Topic: Lillian Roberts

Unions push to tax state's wealthy

Hoping to build on the growing momentum led by the Occupy Wall Street movement in lower Manhattan, a group of union leaders and community activists...

Add school layoffs to agenda downtown

There's another angry rally planned for lower Manhattan Tuesday - this one focused on hundreds of city workers scheduled to be laid off at the end...

Editorial: Labored logic by union

The city is on the verge of laying off almost 800 teacher's aides - and they have no one but their own union leaders to blame.. . The aides are...
Nearly 800 public school workers will be fired this fall because of budget cuts, but they won't know who's getting canned until the first day of...
The disparate nature of the cuts - the biggest layoffs at any agency in the Bloomberg era - became apparent yesterday, when officials gave Local...

Ax to chop 800 PS staffers

Nearly 800 city public school workers will get pink slips in October as part of necessary belt-tightening, officials said yesterday.. . The layoffs...

DC 37 calls on City Council to lift residency restrictions

The article reports that DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts, took the fight for economic justice for workers to the steps of City Hall in New York City October 29, 2007. It is stated that surrounded by scores of union activists and ...