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Ward and Furey greeted Seidenberg’s appointment as head of International Distribution Services with the words: “We are absolutely committed to working with the new CEO and improving industrial relations”.

The windows to a city union head’s Range Rover were hit by BB pellets as it sat inside an NYPD Police Academy parking lot in Queens, the union president said Saturday. Sayed Rahim, president of the city traffic enforcement agents’ union, said he was addressing a group of 62 traffic enforcement agent recruits at the academy on 28th Ave. in College Point about noon on July 21 when both the ...

Introduced by Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, the bill would allow striking workers to qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits while out of work.

“Even those who deny that we’re in the midst of a climate crisis can’t deny the impact extreme heat is having on Americans,” the president said.

“Even those who deny that we’re in the midst of a climate crisis can’t deny the impact extreme heat is having on Americans,” the president said.

A “supermajority” of the “approximately 100 eligible members” have signed union cards to form Grindr United, according to a press release from the Communication Workers of America. The employees come from multiple departments at Grindr, including engineering, design, IT, marketing, and quality insurance. Next, they’ll vote in a union election.

The labor movement in the United States is having an unusually active moment, with as many as four high-profile strikes possible and a level of coordination among separate unions that experts say has been lacking in recent years. In May, the Writers Guild of America, which represents film and television screenwriters, went on strike, followed…

CWA (Communications Workers of America) elected Claude Cummings Jr. as the union's first Black president on July 12.

The upcoming retirement of the longtime chef and uncertainty in the kitchen of the legendary Denver venue are propelling plans to organize.

Claude Cummings Jr. was elected president of the 600,000-member CWA. He becomes the first Black person to guide the union.