Another March week gone by and it’s looking more like Feburary out in snowy New York City. Here at Murphy, martial arts met the workplace in a striking feature from our Arts & Culture section. And around the world of labor…
- Liz Robbins wrote a great profile of Make the Road Action Fund Senior Organizer Modesta Toribia at the NYTimes (Giving a Voice to Immigrant Workers in New York)
- Some labor upset over at the Dubai-owned Emirates Airlines over shortened layovers and extended hours (via Wall Street Journal).
- Speaking of the UAE, NYU Professor Andrew Ross found himself unexpectedly banned from the country as he went to board an Etihad Airline flight this week, following his criticism of the exploitation of migrant construction workers (via NYTimes).
- NYCHA residents and advocates went to Albany to demand that Gov. Cuomo allocate $1.2bill/year toward public housing vs the currently-allocated $25mill (via CityLimits).
- Two SEIU locals have thrown their support behind Chuy Garcia in his battle against Rahm Emmanuel to become Chicago Mayor (via Chicago Sun-Times).
- Look how much the middle-class has shrunk! Wyoming and Alaska aren’t looking too bad right about now (via PEW).
- The United Steelworkers and Royal Dutch Shell inch closer and closer to striking a deal, making a return to work by the end of March look increasingly possible. Meanwhile, locals continue to demonstrate.
- Protests in Frankfurt, Germany against Eurozone’s “Laboratory for Austerity” (via Democracy Now).
