Bloomberg Presents Executive Budget – Massive Cuts to Childcare
May 7, 2012By Neal Tepel Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg presented his Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 Executive Budget on May 3rd. While the Mayor outlined a projected balanced budget, the plan
May 7, 2012By Neal Tepel Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg presented his Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 Executive Budget on May 3rd. While the Mayor outlined a projected balanced budget, the plan
May 7, 2012By NYC Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn The EarlyLearn provider contracts announced by the Administration for Children’s Services has unacceptable changes to the City’s publicly funded child care
May 2, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter May Day has been celebrated for centuries as a traditional spring holiday, but was invested with political overtones when workers, struggling for the
May 2, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter President Barack Obama appealed to the mostly white working-class union members of the Building and Construction Trades on Monday, April 30 in
May 2, 2012By Scott M. Stringer, Manhattan Borough President Recently I stood with Martin Luther King III to call for fundamental reform of the City’s stop and frisk program. Stop
May 2, 2012By Sarah Anderson, CWA Communications Director The past frequency of asbestos exposure in unionized professions such as the CWA, highlights the need to acknowledge this threat; which can
May 1, 2012By Ray Parker, Staff Writer APRIL 30 — NYC Comptroller John Liu — battered by a campaign fundraising scandal — is still in the ring. A broad coalition,
Repost April 30, 2012 April 18, 2012By Samantha Saly Organizers at the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, District 15, have joined forces with workers at black car company
April 30, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter The Council of School Supervisors and Administrators is celebrating its 50th year of unionism this year. On Friday evening, April 27, it hosted
April 27, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter For the first time in over 60 years, the AFL-CIO issued a charter to the New York Taxi Workers Alliance in October. On