Part 2 of a two-part series on labor issues in Texas. AUSTIN, Tex.—“Texas isn’t a state now where people just live out on the prairie with the tumbleweeds driving by,”
New York, NY – On Thursday morning, just before 8:30 a.m., 30-year-old Samuel Charles Waisbren was killed in an elevator accident at the Manhattan Promenade in Kips Bay, a high-rise
New York, NY – The de Blasio administration is insisting that New York City remains a “union town” despite the prevalence of irresponsible nonunion contractors ripping off millions from workers
MONACA, Pa.—Workers building a Royal Dutch Shell petrochemical plant were warned that their pay would be docked if they didn’t show up for President Donald Trump’s Aug. 16 speech at
Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series on labor issues in Texas. AUSTIN, Tex.—“I feel like we’re on the cusp of achieving some measurable political power that
MILWAUKEE, WI – AFGE members working at the Milwaukee Veterans Administration are under attack by anti-union forces at the federal government. AFGE members have documented shocking accounts of measures that the
Albany, NY – New York State seasonally-adjusted unemployment figure remained at 4 percent in July, the third consecutive month it has been at that rate. The States economy continued to
Editor’s Note: CWA Local 1180 President Gloria Middleton and CWA Local 1180 President Emeritus Arthur Cheliotes will be honored along with IUEC Local 1 Business Manager and President Lenny Legotte;
It has been five years since our city was shaken to its core watching Eric Garner being killed on video from a police chokehold. After the Staten Island grand jury
WASHINGTON, DC — “While children in Mississippi were at their first day of school, their parents were being rounded up by the government. Those kids came home ready to talk about
