Jobs and Economy
Years after the official end of the recent recession, America is still in a jobs crisis. Although job growth is slowly picking up steam--with steady private sector job creation--we still have a long way to go. Job losses came on top of decades of inadequate job growth, wage stagnation and growing inequality. The U.S. economy is increasingly imbalanced, with the top 1 percent holding more than 40 percent of the nation’s wealth.
The AFL-CIO is ready to work with anyone—business, government, investors—who wants to create good jobs and help restore America's middle class and challenge policies that stand in the way of giving America the chance to go back to work. The union movement is partnering with such organizations as the Clinton Global Initiative to find innovative ways to create good jobs that support workers and their families.
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Unionized editorial staff at Forbes – who ordinarily would be staffing the launch of the magazine’s most important issue of the year, “30 Under 30” – have walked off the job.
Service technicians at a Mercedes Benz dealership on Manhattan’s far west side rallied with union allies on Monday to put pressure on the dealership’s owner to agree to a first collective bargaining agreement.
Staff at The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a vote on unionization with Local 2110 UAW.
Wednesday, Dec 11, 10AM-1PM, Zoom: Join us to hear about how AI can improve and enhance safety in the workplace, how we can incorporate a labor response to autonomous technology, and the impacts of generative AI on classroom learning and teachers' work.
Wednesday, December 11, 12PM: In New York and around the country, buildings account for the highest proportion of emissions produced. To reduce emissions at the speed that science demands, we need approaches to heating and cooling beyond retrofitting individual buildings.
Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) members at WNET THIRTEEN have unanimously ratified a new two-year collective bargaining agreement.
Last week the Worker's Justice Project, Los Deliveristas, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, and the NYC CLC worked together to put on a legal clinic on Deferred Action.
Last Friday, the NYC CLC, the UFT, and the NYC Building and Construction Trades Council held a Future in Focus: Exploring the World of Organized Labor and Unionized Careers event at Lehman College in the Bronx.