THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015 — Last week, airport workers turned out to support fast food workers in the Fight for $15 national day of action. Today fast food workers, students, car washers and other low-wage workers returned the favor. “On April 15, I saw airport workers around the country stand with us in the fight […]

New York, NY— Workers at 1711 Fulton, a residential building complex in Bedford-Stuyvesant that gets state assistance for affordable housing, today called on Vertices Holdings to restore the good jobs at the building after the new owner cut their pay by as much as 45 percent and eliminated health care and retirement benefits. The workers

What: Today more than 500 airport workers at Philadelphia International Airport have gone on strike to protest PrimeFlight’s low wages and unfair labor practices. The action is expected to be the largest strike in the three-year history of SEIU’s airport workers campaign.  It comes just days before the same workers set to join fast food,

NEW YORK— New Yorkers gathered on the steps of City Hall this morning to urge Albany to keep a plan to raise the minimum wage in the state budget as negotiations intensify in the final days before the April 1 deadline. Workers called on the Legislature to include a plan that will raise the minimum wage

NEW YORK—Bronx Residential workers overwhelmingly ratified a new 4-year contract tonight that will give them a $64.75 per week raise over the next 4 years and maintain the health care and retirement benefits for over 3,500 residential workers.  Their new contract also includes an employer 401k contribution of five dollars per week starting in the