As we begin a new year, multiemployer plans will need to renew their efforts for managing the benefits they offer members based on their healthcare budgets. In doing so, trustees
TRENTON, N.J.—A bill to split New Jersey police and firefighters’ unions pension fund off from the main government-worker fund advanced Feb. 5, when it was approved by the state Senate
Toronto, Canada – Hotel workers at 17 hotels around Toronto have decided to remain with UNITE HERE Local 75 on the heels of raiding efforts by Unifor, including the Toronto
ALBANY, NY – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John J. Flanagan and Speaker Carl Heastie have announced that a three-way agreement has been reached on Lavern’s Law: legislation that would
SEATTLE, Wash.—Teamsters Local 174 and the First Student school-bus company met with a federal mediator Feb. 8 in an attempt to settle a week-old strike by 400 drivers. The drivers
New York, NY – Striking Spectrum worker Alfred Boothe, 40, didn’t much like his job when he first started out in the warehouse nine years ago. But his mom, a
WASHINGTON—The wee-hours budget deal enacted Feb. 9 to avert another shutdown of the federal government doesn’t include legislation to aid the nation’s endangered multiemployer pension plans. Instead, it will set up
On this episode of LaborPress’ Blue Collar Buzz, we talk to labor attorney Stu Salles about the pending Janus v. AFSCME case and what the ramifications are for organized labor.
NEW YORK, NY — New York City has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, et al., to
NEW YORK, NY – UFA President Gerard Fitzgerald made the following comments on the death of Retired Lieutenant Edward T. Meehan from 9-11-related cancers:
