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State’s Top Court Asks If Health Aides Should Get Paid For 24 …

WEBALBANY, N.Y.—New York State’s highest court heard arguments Feb. 12 on whether home health-care aides who work 24-hour shifts should get paid for the full …

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COVID-19 Pandemic Increases Violence Against Frontline

WEBLaborPress. New York, NY – COVID-19 is already responsible for killing some 3,500 healthcare workers across the United States — now, America’s nurses say …

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Push Back at Council Hearing on City Switching Retirees to

WEBOn January 9, 2023 the New York City council held a hearing to discuss the proposed changes to the Administrative Code 12-126 that will impact on almost three-hundred …

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How EmblemHealth Is Changing With The Healthcare Industry

WEBNovember 18, 2022. Naeisha Rose. LaborPress. The coronavirus has changed the health industry over the past few years and as a new year approaches, EmblemHealth, one of …

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Two ILA Members Succumb To COVID-19 – LaborPress

WEBNORTH BERGEN, NJ – The horrible COVID-19 Pandemic has claimed the lives of two ILA members from the Port of New Orleans, Louisiana. Wendell Lacour and …

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Meet Laurent Laor and Viveka Health… – LaborPress

WEBNew York, NY – Laurent Laor MSc MBA, AHFI, is an author, speaker and founder of Viveka Health, a company whose mission is “to drive value in healthcare …

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Some Home Care Agencies Settle Back-Pay Claims; Others Resist

WEBHard-pressed home health aides rally to end 24-hour shift scheduling back in 2018. The Incare Home Health Care Group, Emanuel, and Renaissance agencies …

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1199 Home Health Aides Win $30 Million in Back-Pay Arbitration

WEB1199 Home Health Aides Win $30 Million in Back-Pay Arbitration. NEW YORK, N.Y.—. In an unusual class-action grievance arbitration, 42 home health-care …

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Retirees Rally For Healthcare – LaborPress

WEBDecember 29, 2022. Silver Krieger. LaborPress. New York, NY – On Wednesday, December 21, a rally was held in lower Manhattan. A large crowd of municipal retirees …

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After judge pauses Medicare Advantage switch, retiree org pushes

WEBOn July 7, a state Supreme Court judge temporarily blocked a contentious plan to switch retired city government employees over to a Medicare Advantage plan, …

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Home-Care Organizers Call 1199 Back-Pay Settlement a

WEBNEW YORK, N.Y—A group organizing home health-care workers denounced the arbitrated settlement in which 1199SEIU will receive $30 million to reimburse …

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Health Aides Hail Bill to Ban 24-Hour Shifts – LaborPress

WEBNEW YORK, N.Y.—Calling the half-unpaid 24-hour shifts common in the home health-care industry an “inhumane” 21 st-century sweatshop, a group of home …

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Buffalo Nurses Vote to Strike Over Chronic Short Staffing

WEBBuffalo Nurses Vote to Strike Over Chronic Short Staffing. September 22, 2021. Steve Wishnia. LaborPress. BUFFALO, N.Y.—Saying that they are at a “breaking …

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Tired of being ‘Invisible,’ New York Home Care Workers Call on …

WEBNEW YORK, N.Y.— More than 200 home health-care workers, overwhelmingly women, packed a second-floor room at 1199SEIU‘s Seventh Avenue …

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Acting FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh Calls EMS the ‘Only …

WEBNew York, NY – The city’s two-year battle with COVID that has killed 40,500 residents — 10,000 more than perished during the Spanish Flu outbreak a century ago …

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New York’s Female-Majority City Council Could Save Home Health …

WEBThe bill, Intro 175, would amend the city’s Fair Workweek Act of 2017 (which requires employers to give fast-food and retail workers predictable schedules) to prohibit …

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Passing of Clarence Pittman, Jr., President, ILA Local 1416

WEBLaborPress. December 13, 2013. The International Longshoremen’s Association, AFL-CIO mourns the passing of Clarence Pittman, Jr., President, ILA Local 1416 in Miami and …

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Chelsea condo workers strike after owner cancels healthcare …

WEBSix service workers in a Chelsea condo walked off the job Thursday on a 24-hour strike after the building owner canceled their health insurance in December without …

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New York City retirees fighting Medicare Advantage plan notch …

WEBNew York City retirees fighting Medicare Advantage plan notch major court win. August 14, 2023. Max Parrott. LaborPress. A state Supreme Court judge issued a …

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LaborPress – Daily Labor Union News

WEBUnionization Looms Closer in Anti-Union South. Silver Krieger April 16, 2024. Mercedes-Benz workers in Vance, Ala., filed a petition with federal labor officials for a union …

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A Guide to the World Trade Center Health Program and 9/11 …

WEBNew York, NY – When the World Trade Center collapsed after the terrorist attacks on 9/11, ten million tons of building materials and 91,000 liters of jet fuel fell into …

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