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Sep 22, 2017 | News Story
Two weeks ago, long-time Teamster Local 813 member Eber Garcia Vasquez was deported. The Teamsters are continuing to work with his attorney and advocates to expedite his Green Card application so he can return to the U.S. and be reunited with his family. But the deportation has left his family without a breadwinner. Eber had a good union job, which allowed him to provide for his wife, who was...
Sep 22, 2017 | News Story
On Wednesday evening, the NYC CLC hosted our first Community Board 101 training. Community boards play an important role in our city, providing a space for neighborhood concerns and priorities to be addressed within communities; however, many citizens know little about them. At our training, we hoped to change that and begin empowering union members to become strong community advocates. Our...
Sep 22, 2017 | News Story
Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, and now Hurricane Maria have had devastating effects on communities of working people, displacing families and bringing entire regions’ operations to a halt.
Sep 15, 2017 | News Story
Thank you to everyone who marched, danced, and rode up Fifth Avenue on Saturday! The NYC labor movement pulled off another successful and poignant Labor Day Parade.
Sep 1, 2017 | Press Release
On this and every Labor Day, we honor the men and women who keep New York City up and running. We represent workers from all three sectors of the labor movement, all backgrounds, and all walks of life, and we all play an important role in helping to keep NYC a world class, union-made city.
Aug 31, 2017 | News Story
Each Labor Day, Ruth Milkman and Stephanie Luce of the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies release their annual State of the Unions. The report includes a comprehensive profile of organized labor at the city, state, and national level.
The full report is available to read here.
Aug 31, 2017 | News Story
This week, Teamsters Local 814 announced it has reached a new contract with Waldner’s Business Environments.
Aug 31, 2017 | News Story
On Wednesday, 13 of the 17 union workers at The Village Voice were told that they were being laid off after the Voice wraps up their final print edition in the third week of September.
Aug 18, 2017 | News Story
Today we gathered at City Hall with members of Workers' United SEIU, Theatrical Wardrobe Union Local 764 IATSE, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Congressman Jerry Nadler, Senators Brad Hoylman and Marisol Alcantara, and fashion designers like Anna Sui and Nicole Miller to release the Garment District Steering Committee’s final report and recommendations on the Garment Center. In the...
Aug 18, 2017 | News Story
This Thursday, a group of New York City workers traveled to Haiti, where they will build a school to be operated by a local orphanage.The group is comprised of FDNY firefighters, two retired Port Authority police