Labor Press New York

A patient in California recently spent two days in the hospital for a femur fracture. For the stay of two days in a standard medical-surgical bed, and the operating room

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Teamsters Local 705, located in Chicago, has won an $8.7 million racial discrimination lawsuit against carrier DHL Express. The lawsuit was filed by the EEOC in 2010, and it has

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Six pregnant bus operators are suing New York City Transit, saying that they were not provided with reasonable accommodations. Theresa Rodriguez, one of the six, has been out of work

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The National Association of Letter Carriers is declaring that enough is enough. New President Brian Renfroe spoke days before an April 30th rally in Baltimore about the serious issues facing

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New York State Governor Kathy Hochul, longtime public champion of the unionized workforce, has once again passed a pro-worker, labor-friendly budget for fiscal year 2025. By expanding labor prote...

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A recent report from the New York Healthy Nail Salon Coalition has revealed a sad and shocking state of affairs for those who work in nail salons: they have a

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DHL Teamsters descended on a DHL Annual General Meeting in Germany recently, decrying union busting and anti-union tactics of the global delivery giant. Rank-and-file, organizing committee member...

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Washington, DC – On Thursday, May 2, 2024, the Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien joined Sen. Ed Markey and workers to announce the introduction of the Warehouse Worker Protection

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Manhattan, NY—New York State United Teachers recognized Maria Scudiero, a registered nurse at NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn, as the union’s Healthcare Professional of the Year.  A member ...

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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honor each of the 6 million Jewish lives lost at the hands of the Nazi regime and recall the stories of survivors and the horror

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