About 21,000 children from asylum-seeking families have enrolled in NYC public schools. Now, the city has to contend with their needs for bilingual teachers. There is a conflict, however. As
One of the most famous photos ever, “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” taken in 1932 and showing 11 ironworkers having their midday meal high above the New York City-scape, has now
On Saturday, Dec. 1, members of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), elected officials, students and education advocates rallied outside of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Midtown office to demand a change in
On Dec. 20, tens of thousands of commercial office cleaners in the city will hold a strike vote. The union that represents them, 32BJ of the SEIU, also represents a
New York, NY – The huge, stunning Christmas tree that appears each year at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, is seen by millions each year,
Workers for app-based restaurant delivery services scored a huge win when on Nov. 30 Appellate Division Justice Llinet M. Rosado upheld a new city law mandating a minimum wage for
About 21,000 children from asylum-seeking families have enrolled in NYC public schools. Now, the city has to contend with their needs for bilingual teachers. There is a conflict, however. As
New York, NY – The Association of Benefit Administrators, Inc. (ABA), provides a forum for administrators and their professionals, consultants, and vendor partners to share concerns, potential strategies and solutions.
NYC politicians and advocates are speaking out against the Adams administration’s recent elimination of a class of school safety agents. The training of 250 agents was set to start at
The New York City Ballet and Local 802 of the AFM, which represents the Ballet’s orchestra, have finally reached a tentative deal for a new contract. It is the first
Fed up with Mount Sinai administrators’ failures in the bargaining process over their first contract, postdoctoral workers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have set a Dec.
At a time when holiday festivities are filling thousands with joy, grief in its most difficult form was brought to a family who lost a cherished member. On Wednesday, Nov.
Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which represents almost 60,000 retail, grocery and warehouse workers across the country, praised new legislation signed into law
LaborPress held its Labor Leadership Awards On November 28 at the Teamsters Local 282 union hall in Lake Success, Long Island to honor four key figures in New York state
Senator Jessica Ramos represents New York’s 13th District in the State Senate, which includes the Queens neighborhoods of Corona, East Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, as well as parts of Elmhurst, Rego
New York, NY – IBT Local 812 proudly represents more than 4,000 Teamster families working in the beverage industry. Its members produce, haul, deliver, merchandise and sell soda, water, beer
New York, NY – Anthony Simon is the GO-505 General Chairman for SMART Transportation Division, representing conductors, track workers, building and bridge workers, special service attendants, track supervisors, car repairmen
New York, NY – William M. Lynn is Business Manager & Financial Secretary, IUOE Local 30, International Vice-President, International Union of Operating Engineers. The union has been in existence for
Labor activists Marianne Pizzitola, Rose Roach, and Mark Dudzic about Medicare Advantage (Disadvantage?) health plans and what they mean for union retirees, for collective bargaining, and for the future of
In the bustling metropolis of New York, where the heartbeat of the nation resonates, the importance of unions and organizing has never been more pronounced. As the city evolves and
eBay, the e-commerce giant, has taken back its written promises to honor workers’ rights to unionize and to bargain in good faith. This follows only months after 300 workers in
Hundreds of New York City schools are already in violation of a new state law limiting class size, according to UFT President Michael Mulgrew. Academic class limits are now mandated
TWU Local 2001 and TWU Local 2055 have reached a tentative contract with Metro-North Railroad. The agreement covers about 600 train mechanics, inspectors, cleaners and cabinet makers. It is a
Tien alleged members of the Gambino crime family, along with their associates, were arrested, charged with trying to gain access to the city’s garbage carting and demolition industries. They were
Essential services, including police, FDNY, EMS, sanitation and even schools are all having their budgets cut by the Adams administration. The cuts will take effect immediately, due to what city
Nearly three years after the start of the Starbucks union campaign, frustrations are at a boiling point at unionized stores across the nation. For the second year in a row,
“These are unnecessary budget cuts to our public schools. They are driven by City Hall’s false political narrative that New York City is about to fall off a fiscal cliff. Revenues
Well-known actress, writer and filmmaker Justine Bateman, who served as a union advisor on AI, is fuming about the recent tentative contract reached between SAG-AFTRA and studios and streaming companies.
Progyny had the opportunity to teach two classes at the IFEBP annual conference this year. The group’s annual benefits conference is an excellent venue for exploring where labor benefits are
The historic 118-day SAG-AFTRA strike is officially over. The union made the announcement last Wednesday, saying the strike would end at 12:01 am Thursday. The tentative agreement ends the longest
On Tuesday, Nov. 7, Brooklyn Museum workers ratified their first contract, only hours before a planned strike would have taken effect. The staff’s union is Local 2110, UAW. The organized
New York Helmets to Hardhats celebrated 20 years of support for veterans transitioning to the construction trades on board the USS Intrepid Museum docked on the West Side of Manhattan.
The strike by SAG-AFTRA members has now reached its 118th-day mark. After various stops and starts, talks resumed between the union and AMPTP, which represents Hollywood studios, but so far
Picketing is set to begin at the Brooklyn Museum by members of Local 2110 UAW, employees of the Museum. One worker, Elizabeth St. George, an assistant curator of Decorative Arts,
Uber and Lyft have agreed to pay a combined amount of $328 million for sneakily withholding wages from their drivers. New York Attorney General Letitia James said it was the
LaborPress has been documenting many of the shameful assaults on NYC transit workers over the years, and now comes the unwelcome news that the number of incidents has risen dramatically.
City lawmakers want to raise wages for non-union construction workers, as well as increasing home-building projects. The extremely low wages of such workers, some who make only $15/hr for back-breaking
New York Assembly Member Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, following the lead of California Assembly Member Liz Ortega and Gov. Gavin Newsom, who just signed a similar bill Ortega introduced into law, has
The Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions held a hearing in New Jersey to listen to nurses make their case for the passage of the Nurse Staffing Standards for
On Monday, Oct. 30, President Biden signed an executive order addressing current and potential dangers regarding the use of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). It includes requiring companies to report any ways
After being victorious in his recent fight for his striking members, at GM, Ford, and Stellantis, UAW President Shawn Fain, the first head of the union to be directly elected
The United Auto Workers and General Motors have come to a tentative agreement, weeks after the union went on strike against Ford, GM, and Stellanis. The union had already reached
Starting Monday, October 30, employees at some of the nation’s largest drugstores will walk off the job for three days, continuing a spate of such actions that occurred in Sept.
For more than 20 years, DCWP has helped tens of thousands of New Yorkers get their full tax refund at no cost to them through our NYC Free Tax Prep
Members of the Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCNY) Orchestra, represented by AFM Local 802, have won their first union agreement after four years of negotiations. A statement by the
