Category: Health and Safety

April 17, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco Brooklyn, NY – Registered nurses and other essential caregivers at 14 hospitals throughout the city hit the streets yesterday to sound a growing alarm over

April 15, 2015 By LaborPress Nurses at the University of Chicago Medical Center have filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board accusing the hospital of bargaining in bad

March 23, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Time is ticking down on 28 financially distressed hospitals around the state in need of an immediate $290 million cash infusion

March 17, 2015 By LaborPress Over the past decade, state after state has been dismantling their workers’ compensation systems. Since 2003, 33 states have either reduced benefits or made it

March 12, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – The author of a new report touting the enormous economic and social benefits of single payer healthcare and the New York

March 11, 2015 By Tom Canty, Vice President and General Manager, Empire BlueCross BlueShield Government, Labor and Special Account   So, everyone knows that vegetables are good for you because:

March 10, 2015 By Marc Bussanich  New York, NY—Congress didn’t introduce a bill to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal before recess this week, but numerous labor leaders and

February 26, 2015 By Neal Tepel Among the nation's largest social service agencies 2,200 employees and over 135,000 clients affected. Federation Employment and Guidance Services (FEGS) has announced that it

February 12, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY -The shattered remains of what’s ever left of the financially stricken Federation for Employment & Guidance Services [FEGS], is about to be

January 16, 2015 By Marc Bussanich Over 2,600 mental health workers went on strike in California starting Monday because they say their health care employer, Kaiser Permanente, refuses to increase