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1 week ago | 
laborpress.org | Silver Krieger
While the Trump administration has been busy gutting worker protections, breaking unions, undermining the Constitution, attacking oppressed communities, among other ways to gain control of the American people, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists are strategizing as to how best to combat the coup we are now experiencing.
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1 week ago | 
laborpress.org | Silver Krieger
In April, the Trump administration’s interior secretary halted Empire Wind, a $5 billion dollar wind farm project off the coast of New York. The wind farm is 30% complete, according to Equinor, an energy company based in Norway who is working on the project. Now, the ban has lifted the stop-work order, and the construction work , which is expected to provide power for half a million homes beginning in 2027, can resume.
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2 weeks ago | 
laborpress.org | Silver Krieger
President Trump has once again lashed out at his critics, this time aiming his cold-blooded bile at two of the world’s most celebrated and creative working music artists. Taylor Swift, who aside from having more than proven her worth as both an incredibly popular master of her craft, as well as being the world’s wealthiest female musician, and Bruce Springsteen, an uncontested genius in his work over decades, have now had to contend with a new barrage of hate.
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2 weeks ago | 
laborpress.org | Silver Krieger
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), which represents West Coast port workers – hates Donald Trump’s tariffs. The people who load and unload the ships along with port truckers and warehouse workers, are losing their jobs en masse.
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3 weeks ago | 
laborpress.org | Silver Krieger
The nation’s most prestigious universities, some known for centuries as centers of intellectual life in the United States, are currently engaged in a battle to the death with the Trump administration. Free speech, choices of curriculum and the open dialogue between different viewpoints, as well as many other crucial areas that are the reason such institutions exist, are all on the chopping block.
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3 weeks ago | 
laborpress.org | Silver Krieger
District-Council 37 (DC 37) has ramped up its ugly effort to push city retirees off the traditional Medicare they were promised decades ago and onto the for-profit Medicare Advantage plan, largely seen by the retirees as inferior in a multitude of ways. The 250,000 retirees rely on the current no-fee traditional Medicare and supplemental insurance. DC 37 is now withdrawing any donations to City Council members who do not support the switch.
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3 weeks ago | 
laborpress.org | Silver Krieger
Rikers Island, the New York City jail complex, has been notorious for decades for its high rates of violence, lawlessness, and abuse within its walls. Now, an effort to curb its dysfunction and brutality towards inmates has made a leap forward. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain has ruled that a Remediation Manager will be appointed to take all needed steps to not only restore order in the jail, but to be responsible for enforcing previous court orders.
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3 weeks ago | 
laborpress.org | Silver Krieger
New York, NY – The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office serves a population of over 1.5 million. It provides a wide range of protections, innovative programs designed for the positive development of inmates, and works with law enforcement and community groups throughout the country to improve safety in their jails and neighborhoods.
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3 weeks ago | 
laborpress.org | Silver Krieger
New York, NY – Mario Bucceri is the President of The United Transit Leadership Organization (UTLO). The UTLO represents collective bargaining units within the New York State Metropolitan Transit Authority, representing Deputy Superintendents, Superintendents, and Assistant General Superintendents within the MTA Department of Buses, Department of Subways, Department of Support Services and in the Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority (SIRTOA).
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3 weeks ago | 
laborpress.org | Silver Krieger
New York, NY – Thomas Shevlin is the President of the Nassau County Police Benevolent Association. He has brought much to that role – the depth of his experiences, and then the bold steps he took that brought so much help and relief to so many. He cares deeply about Officers’ safety in diverse ways. He vehemently opposes current laws that put police officers at greater risk every day.
