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.
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
