U.S. National Labor Relations Board

As Growth Shifts Into Overdrive, NYU Faces a Rebellion From Within

City Can (But Won't) Play Its Part in Bus Strike

We're damn-near a month into the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181's bus-driver and matron strike, and the city is still pretending like it doesn't have everything to do with why this mess continues to drag-on. The union, politicians and parents are begging the city to at least come to the table ... More >>

NLRB Rules School Bus Strike Legal

The National Labor Relations Board announced earlier this morning that the Amalgamated Transit Union's school bus strike is indeed lawful. A group of 20 bus companies filed a charge with the NLRB arguing that the ATU Local Union 1181 violated NLRB regulations when its bus drivers and matrons went o ... More >>

Conflicting Stories Emerge Following the Firing of 23 Cablevision Workers

This morning a group of protestors, led by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, demanded that management at Cablevision's garage in Canarsie come out and have a little chat about yesterday's firing of 23 workers. Cablevision says that the fired technicians were i ... More >>

Hot And Crusty Bakery Workers Rally To Keep Their Union

A crowd of out-of-work bakery employees and their supporters blocked sidewalk traffic on the corner of 63rd Street and 2nd Avenue yesterday to rally to pressure the bakery's new owners to recognize their union and reopen the bakery. Tired of the workplace harassment, unpaid overtime, and sub-minimu ... More >>

Bakery Workers Occupy Hot & Crusty When Owner Closes It Down Rather Than Allow Union

Friday was the last day that the Hot & Crusty bakery on 63rd and 2nd Avenue was scheduled to be open. Instead, employees and their supporters took the store over briefly Friday afternoon before police moved in, emptying the shop and arresting six people.

Potential School Bus Drivers' Strike 'Outrageous,' Bloomberg Says

​Mayor Bloomberg just held a press conference with NYC Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott and Corporation Counsel Michael Cardozo to address a possible strike by the city's school bus drivers that would affect 152,000 kids. Bloomberg described the proposed strike as "just outrageous" and said ... More >>

Dean Poll Finally Recognizes The Hotel Workers Union

The Boathouse, minus its disgruntled workers.​A month after Central Park Boathouse workers staged a walk-out in protest of alleged labor violations at the restaurant, operator Dean Poll has finally agreed to recognize and bargain with the hotel workers union.

The Looming NFL Strike: Get Ready for Clueless Coverage

​Why is the looming NFL strike different from all other strikes? Well, first, it's not a strike, it's a lockout. Or at least it will be on March 4, when the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the National Football League and the player's union expires and the owners padlock the gates. A ... More >>

Ozzie's Slapped With Federal Complaint After Firing Barista

​What is it about Park Slope coffee shops and legal settlements? Not too long after the owners of Gorilla Coffee filed suit against the New York Times and eight former employees for, essentially, smack talk, the National Labor Relations Board has backed the claims of a barista who says he was ... More >>

Carl Paladino, Buffalo Bully

The candidate lets his employees know who's boss

Former Stella D'Oro Workers Win Legal Victory Against Former Employer

Revenge is sweet, and crumbly.​A year after the Bronx's Stella D'Oro Biscuit factory closed, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that the factory's owners violated federal labor law by refusing the provide necessary financial statements to the workers' union during wage negotiations l ... More >>

Obama Announces Recess Appointments

​In the face of Republican threats, President Obama announced today that he plans to push through recess appointments for 15 of the White House nominees currently pending before the Senate. The list of nominees announced for recess appointments includes Craig Becker for the National Labor Rela ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​Former NYFD Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta was deeply involved in the Deutsche Bank debacle that cost two firefighters their lives. Now a change has come: Salvatore Cassano is commissioner. And he, says Wayne Barrett, is even more deeply involved. The posters for Gary Marshall's new film ... More >>

Strike-Breaking Bronx Stella D'Oro Factory Shuts Down a Day Early

Though workers at the plant tried to keep it open with protests, the Stella D'Oro factory in The Bronx closed down yesterday -- a day ahead of schedule. The workers went on strike last year, after Brynwood Partners, the private equity firm that had taken the plant over, kicked out the union; Brynwoo ... More >>

The Latest in the Stella D'oro Saga

The Stella saga continues: According to a report yesterday in Crain's New York, the union representing workers at the Stella D'oro factory has filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board to try to halt the Bronx factory's planned closure. After going on strike last August, the factory's 13 ... More >>

Cookie Factory, Forced to Reinstate Workers, Shuts Down

Brynwood Partners is a "turnaround investor," which means it makes its money wringing the last bits of juice out of distressed companies. That was no doubt what they were up to when the took over the Stella D'Oro factory in the Bronx and proposed last year to cut workers' wages and benefits, which p ... More >>

Stella D'Oro Strikers, Locked Out in the Bronx, Ordered Back to Work by NLRB

Labor, management, and the occasional politician have been trying to negotiate a settlement to the Stella D'oro factory strike in the Bronx since last summer. It didn't help that the factory replaced 134 striking workers with what in a simpler time would be known as scabs. In addition to holding lar ... More >>

Times Co. Seeks 23% Cuts at Globe; Cartoonist Protests

We thought the Boston Globe was home free, with union concessions in May keeping the paper going. But the New York Times Company, which runs the joint, wasn't content with the 8.3 percent giveback* and announced they were going to take 23 percent instead. And Times Co. is shopping the paper on th ... More >>

Jockbeat: Did Sonia Sotomayor Save Baseball Or Didn't She?

Did Sonia Sotomayor save baseball or didn't she?  All week long the press has been heatedly debating the extent to which President Obama's Supreme Court nominee impacted the national pastime with her 1995 decision.  First, a brief summary of what it was that Sotomayor did. In 1994, with th ... More >>

Nat Hentoff's Last Column: The 50-Year Veteran Says Goodbye

I used to say, 'I've been at the Voice since the Civil War.' But now I'm off to other combats.

High-Cost Condos, Low-Cost Labor—and Threats of Violence to Union Organizers

In this age of housing gluttony, high-rise builders sink to new lows

Trouble in Store

Workers at a Brooklyn grocery say they're not paid fairly, if at all.

The Nerds Are Pissed

New York University opts for war with its best and brightest

Columbia Students Walk

Bush's Other War

At the national labor relations board, the president's appointees change the rules

Labor's Beef with Bush

In the brave new world of outsourcing, you get to train your own replacement worker

New School's Labor War

Union Wins Election Fair And Square, But Prez Kerrey Wants A Do-Over

Letters

Airing Dirty Linens

A Win for Workers Who Put the Finery in Fine Dining

Cleaning Lessons for Dirty Bosses

Mob Tapes Yield a How-to Guide on Stiffing Workers

Sports

The Baseball Wars

A Labor Conflict Primer

Bread and Roses Too

Celebrating 1199’s Voice for Culture

Letters

Losing Their Faculties

At NYU, Angry Professors Talk of Unionizing

Sickout

Thousands of City Nurses Protest Staffing Levels

The Sweetheart Union

As Sugar Strike Fails, Longshoremen’s Union Butts Into Greengrocer Campaign

Unfriendly Relations

Bush Supporters Take Aim at Pro-Labor Board

Decision Time at NYU

A University Debates Its Future

UAW Inc.

NYU Grad Students Lose by Winning

Working Papers

Domino’s Strikers Again Choose the Cold Over Surrender, While Labor Celebrates Some Victories and a Painter-Hero

Nader: Unsafe On Any Issue

A Dissent

Graduate Studies

AFL-CIO Chief Sweeney Rallies NYU's Organizers

NYU's Labor Pains

The UAW Organizes Grad Students

Muss-ed Up

Brooklyn Strikers Decry Developer’s Antiunion Antics

The Future of Our Discontent

Graduate Assistants Await Decision on NYU Appeal

Hire Education

Grad Students Battle NYU Over Right to Organize a Union

What's Up, Doc?

High-paid physicians insist they need unions

Out of Network

The health issues behind the ABC lockout