Labor
After losing to progressive insurgents, will unions learn to love the DSA?
The overtime threshold could be lowered to 40 hours a week, but farm owners say it would make labor costs too burdensome.
Despite a 1967 law making strikes illegal, there have been several prominent strikes by transit workers and teachers.
Gig workers have been on the frontlines during the pandemic, but their fight for more employment benefits still continues.
COVID-19 has upended whose workplace problems are deemed essential.
Uber, Lyft drivers score victory to be paid unemployment benefits.
Expanding eligibility could help redefine the balance of power in the workplace.
The city isn’t thinking strategically about whose job it can get by without – at least not yet.
New York’s public pensions are well-funded, for now at least.
The council wants to extend sick leave to gig workers and have the state Legislature classify them as employees.
