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On Behalf of Pitta LLP | Feb 4, 2020 | Union Representation
A group of staffers at New York's City Council is organizing to seek union recognition at work. There are around 400 people who work for the Council, and organizers are seeking to get over half of these workers to commit to joining the new union. The staffers are...
On Behalf of Pitta LLP | Jan 22, 2020 |
New York-based Barstool Sports has reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over complaints that the sports blogging site’s co-founder threatened employees over their rights to unionize.Under the settlement reached in mid-December,...
On Behalf of Pitta LLP | Jan 9, 2020 | Firm News
New Yorkers might be interested in learning that cafeteria workers at Google campuses in and around the San Francisco Bay Area are unionizing. According to news sources, 2,300 cafeteria workers at Google campuses in the Bay Area recently did so after a majority of...
On Behalf of Pitta LLP | Jan 7, 2020 | Union Representation
A law that is set to go into effect in New York on Jan.1 will require agricultural employers in the state to give their workers at least one day off each week and pay them overtime when they work more than 60 hours during a workweek. The Farm Laborers Fair Labor...
On Behalf of Pitta LLP | Dec 30, 2019 | Firm News
The recent firing of a Chipotle employee in New York has led to allegations of unlawful workplace practices. The employee, who worked at a Chipotle Mexican Grill location in Manhattan, was allegedly fired for making complaints about problems at the workplace and for...
On Behalf of Pitta LLP | Dec 13, 2019 | Union Representation
Several New York labor unions are in conflict over a proposed bill that passed the state legislature. Amalgamated Transit Union 1181, representing school bus drivers, supports the Employee Protection Provision (EPP) bill, which they say would protect drivers' wages,...
On Behalf of Pitta LLP | Nov 18, 2019 | Union Representation
Staff members employed at Hearst Magazines, a New York-based company that runs 24 media properties, have voted to join the Writers Guild of America East. The new union includes staff members across the two dozen media operations that include Town & Country,...
On Behalf of Pitta LLP | Nov 14, 2019 |
In late October, the streets outside of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) headquarters were far from quiet. Manhattan can have its fair share of personality, but this was a different case. Filling the streets were workers from the Transport...
On Behalf of Pitta LLP | Nov 7, 2019 | Firm News
New York residents may have heard that according to a recent Gallup poll, 64% of Americans approve of unions, which is a 16% increase from 2009. In 2018, employees of 20 major companies went on strike, and that was the highest figure since 2007. Bureau of Labor...
On Behalf of Pitta LLP | Oct 21, 2019 | Union Representation
Teachers in New York will see a revised evaluation system after the state's Board of Regents approved a policy that gives local school districts as well as teachers' unions greater influence over the ratings educators receive for their work. It replaces a...
