October 3, 2011 By Marc Bussanich The towering cranes that used to build warships at the Brooklyn Navy Yard have sat idle for a long time. But the yard has…
State of Downtown September 12, 2011 By Neal Tepel The Alliance for Downtown New York has issued a State of Lower Manhattan report, providing the most comprehensive review of Lower…
September 9, 2011 The President took an important and necessary step September 8th: he started a serious national conversation about how to solve our jobs crisis. He showed working people…
Jobs Plan Must Include Research Funds September 9, 2011 By Jerry Kremer Over the next few weeks President Barack Obama will be wrestling with the dilemma of how to create…
July 12, 2011 By Stephanie West Only a net of 18,000 jobs were created in June, while the unemployment rate inched up to 9.2 percent from 9.1 percent in May….
June 16, 2011 By Kismet Barksdale On June 14, 2011, District Council 37, the city’s largest public employee union, joined by labor and community groups, held a massive rally at…
June 3, 2011 By Adam Selene Mayor Bloomberg begins his climate summit in Sao Paulo, Brazil under a cloud. The planning initiatives of the C40 Cities, in which he has…
June 1, 2011 By Kismet Barksdale As the June 30 deadline for Mayor Bloomberg’s Executive Budget nears, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer held a town hall meeting June 25, 2011…
May 31, 2011 By David Bacon Changing Mexico’s labor law threatens the lives of millions of workers. It would cement the power of a group of industrialists who have been…
Letter to the Editor – Working People Deserve Justice Too! May 31, 2011 Dear Friends In today’s fast paced world, most of us are occupied with working vast hours so…
