State bill to introduce minimum wage for some workers
Leave your thoughtsWorkers at chain stores and other large businesses would see a $15-an-hour minimum wage under state legislation introduced yesterday. State and…
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Suffolk’s Bellone backs higher minimum wages but stops short on local rates
Leave your thoughtsSuffolk County Executive Steve Bellone supports raising the minimum wage at the federal and state level, but balked at a…
Mayor de Blasio leads cheers for car wash union drive
Leave your thoughtsMayor de Blasio and the city’s other top office holders threw the full support of city government behind the effort to…
Video: Latest Fair Wage Push Would Have Big Employers Pay More
Leave your thoughtsA new bill being introduced in Albany would make large companies pay workers at least $15 an hour. The legislators…
Personas transgénero condenadas a vivir doble vida en NYC
Leave your thoughtsEl sueño de Jocelyn Mendoza es que al buscar trabajo la acepten como transgénero, y así poder dejar de vestirse…
NY attorney general probes Herbalife: sources
Leave your thoughtsNew York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is investigating Herbalife over claims it is a pyramid scheme, The Post has learned.…
LOW WAGE WORKERS ORGANIZING; PA’LANTE CLEANING COOP; AFRICAN AMERICAN COOPERATIVES
Leave your thoughtsCollective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice featuring Jessica Gordon Nembhard, economist, author, Prof. of…
President Obama and House Speaker Boehner should share blame for the ongoing failure of immigration reform in Washington
Leave your thoughtsNew York immigrant families and advocates threw House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Monday the kind of welcoming party he…
Long Island Immigrant Communities Join National Day of Action on Immigration Reform and Stopping Deportations
Leave your thoughtsOn Thursday evening, immigrants and allies from across Long Island joined together for a moving, and action-oriented, community forum that…
New Worker Co-op Set to Clean Up!
Leave your thoughtsA group of immigrant workers have turned the tables on their crummy bosses this week with the official launch of…