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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyOne World Trade Center just got its spire, making ...
Addressing the response to the Boston Marathon Bombings, former Congressman Barney Fank told CNN we should be thankful for a ...
A week after hundreds of fast-food workers went on strike in New York City, organizers and workers say enthusiasm has grown f...
A week after hundreds of fast-food workers went on strike in New York City, organizers and workers say enthusiasm has grown f...
In his State of the Union, President Obama proposed raising the minimum wage to $9.00 per hour and Republicans wasted no ...
Workers at a Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi are fighting for a voice in the workplace. Even actor Danny Glover has taken...
And the school bus strike appears to be on. The strike, which Schools Commissioner Dennis Walcott calls "irresponsible a...
By Rick Ungar of ForbesIt turns out that being a good corporate citizen is as important to selling pizzas as the thinness of ...
Word has just come across the interwebs and Twittersphere that Hostess, makers of popular snacks like Twinkies and Ding Dongs...
By: Ali Gharib of ThinkProgressBetween annoying the British and alienating the Palestinians, Mitt Romney seems to have found ...
By: Erin MershonWASHINGTON -- House Republicans routinely beat the drum about the hard work they have done in passing "m...
By: Ray MedeirosHow stupid do Republicans think Americans are? You can not blame President Obama for rising poverty, that is ...
Monday, July 23 onThe Mark Riley Morning Show:6:35 AM Camille Rivera, Executive Director of UnitedNY; The UnitedNY report cit...
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer joins Yetta Kurland tonight at 10 PM.Mark Hannay of Health Care for All also joins...
The LGBT Money Money Show with Marcy Rose & Joe Soranno of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Monday nights at 10 PM.This week Marcy...
WWRL has partnered with DC-37 and Teamsters Local 237 to bring working New Yorkers a weekly program dedicated to the issues. ...
DALLAS -- The company that makes Twinkies, Wonder bread and Ding Dongs says it's making a final offer to workers to accep...
By: Amanda Terkel & Sam SteinWASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Wednesday decided not to move forward with an executiv...
New Yorkers struggling to climb the economic ladder are realizing it's a tougher slog now than ever before.That's bec...
NY Pension Reform Air Wars, Chapter IIThe battle over pension reform in Albany is heating up the airwaves -- and the rhetoric...
Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged no tax hikes, but warned of skyrocketing pension costs and ballooning budget deficits in futu...
Blacks, Hispanics and younger New Yorkers had the hardest time finding a job in the waning months of 2011, according to data ...
Layoffs of nearly 3,500 state employees could be avoided under a contract agreement with Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday.T...
Gregory Floyd President, Local 237 Teamsters Since joining Teamsters Union Local 237 over 20 years ago, Gregory Floyd has bee...
Lillian Roberts? Lillian Roberts is currently the Executive Director of DC37, the largest municipal union in New York City. S...
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Despite the fact that Americans want Medicare and Social Security protected, President Obama has once again included cuts to ...
No matter how you calculate it, minimum wage has flat-lined over the past 50 years. That's the finding in a 2012 study fr...
Only 4 days after the March 1st Sequester deadline, people around our nation are already starting to feel the pinch of auster...
Maybe I'm the only person who feels this way, but I'm about tired of workers taking it on the chin. Here I am, broadc...
In New York City on Tuesday, more than 8,000 school bus drivers walked off the job. It’s the first time school bus driv...
All around us, people are coming down with the flu – and the Centers for Disease Control warn that it could be the wors...
The days of guaranteed retirement benefit in the form of a pension are long gone. As numbers out of the Bureau of Labor Stati...
The first casualties of going over the so-called “fiscal cliff” will be more than two million unemployed American...
But he’s also making a run at capitulator of the year. Fallout continues one day after the White House proposed turning...
Despite the objections of thousands of people who packed the capitol in Lansing, Mich., yesterday, Michigan's Republican ...
It's not always easy to connect disparate dots, and end up with a mosaic, but here goes.Lately, we've seen several st...
The latest CEO to threaten his employees if Mitt Romney loses. White is the owner of the industrial equipment firm Rite-Hite ...
In the last few weeks – several corporate CEOs have been exposed for compelling their employees to vote for Mitt Romney...
Over the weekend, labor reporter Mike Elk with In These Times magazine revealed that the Koch brothers sent political fliers ...
New jobs numbers released today show the economy added 114,000 jobs in September. The Department of Labor also said the econo...
The streets of Madrid resembled a war zone on Tuesday, as thousands of demonstrators surrounded the Spanish Parliament demand...
The nation’s third largest school district is without teachers today. After contract negotiations fell through over the...
Each month that goes by in Europe, the continent’s economy gets worse and worse, thanks to crippling austerity measures...
Despite what you might have seen on cable news networks Fox News and CNN, the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare today – ru...
The U.S. call center industry has lost 500,000 jobs over the last six years thanks to corporations like Bank of America, Well...
My most sincere apologies to John Steinbeck, but I couldn't help myself. It's time to talk of Mittens, the man who th...
The President, or perhaps more specifically, Jay Carney was bombarded with tough and very aggressive questions by reporters t...
Former classmates say that in prep school, Mitt Romney had a Michigan state trooper’s uniform that he would wear to pul...
As CNN reports – wage theft complaints have increased 400% over the last decade – with over 7,000 lawsuits allegi...
The National Employment Law Project is reporting that another 70,000 Americans will be cut off from unemployment insurance ne...
President Obama is out with a tough new ad about Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital. The ad focuses on a steel company ...
Exacerbated by trickle-down austerity, the Eurozone unemployment rate has risen to 10.9%The European economy is tanking &ndas...
As nearly 13 million Americans look for a job – federal funding to retrain Americans workers and prepare them for the j...
Minimum wage workers are screwed. While Republicans in Congress want to drop or throw away the federal minimum wage – n...
Not only are the long-term unemployed screwed out of the American Dream – they’re also dying younger.The New York...
I came back from Washington, DC Tuesday, after doing the WWRL Morning Show across the street from the US Supreme Court buildi...
Putting aside the Republican's war on women for a moment – a new report from the National Women’s Law Center ...
Mistreated workers are screwed in Georgia, where the Peach State has opened a new front in the war on working people. This we...
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels took his state backwards on Wednesday – signing legislation to make Indiana the 23rd &ld...
The Great Bush Crash of 2008 – resulted in a massive downgrade of the U.S. labor force. According to a new study out o...
Average working Americans could get screwed. Republicans may agree to extend the payroll tax cut for middle class Americans ...
It’s Veterans Day! November 11th was originally called Armistice Day, and marked the end of the First World War. The f...
In late September, NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that essentially allows New York City cops and firemen to hold onto the...
Who's still unemployed? Mainly those — women, young people, blacks — who lack the political clout to get ...
If you review the recent history of battles between unions and state or local governments, you’ll find similar stories....
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