Hospital Worker Wins $2,550 in Retro Pay
By DIANE WILLIAMS Serious illness almost cost Harlem Hospital Patient Care Associate Daniel Brewington his job. With help from his union, the Local 420 member is back at work [...]
PEP June 2017
Book Review: Beyond the $15 an Hour Movement and the Revival of Labor
By MOLLY CHARBONEAU How to build genuine trust among labor, faith and community partners to create a powerful movement is the universal message of Jonathan Rosenblum’s new [...]
Ruling Upholds Members’ Right to Extra Compensation for Handling Medical Waste
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS Seven hospital workers, members of Local 420, have received a total of $7,000 in back pay to settle a group grievance filed after Bellevue Hospital [...]
Staten Island Parks Worker Aids Storm Stella Victim
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS The last snow storm of the winter, Stella, barreled down on a shuttered New York City March 15 and claimed the life of a Staten Island man who had been [...]
Union Solidarity with Immigrant Workers
By LAURIE STALNAKER The AFL-CIO is training union leaders and officials how to help protect undocumented immigrants. This is needed because the workers our unions represent [...]
Why Unions Matter for Everybody
By ELAINE BERNARD The decline in strength, density and influence of the labor movement must be a concern for all of us — whether we are union members or not. It has led to [...]
“The more I get involved with my union, the more I grow.”
Rhonda Carter, Patient Care Associate, Local 420 “The more I get involved with my union, the more I grow.” I am a Patient Care Associate at Kings County [...]
A “Paquetazo” of Pain and Privatization in Puerto Rico
By NELSON A. DENIS In colloquial Spanish, the word paquete means “an elaborate lie.” In Puerto Rico, a current “labor reform” program has been called the paquetazo [...]
An Anti-Labor Alliance of Evil
While investigations into alleged Russian collusion and interference in the 2016 elections are ongoing, the coverage of these events has smothered significant coverage of the [...]
Breaking point
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS Sammy Kamara was 7 when his parents sent him to live with an uncle in Monrovia, Liberia, to learn English with hopes for a better life. The uncle [...]
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