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May 20, 2022 | News Story
After all the hardship we have endured during the COVID-19 pandemic, we cannot ask working people to sacrifice even more. Organized labor was built on the foundation of creating a pathway to the middle class for everyone. But skyrocketing student loan debt has become an insurmountable obstacle to achieving this goal.
May 13, 2022 | News Story
The Buzzfeed News Union voted unanimously on Friday to ratify their first union contract with the company. This past March, over 91% of the unit voted in favor of a strike amidst announcement of proposed cuts at the company. Throughout the bargaining process, members engaged in collective, concerted, and escalating actions to move management toward a more just and serious bargaining process,...
May 13, 2022 | News Story
For theatre workers, the stage a is job site, and they are entitled to the same protections from the viewing public as workers interacting with any sort of client; inappropriate audience behavior can be a form of workplace harassment. Earlier this week, an audience member secretly recorded and subsequently leaked photos and videos of a Broadway theatre production featuring Equity members...
May 13, 2022 | News Story
The TIME Union announced plans for a one-day strike as their bargaining committee heads back into negotiations this week. Members have signed on to a letter to management announcing their plan to walkout on May 23rd, when the magazine releases its highly-anticipated annual TIME100, if a contract agreement is not reached by then.
May 13, 2022 | News Story
“The Carbon Free and Healthy Schools plan would be transformational: it would institute energy audits and retrofits of each school, repair and replace HVAC systems, invest in climate resiliency upgrades, and electrify our fleet of school buses," write NYC Councilmembers Carmen De La Rosa and Rita Joseph, Chairs of the City Council Committee on Civil Service and Labor and Committee on Education,...
May 13, 2022 | News Story
Coalition of Immokalee Workers farmworkers were joined in Midtown by NYC elected officials, national shareholder advocates and area supporters for a major rally and street theater performance outside the offices of Trian Partners (280 Park Avenue), Wendy’s largest institutional shareholder. They demanded that Wendy’s board be held accountable for its failure to join the award-winning Fair Food...
May 13, 2022 | News Story
The AFL-CIO on Thursday called on the Biden administration to do its part to assist borrowers hampered by crippling debt, issuing the following statement:
May 13, 2022 | News Story
Across the country, we are seeing a great resurgence in worker organizing. Workers are striking in record numbers and winning uphill battles against corporate giants.
To keep this momentum going, we must continue to rise up and demand changes that will lift standards and rights for all workers, with no exclusions. All working people—regardless of immigration status—must have the right to organize...
May 6, 2022 | News Story
North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) and Ørsted, the U.S. leader in offshore wind energy, announced a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) to construct the company’s U.S. offshore wind farms with an American union workforce.
May 6, 2022 | News Story
Workers at the Starbucks in Caesar's Bay Shopping Center in Bath Beach, Brooklyn won their NLRB election unanimously with a result of 17-0. One of the first stores in the 5 boroughs of NYC to declare their intentions to unionize, the store is now one of 50 unionized Starbucks' across the country.