Joseph S. Murphy Scholarship for Diversity in Labor | CUNY SPS.
The Joseph S. Murphy Institute at the CUNY School of Professional Studies is pleased to announce the launch of a national scholarship competition dedicated to fostering a diverse leadership in the labor movement and in the academic field of labor studies.
Noam Chomsky: Trans-Pacific Partnership is a “neoliberal assault” – Salon.com.
Critics of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement — a purported free trade deal between 11 countries, including the U.S., Canada and Japan, which has been in negotiations for some years — have noted that the deal has little to do with free trade…
Staples and the U.S. Postal Service have cut a deal that jeopardizes your mail service and your local post office. In fact, post offices across the country are at risk – along with thousands of good jobs.
The Staples deal will replace full-service U.S. Post Offices with knock-off post offices in Staples stores that are not staffed with U.S. Postal Service employees.
This is a bad deal for communities, consumers and workers. Click here to find out more and Stop Staples.
Richard Sherman’s Latest and his Refusal to Be a Brand.
I was done writing about Super Bowl bound Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman. I was done writing about the polarizing, perspicacious, Pro Bowler who with one iconic post-game interview morphed into our latest national Rorschach test about racism and sports…
Campaign for Paid-Sick Leaves Faces Conservative Resistance | The New Crossroads.
By GREGORY N. HEIRES
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposal to expand New York City’s paid sick leave law faces business opposition, but concerns about the benefit’s cost are overblown. …
Push set to wrest minimum-wage control from Albany – The Insider Blog | Crain’s New York Business.
A coalition of leading liberal groups will launch a major campaign for legislation allowing municipalities in New York to set their own minimum wages, according to sources directly involved in the effort. …
Paterson eyes $25,000 minimum wage for municipal workers – NorthJersey.com.
In their negotiations with city unions, Paterson officials are working to establish a new minimum wage of $25,000, an effort to boost salaries that are so low that dozens of full-time municipal employees quality for various forms of public assistance. …
PATERSON – In their negotiations with city unions, Paterson officials are working to establish a new minimum wage of $25,000, an effort to boost salaries that are so low that dozens of full-time municipal employees quality for various forms of public assistance.
– See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/news/Paterson_eyes_25000_minimum_wage_for_municipal_workers.html?page=all#sthash.FlzcAfQI.dpuf
PATERSON – In their negotiations with city unions, Paterson officials are working to establish a new minimum wage of $25,000, an effort to boost salaries that are so low that dozens of full-time municipal employees quality for various forms of public assistance.
– See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/news/Paterson_eyes_25000_minimum_wage_for_municipal_workers.html?page=all#sthash.FlzcAfQI.dpuf
Shafted by NAFTA | The New Crossroads.
By Gregory N. Heires
The scorecard is in 20 years after the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement: Corporations won and workers lost.
“NAFTA has done what it was intended to do, which is to lower wages,” Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., said in an interview…
NYC Blizzard Reminds Us Public Employees Are Not the Enemy | The Indypendent.
By John Tarleton
Next time public employees ask for a 3% raise and are denounced as overpaid loafers by the usual suspects, let’s remember who came through last night and today to help New York get back up on its feet…