Author: Joe Maniscalco

Joe Maniscalco is a journalist and freelance writer based in New York City. His work has appeared in a variety of news outlets ranging from the NewYorkPost.com to Alternet.org. He's spent the last decade covering workplace justice issues, the American Labor Movement and steadfastly avoiding well-paid corporate media gigs.

Stalled in the Senate, the Bill Would Ease Union Organizing Efforts Working men and women are rising up, risking all and taking collective action against unchecked exploitation in the era of covid-19 — and Senate Democrats had better catch up.  That’s the message frustrated organizers wrapping up a fruitless 14-day, 3,126 journey across the country advocating for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act) delivered to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s New York City doorstep earlier this month.  “Workers are leading the way right now, but we need more,” Our Revolution National Field Organizer Mike Oles told supporters…

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Second Effort Seeks to Get Around Company’s High Turnover of Employees New York City Amazon workers attempting to organize the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island are calling on labor regulators to find new remedies to existing rules that make unionizing inside the company’s massive warehouses next to impossible.  The Amazon Labor Union re-filed for a union election on Wednesday with nearly 3,000 union cards signed. The National Labor Relations Board decided last fall that the union had to withdraw an earlier petition because it failed to reach the 30% threshold needed to trigger an election.  “The NLRB decided that…

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