…AFL-CIO’s annual Executive Paywatch figures, released July 14. In 2020, CEOs of S&P 500 companies, on average, were given a big raise. Their increased compensation came despite the country’s worst…
…agricultural Central Valley has been “locked out of the economic engines” of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Supporters of high-speed rail also contend that reducing short-haul flights would benefit airlines,…
…hospitality industry. The victims are often immigrants — especially the undocumented — and day laborers, women in low-wage jobs, and workers hired through middlemen such as “labor brokers.” Several business…
…a movement to save local news and ensure a seat at the table when decisions are made that affect our paper and the news coverage we provide. There is no…
…the pre-emptive “employees’ lien,” Ramos and Rosenthal responded, was “to ensure the money is there when the case is over.” The Gounardes-Simon bill, Assemblymember Simon told LaborPress, is intended to…
“This has been a horror story. Nobody saw this coming, and we had to deal with it day by day and figure it out.” — ATU President John Costa. NEW…
…Task Force. She supervised the case until 2019, when, she says, it was “summarily taken out of my hands.” Class C felonies — which include grand larceny of $50,000 to…
…sums the American super-rich are siphoning up is staggering. Bezos’s $64 billion gains are more than then-richest man Bill Gates’s entire net worth was a mere 15 years ago, when…
…about elite mobility…. of tax flight among millionaires.” Generating revenues and not budget cuts will help rebuild our economy and save our safety net healthcare institutions. Invest in New York!…
“The Black workforce has been treated as disposable and we are saying enough is enough. That is why BLM is pushing so hard for this. We have purchased billboards, we…
