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Feb 12, 2021 | News Story
Senator Andrew Gounardes and Assemblymember Karines Reyes joined the CUNY Rising Alliance and the Professional Staff Congress last week to announce the introduction of the New Deal for CUNY (ND4C) legislation.
Feb 12, 2021 | News Story
The creative staff at Onion Inc., the popular digital company behind The Onion, The A.V. Club, Deadspin, The Takeout, Onion Labs, and Onion Inc.’s video and art departments — represented by the Writers Guild of America, East — today ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with their employer, G/O Media. This is Onion Inc. Union’s first contract with G/O Media, and their second collective...
Feb 12, 2021 | News Story
On the heels of a successful vote in East Hampton last month, the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the South Fork Offshore Wind Project is being considered by the Federal Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM).
Feb 9, 2021 | News Story
Few civil rights leaders have had a greater impact on the labor movement than Velma and Norman Hill. While they were youth leaders of the NAACP chapter in Chicago in 1960, the Hills led a “wade-in” protest at a segregated White-only beach.
Feb 5, 2021 | News Story
Amazon has agreed to pay $61.7 million to settle allegations that it stole its Amazon Flex drivers tips over a two-and-a-half year period, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday.
"Today, the FTC is sanctioning Amazon.com for expanding its business empire by cheating its workers," FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra wrote in a statement. "Amazon stole nearly one-third of drivers’ tips to pad its...
Feb 5, 2021 | News Story
Feb 5, 2021 | News Story
New York City restaurant workers, taxi drivers, and residents in developmentally disabled facilities are now eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The eligibility expansion applies to about 200,000 drivers licensed by the city Taxi and Limousine Commission as well as over 800,000 restaurant and food service workers.
Feb 5, 2021 | News Story
Throughout the pandemic, postal workers have been among the most essential employees―working tirelessly to deliver medication, ballots, letters, and checks.
But the leadership of the USPS deliberately slowed the mail and postal workers and the essential mail service we all rely on suffered badly.
Fortunately, there are four vacancies on the USPS Board of Governors, and President Joe Biden can...
Feb 5, 2021 | News Story
AFM Local 802 is helping to organize a national campaign with all fellow AFM locals around the country to save the multi-employer pension system that musicians and other workers rely on.
Feb 5, 2021 | News Story
The Biden administration has tapped New York's Amanda Lefton to serve as the new Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). Lefton previously served as the First Secretary for Energy and the Environment under Governor Cuomo, and in addition to her subject-matter expertise she brings a deep understanding of offshore wind's economic development potential in New York and the region.