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You may have read or heard that during the Dodgers' 16-inning, 5-3 win at San Diego on Wednesday, their pitchers faced 38 consecutive batters without allowing a hit. After Adam Frazier of the...

Labor leaders are outspending business and real estate-funded groups in a bid to sway the shape of the new Council. The biggest beneficiary of union spending: A Brooklyn candidate at the center of an armory development project fight.

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McGuire’s connection to the Koch’s will not endear him to those on the city’s left, many of whom are Democratic primary voters — voters McGuire will need to win over if he wants to become the next mayor.

Assassination. >> and you know, when i heard "soundtracks," and i knew i was going to be talking to you, i immediately thought of the 1979 pittsburgh pirates. all baseball fans of a certain age will know what im tacking about right now. the 1979 pirates, it was their theme song. they were the "we are family" pittsburgh pirates. thats the message they wanted to send, this team. youre looking at willie stargell, ed ott, but why is a song associated with a baseball team? >> i think, you know, that ...

Waitresses, whatever, being able to go in and be at the bargaining able and feel like theyre part of their own representation. why is that important? >> for a group like restaurant opportunity center, roc, they were really dealing with issues that in the industry the unions had not engaged what they saw as sufficiently. for instance, who gets to wait on tables in the front of the house as to the back of the house is as much a racial and actual politics issue as it is union organizing issue. and ...

We were taught you have to be careful in a capitalist society because there is no bottom to the bottom. that $7.25 worker is actually underbid in the marketplace for wages less than $6, $4 an hour. there are domestic workers that getting a paycheck at all is kind of a gamble. theyre not sure theyre going to be paid at the end of a given week. so part of the reason why we fight for unions, worker centers and legal protections for workers is that in the market, there is no bottom. thats the whole ...

Organizations and worker centers are giving employees some hope and some empowerment. the book "new labor in new york" details case studies of this new way of organizing and how they could be replicated, potentially on a national level. the author is ed ott, the editor of that book, who also ran the new york city central labor council. ed joins us now. >> thank you very much. i was a co-editor. >> co-editor. thank you. one of the big shifts thats happened in the economy thats led to a decline in...

The workers stood up to that, the labor relations board established the fact they have rights, i think the clear message from the workers is were not going away, were back this black friday and staying here. this is not a short-term action. this is a long term siege. i think the other thing that they established is that they are not alone. the workers have a lot of support, a lot of friends, the media including the main stream media has begun to pay attention to the needs of these workers in dif...

Pressuring the university and the university has turned back toward getting more full timers but its going to take years and years to dig out of that hole. its unfair to the faculty but also as you pointed out before, its very unfair to the students, and from an organizing perspective if you are running around new york city on three different campuses, getting a job you dont have time for anything else. your main goal is to get home to your family and do what else you got to do. >> that feels li...