April 17, 2012 By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter As the deadline for the City’s FY 2013 budget fast approaches, once again advocates for children services and union members who…
April 5, 2012 By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter At a press conference on Wednesday, April 4, Comptroller John Liu announced a major victory for the mostly immigrant workers working…
March 15, 2012 By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter New York’s unions and Governor Andrew Cuomo are squaring off over pension reform. The Governor wants to reduce benefits to ostensibly…
March 7, 2012 By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter Council Member James Vacca, Transportation Committee Chair, took the three-member MTA panel to task on the agency’s proposed fare hikes next…
…net jobs could be created with FTT money by enrolling everyone 65 and older. “Almost 3 million net jobs, after jobs loses we calculated from loses in the insurance industry,…
Global Protests – Austerity and Alienation January 9, 2012 By Thomas J. Mackell Jr Austerity measures do not turn economies around. They exacerbate a slow growing economy and, in fact,…
December 24, 2011 By Neal Tepel No one among the fifty-odd labor leaders assembled in DC 37’s 5th Floor conference room could remember a comparable event: Virtually every union representing…
…bargaining at the Sheraton Hotel, the agency released its 2012 Final Proposed Budget calling for $323 million in “Net Zero” wage savings in the next contract to prevent ballooning deficits….
December 7, 2011 By Dr. Barbara Bowen, President, Professional Staff Congress/CUNY The Legislature and the Governor have an opportunity to enact real, progressive tax reform and to spare millions of…
November 30, 2011 By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter As the year winds down, multiple unions in the city are currently negotiating with their employers for new contracts. The outcome…
