New York
NY Progressive Caucus demands: Tax the rich
June 23, 2010NEW YORK - As Mayor Michael Bloomberg's budget axe chops at public workers and services, a large section of the City Council wants another solution: tax the rich.
Read moreSupermarket workers fight to bag a fair deal
June 22, 2010NEW YORK - With a possible strike approaching, thousands of Stop and Shop, Pathmark and King Kullen workers are urging the public to plan to buy their July 4 cookout ingredients elsewhere.
Read moreCo-op City building workers back to work — for now
June 21, 2010BRONX, N.Y. - Management called it a strike, the workers called it a lockout - federal mediation is next at the world's largest co-op apartment complex.
Read moreNew Yorkers demand: Save our city!
June 17, 2010Thousands of protestors descended on City Hall on Wednesday, in a crowd that stretched up Broadway.
Read moreUnion baiting equals hating
June 9, 2010A couple of months ago, I heard Joel Klein, head of New York's Department of Education, blame the teachers' union contract for the fact that there are a lot of Jewish holidays on the school calendar
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