Book Review: “Latino Americans”
By KEN NASH Latino Americans,” a 6-hour PBS documentary, links our present to our past, showing that much of what is now the United States was settled by Mexicans (after [...]
PEP NOV 2017
“I Hope Members Grasp a Fuller Picture of What a Union Does for Them and the Community.”
Patricia Peterson, retired Senior Police Administrative Aide, Local 1549 By DIANE S. WILLIAMS After 38 years with, the New York Police Department, I retired in February 2017. [...]
Want to Get Back to Normal? Strong Unions are Key
By LEE SAUNDERS Daily flirtations with nuclear war. Suspending freedom of the press. Fifty-nine people executed during a country music concert. Neo-Nazis and white [...]
Climate Activists Ready to Fight
By ALFREDO ALVARADO With President Donald J. Trump pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement and his appointment of a climate skeptic to lead the federal Environmental [...]
Union Fights State Workers’ Compensation Changes
By MIKE LEE The union is taking part in an all-out effort to fight proposed changes to the workers’ compensation system in New York — changes that affect all workers [...]
Why We Must All Fight for the Dream Act
By ROBERT B. REICH By repealing DACA — Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals — Trump has endangered these young immigrants and the economic security of America. In [...]
“We’re Making a Big Difference in the Lives of Women.”
Joanne Schmidt, Family Public Health Nurse, Local 436 Most of my time is spent in the field visiting our clients, with a day to do paperwork in the office. They live [...]
Union Members Make Sure the New York City Marathon Runs
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS Collecting his 11th New York City Marathon medal, Jorge Serrano, a senior accountant for Civil Service Technical Guild Local 375, said this year’s race [...]
A Bridge Maintainer’s Mitzvah
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS For years Anthony Pisciotta, a Bridge and Tunnel Maintainer in Local 1931, drove past Bayside Cemetery every day. He saw the long neglected Jewish burial [...]
Metropolitan Museum of Art Workers Win Health-Care Dispute
By GREGORY N. HEIRES Thirty-four guards at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will have extra cash on hand for the holidays thanks to the resolution of a payroll dispute between [...]
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