49 Names Added to New York State Monument Honoring Fallen Police Officers
New York, NY – State officials have added the names of 49 police officers from six departments to the Memorial wall in Albany honoring fallen police officers across the state. Forty-four men and five women who died in the line of duty over the last two years were recognized at a May 10 ceremony for…
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…
SEIU Leader Mary Kay Henry Tells LaborPress: ‘Unionized Workers Know They’re More Powerful Than Any Billionaire CEO or Union-Busting Corp.’
New York, NY – When Farmingville, L.I. Starbucks worker Sam Cornetta told their manager she may have been exposed to someone with Covid-19 during a Christmas Eve shift last December, the pro-union barista was told “secondhand contact was fine” and ordered to keep working. In February, seven Starbucks workers in Memphis, Tennessee — core members…
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