Picket lines full of employees of Kaiser Permanente have not produced changes in their employer’s refusal to meet their terms. In October, negotiations broke down, leaving over 1,700 mental health
The Transport Workers Union of America has applauded a $2 million fine that the Department of Transportation has levied on JetBlue. The airline has consistently delayed flights, and TWU International
Amazon, Starbucks, Trader Joe’s, and REI, the outdoor gear company, all have workers that are advocating, as well as striking, for contracts that treat them well. For all their effort
An MTA worker, a station clearer, suffered two knife attacks on Jan. 2. This is just the latest in a long series of transit workers who have been the victims
The Doctors Council-Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have made it known that a strike, beginning Jan. 13, could go ahead if their employer, NYC Health + Hospitals, does not meet
FDNY EMS Local 2507, the union representing emergency response teams in New York City, has urged its members to no longer work in Midtown and Lower Manhattan. This potentially dire
It is likely a dark portent of things to come from the Trump administration, and his yes-men, for workers everywhere. In a particularly ugly move, Trump and Elon Musk, the
45,000 dockworkers who went on strike this past fall will go to the negotiating table again with port employers, vowing to strike again if port employers do not meet their demands.
When most people hear the name Chippendales, they think of male dancers whose object it is to entertain them, not workers in the usual sense of the word. But that
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler has responded to the recent passage of the Social Security Fairness Act. The bipartisan bill, she said in a statement, rights a wrong of 40 years,
