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Alexas_Fotos / Pixabay Gov. Andrew Cuomo late Wednesday signed the New York Health and Essential Rights, or HERO, Act, calling it “a historic step forward for working people.” The law sets enforceable health and safety standards to protect workers from COVID-19 and future airborne infectious diseases in the workplace. Supporters held a celebratory news conference on Zoom on Thursday. Under the measure, the state health and labor departments will design minimum standards for workplace ...

Listen to the story from Capital Correspondent Karen Dewitt. Under the measure, the State Health and Labor Departments will design minimum standards for workplace health and safety during all infectious disease outbreaks. Business will have to provide personal protective equipment for all employees, set up safe social distancing and disinfecting protocols, and ensure adequate airflow. Stuart Appelbaum, head of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, is among many union leaders who ba...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new phase of the historic union vote by Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama begins today. The news kicks off with an appeals hearing where the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) will contest the results of the election. “Things are not over,” says Veena Dubal, a law professor at the University of California, Hastings. “We all need to be continuing to pay attention to this part.” Earlier this year, after a months-lon...

Supporters Herald Signing Of HERO Act With Worker Protections arrow The New York Health and Essential Rights Act was signed into law late Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, setting enforceable health and safety standards to protect workers from the transmission and community spread of COVID-19, as well as any future airborne infectious diseases. Known as the HERO Act, it directs the state health and labor departments to create an airborne infectious disease standard covering all private ...

The New York State Capitol building in Albany. Photo: Matt Wade, Creative Commons, some rights reserved. May 06, 2021 — Gov. Andrew Cuomo late Wednesday signed the New York Health and Essential Rights, or HERO, Act, calling it “a historic step forward for working people.” The law sets enforceable health and safety standards to protect workers from COVID-19 and future airborne infectious diseases in the workplace. Supporters held a celebratory news conference on Zoom on Thursday. Under t...

2:10 Governor Andrew Cuomo late Wednesday signed into law the New York HERO Act, which sets enforceable health and safety standards to protect workers from COVID-19 and future infectious diseases in the workplace. Supporters celebrated on Thursday.   Under the measure, the state health and labor departments will design minimum standards for workplace health and safety during outbreaks of airborne viruses and all infectious disease outbreaks. Business will have to provide personal protective e...

Recently, Amazon won a closely watched National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election against the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) at a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. But it did so only after spending millions of dollars on harassing and intimidating its workers for two months before the vote. Now, the company is using the same strategy to bust a new independent union drive at its Staten Island facility in New York. Unions and worker rights advocates are pushing for legislat...

The Mayor Promises a Summer to Remember in New York. Can He Deliver? A pledge from Mayor Bill de Blasio that New York City would fully reopen on July 1 brought hope. But his vision of a city reborn faces significant obstacles. Video -0:00 De Blasio Says, ‘This Is Going to Be the Summer of New York City’ Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York set a goal on Thursday for a full reopening of city businesses on July 1, but his authority to lift restrictions was somewhat limited. Capacity limits have b...

Elijah Nouvelage · Bloomberg · Getty The activists who organised a referendum on unionisation in March at BHM1, the huge Amazon fulfilment centre in Bessemer, Alabama, like to make David and Goliath comparisons. That’s understandable — the warehouse workers, almost all of them African American, took on one of the world’s most powerful companies, owned by Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, in one of the US’s most conservative states. But in the Bible, David defeated the giant, whil...

Dive Brief: After fighting off a union effort at its Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse earlier this month, Amazon on Wednesday said that it will raise wages for more than 500,000 workers in its logistics operations by "between at least 50 cents and $3 an hour." That is on top of what Darcie Henry, Amazon vice president of People eXperience and Technology, Worldwide Consumer, said in a blog post is "our already industry-leading starting wage of at least $15 an hour and the more than $2.5 billion tha...