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Why We Choose To Go Union
July 15, 2020
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There is a longtime misconception about trade workers and their education. These ideas date back as far as the separation between white collar and blue.
Category: Building Trades
Workers Demand New York State Force Employers to Provide On-the-Job Protections As Reopening Progresses
July 8, 2020
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Queens, NY – This week, a cross-section of essential workers throughout the city gathered in Jackson Heights, Queens, one of the hardest hit communities during
Social Distancing Challenges NYC Carpenters Trying to Work Safe During COVID-19 Crisis
July 7, 2020
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NEW YORK, N.Y.—“Construction is a very difficult job to do social distancing on,” New York City District Council of Carpenters President Paul Capurso tells LaborPress.
Slipping Through The Door
July 5, 2020
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Although it appears the MTA is run and maintained by union workers, somehow non-union trades have begun to slip through the door to do construction
New City Budget Could Ax 1 Out of Every 15 City Workers
July 3, 2020
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NEW YORK, N.Y.—The coronavirus-austerity budget passed by the City Council July 1 could result in one out of every 15 city workers being laid off
Supreme Court Delays Decision on Taking ‘Janus II’ Case
June 26, 2020
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WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court won’t decide whether to take the case dubbed “Janus II” until at least this fall. Mark Janus, plaintiff in the Court’s 2018
32BJ Rallies Behind NYC Security Officers Suffering Under Unequal ‘Caste System’
June 25, 2020
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NEW YORK, N.Y.—Chanting “Equal Pay for Equal Work,” about 60 32BJ SEIU members rallied outside a Manhattan homeless shelter June 24, demanding that privately run
How SMART Local 28 is Contending With COVID-19
June 22, 2020
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New York, NY – SMART Local 28 — the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation union — has, like so many others, been facing the
32BJ President Kyle Bragg on Juneteenth: ‘We Have to Agitate and Take to the Streets!’
June 20, 2020
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Brooklyn, NY – Labor unions — if they aren’t already in the streets following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and so many
Labor Groups Construct Virtual ‘Memorial Wall’ For Workers Lost to COVID-19 Pandemic
June 20, 2020
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New York, NY – Two organizations, Jobs with Justice and UnionBase, have come together during the coronavirus pandemic to offer a new website, WorkersMemorialWall.org, where
