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Mar 8, 2024 | News Story
After more than six months of bargaining their successor contract, teaching fellows, teaching assistants, course assistants, research assistants, and tutors at The New School, represented by United Auto Workers (UAW), went on strike Wednesday, with supporters including the CLC joining them for their first day on the picket line. Having authorized their strike with 94% voting yes, and a historic...
Mar 8, 2024 | News Story
The Carbon Free and Healthy Schools Campaign of Climate Jobs New York co-hosted a rally at City Hall with Council Member Sandy Nurse on March 1st. The union coalition is supporting public solar power legislation introduced by Nurse that would require the city to install solar on schools and other public buildings at a more rapid, ambitious pace. Leaders and members from public sector unions UFT,...
Mar 8, 2024 | News Story
On Thursday, REI workers from across the country who have unionized with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) hiked to REI’s national headquarters in Issaquah, Washington, where they delivered their unified national platform to the company and called on management to bargain in good faith at tables outside...
Mar 8, 2024 | News Story
Writers Guild of America East members at New York-based Spotify Studios (formerly Gimlet Media and Parcast) and The Ringer have both reached tentative agreements with Spotify on new collective bargaining agreements.
Mar 1, 2024 | News Story
Workers United and Starbucks this week announced this week that they have agreed to begin discussions on a foundational framework to achieve collective bargaining agreements for represented stores and partners, the resolution of litigation between the union and the company, including brand litigation, and a fair process for workers to organize.
Mar 1, 2024 | News Story
The unionized employees of Mobilization for Justice, Inc. (MFJ) last Friday voted to reject MFJ management's contract offer and declared an indefinite strike. The 110 unionized employees of the nonprofit legal services organization began picketing on Monday on the streets outside MFJ's Manhattan Office at 100 William Street. These union members are part of the Legal Services Staff Association (...
Mar 1, 2024 | News Story
The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM) has reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) on the Basic Theatrical Motion Picture and Basic Television Motion Picture contracts. The agreement, unanimously recommended by the bargaining committee, represents a significant victory for musicians working in film and...
Mar 1, 2024 | News Story
Full time, non-tenure track faculty at New York University have voted by an overwhelming margin (553 to 72, or 89.5%) in favor of joining Contract Faculty United - UAW (CFU-UAW). CFU-UAW Contract faculty at NYU will now be the largest union of full-time, non-tenure track professors at any private university in the country, representing nearly 1,000 Contract Faculty across NYU.
Mar 1, 2024 | News Story
A crowd of more than 1,200 doctors, nurses, hospital workers, and community members joined union members and elected officials to shut down a section of Clarkson Avenue across from SUNY Downstate University Hospital on Thursday to loudly express their support for keeping Downstate open and condemn the Governor’s plan to close it.
Mar 1, 2024 | News Story
Staffing shortages in the public sector are at crisis levels. From public education to health care, and transportation to emergency services, employers at every level of government have sounded the alarm that they cannot recruit enough staff or encourage qualified individuals to stay in service.