Appeals Court Maintains Compensation Should be Paid for Permanent Limb Injuries – Regardless of Work Status
New York, NY – When a worker injures their head, neck or back, the only compensation the Workers’ Compensation Law provides is payment for lost wages due to disability and medical coverage. As a result, if the worker is out of work for reasons that have nothing to do with the disability, no wage loss…
The Time is Now to Build a More Compassionate America…
New York, NY – America’s workers, especially poor and low-wage workers, are stretched thin. They have been disproportionately impacted by Covid-19, and after risking their health and safety to work in frontline positions during the pandemic, they are now treated as expendable. They are struggling to make ends meet and don’t know whether they’ll be…
First Victims of Ground Zero Illnesses Were Union Responders
New York, NY – There were more than 100,000 union first responders who deployed to Lower Manhattan on and after 9/11, working tirelessly for weeks and then months on search-and-rescue and recovery operations. At the time, government officials claimed the air near Ground Zero was safe to breathe. Michael Barasch. Yet within weeks, many responders…
Union Musicians Jam on the Streets to Protest DCINY’s Carnegie Hall Lock Out
NEW YORK, N.Y.— At Carnegie Hall on the evening of June 6, the ten-piece brass-and-percussion ensemble played the Allegro Maestoso from Handel’s “Water Music,” the “Ode to Joy” movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and J.S. Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.” Violinist Laura Thompson with fellow union musicians protesting outside Carnegie Hall on June 6.…
9/11 WTC First Responders and Coal Miners in Common Cause?
New York, NY – When President Biden’s Build Back Better initiative was sunk a few months back, editorial writers said it was a blow for the White House — but it was also a real setback for the nation’s coal miners as well as 9/11 WTC first responders and survivors. On Tuesday, September 14, FDNY…
What Union Workers Should Know About the Rapidly Changing Landscape of Virtual Care
New York, NY – In 2022, one out of every 10 employees belong to a Union. In the U.S., 34-percent of missed work days are related to musculoskeletal (MSK) pain, and working through pain is responsible for 40-percent of reduced productivity. When it comes to MSK, which affects 50-percent of American adults with an estimated…
9/11 WTC First Responders and Coal Miners in Common Cause?
New York, NY – When President Biden’s Build Back Better initiative was sunk a few months back, editorial writers said it was a blow for the White House — but it was also a real setback for the nation’s coal miners as well as 9/11 WTC first responders and survivors. On Tuesday, September 14, FDNY…
9/11 WTC First Responders and Coal Miners in Common Cause?
New York, NY – When President Biden’s Build Back Better initiative was sunk a few months back, editorial writers said it was a blow for the White House — but it was also a real setback for the nation’s coal miners as well as 9/11 WTC first responders and survivors. On Tuesday, September 14, FDNY…
High Court Allows Full Compensation for Multiple Permanent Injuries to a Limb
New York, NY – For many years, business and insurance interests have been campaigning to reduce or eliminate the compensation that an injured worker can receive for permanent injury to a limb – arm, leg, hand, foot, finger or toe (also vision loss, hearing loss, and facial disfigurement). Since 2016, their efforts have received a…
Stuck Nation Radio: Countdown to Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers March on D.C. – Plus More!
New York, NY – On this week’s edition of Stuck Nation Radio, we’re looking ahead to the June 18, Poor People’s & Low Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls. NYC Comptroller Brad Lander also talks about confronting Amazon’s anti-worker policies, as well as 32BJ SEIU’s campaign to uplift Chipotle workers…