Political & Legislative Action
NYC Labor Votes
Building on the Labor Counts! Census 2020 campaign from 2018-2020, Labor Votes! will focus on educating, engaging and facilitating union members’ and their households’ ability to cast their ballot during the 2020 and 2021 elections. Labor Votes! is the member-to-member political program of the NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO.
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We are officially 94 days to Election Day on November 5th, 2024.
On Saturday, September 21st, the NYC Central Labor Council in partnership with unions across New York City will work to assist eligible permanent residents in navigating the process to becoming new U.S. citizens.
Since The Atlantic announced on May 29 that it had entered into a deal with OpenAI, The Atlantic’s unionized staff has demanded details about the deal and its impact on their work.
Tomorrow night, Weds, July 31, at 8 PM! Join labor leaders and workers for an organizing Zoom call discussing what’s next for Labor for Harris 2024.
Following a vote of its Executive Council, which represents 60 unions and 12.5 million workers, on Monday the AFL-CIO unanimously endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for President in
NYC School Architects, Engineers, and Technical Professionals rallied with community leaders in front of School Construction Authority (SCA) headquarters in Long Island City on Thursday in an attempt to bring SCA back to the bargaining table as wages and benefits for 300-plus workers hang in the
Actors’ Equity Association applauds the reintroduction of the bipartisan Performing Artist Tax Parity Act (PATPA), introduced by Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC).
This week the Department of Homeland Security announced their updated guidance on the "initial period" extending the grant period from 2 to 4 years for deferred action for labor enforcement.
Elected officials, advocates, members of Worker’s Justice Project, and Laborers Locals 79 and 1010 LiUNA conducted a multi-stop Road to Justice caravan on Wednesday, July 17th to confront employers who have refused to pay immigrant workers what they are owed.
On Tuesday, one day after the contract between The Bronx Defenders (BxD) and its wall-to-wall union, The Bronx Defenders Union–UAW Local 2325 (BxD Union), expired, BxD Union’s Bargaining Committee voted to authorize an unlimited Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike beginning the week of July 22.