NYC Municipal Retirees’ Fight For Traditional Medicare With Guaranteed Co-Pays Continues At City Hall
Editor’s note: Regarding why there is such a push-pull over Medicare Advantage, both at the…
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NYC Retirees Win Settlement To Refund Copays To Retired Workers From EmblemHealth, NYC: UPDATED Rally Today
Editor’s note: Some good news for retirees in NYC! This new mayor may be…
NYC Leaders Praise Hotel Association After Union Ratifies New Fair Contract
NYC Leaders Praise Hotel Association After Union Ratifies New Fair Contract Editor’s note: We…
In NYC: Monday’s Commute Will Be Challenging – LIRR Union On Strike, Unable To Reach Deal With MTA
In NYC: Monday’s Commute Will Be Challenging – LIRR Union On Strike, Unable To Reach…
New Commissioners, Budget Proposal, Gym Membership Compliance, Rikers Conditions Improvements, Migrant Crisis, Protected Time Off For Worker, Other Updates: Mayor Mamdani
New Emergency Mgmt Int’l Affairs & Immigrant Affairs Cmrs , Property Tax Hike Budget Proposal, Harlem…
Health Insurance Stabilization Fund Misused By City’s Municipal Labor Committee: Comptroller Lander Releases Long Awaited Audit
Health Insurance Stabilization Fund Misused By City’s Municipal Labor Committee: Comptroller Lander Releases Long Awaited…
FDNY EMS Union: Mayor Adams Can Fulfill Past Campaign Promise For Pay Parity For FDNY EMTs
FDNY EMS Union: Mayor Adams Can Fulfill Past Campaign Promise For Pay Parity For FDNY…
After Mass Amazon Driver Firings As Retaliation For Unionization, Teamsters In New York Want To Change Subcontracting Model To Benefit Workers
Editor’s note: Amazon’s path to unionization has been somewhat arduous and difficult, but…
At Babbo Restaurant Unionization Push Continues With Protests, Union Busting Allegations
Babbo Restaurant Union Protest Editor’s note: Below you can learn about the push for unionization…
Bringing Attention To Low Wages For EMS: FDNY EMS Local 2507 Launches #StandWithEMS Campaign
FDNY EMS Local 2507 Launches #StandWithEMS Campaign Editor’s note: This is the same career that…
Active, Retired NYC Municipal Union Workers, Advocacy Organizations Protest To Protect Their Healthcare, Demand Transparency
ACTIVE UNION MEMBERS, RETIREES AND ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS PROTEST IN SOLIDARITY TO PROTECT THEIR HEALTHCARE AND…
NYC Retirees March Tomorrow At 1:30 In Manhattan With International Organization Of Maritime Masters, Mates, & Pilots
The NYC Retirees Partner with the International Organization of Maritime Masters, Mates & Pilots and…
NYC Retirees To Mayor Adams Today At City Hall: Protect Our Health Insurance, Support Council Bill Intro 1096
NYC Public Service Retirees Unveil Giant 65th Birthday Card for NYC Mayor Adams Group Invites Mayor…
Reducing Income Inequality Comes By Strengthening Collective Labor Rights, Unions
Strengthening collective labor rights can help reduce economic inequality Only about 1 in 10 U.S. workers…
NYC Retirees Healthcare Fight For Traditional Medicare: Update With Marianne Pizzitola
NYC Retirees Healthcare Fight For Traditional Medicare: Update With Marianne Pizzitola Staten Islander News…
In NYC: Retirees Will Not Be Forced Into Medicare Advantage Over Traditional Medicare Despite Court Ruling: Mayor Adams Makes New Announcement, Local Voices Weigh In
In NYC: Retirees Will Not Be Forced Into Medicare Advantage Over Traditional Medicare Despite Court…
NYC Retirees: With Court Case Lost At Highest Level, Focus Turns To Politicians, Upcoming Primaries, Election
NYC Retirees: With Court Case Lost At Highest Level, Focus Turns To Politicians, Upcoming Primaries,…
New Jersey Transit Union Strike Disrupted Two Work Days To Get Long-Overdue Higher Wages – Tentative Agreement Reached, Service Resumes In Full This Morning
New Jersey Transit Union Strike Disrupted Two Work Days To Get Long-Overdue Higher Wages –…
Staten Island, NYC Municipal Retirees To Rally To Support Their Legal Team in Latest Battle With Mayor Adams, City of New York
Editor’s note: NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees shared their unanimous decision handed down by…
Gov’t Fiscal Responsibility, Keynote Address Charleston Republican Convention, Keep NSA Employees Out Of Unions: Senator Paul
Dr. Rand Paul Forces Amendment to Limit Reckless Borrowing and Enforce Fiscal Responsibility …
NY’s Senator Blasts Plan To Cut VA Workers, Cut Medicaid, Demand Answers On Withholding Critical Infrastructure Funds, Honors Hazel Dukes Of NAACP After Her Passing, Praises Longtime Staffer Geri Shapiro
NY’s Senator Blasts Plan To Cut VA Workers, Cut Medicaid, Demand Answers On Withholding Critical…
Senators Schumer, Gillibrand, Bipartisan Group Of Senators Introduce Legislation To Protect Workers Rights To Unionize, Collectively Bargain For Wages, Working Conditions
NEWS: Sanders, Scott, Schumer, Jeffries, Murray, Bipartisan Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Protect the Rights of…
NY Senators, Representatives Sign Letter Requesting Reinstatement Of Recently Fired Head Of NLRB
Bipartisan Lawmakers Demand Trump Reinstate NLRB Member Wilcox Editor’s note: The following Democratic Lawmakers from…
National Right To Work Act, REINS Act Reintroduced, Shutdown Prevention Act Introduced
Editor’s note: We previously covered the last introduction of the REINS Act, and the previous introduction…
Involuntary Commitment Changes; New Hate Crimes Prevention Director; NonProfit Services Director; Drought Watch Lifted; NYC Health + Hospitals Possible Strike; Kingsbridge Armory Reimagining
MAYOR ADAMS’ STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO GOVERNOR HOCHUL’S PLANS TO INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO FINALLY CHANGE NEW YORK’S INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT…
Drought Downgraded From Warning To Watch; Tentative Agreement With City Unions For Pay Raises For Physicians, Medical Examiners; New EPA Grants To Electrify Heavy-Duty Vehicles, School Buses; James Stratford Names Director Of NYC’s Young Men’s Initiative; Dr. Phil’s Primetime,
Drought Downgraded From Warning To Watch; Tentative Agreement With City Unions For Pay Raises For…
City Must Pay Full Cost Of Retired Municipal Worker’s Health Insurance Plans: Highest Court Rules In Favor Of Retirees
Today’s Ruling Requires City to Pay the Entire Cost of Retirees’ Preferred Health Insurance Plan…
NYC Municipal Retirees Tell Mayor Adams: Stop Trying To Take Medicare Away From Former City Workers, Union Employees
New Yorkers Tell Mayor Adams, “Stop trying to take Medicare away from NYC retirees!” Hundreds…
Int’l Longshoremen’s Association’s First Strike In Nearly Half A Century Demanding Higher Wages, Promise Of No Automation UPDATED
ILA President Harold J. Daggett Joins Picket Lines Throughout Port Newark/Elizabeth at Start of Strike;…
Brooklyn Community Board Positions Now Open: Entry Level Into Municipal Government
Editor’s note: The employment opportunity described below includes membership in the city’s union contract. This…
Federation of Catholic Teachers Expands Union Coverage To Aides, Assistants: Dignity, Respect For These Essential Members Of Teaching Team
Interview with Teresa Clark, VP of the Federation of Catholic Teachers about extending union benefits…
Catholic School Aides, Assistants To Receive Union Representation: Federation Of Catholic Teachers
Catholic school assistants and aides to gain protection from the Federation of Catholic Teachers union…
Airline Workers, Flight Attendants Stuck In Expired Contracts Without Ability To Strike: 32 Senators Send Letter To National Mediation Board
Sanders and 31 Senators Call on National Mediation Board to End Delays and Allow Airline…
Retiree Victory! Unanimous Appeals Court Ruling Affirms NYC Retired Municipal Workers’ Right To Keep Their Public Medicare Programs – UPDATED
New York Appellate Division Affirms City Retirees’ Right to Promised Medicare Benefits Today’s Ruling Bars…
Fran Drescher Transforms From Beloved Actress To Union President Of SAG-AFTRA – On Historic Strike Bringing Entire TV, Film Industry To Screeching Halt In Demand For Fair Wages, Compensation For Work Performed
Why Fran Fine — sorry, Fran Drescher — is the union queen we all neededThe…
HELP Committee Meeting: Standing Up Against Corporate Greed: How Unions are Improving Lives of Working Families
HELP Committee to Hold Hearing with Union Leaders on Labor Movement Resurgence and the Fight…
HELP Committee To Hold Hearing With Union Leaders Regarding Historic Gains, Wins For Working Class Americans
NEWS: HELP Committee to Hold Hearing with Union Leaders on Labor Movement Resurgence and the…
Judge Rules In Favor Of Retirees Regarding Illegally Charged Copayments
NY SUPREME COURT GRANTS CLASS STATUS TO NYC GOVT RETIREES OVER ILLEGALLY COLLECTED COPAYS The…
Tentative UAW Strike Deal Includes 25% Wage Increase, Cost-of-Living Allowance, Temp to FT Worker Conversions, Other Benefits
United Auto Workers union hails its tentative strike-ending deals with Ford and Stellantis that would…
UAW Says EV Workers Should Be Paid Fairly – Not Half Of Previous Car Manufacturers Wages – United Auto Workers Union Strike Likely In Coming Weeks
US autoworkers may wage a historic strike against Detroit’s 3 biggest automakers − with wages…
Sen. Sanders, Other Pols Promise Not To Intervene In Case Of UPS Workers Strike For Collective Bargaining To Obtain Better Working Conditions, Wages, Healthcare, Retirement
In Letter to Teamsters, 28 Senate Democrats Commit to Not Intervene in Case of UPS…
Sen. Bernie Sanders Opens Sweeping HELP Investigation Into Amazon Warehouse Safety, Calls For Warehouse Workers To Share Their Stories
NEWS: Chairman Sanders Opens Sweeping Investigation into Amazon Warehouse Safety and Calls for Amazon Workers…
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Rallied With Writers Guild Of America At Times Square Paramount Building Demanding Fair Contract Negotiations, Better Pay, Working Conditions For Writers
GILLIBRAND RALLIES WITH WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA AT TIMES SQUARE PARAMOUNT BUILDING TO DEMAND FAIR…
National Right To Work Act Bill Reintroduced By Sen. Rand Paul – Act Makes Unions Unable To Charge Dues To Workers Who Choose To Forego Representation, Weakening Unions Ability To Fund Themselves
Dr. Rand Paul Reintroduces National Right-to-Work Act WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul…
Could This Be A Turning Point For Organized Labor And The Labor Movement? Worker Strikes, Union Elections Surged In 2022
Worker strikes and union elections surged in 2022 – could it mark a turning point…
Brittany Ramos DeBarros, Sarah Blas, Amazon Labor Union, AFT Call On NY AG To Investigate Amazon For Violations Of Excelsior Job Programs
NEW YORK—Today, Sunday, April 24, 2022, Brittany Ramos DeBarros (Democratic candidate for New York’s 11th…