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Carwash workers at Vegas Auto Spa in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., voted unanimously to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), an affiliate of the United Food and Commercial Workers, on Jan. 24. They have been on strike since late November over what they claim are stolen wages and unsafe working conditions.
The officials say the charges could be referred within a week.
Live weather cameras show blizzard striking the Massachusetts area.
The state has the strictest standard in the nation for proving intellectual disability.
Snow is falling, schools are closing, and that can mean only one thing: song parody announcements!
As predictions of epic snowfall fell short in the New York City area, Gov. Andrew Cuomo defends his decisions to shutdown roads and public transportation, following criticism of weather preparedness during Buffalo's Nov. blizzard.
January is National Mentoring Month, and our friends at the Berger-Marks Foundation are highlighting the mentoring program that New York City Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 3 shop steward Erin Sullivan helped establish in the 11,000 member local in 2011.
Watch The Weather Channel radar as a blizzard hits the Northeast.
In our regular weekly feature, we'll be taking a look at the winners and losers of the week in the struggle for the rights of working families. The winners will be the persons or organizations that go above and beyond to expand or protect the rights of working families, while the losers will be whoever went above and beyond to limit or deny those rights.
Coastal New England was battered Tuesday by a blizzard of blinding snow, ferocious waves and winds that topped hurricane speed, and city streets in Boston were empty of all but snowplows.
