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Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
Resident physicians at Montefiore Medical Center, one of the largest teaching hospitals in New York City, celebrated yesterday after learning that they had successfully won union representation with a supermajority of 82% voting in favor of joining the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR/SEIU). With over 1200 doctors included, the victory will re-establish a union presence at Montefiore more...
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
“NO CONTRACT, NO PEACE!” That was the rallying cry of over 100 musicians and union supporters who picketed in front of Carnegie Hall on Feb. 20 to demand a fair contract for the DCINY Orchestra, who are represented by AFM Local 802.
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
Members of TWU Local 100 and the Riders Alliance gathered Wednesday outside Grand Central to make the case against service cuts and in support of six minute service and better transit funding. The MTA unfairly plans to reduce subway service on Mondays and Fridays because its wealthier suburban commuters are not coming into their Manhattan offices on those days. This will create longer waits and...
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
Resident physicians and fellows at Elmhurst Hospital, represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR/SEIU), held a rally on Tuesday to bring attention to what they believe is Mount Sinai’s inequity in the treatment of healthcare workers and to call for a fair contract to benefit themselves and their patients. They were joined by New York State Senator Jessica Ramos and New York City...
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
Alphabet Workers Union-CWA members and their coworkers on the YouTube Music Content Operations team, contracted through Cognizant, are on an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike after the company issued a Return to Office (RTO) order in response to the workers filing for a certification election with the NLRB. The RTO was issued despite the fact that the vast majority of the workers were hired...
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
After winning their union last year (89.5% voted union yes), Mt. Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine Postdoctoral Researchers (members of SPOC-UAW) are still waiting for administrators to agree to basic, routine labor rights in contract negotiations. To protest Sinai’s intransigence, Postdoctoral Researchers rallied on Thursday at the corner of 98th Street and Madison Avenue.
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
Twenty construction workers died on the job in New York City in 2021, according to a new NYCOSH report released this week, with the pace of fatalities rising back to pre-pandemic levels after a year of industry shutdowns. The analysis of federal Bureau of Labor Statistics data makes year-to-year comparisons by looking at the death rate per 100,000 workers.
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
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Employees at Hearst Magazines unionized with the Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO in 2019, and have been in negotiations for over two years. Workers at Hearst deserve a fair contract that reflects the standards set across the media industry, but management is still holding out on several issues that are highly important to the Hearst Union:
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
Actors’ Equity Association, the national union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers working in live theatre, has published Progress During an Atypical Year: Hiring Bias and Wage Gaps in Theatre in 2021. The latest installment in Equity’s series of Hiring Bias and Wage Gaps reports, this document examines employment opportunity and average salaries for members of...
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
The Coalition of Broadway Unions & Guilds, representing workers both on and off stage in New York State and beyond, this week condemned the self-described neo-Nazis who harassed theatergoers prior to Tuesday’s preview performance of Parade outside the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. The involved extremist organization has been known to stage incendiary racist and antisemitic “protests” for decades...