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Nov 20, 2024 · Starbucks Baristas Take a Stand Bodycams in Walmart Now Used in Effort to Combat Crime Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year from the Long Island Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO Bringing Solar Energy to NYC Schools and Public Buildings Our (In)visible Work: A New Book Outlines What Blacks Face in the Workplace NY Times Tech Guild Wins Tentative Three-Year Contract NYC Amazon Teamsters Vote to ...
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Nov 7, 2024 · Boeing workers, members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 751, began a strike on Sept. 13. The powerful union’s 32,000 machinists had previously rejected Boeing proposed
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Dec 23, 2024 · New York’s Minimum Wage Set to Increase to $16.50-Per-Hour in New York City, Westchester, and Long Island, and $15.50-Per-Hour for the Rest of the State.
City To Slash Funding For All Municipal Services – LaborPress
Nov 18, 2023 · Essential services, including police, FDNY, EMS, sanitation and even schools are all having their budgets cut by the Adams administration. The cuts will take effect immediately, due to what city officials are calling “unprecedented” deficits.
Labor’s Tide Rises From Southern Streets to the C-Suite
May 28, 2022 · New York, NY – While the nation was reeling from the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas — well organized labor protests extended into the historically union hostile so-called southern ‘right to work states’ and at stockholder meetings where public pensions took aim at worker-hostile corporate leadership.
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Dec 20, 2022 · President Lee Saunders of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) delivered a speech on Jan. 14 paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Amazon Labor Union president discusses challenges ahead at …
Oct 31, 2024 · A new documentary called “Union” provides an intimate look at the grassroots union campaign that made history at the JFK8 Amazon warehouse on Staten Island where the Amazon Labor Union became the first unionized Amazon facility in America.
A Look at the Challenges Facing the Labor Movement Today
Sep 10, 2021 · NEW YORK, N.Y.—Two years ago, ten union leaders at the city’s Labor Day parade identified three main themes for the labor movement: solidarity, turning back attacks on workers, and convincing people of the value of unions.
More than a holiday, Labor Day represents hard-won gains by …
Aug 31, 2023 · Labor Day is always one of my favorite holidays of the year, and not just because of the big parade here in New York, barbecues, great weather and time spent with family. I enjoy and celebrate those as much as anyone else, but Labor Day carries special meaning to me for all that it represents beyond a simple recognition of the value of work and workers.
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Sep 12, 2023 · SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry issued a statement immediately after the U.S. Department of Labor declared a final rule on the classification of independent contractors versus employees on Jan.