“It's really disgusting that we're even being put in this situation, to be always trying to survive, scraping by with a law degree and with the amount of experience that we have,” said one Legal Aid Society attorney. Contract negotiations between the attorneys’ union and the Legal Aid Society have been ongoing for seven months.
Read MoreA local labor union protested a contract the Parks Department gave to a company that recently pleaded guilty to insurance fraud. But the Parks Department said the union had no standing and continued awarding the company with multi-million dollar, taxpayer-funded contracts. Now, the union and group of lawmakers say the agency needs to change its public bidding process.
Read MoreDespite seeing pay increases in the state budget, home care workers need a larger wage increase in order to stave off the growing labor shortage, lawmakers and advocates say.
Read More"On Labor Day every year, we're reminded of the vital contributions of organized labor to building New York.”
“The delay in HERO Act implementation has resulted in preventable danger of coronavirus spread in workplaces.”
Read MoreHow did Steinway & Sons end up in Astoria? The answer is tied up in the greater history of the American labor struggle, particularly the emerging union and eight-hour work day workers’ movements of Gilded Age America.
Read More“We had sicknesses, we had deaths and now we deserve the hazard pay.”
Read MoreThe bill takes aim at contractors and ensures they would assume liability if any of their subcontractors steal wages from their workers.
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