Title: New labor in New York
Description: New York City boasts a higher rate of unionization than any other major U.S. city, roughly double the national average, but the city's unions have suffered steady and relentless decline, especially in the private sector. With higher levels of income inequality than any other large city in the nation, New York today is home to a large and growing "precariat": workers with little or no employment security who are often excluded from the basic legal protections that unions struggled for and won in the twentieth century.
Subjects: Precarious employment, Organizing, Labor unions, Labor movement, Labor unions, united states, Labor movement, united states
Places: New York (State), New York