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May 26, 2023 | News Story
When Mayor Adams and city leaders unveiled the nation’s first proposed minimum pay rate for food delivery workers last year, they made a bold promise: New York would finally deliver economic stability for an “essential” workforce. The city was required by Local Law 115 of 2021 to implement a minimum pay rate for delivery workers — or “deliveristas” — by Jan. 1, 2023, but months later, the workers...
May 26, 2023 | News Story
In affiliation with Workers United, Barbancino Pizza in Crown Heights is on track to become NYC's first unionized pizzeria! On Monday, workers filed for election with the NLRB and delivered a letter requesting voluntary recognition to the restaurant's owners.
May 26, 2023 | News Story
The delegates of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO on Thursday, May 18 approved fourth terms for President Vincent Alvarez and Secretary-Treasurer Janella T. Hinds. The vote carried by acclamation at a meeting of 148 delegates representing 69 unions. The delegates also elected the CLC’s 40-member Executive Board. Thirty-eight previously serving Board members were re-elected; new...
May 24, 2023 | Press Release
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, May 24, 2024
First Elected in 2011, the President and Secretary-Treasurer Will Serve Fourth Four-Year Term
New York, NY – The delegates of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO on Thursday approved fourth terms for President Vincent Alvarez and Secretary-Treasurer Janella T. Hinds. The vote carried by acclamation at a meeting of 148 delegates...
May 19, 2023 | News Story
Across New York City, resident physicians, alongside their nursing coworkers, are at the center of patient care in our hospitals. Elmhurst physicians are ready to strike if Mount Sinai does not agree to award them parity in salary and benefits with Mount Sinai Hospital resident physicians. Currently, there is a two-tiered system of treatment of resident physicians in New York City: By and large,...
May 19, 2023 | News Story
On Tuesday, workers at GrowNYC announced their employer will recognize the workers’ union formed with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). On Monday, April 25, 2023, a delegation of workers representing nearly two-hundred employees at around 70 GrowNYC Greenmarkets, farm stands, and CSA pick-up locations, and who work across GrowNYC’s operations in hundreds of schools in...
May 19, 2023 | News Story
The Executive Board of the NYC CLC on Thursday, May 18th adopted a resolution in support of worker organizing, reaffirming our support for workers across all sectors of New York City who face significant challenges in organizing and bargaining for living wages, benefits, and better working conditions.
May 12, 2023 | News Story
Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR) resident physicians at three essential safety net hospitals in Queens are poised to strike over their employers' continued bad faith bargaining and failures to make meaningful movement towards their demands, which include living wages and patient care proposals.
May 12, 2023 | News Story
Striking Writers Guild of America East members and supporters this week made their voices heard at pickets at Steiner Studios, Silvercup Studios, Broadway Stages, the HBO/Amazon offices in Hudson Yards, and in
May 12, 2023 | News Story
On Wednesday, hundreds of NYSNA members who work for NYC Health+Hospitals and Mayoral agencies rallied at Foley Square to sound the alarm on the crisis of understaffing and high turnover that threatens care for the vulnerable patients who depend on our city’s public health system. Nurses are calling for pay equity as a matter of healthcare and racial justice, and were joined at the rally by Rev.