LEWISTON, N.Y.— Demanding better pay and improved staffing, more than 150 workers at a nursing home near Buffalo began a 24-hour strike March 9. “We can’t get anyone to come
NEW YORK, N.Y—A group organizing home health-care workers denounced the arbitrated settlement in which 1199SEIU will receive $30 million to reimburse workers who put in 24-hour shifts but got paid
NEW YORK, N.Y.—In an unusual class-action grievance arbitration, 42 home health-care agencies have been ordered to pay $30 million for underpaying workers represented by 1199SEIU. On Feb. 25, arbitrator Martin
WASHINGTON—American labor unions hailed President Joseph Biden’s nomination of federal appeals-court judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court Feb. 25, praising her as a judge who is eminently
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—With workers at Amazon’s facility in Bessemer, Alabama casting their ballots in the rerun vote on union representation, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union on Feb. 22 formally
AUSTIN, Texas—Eight states have filed lawsuits to block President Joseph Biden’s April 2021 executive order that set a $15-an-hour minimum wage for federal contractors. The order went into effect for
WASHINGTON—A coalition headed by the AFL-CIO is demanding that soccer’s international governing body set minimum labor standards for the cities hosting the 2026 World Cup, which will be held in
WAINSCOTT, N.Y.—Construction has commenced on New York State’s first offshore wind-electricity project, Governor Kathy Hochul declared in a ground-breaking ceremony Feb. 11, in the village of Wainscott on Long Island’s
MAPLEWOOD, N.J.—“I might fire you any time for no reason,” retired postal worker Robert Galione recalls his boss telling him, in his son Jay’s documentary The Great Postal Heist, released
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Mayor Eric Adams announced Feb. 6 that he’s endorsing the de Blasio administration’s proposal to switch retired city workers’ health coverage from traditional Medicare to a private Medicare
