Bronx, NY — Mayor Bill de Blasio was joined by Speaker Carl Heastie on Frbruary 1st to announce major repairs for the community center at NYCHA’s Eastchester Gardens Development. “Community…
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—After a strike that lasted six school days, Los Angeles teachers reached a contract deal with the Los Angeles Unified School District Jan. 22. LA teachers have a…
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to bring the estimated 600,000 New Yorkers without health insurance into the city’s public health-care system has won praise from two unions—one representing…
…options for casting their ballots. As a constitutional amendment, this would be on the ballot for New York State voters no earlier than November 2021. Another bill in the package…
…about $6 an hour more in wages and benefits by 2021. Jowenna Ellazar, a housekeeper at Sheraton Princess Kaiulani, told Hawaii News Now that the strike had been “exhausting,” but…
…on weekends. The correct price is $15 an hour. That’s $15 now — not $15 in 2021 or 2022 — $15 now. That’s the price. They’re killing us.” They used…
…2021, by a margin of more than 2 to 1. Missouri’s Proposition B, which will bring the minimum from $7.85 to $12 in 2023 in increments of 85 cents a…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Four days before early voting began in Arkansas, the state Supreme Court ruled that an initiative to raise the state’s minimum wage from $8.50 an hour to $11…
GARY, Ind.—The ArcelorMittal steel company should follow the pattern set by U.S. Steel and agree to a contract without demanding concessions, United Steelworkers District 7 Director Mike Millsap told the…
PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The United Steelworkers and U.S. Steel reached a tentative contract agreement Oct. 15 that would raise workers’ pay by 14% by 2021. The four-year pact would increase wages by…
