To the editor: Transport Workers Union Local 100 is in the news once again with Tony Utano stepping down as president after only one year on the job. I wish him well.
To the editor: A bill has been drafted by the Municipal Labor Committee and the Office of Labor Relations to gut Administrative Code 12-126, which protects health benefits for active and retired NYC civil servants.
To the editor: As we begin a new year, I have some wishes for our country. The first of these is that we collectively turn our backs on the MAGA movement.
To the editor: The message that many in Congress need to hear is this: Once you sell your soul, you can’t buy it back. All those who still follow the Trump lies, especially the “stolen election,” will probably never respect the truth, will never respect justice, and will never have respect for our Constitution.
To the editor: Now that gas has dropped to $3 a gallon, the GOP finds it hard to exploit the issue, leaving it one option — take credit. I predict the GOP will turn to Orwellian doublethink, as is …
To the editor: I was terribly sad to read of the death of Tim Schermerhorn of TWU Local 100. He was an activist and at one time a vice president. However, more than anything, he was a worker of, by and for the workers.
To the editor: Immanuel Kant famously wrote, “Dare to know.” When it comes to major policy initiatives, Mayor Eric Adams often doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, and couldn’t care less.
To the editor: When references are made about the possibility of the existence of a bizarro world, I respond that this is it and an opposite world would be the normal one.
To the editor: As reported in a Dec. 6 CounterPunch.org article by Patrick Mazza, Railroad Workers United's Ron Kaminkow describes a typical workday: "You get a call, usually two hours before scheduled on duty time.
To the editor: While former Metropolitan, D.C. Police officer Michael Fanone was receiving the Congressional Gold Medal for his heroic action in stopping the attack on the Capitol by the insurrectionist traitors, he was heckled by some of his ex-colleagues.
To the editor: Mayor Eric Adams’ announcement that the city intends to hire a czar to deal with the escalating rat problem left me scratching my head and remarking to myself that the more …
To the editor: Mayor Eric Adams continues to present a false, exaggerated and misleading narrative about crime, the homeless and alleged disorder and chaos in the streets and subways.
To the editor: Recent newspaper stories have reported on problems incurred by 116,000 patients in the World Trade Center Health Program since its management company was changed by the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention.
To the editor: Today, when a candidate wins his or her election by more than a 5-percent margin, we call it a landslide because most races are tight these days due to political divisions.
To the editor: (With apologies to Rudyard Kipling) You may talk o’ gin and beer When you’re quartered safe out ’ere, But we were sent to fight the traitors at …
To the editor: The big news is that Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, announced that he plans to give away most of his money to charity. His current net worth is $120.5 billion.
To the editor: The unions pushing the Medicare Advantage plan state only 66,000 retirees are against this plan ...
To the editor: The Organization of Staff Analysts, a small New York City union, lost out on a golden opportunity in its awarding of their Labor Hero award.
To the editor: In the wake of no-red-wave elections, Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, said that it is very important that the Republicans help Hershel Walker win the Senate seat in Georgia in the runoff against Senator Rafael Warnock.
To the editor: An unpopular president sitting at 44 percent approval at the end of his second year in office. Stubbornly high inflation around 8 percent. A country mired in a recession.
To the editor: Mayor Eric Adams' actions repeatedly have me hoping someone will challenge him in the 2025 Democratic mayoral primary. Let's start with the assertion by Adams' Labor Relations Relations Commissioner Renee Campion
To the Editor: Roger Thornhill, the character played by Cary Grant in “North by Northwest,” defends his profession. “Advertisers don’t lie, they use expedient exaggeration," he says.
To the editor: The abortion issue is being used by the GOP as a tool to confuse and conflate the white supremacist and misogynist positions of the Trump-inspired Republican Party.
To the editor: New York City retirees have been betrayed by the current and former NYC Mayors and the MLC.
To the editor: Republicans differentiate from Democrats by taking a lot more from workers. But Democrats still take some away.See The Chief article "Quality of life concerns weigh heavily on …