…COVID, it got even worse during the pandemic when the public was required to comply with public health protocols including wearing a mask. According to the MTA, in 2021 there were…
…as compared to the 10.3 percent nationally. Public sector unionization grew by 3.33 percent from 2019 through 2021 with now almost 60 percent organized. Overall, the state ranks sixth in…
…Publishing, 2021) Some novels sear themselves and their characters into our consciousness. Consider Jimmy Breslin’s Table Money, his unforgettable 1986 novel about a sandhog and his family. Set in the…
…committee member. The successful organizing drive at the company inspired the creation in 2021 of OPEIU’s Tech Workers Union Local 1010, a union by and for tech workers. Through Local 1010,…
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in NJ Insider. New Jersey – On the same day that dozens of unionized essential workers were lobbying in Trenton to convince the powers…
…Metro’s Brooklyn terminal who went on strike in April 2021 after more than two years of trying to win their first union contract. Eight strikers were fired, or “permanently replaced.”…
…— have been working under an expired contract since May 2021, and negotiations with the city have not yet started. Money is a big issue. “We’re not getting the raises…
…In a July 2021 interview, FDNY EMS Captain John Burke, who covers the part of Queens where Elmhurst is located, said “right around the corner in that neighborhood alone we lost…
…pay in 2021, opting to spend billions in stock buybacks resulting in the already massive CEO-worker pay gap to grow even wider. The biggest buyback firm paying low wages was…
…from the multibillion dollar fast food giant that paid it’s CEO Brian Nicol $38 million in 2021, or 2,898 times the median pay of a store-level Chipotle employee, according to…
