January 23, 2012By Richard L. Trumka, President, AFL-CIO Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney—who killed thousands of jobs as a corporate raider—recently said he “likes being able to fire people.” Romney’s record
January 23, 2012By Scott M. Stringer, Manhattan Borough PresidentMayor Bloomberg has announced a plan to sell three city-owned buildings in Lower Manhattan for a one-time infusion of cash into the
January 23, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter Cablevision is pulling out all the stops to stop 285 field technicians from voting next Thursday to join CWA 1109. Both the workers
January 20, 2012 Reprint from – Workers Independent News January 17, 2011 United Wisconsin has announced that more than one million Wisconsinites have signed a petition to recall Scott Walker, representing the
January 20, 2012 Last year, Governor Cuomo and the Legislature took significant steps toward aligning recurring revenues with recurring spending. New York
January 19, 2012By Bendix Anderson, LaborPress Senior Editor Construction Projects Aplenty in State of City Address For construction workers, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg promised a lot in his
January 18, 2012By Alan Lubin Co-Chair of the Business and Labor Coalition of New YorkThe Cuomo administration’s 2012-2013 budget message is a positive step that can create jobs, rebuild New
January 18, 2012 By Barbara Bowen, President A preliminary examination of the Governor’s proposed budget for CUNY suggests that it comes close to the amount CUNY has requested for CUNY
January 18, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter Just 30 miles up the Hudson River from the city sits the Indian Point Nuclear Plant. Nuclear proponents and opponents have been scrapping
