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Public Transit: A Vehicle for Struggle

May 5, 2021 Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

Investment in public transportation is a crucial step towards combatting climate change, reducing air pollution, addressing traffic congestion, and expanding mobility. But how we design public transportation is also at stake. When we increase fares, slash services, or reduce COVID safety protections, workers bear the cost: both transit workers and transit riders who are overwhelmingly […]

October 23, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

New York City’s Transport Workers Union Local 100 is holding a contest for the photo capturing the NYC train car with the most litter. The contest, whose winner will receive a $500 reward, is intended to draw attention to recent cuts to subway cleaner jobs. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports that 10,000 members of […]

June 20, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Two decades after its introduction, the Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act passed both the New York State Assembly and Senate yesterday. The bill guarantees farmworkers collective bargaining rights, workers’ compensation, and unemployment benefits, and also provides for overtime pay for work in excess of 60 hours a week. Governor Cuomo has indicated he will sign […]

May 22, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

On Tuesday, a group of labor organizations filed 23 new sexual harassment charges and lawsuits against McDonald’s. The Fight for $15 organization, the ACLU, and the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund filed 20 complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and three civil rights lawsuits, alleging gender-based discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation for reporting both, […]

May 16, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) wrote to the National Mediation Board yesterday to accuse Delta of illegally interfering with the right of baggage handlers and flight attendants to make a free choice on unionization. The complaint follows a week in which one of Delta’s anti-union posters went viral and attracted widespread […]

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