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Author: Steve Wishnia

Battle Over Jay Street Hi-Rise Continues

NEW YORK, N.Y.—Building-trades workers picketed the CIM Group’s offices in midtown Manhattan March 27, demanding that the private-equity firm hire union contractors on a luxury-apartment building it’s developing near the

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Gig Work: It’s Not Working For Us

NEW YORK, N.Y.—Gig-economy companies like Uber and Handy have allied with corporate and far-right lobbyists to get their definition of “independent contractor” enshrined in law—and protect them from having to

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