industry has had a net…
…government’s plan to turn Medicaid over to states in the form of block grants will further weaken local healthcare networks in New York. With 28 hospitals on the State’s “watch…
…the MTA budget. The Council’s Committee on Transportation took testimony from the MTA and later the public as part of the committee’s March 8, 2018 consideration on the Mayor’s Preliminary…
