Reporter’s Notebook: No Trickle-Down in This Economy
…last November — a ballot initiative backed by more than $200 million from Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart that repealed the state law classifying most gig workers as employees —…
…last November — a ballot initiative backed by more than $200 million from Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart that repealed the state law classifying most gig workers as employees —…
…(ICP) funding goes to the “Healthcare Empires.” These non-profit Healthcare Empires CEO’s and top administrators earn millions of dollars. They operate more than a 20% administrative overhead. The NYC H+H…
…leave the facility, they will still have a community that will have their backs.” Last summer’s BLM protests have embolden many hard-pressed BAmazon workers to press the historic fight for…
…24 weeks of paid parental and family medical leave in our first collective bargaining agreement. Our unit is adding additional office calendar days to better cover public school holidays. We’re…
…hard-earned retirements. Learning from the two unfair bailouts of the housing/financial crises over the past 20 years, we don’t want to see a repeat of Wall Street getting bailed out…
…Sanitation workers and other city employees, he added, couldn’t work at home. Trying to address the city’s budgetary issues “on the backs of labor,” he said in a statement, “is…
…set of benefits and services provided by state and localities. Among seniors, 38.6% of singles and 24% of couples have difficulty making ends meet. The cost of living adjustments whether…
…paid sick leave policy that has been adopted by McDonald’s applies to fewer than 10-percent of McDonald’s workers and fails to adequately protect the health of workers and their families,…
…time the fund was depleted. “Within 24 hours there were 300 families that had applied for relief and we immediately had to close it because we don’t have enough funds…
…strictly limits when employers can define workers as independent contractors instead of employees and thus deny them workers’ compensation and the right to collective bargaining. Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash have…