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 – Nine diverse Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway theater companies will be participating in a virtual reading of It Can’t Happen Here, a dramatization of the 1935 Robert Sinclair novel, on Oct. 28 at 1 p.m. The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, The Israeli Artists Project, Kairos Italy Theater, the New Heritage Theater Group/Impact…
New York, NY — Radius Bank, whose Regional Sales & Relationship Executive from Radius Bank Michael Fina often writes about union matters for LaborPress, has a job opening. Radius Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer offering competitive compensation, comprehensive employee benefits and opportunities for career education and advancement. Equally as important, it is committed to…
Editor’s Note: Chrystle Bullock is an NYPD 911 Police Communication Technician and DC 37 Local 1549 AFSCME Delegate The first voice on the line that you hear when you call in an emergency is the 911 Operator. We tend to be the forgotten voice. We want to be heard and we are seeking official First…
New York, NY – Commissioner Dermot Shea announced last week, that the NYPD will be participating in a series of community forums with local organizations, along with both the Mayor’s Office and Governor’s Office, in an effort to transform policing going forward in New York City. This comes on the heels of protests throughout the…
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 – Irving Campbell, 41, is a registered nurse at NY-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital — and has been on the job for nearly 20 years. Campbell, a member of the New York State Nurses Association [NYSNA], previously worked in inpatient psychiatric care, in the adult psychiatric care unit.? “What brings me value in…
New York, NY – Ketsia Glemaud has been a nurse for nearly 25 years, but the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has left her uncertain about her future.? “I liked caring for others,” Glemaud says, reflecting on why she became a nurse. “My first job was at a medical clinic prior to nursing; it was an internal…
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 – Doug Washington, 42, is a private sanitation worker with Local 813 who has been on the job for 18 years. He?contracted COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic and was out of work for several months. LaborPress spoke with him about his work and his experience battling the virus. DW: I’m…
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