Mirroring a union-busting tactic used around the U.S., and in New York City, where, for example, workers at a Trader Joe’s wine shop arrived only to find it closed, just
New York State Governor Kathy Hochul, longtime public champion of the unionized workforce, has once again passed a pro-worker, labor-friendly budget for fiscal year 2025. By expanding labor protections within
LaborPress held its Labor Leadership Awards April 4 at the Teamsters Local 282 union hall in Lake Success, Long Island to honor six key figures in New York state for
On Long Island, interest in union electrical trades is surging, increasingly with high schoolers interested in union training. For the incoming class of apprentices, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Dartmouth College has officially stated that it will not honor its basketball players’ union. In early march, the players had voted to form the first players’ union in the country.
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that hospitals are adding billions of dollars in facility fees to patient bills, even when patients don’t set foot in a hospital. “Once
Monday, March 25, the 113th anniversary of the Triangle Fire was commemorated at the site where the tragedy took place on that day. 146 workers, mostly young women, died as
Today, it’s difficult to imagine ten-year-old children working sixteen hours a day in dangerous conditions such as mines or textile mills with limited regulations, but in the nineteenth century, this
In many instances people find themselves in situations where they feel compelled to make uninformed decisions. An example of such a dilemma is when a person becomes injured through no
Over 1,200 of hospital workers and community members joined union members and elected officials on a cold Thursday to continue the fight against a plan to reduce or potentially close
