…to the plan to increase Yellow Cab presence in the outer boroughs. Tenants testified yesterday before the Rent Guidelines Board to stay the effects of the city’s expired rent laws….
…exemption for spiraling health insurance costs and skyrocketing transportation costs in a year in which the price of diesel fuel rose 30 percent. Both, he said, are beyond the ability…
…We are one of the last to feel the effects of a downturn, as well as one of the last to recover,” said New York Building Congress President Richard T….
Reprint May 23, 2011 By Scott Stevens May 12, 2011 UFT/photo by Miller Photography http://www.aft.org/newspubs/news/2011/051211newyork.cfm AFT president Randi Weingarten told a rally of more than 1,000 child care workers and…
Reprint May 23, 2011 By David Bacon, May 20, 2011 Truthout http://www.truthout.org/city-worker-bargaining-rights-under-siege-silicon-valley/1305819127 SAN JOSE, CA 5/17/11) Members of the city workers union in San Jose, the capital of California’s Silicon…
…Jim Brennan, Chair of the Committee that oversees the MTA, State Senator Martin Golden, and TWU Local 100’s John Samuelsen crowdedinto the Times Square subway entrance on 41st Street and…
…priced prescriptions and often inconvenienced by the pick up. This discount card allows for easy use by all demographics and provides a safety net to those who profoundly need it.”…
…Assembly’s proposal would affect only those earning more than $1 million in adjusted gross income, which constitutes less than one percent of all taxpayers. “Quite simply, this is a moral…
…SYEP has other significant effects: about forty percent of SYEP participants work in summer camps and daycare centers, vastly expanding the capacity of these programs to serve New York City’s…
…cuts to child care funding. This massive crowd of DC 1707 members was joined by many locals of the Central Labor Council, TWA Local 100, DC 37 and the UFT….
