Author name: Clara Wheatley-Schaller

This legislative session the Retail Worker Safety Act passed both houses in New York and is currently waiting to be signed into law by Governor Hochul. This urgently needed law would mandate preventative safety provisions, aimed at protecting both retail workers and shoppers, by requiring corporate retail employers to adopt a violence prevention plan, train

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Statement from Lynne Fox, International President of Workers United: “Working people have so few tools to protect and defend themselves when their employers break the law. That makes today’s ruling by the Supreme Court to chip away at the NLRB’s power particularly egregious. It just underscores how the economy is rigged against working people all

Ahead of the Met Gala, our Joint Board’s General Manager, Julie Bracero Kelly, joined The Model Alliance to rally for the Fashion Workers Act – a pro-labor bill that would establish essential labor protections for models working in New York’s fashion industry. Models, often perceived as symbols of glamor and prestige, find themselves in a