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By Tina Bellon (Reuters) - Uber and other gig economy companies are trying a new approach to ending their battles with unions, and getting ahead of po...

By Tina Bellon (Reuters) - Uber and other gig economy companies are trying a new approach to ending their battles with unions, and getting ahead of po...

By Syndicated Content By Tina Bellon (Reuters) – Uber and other gig economy companies are trying a new approach to ending their battles with unions, and getting ahead of possible federal regulation that could upend their business based on classifying workers as independent contractors. In New York, for example, gig economy companies are working with several unions including the Machinists and Transport Workers Union to strike a compromise that would allow drivers and food deliv...

By Syndicated Content By Tina Bellon (Reuters) – Uber and other gig economy companies are trying a new approach to ending their battles with unions, and getting ahead of possible federal regulation that could upend their business based on classifying workers as independent contractors. In New York, for example, gig economy companies are working with several unions including the Machinists and Transport Workers Union to strike a compromise that would allow drivers and food deliv...

By Syndicated Content By Tina Bellon (Reuters) – Uber and other gig economy companies are trying a new approach to ending their battles with unions, and getting ahead of possible federal regulation that could upend their business based on classifying workers as independent contractors. In New York, for example, gig economy companies are working with several unions including the Machinists and Transport Workers Union to strike a compromise that would allow drivers and food deliv...

Uber and other gig economy companies are trying a new approach to ending their battles with unions, and getting ahead of possible federal regulation that

Essex Crossing Site 2; view from the intersection of Delancey and Essex streets. Credit: Handel Architects. Crain’s posted a story overnight that touts the use of union labor in Essex Crossing, once the large residential and commercial complex on the former Seward Park urban renewal site is finished. Here’s how the piece leads off: The developers of Essex Crossing, the massive mixed-use project planned for the Lower East Side, have agreed to staff the complex entirely with union workers, th...

Austin, Texas Uber and other gig economy companies are trying a new approach to ending their battles with unions, and getting ahead of possible federal regulation that could upend their business based on classifying workers as independent contractors. In New York, for example, gig economy companies are working with several unions including the Machinists and Transport Workers Union to strike a compromise that would allow drivers and food delivery workers to organize in a union and negotiate min...

Union kicks off statewide fight against secret health insurance contracts FacebookTwitterEmail Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz, a Queens Democrat, speaking at a press conference in New York City on Sunday, June 6, 2021. The press conference was held to announce the Hospital Equity and Accountability Law, or HEAL. provided ALBANY — When the 32BJ union health fund crunched the numbers on how much its members were paying for colonoscopies, knee replacements and baby deliveries, it was stunned to le...

The 32BJ Health Fund, the insurance plan of Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union, announced Thursday that as of Jan. 1, New York-Presbyterian will no longer be an in-network medical provider for its members. Empire BlueCross BlueShield, 32BJ Health Fund’s third-party network…