(NEW YORK CITY) - Members of Laborers Local 1010 and supporters rallied outside the gates of City Hall Thursday (September 23rd) to call on Mayor de Blasio and the City Council to pass a Bill that would increase the number of city construction contracts that must provide Apprenticeships. A mayoral directive stipulates that a State-Certified Apprenticeship more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - New York City’s requirement that Teachers be vaccinated against the Coronavirus has cleared by a State Judge following a legal challenge by Labor Unions. New York State Supreme Court Justice Laurence Love removed a Temporary Restraining Order he had imposed on the vaccine mandate while the case plays out. Love dismissed the more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Following months of advocating on behalf of Workers in the Non-Profit Sector, American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) District Council 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido is praising the signing of Intro. 2252. The Bill, which New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law, requires city human services more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 is vowing to double-down on its campaign to win what Union Leaders maintain is overdue recognition for the central role played by its Members in the 9/11 World Trade Center response and recovery efforts that have claimed the lives of at least 200 of its Members in the years since. Since 2014, in more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) - Teamsters Local 553 is expanding charges at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against United Metro Energy Corporation, owned by billionaire John Catsimatidis, after the company fired another striking Worker. Catsimatidis has permanently replaced eight Union Activists since a Strike began at the company’s Brooklyn oil more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - For years, Non-Union Labor Brokers in the New York City construction industry have targeted Workers who have recently been released from prison and are under parole supervision or other court surveillance programs, in a move that many say ensures low wages and poses a serious safety risk for Employees. Known as “Body Shops,” more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - The Metropolitan Opera has reached a four-year agreement with the Union for its orchestra, the last major deal needed for the company to resume performances following an 18-month layoff caused by the Coronavirus Pandemic. The contract with American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 802 was ratified on August 24th, replacing an agreement more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - A number of high-ranking Colombo Crime Family Members - including 87-year-old Street Boss Andrew "Mush" Russo, 83-year-old Under Boss Benjamin "Benji" Castellazzo and another 87-year-old Under Boss - were arrested early Tuesday (September 14th) by the New York Police Department (NYPD) and FBI in connection with a wide-ranging Labor more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Over the weekend, we commemorated the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. On that bright, sunny day 20 years ago nearly 3,000 people lost their lives. Many were at work or on their way to work when the planes struck the towers, the Pentagon and on United Flight 93 that crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The Union more»

CSEA Editor’s Note: Source material from this page was originally published in late 2001 and early 2002 editions of The Work Force. (NEW YORK CITY) - When the World Trade Center and Pentagon were attacked by terrorists on September 11th, 2001, Public Employees ran into the buildings to rescue the thousands of people inside, including other Public more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Not long after the first plane slammed into the North Tower on that otherwise tranquil September morning, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York President Gary LaBarbera - then head of Teamsters Local 282, and his colleagues at the Union's Lake Success Offices started getting phone calls from Laborers working near the more»

Each year, Labor Day gives us the opportunity to reflect on the importance of Organized Labor in providing basic rights and protections to Workers everywhere, but in New York City - where Essential Workers are helping us dig out from COVID, we should brainstorm ways to become the Union Town we always talk about being. To the extent that we’ve made it more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - A New York City Bus Operator is being heralded in recognition of her heroic actions during Hurricane Ida. Rosa Almonte (Pictured Above/ABC7 New York Photo), an eight-year veteran of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and mother of three, was driving her Q58 bus route in Queens on Wednesday (September 1st) when more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - During a typical downpour, the rainwater also pours gobs of cash in tips into the pockets of Immigrant Gig Workers as they zip around the city delivering takeout to New Yorkers hunkering down at home. Flash flooding warnings are not a case for worry - they are signs of a boon to come, as Food Delivery Apps like GrubHub, DoorDash, and more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) Commissioner Margaret Garnett have announced the indictment of four Certified Asbestos Investigators (CAI) for repeatedly filing false asbestos inspection reports, putting the health and safety of Workers and New York City residents at risk. A more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Hundreds of Big Apple Workers are getting nearly $7.5 million in stolen wages back, says New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer. The funds owed to more than 400 Workers were uncovered through the Comptroller Office’s Bureau of Labor Law, which enforces Prevailing Wage and Benefit Rates for Construction Workers employed by city more»

LaborPress.org Editor’s Note: Ben Kimmel is a proud member of the IUOE Local 94, as well as an author, writer on thewrittenaddiction.com, Mental Health First Aid Instructor, Certified Addiction and Recovery Coach, Certified Professional Life Coach, and Peer & Wellness Advocate. Ben can be reached at bennyk1972@gmail.com Ongoing questions more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - The Labor Union representing more than 350 New York City Council Aides has officially been approved by the city, paving the way for the Association of Legislative Employees (ALE) - which is now the country's largest Legislative Staff Union, to collectively bargain with the City Council. That’s a capstone on a nearly two-year-long more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Democratic Mayoral Nominee Eric Adams joined a few hundred Construction Workers under the Major Deegan Expressway earlier this week for “a rally for good jobs and prevent violence” that was organized by Laborers Local 79. “If you want to take the cold steel of a gun out of someone’s hand, then put the steel of a more»

(QUEENS, NEW YORK) - A Queens Lawmaker is urging Governor Kathy Hochul to direct the New York State Department of Health (DOH) to act under the NY HERO Act to keep workplaces safe. The New York Health and Essential Right Act (NY HERO Act) requires the DOH to implement enforceable minimum standards for workplace safety. The regulations must include more»

LaborPress.org Editor’s Note: Ben Kimmel is a proud Member of International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 94, as well as an Author, Writer on the www.writtenaddiction.com, a Mental Health First Aid Instructor and Educator, a Certified Addiction and Recovery Coach, a Certified Professional Life Coach and a Peer & Wellness Advocate. more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Mayor Bill de Blasio signed legislation this week that will prohibit City Human-Service Contractors from interfering with their Workers’ attempts to organize Unions. The Bill, passed by a 41-to-2 vote in the City Council on July 29th, will require private and non-profit groups providing services such as child care and running senior more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) – Thirty-nine Employees at two locations of Greenlight Bookstore and one location of Yours Truly, Brooklyn - a stationery store, all located in Brooklyn, have voted to Go Union with the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU). "Greenlight intends to voluntarily recognize the Union," Jessica Stockton Bagnulo, more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) – New York State Senators Julia Salazar and Jabari Brisport, Assembly Member Emily Gallagher, and striking Teamsters-represented Workers recently rallied outside of the United Metro Energy Oil Terminal in Brooklyn as their Strike against the company surpassed more than 120 days. The Essential Workers, who are represented by more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Three of the largest Health Care Unions in New York - Doctors Council Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) and 1199 SEIU – rallied and help a press conference today (Monday, August 16th) to address the conditions and violence in the Rikers Island jail facilities. Every more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Actors’ Equity Association and the Off-Broadway League have announced a new three-year Collective Bargaining Agreement. The agreement reflects a shared commitment to deliver a contract that addresses the challenges caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic and includes new workplace safety guidelines and long-term financial stability for more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - The New York Times is engaged in a contentious back and forth with several hundred of the paper’s Technology and Product Staffers who announced a Unionization drive earlier this year - so it was likely a bit embarrassing when the law firm representing the paper’s management accidentally sent a private strategy memo to more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - More than 4,500 Fire Department Inspectors and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Workers would see their pay go up by more than 11% under a Tentative Contract agreement with New York City that was announced earlier this month - but they’d also have to work another 131 hours a year. If ratified by American Federation of State, County more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - More than 1,500 Workers across 29 workplaces have joined the NewsGuild so far this year, setting a record for the organization, which is the largest Union representing Journalists. Since 2015, the NewsGuild has been on an organizing spree, Unionizing local newspapers and national publications alike, as part of a larger Labor Movement more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – New York City’s EMTs, Paramedics, Fire Inspectors and EMS Officers would see a significant bump in wages under a contract deal reached last week between the de Blasio Administration and Unions representing those job titles. According to the tentative 49-month pact, which is retroactive to June 29th, 2018, the city would more»

(BROOKLYN AND NEW YORK, NEW YORK) - New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses and Health Care Professionals gathered on Saturday (August 7th) to honor their fallen colleagues and patients and to call for life-saving investment and stronger Workplace Safety Measures. The Front Line Health Care Workers joined with community members, more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Congressional Representatives are being urged to support Federal funding for public transit operations throughout New York City. Public officials, riders, Workers and advocates rallied at the 86th Street subway stop in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn earlier this week (August 3rd), waving signs to call attention to the urgent issue. Senator Andrew more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Male New York City Municipal Employees have a median salary $21,600 higher than women, according to a report on pay equity the City Council issued this week, while White Workers average $27,800 more than Black Workers - and $22,200 more than Latinos. The report, based on data from 2018 compiled under the Pay Equity Act of 2019, said the more»

(ELMONT, NEW YORK) - At the racetrack, far from the adoring crowds, a team of diligent horse whistlers keeps gaming clean. “I never appreciated the saying ‘peeing like a racehorse’ until I came here,” joked Ramona Lawla, a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Member and Racing Inspector at the Belmont Racetrack. “Now, I more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - In its on-going efforts to champion equity for women in the construction industry, the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART) recently made a substantial donation to Tools & Tiaras, Incorporated. The girl-empowering, Trades jobs-focused non-profit was founded in 2017 by history-making more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Coal Miners and Union Advocates from across the country rallied in New York City on Wednesday (July 28th) in support of Alabama Miners who are four months into a Strike against their employer, Warrior Met Coal. Dressed in camouflage T-shirts with the slogan: “We Are Everywhere,” Members of the United Mine Workers Association more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Help - in the form of the Better Care Better Jobs Act - could finally be on the way for the more than 800,000 Americans across the country now languishing on a wait list for vital Home and Community Based Services (HCBS), but if they’re kept waiting much longer, it’ll be because Working Women of Color and Immigrants also stand more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Union jobs in New York are about to be so dope. Thousands of well-paying gigs - with great benefits to boot - are on the horizon in the state, thanks to the recent legalization of recreational marijuana, Labor Leaders tell The New York Post. The Local 338 of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) - the so-called more»

In These Times Editor’s Note: James Coleman is a 22-year-old City Councilmember for the City of South San Francisco and a Harvard University graduate. Nick Gonzalez is a 23-year-old Policy Analyst at the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Initiative will attend Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Like so many other recent college more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - As the Live Arts Industry begins to restart and work increases as the pandemic diminishes, Actors’ Equity Association - the national Union representing more than 51,000 Professional Actors and Stage Managers in live theatre, has announced a new Open Access Membership Policy, allowing any Theatre Worker who can demonstrate more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Before Kareame Perkins joined Laborers Local 79, there was no end to wage theft and other abuses she experienced as a Non-Union Construction Worker in New York City. Sadly, Perkins’ outrageous experiences are emblematic - billions of dollars are stolen from abused Workers throughout New York State each year. And while Governor more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Unionization efforts at U.S. museums show no signs of stopping with Staff at two major New York City museums petitioning to join United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2110, which already represents Cultural and Educational Workers across the Northeast. Around 190 Conservators, Curators, Educators, Editors, Front-Facing Staff, Porters and more more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – New York City’s Jail Officers Union has sued the Department of Correction, alleging Officers are being forced to work in “unsafe and unhealthy working conditions,” including 20-plus hour shifts and failing to provide adequate protective gear at the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The suit comes as the department more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Melody Walker had just finished working the lunch rush at a Chipotle in New York City when her manager walked up and told her, in front of several Co-Workers, that she was fired. Walker worked there almost a year without any complaints from the boss. When the 36-year-old single mom asked him for an explanation, he said it was because she more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - With the Municipal Labor Committee scheduled to vote today (July 14th), on a proposal to switch retired City Workers’ health care from traditional Medicare to a private Medicare Advantage plan, the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) - the Union representing City University Faculty and Staff, is calling on them to delay it until more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Stretching more than 1,400 feet into the sky, One Vanderbilt has been touted as the “most modern, up to date, technically advanced building” in 21st Century New York - and Local 28’s Tin Knockers are playing a huge part in bringing it all to life. “They’re really not done drawing the building yet,” more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Dynamic Activist and long-time Labor Organizer, Kathy (Enriqueta) Andrade, passed away on Friday, July 2nd, 2021 - just shy of her 89th birthday. Arriving from El Salvador in the 1950s, Andrade worked as a Garment Worker and Organizer in Miami before moving to New York City and joining Local 23-25 of the International Ladies’ more»

The Gotham Gazette Editor’s Note: Maritza Silva-Farrell is Executive Director of ALIGN and Christopher Erikson is Business Manager of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 3. The next Mayor of New York City will need to ensure communities hit hardest by COVID-19 can not only recover, but achieve greater economic security and more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – New York City’s unsung Pandemic Heroes swapped the darkness of COVID-19 for the sunshine along the Canyon of Heroes at a rousing ticker-tape parade where New Yorkers cheered the selfless Workers’ inspiring courage and commitment. An array of Night Shift Nurses, Volunteer Charity Workers, Teachers, Transportation more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Union-represented Stagehands at the Metropolitan Opera have reached a tentative contract agreement to end a seven-month lockout, their Union announced Tuesday (July 6th). The Met’s Stage and Shop Crew Members voted overwhelmingly to recommend that the full Membership ratify the deal, International Alliance of Theatrical more»