Weekly Digest – August 29, 2013
…of deliberation, Baltimore firefighters have won a 16.5 percent pay increase over the next three years. But the contract, announced Aug. 20 and approved by members of the Baltimore Firefighters…
…of deliberation, Baltimore firefighters have won a 16.5 percent pay increase over the next three years. But the contract, announced Aug. 20 and approved by members of the Baltimore Firefighters…
…NYCHAwatchlist.com, an online tool tracking repair requests at each of the 334 public housing developments in the city. Topping the list was Harlem’s Grant Houses, with 6,203 repairs that have…
August 14, 2013 Reprint on LaborPress http://www.ufcw.org According to the Department of Labor, the retail sector continues to play a major role in adding jobs to the economy, but most…
…rate increases above those approved by DFS on October 17, 2012 for the HMO business, increases for employer groups will be lower throughout 2014. For example, the premium increase for…
…pundits who influence others online use it. Increasingly, so do online and print journalists. Information and conversations are updated in real time. Unlike Facebook with its emphasis on friend networks,…
August 6, 2013 By Mike Hall Re-Printed www.aflcio.org The nation’s economy added 162,000 new jobs in July and the jobless rate dropped to 7.4% from June’s 7.6%, according to figures released…
…systems into one, easy-to-use, cockpit style control panel to provide comprehensive, real time data. Di-BOSS tracks energy use by tenant, giving tenants more control over costs and savings opportunities. Online…
…Corporation – as well as fellow Brooklyn Bridge Park Board director Joanne Witty, defended the use of Empire, and suggested that the need to go cheap resulted from a prior…
…all parts of a bigger whole. We need a plan that keeps the doors of Brooklyn’s hospitals open for the long haul,” said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio. – www.advocate.nyc.gov/healthcare…
…Now Walmart associates and their supporters are fighting back with an unprecedented wave of actions on the ground and online. At the same time, warehouse workers in California have gone on…