Outstanding Apprentice Kodi Foust: Born to Run (and Get the Job Done)
Editor’s Note: LaborPress is proud to present the 2022 Outstanding Apprentice of the Year Awards for Long Island and New York City on Thursday, June 16, hosted by Teamsters Local 282 in Lake Success, NY. Today, we continue our ongoing series leading up to this year’s gala event introducing each of those fascinating and inspiring award-winners to…
Outstanding Apprentice Alyssa Pascion-Dikaitis: From EMT to Local 1 Plumber
Editor’s Note: LaborPress is proud to present the 2022 Outstanding Apprentice of the Year Awards for Long Island and New York City on Thursday, June 16, hosted by Teamsters Local 282 in Lake Success, NY. Today, we continue our ongoing series leading up to this year’s gala event introducing each of those fascinating and inspiring award-winners to…
Building Trades Protest Nonunion ‘Affordable Housing’ on Staten Island
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Building-trades workers protested against one of the city’s main “affordable housing” developers in Staten Island Apr. 26, demanding that it use union labor on a largely publicly financed project. The developer, BFC Partners, “always builds nonunion,” Joe Scopo, head organizer for Cement and Concrete Workers District Council 16, told LaborPress. BFC has “a…
Union Members Were Exposed to Ground Zero Toxins Beyond Lower Manhattan
New York, NY – Half a million responders and people working, living, and studying in Lower Manhattan on and after 9/11 were exposed to Ground Zero toxins, dramatically increasing their risk of developing 68 types of cancer and many respiratory illnesses. Michael Barasch. But Lower Manhattan was not the only area in New York City…
Transit Workers Speak Out About Ongoing Threats to Personal Safety
New York, NY – Straphangers continue to be a little bit wary about resuming their regular commutes following April 12’s shooting in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, in which the alleged assailant was later charged in federal court with committing a terrorist attack on the city’s mass transit system. Many posted on social media immediately after the attack…
As the Independent Amazon Labor Union Goes…so Goes the American Labor Movement, AFT President Says
New York, NY – No one less than the head of the biggest union inside the AFL-CIO believes the future of the American Labor Movement depends on the independent Amazon Labor Union and its continued success on Staten Island. “We have to support you,” American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten told a pre-vote rally…
Stuck Nation Radio Special Earth Day Edition with Occupational Health & Safety Experts; Rev. Billy, Sara Nelson Taking on Amazon!
New York, NY – In this special Earth Day edition of Stuck Nation Radio, we’re talking about protecting the very air essential workers breathe in Newark, NJ, and confronting Amazon’s many workplace abuses with the almighty power of unionization on Staten Island. (Listen Below) Segment A: Hear from activist Kim Gaddy, the national Environmental Justice…
3-Alarm Ceiling Collapse in Brooklyn Claims the Life of Firefighter Timothy Klein
New York, NY – A 31-year-old New York City Firefighter has died from injuries he sustained after becoming trapped in a partial second floor ceiling collapsed during a three-alarm Brooklyn house fire on Sunday afternoon that also claimed the life of a 21-year-old civilian, yet to be officially identified. Firefighter Timothy Klein. Firefighter Timothy Klein…
Stuck Nation Radio Special Earth Day Edition with Occupational Health & Safety Experts; Rev. Billy, Sara Nelson Taking on Amazon!
New York, NY – In this special Earth Day edition of Stuck Nation Radio, we’re talking about protecting the very air essential workers breathe in Newark, NJ, and confronting Amazon’s many workplace abuses with the almighty power of unionization on Staten Island. (Listen Below) Segment A: Hear from activist Kim Gaddy, the national Environmental Justice…
BK Fuel Oil Strikers Jeer Billionaire Catsimatidis as a Union-Buster, Call on Mayor to Stand with Workers
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Two days after their strike reached its one-year anniversary, workers at the United Metro Energy Corp. fuel terminal in Brooklyn rallied at City Hall to demand that the city cancel its contracts with the company. The city Department of Citywide Administrative Services is United Metro’s biggest customer and has paid it more than…