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Aug 20, 2021 | News Story
District Council 9 is beginning its recruitment process for Painter, Decorator and Paperhanger apprentices on Tuesday, August 24. The application period runs to through Tuesday, September 7. DC9 is accepting 500 applications for apprenticeship training.
Five-hundred applications will be handed out, in person, at the DC 9 Finishing Trades Institute of New York training facility on a first come,...
Aug 20, 2021 | News Story
Hotel rooms should be cleaned every day. That’s what hotel guests have come to expect and love. But as tourism comes roaring back, Hilton wants to end this standard and eliminate housekeepers’ jobs.
Guests and health experts want more cleaning – not less – but Hilton recently announced the end of automatic daily housekeeping, a drastic cut to cleaning services when they have never been more...
Aug 20, 2021 | News Story
The essential workers at United Metro Energy Corporation in Brooklyn, New York have been on strike since mid-April. The oil terminal workers are fighting for their first union contract after joining Teamsters Local 553 in 2019.
On the New York State AFL-CIO's latest Union Strong podcast Andre Soleyn, a terminal worker and leader of the strike, talks about their fight to get what they deserve and...
Aug 13, 2021 | News Story
State Senators Julia Salazar and Jabari Brisport, Assemblymember Emily Gallagher, and striking essential workers rallied outside of the United Metro Energy oil terminal Tuesday amid a 113-day strike.
Aug 13, 2021 | News Story
New York Times tech employees walked off the job on Wednesday in a half day work stoppage to protest the publisher's aggressive union busting efforts. Workers planned the action on Monday, after learning that Times management is asking the NLRB to exclude staff such as data analysts and designers from an upcoming vote on unionization.
Aug 13, 2021 | News Story
TWU Local 100 and state lawmakers demanded Tuesday that the MTA resume cash transactions at subway token booths, saying the no-cash policy started during the pandemic discriminates against low-income New Yorkers. They gathered outside Broadway Junction subway station in East New York to demand the agency immediately resume the hand-to-hand transactions, which ended in March 2020 out of concerns...
Aug 13, 2021 | News Story
This week it was announced that an overwhelming majority of staff at Make the Road New York have officially chosen to form the Make the Road New York Union, affiliating with the National Organization of Legal Services Workers, UAW Local 2320. The union was certified via a card count process overseen by Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas. The workers announced they were forming a union back in...
Aug 13, 2021 | News Story
Actors’ Equity Association reached a new three-year collective bargaining agreement with Off-Broadway League, the employers' guild for Off-Broadway theatre.
“This agreement happened because we all stood together,” said Stephen Bogardus, Equity principal councilor and chair of the Off-Broadway Negotiating Committee. “We had a diligent, passionate negotiating team, and we were able to push ahead...
Aug 13, 2021 | News Story
After experiencing a summer of intense storms and wildfires throughout the country, it is crucial that we show support for the offshore wind industry that will create good union jobs and help address the climate crisis.
Aug 6, 2021 | News Story
The New York City Labor Movement was shocked and profoundly saddened to learn yesterday of the sudden passing of AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka. As leader of our nation’s Labor Movement, he championed the belief that all work has dignity, along with the rights of all working people to bargain collectively, to fair wages and workplace safety, and to a voice at work.