April 2, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter The City Council continued hearings on Mayor Bloomberg’s FY 2013 Preliminary Budget on Thursday, March 29, as the Council’s General Welfare Committee questioned
April 2, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter Assemblymember Rory Lancman of Assembly District 25 received an endorsement today, March 28, for Congress from the Communications Workers of America Local 1182.
March 30, 2012By Governor Andrew M. Cuomo I announced an agreement with legislative leaders to make New York the first state in the nation to require collection of DNA samples,
March 28, 2012By John Bae, Staff Writer LaborPress The Second Avenue Subway construction site was found to have deadly levels of silica during a federal safety inspection. The Center for
March 28, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter New York State Nurses Association nurses rallied outside The Brooklyn Hospital Center on Tuesday, March 27, not to specifically protest any management shenanigans,
March 27, 2012By Ray Parker, Staff Writer Monday, March 26 — About 300 ironworkers and other building trades members briefly blocked traffic at noontime outside of New York’s busiest hotel
March 26, 2012By Thomas P. DiNapoli, NYS Comptroller The agreement reached between the Governor and the Legislature on Tier VI will reduce pension costs for new employees. But this new
March 24, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter Union members around the country took action on the National Day of Action, Thursday, March 22, to demand a fair contract from Verizon.
March 22, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter The creation of a federal infrastructure bank to fund a wide range of infrastructure projects failed in Washington, D.C. because fiscal austerity for
March 20, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter SEIU 32BJ won a major contract victory with the Realty Advisory Board in December 2011, but there are still hundreds of thousands
