Connecticut Frees Workers from ‘Captive-Audience Meetings’
HARTFORD, Conn.—Connecticut became the second state to ban compulsory “captive-audience meetings” on May 17, when Gov. Ned Lamont signed a bill titled “An Act Protecting Employee Freedom of Speech and Conscience.” The measure will go into effect July 1. It declares that the right to free speech includes “the right not to be required to listen…
NYSNA, 1199SEIU Push Bills Aimed at Protecting Nurses from Mandatory Overtime
New York, NY – Overworked Nurses already burnt out from short staffing and Covid-19 cases are hoping a legislative package carrying a maximum $3,000 penalty for forced overtime will pass muster before the current legislative session expires in June. Nurses with 1199SEIU and NYSNA say existing laws prohibiting hospital administrators from forcing mandatory overtime onto…
Welcome to the Gilded Age: New Teamsters Report Exposes Obscene Pay Packages for Amazon Execs
New York, NY – The International Brotherhood of Teamsters today released a new report detailing Amazon’s excessive executive compensation, including data that Amazon paid its CEO Andy Jassy $212 million last year, approximately 6,474 times the median Amazon worker. The report called on the company to better compensate its workers and reinstate its COVID-19 paid…
IUEC Local One Celebrates 125th Anniversary in New York City
Editor’s Note: Locals from the International Union of Elevator Constructors near and far were among the more than 1,000 attendees who came out to the Sheraton this past weekend for IUEC Local One’s 125th anniversary celebration. LaborPress asked our colleague Marc Bussanich to document the gala event. New York, NY – Local 1 has actually…
Workers at Amazon and Starbucks Are Pointing the Way to Organized Labor’s Revival
New York, NY – The recent union organizing victories of workers at Amazon and Starbucks can show the way for all of labor’s revival. The “bottom up”, members driven organizing model shows that existing unions must rely on the rank and file, especially young workers to survive and grow. The Amazon and Starbucks, corporate giants…
Workplaces Caught in America’s Crossfire
New York, NY – The horrific May 14 mass shooting in Buffalo was a targeted hate crime but it was also an example of yet another instance of a troubling trend of workplace violence that left ten people dead including two workers. In addition, a grocery clerk and supermarket manager were wounded and dozens of…
Workers at Amazon and Starbucks Are Pointing the Way to Organized Labor’s Revival
New York, NY – The recent union organizing victories of workers at Amazon and Starbucks can show the way for all of labor’s revival. The “bottom up”, members driven organizing model shows that existing unions must rely on the rank and file, especially young workers to survive and grow. The Amazon and Starbucks, corporate giants…
Stuck Nation Radio: Buffalo Horror, Workplace Violence, Roe v. Wade Under Attack and More
New York, NY – On this week’s edition of Stuck Nation Radio we talk to Lt. Governor candidate Ana Maria Archila ahead of the June 28 primary vote about workplace violence and the mass shooting in Buffalo; confronting the assault on reproductive rights; and more. 32BJ Vice-President Shirley Aldebol also discusses women’s rights through the…
Hey, Kids! Ditch the Stigma Surrounding ‘Manual Labor’ and Educate Yourself About Careers That Really Pay Off
New York, NY – Despite the obvious advantages careers in the unionized Building Trades offer young people today, negative stereotypes persist. This is especially true in our public and private schools. Too often, trade schools are viewed as a means to educate those who are somehow educationally challenged. It’s a barefaced lie. Ben Kimmel. Although…
Restoring Labor Rights Will Solve NYC’s Chronic School Bus Problems, Parents Say
NEW YORK, N.Y.— Parents of special-education students are calling on the city to restore job protections for school-bus drivers and matrons. They say that would help solve chronic problems with lateness and unreliability in the system that transports more than 150,000 children, primarily those in special education, to school and back. Rima Izquierdo has three…