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Sign of The Times?

It is the season of tropes and reinvention.  It is the season of solemn covenants and broken promises. It is the season of color blindness and injustice in plain sight. It is the season of …

Congressional mettles of honoraria

Unions belong wherever they are necessary. That means everywhere except unattended ancient catacombs. If there are guards there, there should be collective bargaining for more than to take air …

Yellow cabs — a solution in search of a problem

I fully sympathize with the hardworking cab drivers who have faced bankruptcy due to money owed for medallions. I not only think that they should be provided with relief, but also that buying a …

Protect city retirees’ promised benefits

In spring 2021, the Municipal Labor Committee (MLC) and the city announced they would be auto-enrolling retirees into a private for-profit managed care Medicare Advantage plan. They told the retirees …

Higher interest rates are a sign of workers’ power

There has been a lot of talk and fear about “inflation” in the past months. But what is inflation? We are told that it is the rise in the price of goods and services. But this is only part of the …

RAP sheets belong in lead coffins

Had I not had a handy credential that looked prestigious because it was a high-quality knockoff, the concierge would never have let me use a toilet in the ritzy condo where I didn't belong, and  …

Labor on track

Unionists should be jubilant and benignly envious when their brothers and sisters achieve collective bargaining victories. Even when we're not covered by a labor contract, we're affected by it, …

Seek common ground on Central Park carriages

As one who’s been involved with the horse-drawn carriage issue since the 1990s, I was very pleased to see Ron Isaac's commentary "The Neighs Have it" about the current controversy regarding the …

The neighs have it

Most readers of The Chief won't recall the talking horse "Mr. Ed,” the undisputed star of the early 1960s television sitcom named after him. The show's introductory tune, probably composed by a …

What we can learn from Starbucks Workers United

The surge of union organizing at anti-union Starbucks has resulted in nearly 300 union stores in about a year. While the corporation is refusing to bargain, firing organizers and closing stores, this …

Cabbies' rescue is overdue, but welcome

"Lifesaving and historic.”That's how Bhairavi Desai, the executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which represents yellow cab, livery, green car, black car and app-dispatched …

Plentiful union assets should be used to organize

After four decades of consistent decline in union density rank and file,  members might expect to see our unions’ assets dwindling. That, however, is not what is happening.

CUNY's campus cops deserve better

They have the authority to make arrests, but not the financial clout to afford a studio apartment. Peace officers at dozens of CUNY campuses are responsible for doing warrant checks, vouching …

For many, Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer — a day for parties, going to the beach and cookouts. For others, it’s a day for sales and back-to-school shopping. But for working people …

U.S. sliding into authoritarian rule

The January 6th House Committee investigations this summer have delivered compelling evidence of an attempted coup by then-President Donald Trump. These revelations add the U.S. to the list of failed …

Traitor Joe’s

What's with the play on words? What treachery could a grocery chain be guilty of: bar code mischief? No, prices are fair and reasonable. But they may have betrayed the principle of labor relations …

The Democrats are riding the much celebrated Inflation Reduction Act all the way to the midterms. But scratch below the surface and the law doesn’t live up to the hype.We hear that the IRA is the …

Chipotle gets grilled

With sincere corporate modesty and prodigious gall, Chipotle Mexican Grill proclaims its mission to "cultivate a better world" and affirms it "is more concerned about creating lasting connections …

STAT! Pay EMTs what they deserve

What's the loudest sound in New York City? It's the bang for the buck we get from our EMTs. Their value is stupendously high but their salaries are appallingly low. The budgetary hyenas chatter about …

The Ancient Mariner's contract

The Staten Island ferry workers labor dispute, which has been under-reported, could easily be cured by a simple device: a time machine. Roll back the calendar to 2009, revert to that year's costs of …

Loyalty oaths

According to thermodynamics, energy cannot be changed or destroyed. It changes states. Does this law of nature apply also to the loyalty oaths required of teachers?  Periods elapse when …

Teflon principals

Let sleeping dogs lie. Unless they're rabid and replicating. This applies to rogue school principals too. The Department of Education has a rock collection. Hiding under each specimen is a …

The Charter School Propaganda War

There's no rest for the insufferable. They don't take holidays. It's midway through the summer, but there's no time off for those who see it as their sacred mission to profane our public …

Don't compare apples and oranges. That's what people say who don't want you to notice that their fruit grove is planted in enriched fertile soil that gives them an advantage in life. Fruit envy. …

A Republican prosecutor I can support

Every now and then, I have to step back and realize that not all DAs are created equal.  I also have to recognize that political reality is such that my point of view and that of the left …

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