War Stories By Phil Cohen

One of the labor movement’s most essential obligations is enforcing health and safety regulations. Factories, warehouses and other industrial facilities are inherently dangerous environments, compounded by management deliberately ignoring serious hazards to avoid repair costs. Ironically this is one of the least important issues for many workers who trust in their luck, focusing instead on wages, benefits and plant rules.

By Bob Hennelly

Here in New York City, thousands of nurses with the New York State Nurses Association remain on strike at New York Presbyterian, Mount Sinai, and Mount Sinai Morningside and West to maintain their healthcare benefits, safe staffing for patient care as well as secure improved protections against a spike in workplace violence.

By Steve Wishnia

With the impending expiration of a stipulation that the New York City Housing Authority won’t begin demolishing two Chelsea public-housing developments, another tenant challenge to the plan is wending its way through the courts.

By Steve Wishnia

The hundreds of striking nurses picketing outside NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital January 12 were loud. Their chants, cheers, and shouts resounded under the three-level bridgeway connecting the hospital’s buildings. But they weren’t talking about money.

By Joe Maniscalco

Sunday’s massive march south on 5th Avenue in response to the ICE execution of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis took protesters right past Trump Tower and provided many with the opportunity to express their anger and disgust towards the current administration in patented NYC style.

By Joe Maniscalco

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul continues to block resumption of a sweeping wage theft probe into the home care industry this week despite a new ruling in favor of home care workers demanding action.