The newest episode of LaborPress’ Blue Collar Buzz features wide-ranging discussions with SEIU Local 246 President Joe Colangelo, Carpenters Union Training Director Walter Warzecha, and Workers Compensation Attorney Jordan Ziegler.
New York, NY – From February 15 – 20th, in Hollywood, Florida, the 41st annual National Labor and Management Conference (NLMC) will be held, providing a crucial forum for current
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Home health-care workers who stay with their clients 24 hours a day appealed to the New York State Industrial Board of Appeals Jan. 5 to order them paid
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.—In the session that opens Jan. 9, the Florida legislature will take up a bill that public-sector unions fear could wipe them out.
WASHINGTON—A top federal appeals court has unanimously rejected an attempt to weaken the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s 2016 rule covering workers’ exposure to silica dust.
BELLEVILLE, Ill.—A St. Clair County circuit judge on Dec. 27 voided Gov. Bruce Rauner’s executive order to halt collection of union fees from state workers who aren’t members was illegal.
GEORGETOWN, Del.—The Sussex County Council on Jan. 2 postponed its vote on a bill to ban the union shop in the county, after most of the four dozen people who
DETROIT, Mich.—A federal judge in Detroit on Dec. 27 lifted the temporary restraining order blocking the far-right scam-video outfit Project Veritas from releasing images its spy obtained after using a
YONKERS, NY-State Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assemblymember Shelley Mayer have applauded Governor Andrew Cuomo for signing a bill they sponsored into law which authorizes members of the
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—With the sale of recreational marijuana to adults becoming legal in California on Jan. 1, three major unions—the United Farm Workers, Teamsters, and United Food and Commercial Workers—are
