Veteran Female Firefighter Takes Readers Inside the Firehouse in ‘The Fire She Fights’
New York, NY – Considering how much time is spent at work, it’s interesting that there isn’t more fiction to capture these worlds. Yet when we encounter a gripping novel about the workplace, the characters stubbornly inhabit us and refuse to exit after we leave them behind. The Fire She Fights: A Novel, by Tracy…
Experience is the Best Teacher…
Editor’s Note: The following comes courtesy of Ralph Palladino’s “Union Strong” pamphlet – click here to view it in its entirety. New York, NY – My 42 years as a union activist, shop steward, staff grievance representative, and elected chapter and local officer has taught me that experience is the best teacher. I would like…
Experience is the Best Teacher…
Editor’s Note: The following comes courtesy of Ralph Palladino’s “Union Strong” pamphlet – click here to view it in its entirety. New York, NY – My 42 years as a union activist, shop steward, staff grievance representative, and elected chapter and local officer has taught me that experience is the best teacher. I would like…
Kickstarter Workers Ratify First Contract
New York, NY – The Office and Professional Employees International Union [OPEIU] is heralding the ratification of Kickstarter United’s first-ever collective bargaining agreement this week. As per OPEIU: Members of Kickstarter United (KSRU), the first union in the U.S. to win wall-to-wall recognition at a tech company, voted overwhelmingly this week to ratify their first…
‘Independent’ Medical Examiners: What Workers Need to Know
New York, NY – An injured worker’s entitlement to wage loss benefits, compensation for permanent injury, medical treatment, prescription medication and more depends on their medical provider. In addition to providing medical care, a worker’s treating doctor must be familiar with the workers’ comp system and its reporting requirements in order for the injured worker…
Poor People’s March on Washington Calls for ‘Moral Fusion of Everybody’ to Build Unions and Change Corrupt ‘Policies of Greed’
WASHINGTON D.C. – This past Saturday union activists, their families and their supporters came by the thousands to the nation’s Capitol to answer the Poor People’s Campaign’s call for a moral march on Washington. The racially diverse crowd extended for several long blocks. The organizers of the Poor People’s and Low Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March…
Treating Workers for PTSD Might Encourage Many to Return to the Office
New York, NY – It’s been more than two years since Covid hit the scene. So, where are we now? Many restrictions have been dropped and people are no longer afraid to go outdoors. Social gatherings and sporting events are returning. Mask requirements have largely been relaxed and proof of vaccination is no longer required…
Stuck Nation Radio: Juneteenth Plus One Edition
New York, NY – In this week’s episode, we recap the Poor People’s Campaign DC March and the central role played by unions in the movement to uplift 140 million low wage workers and their families. (Listen Below) Poor People’s Campaign co-chair Rev. Liz Theoharisand Larry Hamm, Newark activist, and founder of the People’s Organization for Progress, take calls…
United Metro Energy Contract with ‘Sham Union’ at Long Island Terminals
RIVERHEAD, N.Y.—The United Metro Energy Corporation, where Teamsters Local 553 members in Brooklyn seeking their first union contract have been on strike for more than a year, on June 10 announced it had signed a five-year union contract at its two fuel-oil terminals on Long Island. But the Teamsters call the union there, United Service…
NJ Unions Hit the Bricks for Hazard Pay
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in NJ Insider. New Jersey – On the same day that dozens of unionized essential workers were lobbying in Trenton to convince the powers that be to use $100 million of the state’s $3 billion federal aid surplus for hazard pay, word was spreading that the union that represents…