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WEB4 days ago · Comptroller Compiles NYC’s Worst Employer List. Neal Tepel LaborPress Publisher September 10, 2024. At a press conference September 2, 2024, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander discussed procedures that now track employer violations. “When companies steal their workers’ wages, commit unfair labor practices,
Civil Service Employees Association and NYS Settle Contract
WEBAugust 4, 2022. Stephanie West. LaborPress. Civil Service Employees Association has ratified a five-year contract with NYS. The agreement, which runs until April 1, 2026, won the approval of more than 80 percent of CSEA members. “This contract fairly compensates the hard-working men and women of the Civil Service Employees Association who ...
32BJ Building Workers Reach Tentative Contract Deal
WEBApr 16, 2018 · NEW YORK, N.Y.—32BJ SEIU’s bargaining committee and the Realty Advisory Board reached a tentative contract agreement Apr. 13 for more than 31,000 residential building-service workers in New York City. The four-year deal would raise workers’ pay by 11.3%, keep pension and health-care benefits protected, increase funding for training and retirement benefits, and add protections against ...
UWUA Local 1-2 Strikes Deal with Con Edison - LaborPress
WEBJun 23, 2020 · LaborPress. New York, NY – Local 1-2 of the Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA) has come to an agreement with Con Edison, their largest employer, regarding the terms of their 2020-2024 contract. Local 1-2 President James Shillitto. On June 22, Local 1-2 President James Shillitto presented the new Collective Bargaining Agreement to the ...
Remembering the Monongah Mine Catastrophe – LaborPress
WEBDec 3, 2021 · Remembering the Monongah Mine Catastrophe. December 3, 2021. Steve Wishnia. LaborPress. New York, NY – The worst workplace disaster in American history took place 114 years ago, on Dec. 6, 1907. A coal-dust explosion at the Monongah Nos. 6 & 8 mines in northern West Virginia killed at least 362 people and probably more than 500.
NYC Council Passes Bill to Regulate ‘Body Shops’ – LaborPress
WEBNov 11, 2021 · NEW YORK, N.Y.—. The City Council on Nov. 10 overwhelmingly passed a bill to regulate so-called “body shops,” labor brokers who supply low-wage workers to nonunion construction jobs. The vote was 40-2. Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan), noting that body shops typically hire recently released …
UPOA President: ‘We Are Not Getting What We Are Supposed to …
WEBIn 2016, New York Attorney General Letitia James – then public advocate – issued a report that there was a more than $5.8 billion pay gap between men and women in New York City agencies. “I was astounded by the audit,” said Powell, who became the president of UPOA that year. “We are so behind in our salaries that we had to go this ...
Prosecutors Are Getting Tougher on Wage Theft, Report Finds
WEBMay 19, 2021 · New York, NY – A growing number of prosecutors around the nation are beginning to treat wage theft and other offenses by employers as a criminal matter, instead of relegating enforcement to civil suits and regulatory agencies. The law-enforcement system is very effective at pressing charges “if someone were to steal an individual’s cell ...
The Haymarket Affair – LaborPress
WEBMay 1, 2020. William J. Adelman Reprinted: Illinois Labor History Society. LaborPress. Chicago, Illinois — “No single event has influenced the history of labor in Illinois, the United States, and even the world, more than the Chicago Haymarket Affair. It began with a rally on May 4, 1886, but the consequences are still being felt today.
Iron Workers Locals 40 & 361 Training Facility: Producing
WEBNov 7, 2019 · Bryan M. Brady, Director of Training. New York, NY – The Iron Workers Locals 40 & 361 apprentice program is the fifth oldest apprentice program in New York; it has been registered with the New York State Department of Labor since 1944.