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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 5, 2014
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The Atlantic - May 2, 2014, by Eric Liu - On Wednesday, a Senate filibuster blocked President Obama’s proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10. Then on Thursday, Mayor Ed Murray of Seattle announced a business-labor deal to raise the city minimum wage to $15.
Rash of Accidents a Grim Reminder of Need for Strong Safety Laws
OZY - April 29, 2014, by Pooja Bhatia - As the back-and-forth over immigration reform enters its umpteenth year, a potential workaround might be coming to a city near you.Since 2007, a handful of cities have issued municipal IDs to residents, regardless of their citizenship.
The Chronicle of Higher Education - April 28, 2014, by Paul Basken - The State University of New York’s Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government is backing away from a politically divisive report critical of a worker’s-rights law, admitting that the industry-financed analysis has multiple major flaws that undermine its central finding.
WCNY - April 24, 2014, by Alyssa Plock - We discuss the Scaffold Law with two people who hold opposing views on the issue: Dr. Michael Hattery, director of local government studies at the Rockefeller Institute, and Connie M. Razza, director of strategic research at the Center for Popular Democracy.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - April 23, 2014, by Mary Frost - City officials and workers' advocates kicked off three weeks of action at Brooklyn Borough Hall on Tuesday, demanding safer working conditions and better training at real estate development sites.
Developing Progress is a proposal for progressive development policies and a call for responsible real estate development that values the safety of workers.
Legislative Gazetter - April 21, 2014, by Matthew Dondiego - A new report released last Thursday by a pro-labor, pro-immigrant rights advocacy group criticizes the construction industry for using what they call misleading figures and cherry picking data to lobby against the state's controversial "scaffold law."
New York State’s Labor Law §240 (commonly known as the Scaffold Law) helps keep workers safe by holding employers and owners liable if unsafe conditions at their worksites result in injuries or death of workers working at an elevation. The law is crucial: falls from elevations kill more than one-third of all construction workers killed at work, by far the leading cause of on-the-job deaths in the industry.
