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Covid Shutdown and the Pandemic Pounds
March 4, 2021
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New York, NY – One thing’s for sure, they don’t call them the Pandemic Pounds for nothing. In fact, aside from other stress related disorders,
Category: Health and Safety
COVID Relief Bill Includes Long-Sought Pension Rescue
March 3, 2021
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WASHINGTON—The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill now pending in the Senate includes a long-sought measure to rescue the nation’s endangered multiemployer pension plans. The American
FDNY-EMS Paramedic Fights to Return to Her Job Following COVID Ordeal
March 2, 2021
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New York, NY – If you’re lucky, a positive case of coronavirus might only mean flu-like symptoms, some bed rest and two weeks of quarantine.
Union Carpenters Team Up with Undocumented Workers Alleging Wage Theft and Other Abuse on Park Ave
February 26, 2021
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New York, NY – Poor doors for workers. Workplace injuries. Wage theft. The NYC District Council of Carpenters is taking aim at all of it
Deep in the Heart of Texas
February 26, 2021
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Do you want to know the difference between a Democratic Socialist and a modern-day Republican, Trump lover and Libertarian? Just look at what Alexandria Ocasio
NYC Building Trades to Elite Developer: ‘Stop Wage Theft, Now!’
February 25, 2021
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NEW YORK, N.Y.—Once again, building-trades workers wielding “Stop Wage Theft” signs protested outside Brookfield Properties’ Battery Park City offices Feb. 24, loudly demanding that the
NYC Health and Hospitals Clericals are Everyday Heroes, Too
February 25, 2021
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Editor’s Note: Melissa Tirado is Local 1549, DC37, AFSCME, Hospital Executive Vice Chair and Shop Steward at North Central Bronx Hospital New York, NY –
The State of American Workers a Year into the COVID-19 Shutdown
February 24, 2021
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New York, NY – Stress is still high as we approach the one year mark of the Covid-19 shutdown. With so many uncertainties, the need
Union Density Rose in 2020—Because Members Lost Fewer Jobs During Pandemic
February 23, 2021
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WASHINGTON—The percentage of U.S. workers who are union members increased in 2020 for the first time in more than 10 years — because members lost
Blue-collar workers got us through the past year, mobile communications can help sustain that momentum
February 23, 2021
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In the devastation of 2020, the phrase “essential worker” went from a low-profile term for people who had to work even when the government was
