By LETITIA JAMES The era of wage-based inequality is beginning to end. On May 5, after 50 years of fighting, women of New York City took a huge step towards closing the gender wage gap and… Read more
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS A Local 420 member at Harlem Hospital won a $7,400 title upgrade and $3,200 in back pay after the Office of Labor Relations favorably decided a grievance the union filed on her… Read more
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS DC 37 Local 983 member Jose Molina was detained July 13 after going to 26 Federal Plaza to simply drop off his passport and tell his deportation officer of his next court… Read more
For once we have a tax break for the middle class instead of the 1 percent. A new state tax break for union dues will save an estimated 500,000 workers up to $35 million a year,… Read more
By GREGORY N. HEIRES State court workers represented by Local 1070 overwhelmingly approved a new contract that provides for 2 percent annual pay increases over three years. Members voted 687-54 in favor of the contract in… Read more
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS The last snow storm of the winter, Stella, barreled down on a shuttered New York City March 15 and claimed the life of a Staten Island man who had been revived by… Read more
By HENRY GARRIDO The new budget is a significant step forward for the city and the union. Our achievements resulted from our strong presence in the budget process. For months, we talked up our agenda —… Read more
By LAURIE STALNAKER The AFL-CIO is training union leaders and officials how to help protect undocumented immigrants. This is needed because the workers our unions represent are threatened daily by the possibility of raids and deportations… Read more
By ELAINE BERNARD The decline in strength, density and influence of the labor movement must be a concern for all of us — whether we are union members or not. It has led to stagnating and… Read more
Rhonda Carter, Patient Care Associate, Local 420 “The more I get involved with my union, the more I grow.” I am a Patient Care Associate at Kings County Hospital’s Ambulatory Care Outpatient Clinic. The clinic handles… Read more
By NELSON A. DENIS In colloquial Spanish, the word paquete means “an elaborate lie.” In Puerto Rico, a current “labor reform” program has been called the paquetazo — because a pack of lies will soon create… Read more
While investigations into alleged Russian collusion and interference in the 2016 elections are ongoing, the coverage of these events has smothered significant coverage of the Trump administration’s alliance with the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress and the Byzantine… Read more
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS Sammy Kamara was 7 when his parents sent him to live with an uncle in Monrovia, Liberia, to learn English with hopes for a better life. The uncle betrayed Sammy’s parents, brutalized… Read more
By ALFREDO ALVARADO An A train heading downtown during the morning rush hour earlier this week derailed at the West 125th Street station in Harlem and rammed into a concrete wall causing a small fire in… Read more
By GREGORY N. HEIRES Through an organizing drive, Queens Library Guild Local 1321 has expanded its membership by more than 10 percent. The local initiated the campaign in 2015 after a number of non-union staffers approached… Read more
Union Gets a Deal For a 40-hour workweek By GREGORY N. HEIRES The workweek of Local 983 Urban Park Rangers will increase to 40 hours under a tentative agreement between the union and the city. These… Read more
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS To be ready for the summer, the Parks and Recreation Dept. got an early start. Its Municipal Lifeguard Training Program helped 350 fresh-faced teens qualify as state-certified City Lifeguards represented by DC… Read more
By GREGORY N. HEIRES Beginning in July, the DC 37 health centers in Manhattan and Brooklyn will no longer provide podiatry services. In addition, the vision services in the Manhattan center will no longer be provided.… Read more
By GREGORY N. HEIRES DC 37 and other unions are fighting the deportation of a Mexican undocumented worker who has lived 30 years in the United States. Many unionists joined immigrant rights advocates, elected officials and… Read more
By ALFREDO ALVARADO Teachers and principals helping students cheat on standardized tests in 18 of 33 school districts and incompetent contractors who took two years to install just four windows at PS 55 in Queens were… Read more
