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Roberta Reardon Named NYS Labor Commissioner
Roberta Reardon, who teaches the Union Leadership course at Murphy, has been appointed as New York State Commissioner of Labor. The Department of Labor is tasked with overseeing state labor regulations, unemployment, and workforce training initiatives. Commissioner Reardon is the founding co-President of SAG-AFTRA, a 165,000 member union for the entertainment industry. She is the…
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News Roundup 9/25/15
The Pope is in NYC, offering a takedown of “exclusion and inequality” while also jamming up traffic. A skilled practitioner in the art of direct action? You decide. In other news: John Boehner resigns from his congressional seat and position as Speaker of the House. (via The Nation) Pharmacy workers at a Target store in…
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Organizer with ACLU-NJ
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU-NJ) is hiring an Organizer dedicated primarily to coordinating and implementing the organization’s campaign to reform policing practices in Newark, Newark Communities for Accountable Policing (N-CAP). In addition, the Organizer may also work on other priority ACLU-NJ issues. The position is full time and reports to the…
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Event: Women Leading the Global Labor Rights Movement (9/25)
Date: September 25, 2015 Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Location: Murphy Institute, 25 W. 43rd St., 18th Floor (Room 18A/B) Registration link In the past 20 years neo-liberal globalization has forced de-regulation of labour markets, increased the power and movement of capital and resulted in lower real wages, higher profits, increased inequality and diminished labor power.…
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