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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.
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
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Employees at Hearst Magazines unionized with the Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO in 2019, and have been in negotiations for over two years. Workers at Hearst deserve a fair contract that reflects the standards set across the media industry, but management is still holding out on several issues that are highly important to the Hearst Union:
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
Actors’ Equity Association, the national union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers working in live theatre, has published Progress During an Atypical Year: Hiring Bias and Wage Gaps in Theatre in 2021. The latest installment in Equity’s series of Hiring Bias and Wage Gaps reports, this document examines employment opportunity and average salaries for members of...
Feb 24, 2023 | News Story
The Coalition of Broadway Unions & Guilds, representing workers both on and off stage in New York State and beyond, this week condemned the self-described neo-Nazis who harassed theatergoers prior to Tuesday’s preview performance of Parade outside the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. The involved extremist organization has been known to stage incendiary racist and antisemitic “protests” for decades...
Feb 17, 2023 | News Story
The New York City musicians' union, AFM Local 802 has announced a strike against Distinguished Concerts International New York, a for-profit company that produces concerts at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and that boasts a roster of 257 musicians. Members in the DCINY orchestra voted overwhelmingly to authorize the strike in a secret-ballot vote.
Feb 17, 2023 | News Story
The collective bargaining contract for city workers expired in May 2021, and the last time these public servants received a pay increase was in 2019– long before hundreds of municipal workers lost their lives to COVID-19 while showing up to make New York City run. Our city's workers have gone far too long without a raise. Yesterday, DC37 held a virtual, citywide day of action to support the push...
Feb 17, 2023 | News Story
The WGA East has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the Bustle Digital Group, in response to the termination of three members who were laid off there recently in retaliation for their concerted, protected union activity in violation of the National Labor Relations Act. The three workers are among the 39 laid off in total.
Feb 17, 2023 | News Story
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., yesterday announced the creation of the Office’s first-ever Worker Protection Unit to investigate and prosecute wage theft and other forms of worker harassment and exploitation across Manhattan’s many industries. Building on the success of the Office’s Construction Fraud Task Force, which will be part of the Worker Protection Unit, the Unit will...