Swine Flu Highlights Paid Sick Leave Issue
WASHINGTON – Advising people to stay home from work if they come down with swine flu is, in many…
New York workers deserve paid sick leave
For more than 1 million New York workers, even in this day and age, getting sick is an unaffordable luxury.…
El momento para cumplir una promesa rota
Este fin de semana en el Festival Internacional de Cine en Michoacán, pude ver un documental muy perceptivo sobre…
It Doesnt Pay to Get Sick
On days when Leandra Requena was sick, in the time when she worked as a non-union seamstress, she had…
Small Business Employees in New York
Hundreds of workers marched over the Brooklyn Bridge last Thursday calling on New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn…
Piden pago de días de enfermedad
NUEVA YORK Varios cientos de trabajadores inmigrantes marcharon ayer a través del puente Brooklyn hacia Manhattan para exigir la…
Health Care? Not if You Cant Leave Work to Get It
Adela Valdez made lamps in a factory at the back of a lighting store on Canal Street in Manhattan. The…
Make the Road for Sick Leave
Barely two weeks after the Democratic primary, several hundred Latino immigrant workers and students pressed City Council members new and…
2nd Annual Democracy Day
Join Make the Road New York for our 2nd Annual Democracy Day! Over 800 low-income and immigrant New Yorkers will…
Former Tina’s worker to join rally for paid leave after getting boot from job for going to hospital
Guillermo Barrera** plans to tell hundreds at a downtown rally on Thursday how he lost his job at a Brooklyn…