Time for a Raise?: Inside the Fight for 15
The kind of day Kasseen Silver has at work often depends on the weather. He’s worked at the Burger King on 116th Street (at Lexington Avenue) in Manhattan for two…
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Mixed Bag for NY’s Working, Middle Class Families in 2013 Mayoral Election
Your rent is too damn high. You’re trying to make a living in the worst economy since the Depression. If you have a job, you probably haven’t gotten more than…
Bloomberg Gloats Like an Orwell Villain as NYC Bus Workers End Strike
New York City’s school-bus drivers and matrons have gone back to work after a month-long strike failed to win any concessions on job security from the Bloomberg administration. The administration…
Low Wage Workers Resuscitate NY’s Organized Labor
With New York’s barbell economy destroying traditional middle class employment, fast food workers aren’t the only ones fed up with low wages and unfair labor practices. Others rising up to…
NY Fast Food Workers Serve Up a Fight for Economic Justice
The sidewalk in front of the Wendy’s on Brooklyn’s Fulton Mall was choked with people at noon on November 29th. The signs they held were mostly handmade, in English and…
NYC Bus Workers Strike for Child Safety and Their Livelihoods
Nearly 9,000 school bus workers, represented by the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181, are on strike as of 6 a.m. Wednesday. They were driven to picket and protest by a…
Strike launches Largest Union Drive in U.S. Fast Food History
While the emblems of Wendy’s, McDonald’s, KFC, Domino’s and other greasy dynasties are hard to escape in the American landscape, those who cook, clean, ring up orders and otherwise serve…
