WASHINGTON—A proposed rule the federal Department of Labor is trying to push through before the next Congress takes office would cost American workers at least $3.7 billion a year, the Economic Policy Institute estimated Oct. 26. The proposed rule, announced Sept. 22, would widen when workers can be considered an independent contractor instead of an…
New York, NY – There is no time for panic. In fact, there is no time for anything except a strategy to repair our economy and the workplace. Given the recent status of a countrywide uptick of Covid infections, now is not the time to point fingers or look for blame.? Instead, now is the…
NEW YORK, N.Y.—On Oct. 15, a sunny Thursday in Long Island City, a knot of about a half-dozen construction workers milled in front of a bodega near the job. They hadn’t been paid in two weeks. When the woman they’d been waiting for finally arrived, clad in a black hard hat, they received envelopes of…
New York, NY – After some math and careful calculations, the old saying is true: There are not enough hours in the day. The trick to wellness, is to create a steady balance between work life and homelife. Otherwise, disruption between the two can take away from both personal and professional efficiency. In fairness, most…
New York, NY – With an obvious focus on both our political and financial futures, jobless concerns and unemployment worries are an impending threat to the working world. There is no concrete evidence of a Covid vaccine which would allow schools and businesses to fully reopen. And unfortunately, local spikes of Covid infections have caused…
OCEANSIDE, N.Y.—Under the rubbery scowl of Scabby the Rat, about 100 union ironworkers protested outside Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital here Oct. 13, demanding that the hospital stop using a Brooklyn subcontractor with a history of cheating workers to build the steel framework for its new utility plant. The hospital is using $158 million in…
New York, NY – Current tensions in the workplace are causing concern for the future?— and there is reason for the building trades and the maintenance workers who maintain commercial properties to be concerned. The question, in the age of COVID-19, is how workers substantiate the need for their services when commercial occupancy is low?…
New York, NY — Have you seen this person??If you have attended a labor event over the past few years in New York or New Jersey chances are you have. Meet Michael Fina, the Regional Sales & Relationship Executive from Radius Bank [www.radiusbank.com].?? Michael’s energy, dedication and support within the labor market is commendable?—?as…
NEW YORK, N.Y.—New York State should enact a law giving workers a voice in setting contagious-disease safety standards for their industries, several city unions urged at a rally in Greenwich Village Oct. 7. “Who are the experts when it comes to safety in the workplace? The workers,” Teamsters Joint Council 16 President George Miranda told…
NEW YORK, N.Y.—The Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York is launching an effort to coordinate the work of four groups that recruit apprentices from the city’s poorer neighborhoods and among women, veterans, and black and Latino residents. The Apprenticeship Readiness Collective, announced Sept. 30, will formally bring those different groups with similar…
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