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Hundreds Of Nurses, Healthcare Workers To Picket Outside Phelps Hospital Hundreds Of Nurses, Healthcare Workers To Picket Outside Phelps Hospital
Hundreds Of Nurses, Healthcare Workers To Picket Outside Phelps Hospital Hundreds of nurses and healthcare workers are planning on picketing outside of a Westchester hospital to seek a fair contract, union officials announced.  On Wednesday, May 1, hundreds of healthcare workers will picket outside Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow to demand more input on issues relating to patient care and staffing. During Wednesday's event, which will be held from noon to 1 p.m., hospital employees, community supporters, and elected officials will gather outside the hospital campus.  The picketing comes after around 900 Phelps Hospital employees voted to form a union…

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by Ben Crnic
Business
'Retaliation Fund': NY Amazon Workers Hoping To Unionize Start GoFundMe 'Retaliation Fund': NY Amazon Workers Hoping To Unionize Start GoFundMe
'Retaliation Fund': NY Amazon Workers Hoping To Unionize Start GoFundMe This article has been updated to include a response from Amazon. Employees at an Amazon fulfillment center in New York who are trying to unionize have launched a GoFundMe campaign to combat what they describe as retaliation from management. Created by Unionize Amazon campaign manager Heather Goodall, it claims that workers at a warehouse in Rensselaer County, located on Highway 9 in Schodack, have been threatened, harassed, or fired since starting efforts with the Amazon Labor Union in June 2022. “The anti-union propaganda has been so aggressive that managers have started verbally attacki…

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by Michael Mashburn
Politics
How's He Doing? Latimer Gives His Top 5 Accomplishments In First Year On Job How's He Doing? Latimer Gives His Top 5 Accomplishments In First Year On Job
How's He Doing? Latimer Gives His Top 5 Accomplishments In First Year On Job Westchester County Executive George Latimer, about to wrap up his first year in office, cited these among his top accomplishments in 2018. Latimer said that "bringing some of the best people I know into county government. . . is really the single biggest thing I can point to" this year. During a Tarrytown speech before the Business Council of Westchester, Latimer also said he kept the county's best workers -- regardless of political party affiliation: "We saw talent in place and we didn't let politics get in the way of that."  Negotiating agreements in every county union contract this…

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by Jon Craig