NEW YORK, N.Y.—The city’s transit workers are gearing up against threatened “doomsday” layoffs that could cost almost a quarter of them their jobs. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will vote on its proposed budget at an online meeting Dec. 16. If it doesn’t get $12 billion in federal aid, it announced Nov. 18, it would have…
New York, NY – For the past three weeks, tens of thousands of Indian farmers have blocked highways around New Delhi to demand the repeal of three laws enacted in September by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government that deregulate the market for produce. On Nov. 26, in what might have been the largest single protest…
New York, NY – Now that virtual learning is becoming the new normal, some students are struggling more at home than they did in the classroom. This can be contributed to connectivity issues and computer literacy. But there is also a lack of personal interaction, as well as a lack of socialization, which can lead…
New York, NY -The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic forced Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro to preside over the virtual graduation of 153 Probationary Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) in Fort Totten, Queens, recently. But??FDNY EMS Local 2507President Oren Barzilay?believes the new EMTs couldn’t have come at a better time. “First and foremost, we congratulate?the men and women…
New York, NY – Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle, said that his 1906 novel of workers’ lives in the Chicago stockyards had “aimed for the public’s heart, and by accident hit it in the stomach”—in other words, that readers were less appalled by reading about a father who lost an arm on the job…
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Over the last eight to ten years, nonunion contractors paying little more than minimum wage have made inroads into large-scale construction in Manhattan—and the #TakeItBack campaign, a coalition of several building-trades union locals, wants to turn that around. “Every job we go to, it’s the same thing,” says Joe Scopo, organizing director for…
New York, NY – Not long after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, LaborPress began publishing the first-person experiences of a Intensive Care Unit nurse helping to treat Coronavirus patients inside a New York City hospital largely serving impoverished communities of color. Those heart-wrenching and harrowing accounts from the front lines of the Coronavirus crisis…
Editor’s Note: On Wednesday, December 2, at 2 p.m. LaborPress and Emblem Health will be sponsoring a special “Safeguarding Our City” webinar with Carmen Charles, president of the New York City Municipal Hospitals Employees Union, Local 420, DC37, AFSCME; Dr. Frank Proscia, president of the Doctors Council SEIU and Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, president of NYSNA –…
Editor’s Note: On Wednesday, December 2, at 2 p.m. LaborPress and Emblem Health will be sponsoring a special “Safeguarding Our City” webinar with Carmen Charles, president of the New York City Municipal Hospitals Employees Union, Local 420, DC37, AFSCME; Dr. Frank Proscia, president of the Doctors Council SEIU and Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, president of NYSNA –…
Editor’s Note: On Wednesday, December 2, at 2 p.m. LaborPress and Emblem Health will be sponsoring a special “Safeguarding Our City” webinar with Carmen Charles, president of the New York City Municipal Hospitals Employees Union, Local 420, DC37, AFSCME; Dr. Frank Proscia, president of the Doctors Council SEIU and Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, president of NYSNA –…
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