The Brian Lehrer Show: Transgender Job Seekers
Leave your thoughtsA recent report by Make the Road NY found high rates of discrimination against transgendered individuals. Pauline Park, chair…
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Interpreting Health: Medical Translation in a City of Immigrants
Leave your thoughtsOne out of four New Yorkers doesn’t speak or understand complex sentences in English. But at some point in…
The Case of the Disappearing New Yorkers
Leave your thoughtsOK, New Yorkers, stop screwing around. Late last week, city officials said only six percent of you had actually…
City Council Must Act on Push for the Right to Paid Sick Days
Leave your thoughtsIt is not enough, but it is certainly better that nothing. More than 1 million workers citywide who don’t…
Building on Health Reform Momentum, NYC Workers Push for Paid Sick Days
Leave your thoughtsNow that newly passed healthcare reform legislation in Washington promises to extend coverage to tens of millions nationwide, activists…
Hilda Solis: Labor’s New Sheriff
Leave your thoughtsIn 1984, on the Wasatch Plateau in southern Utah, the Wilberg coal mine, a property of Emery Mining, exploded…
Sick Leave Back at the Council
Leave your thoughtsGet ready to push replay on the debate over paid sick leave. On the heels of the approval of health…
9/11 Compensation Still in Limbo
Leave your thoughtsA $657.5 million settlement reached between the city and 9/11 rescue and cleanup workers on March 11 must be…
Obama puede, dicen activistas
Leave your thoughtsNUEVA YORK Luego de la gran marcha nacional pro reforma migratoria del domingo, los inmigrantes del país se…
En el bus de la esperanza gritan Sí se puede
Leave your thoughtsWashington D.C. La organización Se Hace Camino Nueva York llevó ayer 17 buses a Washington para la marcha…