Leaves are falling to the ground, but though the season has changed, the horrors and hardships of the pandemic have not. Its brutality continues to cost lives and livelihoods. It robs children of …
You can't say I didn't warn you. I may have predicted a different cause (job elimination due to automation instead of a worldwide pandemic), but in June 2017 I wrote in one of my initial …
On Labor Day we recognize and honor the incredible achievements and many contributions of working people. This year, however, is like no other. Parades have been postponed and celebrations with …
On Labor Day we recognize and honor the incredible achievements and many contributions of working people. This year, however, is like no other. Parades have been postponed and celebrations with …
It appears that we have passed through the worst of the COVID-19 disease, but it still lurks in our communities ready to spring back at any moment. Clusters of cases are still rising in New York …
It appears that we have passed through the worst of the COVID-19 disease, but it still lurks in our communities ready to spring back at any moment. Clusters of cases are still rising in New York …
My friend Tony Feliciano, transit worker 1984-2020, and a union man all his life, died a few weeks ago; he had just turned 61. While transit workers were dying this spring, he actually made it out of …
Former President Barack Obama said: "When times are tough, we don't give up. We get up." That's precisely what municipal workers did when the coronavirus struck. At a time of unimaginable …
While the city government has threatened layoffs, the boom has already dropped at the City University of New York. My union, the Professional Staff Congress, which represents faculty and …
June 15 was a milestone in the history of policing in New York City. With the disbanding of NYPD anti-crime units, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea formally acknowledged that placing officers in …
