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The NewsGuild-CWA is composed of 46 US trade union locals and 17 Canadian locals, based largely on geography. Some locals represent the staff of a single publication , organization or company, while others represent the employees of multiple workplaces, with each considered a "unit" within the local.
CWA Public, Healthcare and Education Workers represents more than 140,000 workers including social workers, educators, and health care providers, including state workers across New Jersey. [23] Printing, Publishing and Media Workers Sector (PPMWS-CWA) was formed from the merger of the International Typographical Union printers. [24]
The NewsGuild-CWA is a labor union founded by newspaper journalists in 1933. [1] In addition to improving wages and working conditions, its constitution says its purpose is to fight for honesty in journalism and the news industry's business practices.
The harbor is fed by the waters of the Hudson River (historically called the North River as it passes Manhattan), as well as the Gowanus Canal.It is connected to Lower New York Bay by the Narrows, to Newark Bay by the Kill Van Kull, and to Long Island Sound by the East River, which, despite its name, is actually a tidal strait.
Upper New York Bay, 6. Lower New York Bay, 7. Jamaica Bay, 8. New York Bight (Atlantic Ocean) View over the Lower New York Bay from Wolfe's Pond Park on Staten Island, New York View over the Raritan Bay from Sandy Hook, New Jersey. Lower New York Bay is a section of New York Bay south of the Narrows (the strait between Staten Island and Brooklyn).
The term New York Harbor usually refers to Upper New York Bay and the surrounding Port of New York and New Jersey, but sometimes is taken to be a synonym for New York Bay. Upper New York Bay includes several islands. Liberty Island is the location of the Statue of Liberty. Nearby Ellis Island is known as a former immigration station. Governors ...
Kate Annette Wetherill Estate is a national historic district located at Head of the Harbor in Suffolk County, New York.The district encompasses an estate with three contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and two contributing structures.
The New York City Planning Commission was amenable to constructing either a bridge or a tunnel across the Narrows, and in 1939, put forth a plan to expand New York City's highway system. [ 31 ] [ 26 ] In March of the same year, as a bill for the Battery Bridge was being passed, Staten Island state legislators added a last-minute amendment to ...