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Mar 3, 2023 | News Story
On February 14, an NLRB election count for the first neighborhood umbrella group of Blank Street Coffee locations was held, with workers in West Brooklyn voting overwhelmingly to join UFWC Local 1500. The stores covered by the election include 277 Bedford Ave, 776 Lorimer St, 225 Wythe Ave, 147 Montague St, 2 Metrotech Center, and 178 Court St. Two more elections are ongoing (Park Slope and...
Mar 3, 2023 | News Story
We join Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Reps. Bobby Scott (Va.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) in their call to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. Working people are sick of corporations raking in record profits while we can barely support our families.
That’s why we’re organizing like never before. Work stoppages were up 52% in 2022, and the number of workers involved in stoppages...
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
More than 250 legal service workers at the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG), unionized under the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys - UAW Local 2325 (ALAA), held a two-day strike this week as part of their fight for a fair contract. Members of A Better NYLAG (ABN) have been bargaining for a fair contract since June 2022, and eight months later, NYLAG has still refused to move on key issues...
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
Resident physicians at Montefiore Medical Center, one of the largest teaching hospitals in New York City, celebrated yesterday after learning that they had successfully won union representation with a supermajority of 82% voting in favor of joining the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR/SEIU). With over 1200 doctors included, the victory will re-establish a union presence at Montefiore more...
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
“NO CONTRACT, NO PEACE!” That was the rallying cry of over 100 musicians and union supporters who picketed in front of Carnegie Hall on Feb. 20 to demand a fair contract for the DCINY Orchestra, who are represented by AFM Local 802.
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
Members of TWU Local 100 and the Riders Alliance gathered Wednesday outside Grand Central to make the case against service cuts and in support of six minute service and better transit funding. The MTA unfairly plans to reduce subway service on Mondays and Fridays because its wealthier suburban commuters are not coming into their Manhattan offices on those days. This will create longer waits and...
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
Resident physicians and fellows at Elmhurst Hospital, represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR/SEIU), held a rally on Tuesday to bring attention to what they believe is Mount Sinai’s inequity in the treatment of healthcare workers and to call for a fair contract to benefit themselves and their patients. They were joined by New York State Senator Jessica Ramos and New York City...
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
Alphabet Workers Union-CWA members and their coworkers on the YouTube Music Content Operations team, contracted through Cognizant, are on an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike after the company issued a Return to Office (RTO) order in response to the workers filing for a certification election with the NLRB. The RTO was issued despite the fact that the vast majority of the workers were hired...
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
After winning their union last year (89.5% voted union yes), Mt. Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine Postdoctoral Researchers (members of SPOC-UAW) are still waiting for administrators to agree to basic, routine labor rights in contract negotiations. To protest Sinai’s intransigence, Postdoctoral Researchers rallied on Thursday at the corner of 98th Street and Madison Avenue.
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
Twenty construction workers died on the job in New York City in 2021, according to a new NYCOSH report released this week, with the pace of fatalities rising back to pre-pandemic levels after a year of industry shutdowns. The analysis of federal Bureau of Labor Statistics data makes year-to-year comparisons by looking at the death rate per 100,000 workers.