While some of the city’s major unions already supporting Governor Pataki for re-election, other leading members of the Working Families Party are split between the two Democratic hopefuls for the…
Immigrants in need of unemployment benefits better brush up on their English or Spanish. While the state launched new translation services for applicants a couple of weeks ago, more often…
Barely six years after the city forcibly evicted squatters from five city-owned tenements on the Lower East Side and handed then over to an affordable housing developer, the buildings are…
After years of delays, a bill requiring that companies that do business with the city pay their employees a living wage may finally be introduced in the City Council this…
The city’s teachers union overlooked some differences of opinion on education policy last week to endorse Republican John Ravitz in his race for Roy Goodman’s state senate seat, leaving some…
After decades of protesting sweatshop conditions, a Chinatown activist stands up for a garment factory owner for the first time for the sake of saving jobs in an industry suffering…
With the city’s attention focused on the terrorist attacks, and with some South Asian and Arab immigrants still reeling from bias attacks waged against them over the last two weeks,…
While financial aid pours in to help workers whose jobs were based inside the Twin Towers, businesses one degree removed from the Trade Center are suffering alone: Last week, the…
