…Nine Mile nuclear power plant approved a new, 4-year contract yesterday, ending their strike. In Parsippany, NJ, 500 State Farm employees are facing layoffs. The United States Postal Service is…
By Erica Varlese The City Council approved the $66 billion budget for 2012 and warns of cuts to services. Global investment and banking firm, Goldman Sachs, may be laying off…
…Bank of Mexico, 95% of the 800,000 jobs created in 2010 paid only $10 a day. Yet when a maquiladora worker buys a gallon of milk in a Tijuana or…
…part-time jobs to make ends meet. The new rent regulations bill was approved last week in the state senate and includes many strengthening characteristics. Wage theft is becoming an increasing…
…Now, one of them is speaking out. Yesterday, the International Labor Organization approved a convention to promote the rights of domestic workers worldwide. Macy’s workers agreed on the tentative contact…
…the next year alone, the DOE plans to spend more than half a billion dollars on technology in its capital plan, with $350 million to buy computers to implement more…
…state legislators in Connecticut approved a bill to mandate paid sick leave for service workers. The Human Services Council of New York City speculates that nonprofit jobs will be hit…
…work on this national challenge to the U.S. Deficit Commission. They did their work and took the lumps for their findings. This helped buy time for the president to celebrate…
…come in and buy up affordable housing, and use loopholes to raise the rent above the threshold for rent regulation,” said Maggie Russell-Ciardi, executive director of New York State Tenants…
…new power plants. But it has approved re licenscing for dozens of America’s aging nuclear power plants. On the “good to go for another 20 years” list are some that…
