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Some University of Rochester graduate students say they will mount union organizing drive….now that a National Labor Relations Board ruling has given grad students at Columbia the right to form a union. The NLRB overturned a Bush Administration ruling that held graduate students were not university employees and couldn’t join a labor organization. The Service […]
A lawsuit has been filed by Rochester’s construction unions ….. seeking reinstatement of the Project Labor Agreement for the $1.3 billion Rochester school modernization project. Members of the Rochester Joint Schools Construction Board shot down the PLA at a meeting earlier this month. The board chair who opposed the move was ousted and replaced with […]
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren says the world’s largest crowdfunded platform for small business is partnering with the city and opening a branch in Rochester. Kiva Rochester is a branch of Kiva, which helps small business owners get startup or expansion capital with zero-interest loans. It focuses on those who would have a hard time qualifying […]