April 12, 2012By Ray Parker, Staff Writer Hoping to add fuel to the national firestorm of protest against the shooting of unarmed Florida teen Trayvon Martin, New York unions mobilized
April 4, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter Joseph Lhota, Chairman and CEO of the MTA, opened his remarks at a construction industry forum on Tuesday, April 3 by thanking the
April 2, 2012By Ray Parker, Staff Writer A lucky straphanger returning from a late-night concert at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on North 6th Street snapped the winning photo in
March 28, 2012By Ray Parker, Staff Writer Some of Albany’s heavy hitters (apart from the three men in the back room) stepped on stage at Albany’s Hart Theatre to endorse
March 13, 2012By Ray Parker, Staff Writer An online petition generated by the labor-friendly Working Families Party is gaining some traction in the effort to persuade the often tin-eared MTA
February 29, 2012By Ray Parker, Staff Reporter Fifty demonstrators from Local 100 and Occupy Wall Street packed the MTA’s public seating to capacity at the Authority’s monthly board meeting on
February 29, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter The Hudson River Valley business community’s chorus opposed to the MTA Payroll Tax rang all the way down to the southern tip
February 28, 2012By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter LaborPress reported in early January the new labor contract TWU Local 252 reached with the new private bus operator, Veolia Transportation Services, after
February 16, 2012By Neal Tepel State Senator Martin J. Golden (R,C,I –Brooklyn) and Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R,C-Brooklyn, Staten Island) had a convivial session with a dozen unions representing the workforce
January 9, 2012By Neal TepelLocal politicians frustrated over constituents’ complaints about rats on the subways gave the MTA an earful outside the 181st Street IRT stop Thursday night. As rush
