City Opposes DOH Change
Leave your thoughtsNEW YORK, NY April 01, 2008 Labor advocates** and almost half the City Council support a proposed law adding…
Category: Workplace Justice
Food Workers Want Fair Deal
Leave your thoughtsCITY HALL. Whether serving foie gras or delivering noodles, restaurant industry workers endure rampant labor violations, such as not getting…
En marcha: Inmigrantes se unen para pedir reformas
Leave your thoughtsCaminando por el centro financiero de Wall Street hasta el ayuntamiento de Nueva York, unos 1.500 inmigrantes salieron ayer del…
Immigrants March for Schools and Housing
Leave your thoughtsAbout 1,500 immigrant New Yorkers and their supporters marched to City Hall from Battery Park today to draw attention…
New Yorkers Take to the Streets
Leave your thoughtsWaving colorful banners that read, "Proud to Be an Immigrant!" and "I Love Immigrant New York," thousands here demonstrated on…
Retail Workers Celebrate Million-Dollar Victory
Leave your thoughtsFrigid weather didn’t stop employees of the Soho retail clothing store Yellow Rat Bastard from celebrating the $1.4 million in…
Real Estate Round-Up
Leave your thoughtsThe captivating and revered brownstones and skyscrapers of New York City certainly didn’t put themselves together. No, they required the…
Back to Basics, Unions go Door-to-Door
Leave your thoughtsLaura Tapia is the union movement’s equivalent of a beat cop. A tiny, fast-talking woman from Puebla, Mexico, she’s spent…
Trying to Make it Safer to Do a Dangerous Job
Leave your thoughtsThe recent construction site accident at the Trump Soho residential hotel in which worker Yurly Vanchytskyy fell more than…
Nicked on Knickerbocker
Leave your thoughtsThe State Department of Labor announced a new proactive approach to enforcing labor laws, and they are starting on the…