Author Archives: Eric Katz

How a TSA Union Could Have Changed the Use of Body Scanning

Unions have a strong record of training employees, guaranteeing both worker and customer health and safety and increasing worker productivity…it’s time we each stand with TSA workers and demand that collective bargaining rights be extended to them. More >>

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Victory and Justice for New York’s Domestic Workers

August 31, 2010 will be a day remembered by many New Yorkers for a long time. Today Governor Paterson signed the Domestic Workers Rights bill. The bill extends a variety of employment protections enjoyed by most workers throughout the country and fixes a federal exemption for domestic service workers. While it may have made sense to exclude a live-in nanny in a prior era, when such nannies were practically (or often literally) members of the family, we now live in… Read More

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