Defeat of Single Payer Healthcare, Covid Protection, Pension Equity on NYSPEC Agenda
New York, NY – Peter Meringolo is chair of the New York State Public Employee Conference [NYSPEC]. Formed in 1977 with thirteen member unions, the NYSPEC has since grown significantly. Today, the organization consists of more than eighty member unions and groups representing more than one million active and retired public employees. LaborPress checked in…
NYC Workers are Practicing Safety First – And Staying Out of the Office
New York, NY – As we look to finally move past the pandemic, there’s still a great number of workers who are refusing to return to the office. Although Covid concerns are an ongoing challenge — people are noting other worries as well. One worry, in particular, is crime and increasing subway danger. Ben Kimmel. Unprovoked shoving…
Stuck Nation Radio: Unions & Vets Rally to Head-Off NYC VA Closures
New York, NY – On this week’s addition of Stuck Nation Radio we talk with AFGE Local 2094 President George Jones and former Congressman Max Rose about the impact of a Trump era proposal to reorganize the nation’s largest healthcare system to the detriment of America’s vets and the communities they call home. Part two features…
On-the-Job Assaults: Another Consequence of Covid Harming Workers
New York, NY – In New York City, the public could breathe a sigh of relief when the alleged Brooklyn subway shooter was apprehended the day after the incident that left 29 people injured including ten people wounded by gunfire. Yet, for transit workers, according to national data, it’s just another incident in a troubling…
32BJ Building Service Workers in NYC Refuse to Surrender Healthcare Benefits; Authorize Strike
New York, NY – Building handyman Stephen Yearwood made it through the worst of Covid-19 before a late-stage variant of the virus broke through his vaccine defenses just a little while ago, and sent him into 10-day isolation. He was lucky. Forty of Yearwood’s 32BJ union brothers and sisters died during the pandemic’s height. Hundreds…
IUOE Local 15 Apprentice Zachary Parker: ‘I Know This is Gonna be the Career for the Rest of My Life’
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 Workers Kept the Lights on in Lower Manhattan After 9/11
New York, NY – Among the nearly half a million people who were in Lower Manhattan on and after 9/11, door attendants and building maintenance staff played a crucial role in providing security for people living and working in the neighborhood. Michael Barasch. These workers — most of them represented by labor unions — contributed enormously to…
Stuck Nation Radio: Poor People’s Campaign Gears Up for National March; More College Workers Unionize
New York, NY- In the April 11 edition of Stuck Nation hosted by Michael G. Haskins we hear from Rev. Liz Theoharis, co-chair along with Rev. Dr. William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign, and Shailly Gupta Barnes, policy director of the Kairos Center about why Wall Street was picked as one of the spots…
Poor People’s Campaign Comes to Wall Street
New York, NY – The Rev. Dr. William Barber will lead labor and social justice activists from throughout New York State and New England for a rally and march in lower Manhattan later today, March 11. Today’s Wall Street focused event is one of several around the country that are part of the Poor People’s…
Nursing Home Workers Call for National Standards
WASHINGTON—“This is nationwide,” says Julie Martinez, a licensed practical nurse in a Buffalo-area nursing home. “There is short-staffing everywhere. They could never pay us as health-care workers what we deserve, and they need to start. We need more workers, and we need better pay.” Martinez, an 1199SEIU member, was speaking at an online discussion Apr.…