If acronyms could solve crimes, Mayor Eric Adams would be Sherlock Holmes. His administration’s latest plan to combat retail theft, aka shoplifting, is rife with catchy abbreviations that won’t …
Opinions regarding the management of correctional systems by Councilwoman Carlina Rivera and Darren Mack, the co-director of advocacy organization Freedom Agenda, presented in a recent Daily News …
Now that we’ve gotten the disturbing scenario of Trump’s return to the presidency out of the way, let’s game out a Biden victory in 2024. In this one, the Trump …
"It's never too soon to jump-start your resume.” Your first job can be the start of something big. Attitude is everything. There is dignity in a hard day's work and any job is a good job if you can …
Although the Supreme Court recently rejected banning the sale of over the counter medical abortion pills, it’s too soon to breathe a sigh of relief. Since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health …
TV's "The View" and the WWE professional wrestling shows are unaffected by the strike by the more than 11,000 member Writers Guild of America against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television …
Hello to all the great mothers, aunts, grandmothers, cousins and women who make this world a little kinder, smarter and gentler. Hope you had a great Mother’s Day. The weather certainly …
The punishment should fit the crime. Does it ever? Maybe in high-profile cases when the myth of equal justice must be perpetuated to dodge the bullet of calls for reform. The nexus between …
The holy grail for private sector unions is the NLRB election. Unionizing campaigns are organized with the narrow objective of acquiring signatures from at least 30 percent of workers to trigger an …
After an explosive arrival early in the pandemic the gig worker organization Los Deliveristas Unidos is facing internal dissent as progress on their demands stalls and watered down. As it gains …
In the name of religion, all things are possible and many have been attempted with mixed, often dire results. That's one of the disturbing takeaways from both a passionate or dispassionate study of …
The Aztec and Mayan civilizations have passed on their legacies of human sacrifice to the American judicial system. Doing one's civil duty can rip out one's heart. It's an exercise in democracy.The …
A steward’s work is never done. And it’s often challenging work, especially when representing difficult members. As union stewards, and this is true of staff organizers too, we have a duty …
Genome editing technology can alter DNA. It works for organisms but not for employers.Sometimes they are inclined to run their workplaces fairly, but it must never be left to their choice alone. …
Last October 31, one of the largest nonprofit organization staff in the country began a two-week long unfair labor practices strike. Their employer was accused of unilaterally declaring impasse after …
Years ago, I tagged along as an invited guest to a testimonial dinner in honor of a nursing home magnate. It was probably a premature lifetime award affair. Any excuse for a party. There were fine …
By now most of us have heard about the profound changes that recently took place in France with respect to the passage (by completely undemocratic means, but why quibble over a little thing like …
The phrase "an aha moment" refers to a "moment of sudden insight or discovery.” Most flashes of enlightenment are highly unreliable. But listening to a radio talk-show, I had such an "aha …
If things continue as they have for the last 20 years or so, and particularly in the last five or 10, it may be time (or even past time, I’d argue) for the Democratic Party to declare independence …
We are in the middle of an exciting surge in the labor movement. New workers are organizing to take on the boss. If you have been organizing and building momentum, what comes next? We are often told …
Got a moment? Look up to the sky and beyond. Imagine the trillions of invisible signals speeding undeterrable from space, knowing exactly which hand-held device on silent mode in someone's pocket …
Decriminalize prostitution, maybe. Criminalize psychiatry, definitely. Or at least radically transform it back to its roots. Away from politics and its strangling alliance with Big Pharma, the …
There has been inspiring growth of support for unions and increased organizing and strikes in the past few years. Despite these signs of progress, little seems to have changed. Workers at Amazon, …
It’s not easy growing up in today’s America. The pressure on children to excel academically has never been greater; social media is proving to be more isolating than binding; single parent …
Dear union leaders: When I gave my in-person testimony to the City Council on January 9th of this year I stayed to the very end of the hearing and listened to what everyone had to say. What especially …
