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Aug 26, 2022 | News Story
Out of the ashes of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire rose the modern labor movement. Now, more than a century later, working people from around the nation are joining together to build the National Memorial to the workers who died in the Triangle Fire and to honor the legacy of reform their deaths inspired.
To mark the 140th Anniversary of the first New York City Labor Day Parade, step...
Aug 26, 2022 | News Story
Help is on the way for New Yorkers seeking a union job in the transportation sector. The Consortium for Worker Education and partners in government, labor, and business are launching a new workforce training program, New York City Pathways to Industrial and Construction Careers (PINCC).
The program is funded by a grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s Good Jobs Challenge, which...
Aug 26, 2022 | News Story
Unified workers at a Chipotle Mexican Grill in Lansing, Michigan, voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to form a union with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, making it the first of the restaurant chain’s 3,000 locations to organize.
In addition to the security of a powerful Teamster contract, workers are forming a union to improve their work schedules, increase wages, and gain the respect...
Aug 19, 2022 | News Story
On Wednesday, members of SMART Sheet Metal Workers Local 28, Laborers Local 79, Steamfitters Local 638, community supporters and other union workers rallied in front of the Tribeca Film Center, calling on self-professed union man Robert De Niro to stop cutting corners on workplace standards by using nonunion construction contractors—which have a history of safety violations—on his new Wildflower...
Aug 19, 2022 | News Story
Workers at the Trader Joe’s Wine Shop in Union Square spent the last four months laying the groundwork to unionize their store. A small organizing committee met regularly to discuss strategy around building support to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union, and they planned to go public with their effort the week of Aug. 15. But in the early morning hours of Aug.
Aug 19, 2022 | News Story
Approximately 30,000 NYSNA nurses have union contracts expiring on December 31, 2022, or in early 2023. This is the first time in New York state that so many private and public sector nurses will be bargaining for critical improvements to their profession and their patients at the same time. It is also the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that nurses will be bargaining...
Aug 19, 2022 | News Story
A majority of the dancers employed at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood this week filed a petition for a union recognition election with the National Labor Relations Board. If the dancers win their election and the results are certified by the NLRB, the Star Garden workers will become the only strippers in the United States represented by a union. The bargaining unit will be...
Aug 19, 2022 | News Story
On Tuesday, the 2.5 million member New York State AFL-CIO announced endorsements of candidates running for Congress, Senate and Assembly.
The endorsements took place at the state federation’s 2022 Committee on Political Education (COPE) Convention at the Sheraton NY Times Square Hotel in New York City. Delegates, representing union members from the public sector, private sector and building...
Aug 19, 2022 | News Story
Unionizing TV Commercial Production Department workers, backed by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) union and the Stand With Production Movement have met heavy resistance to their organizing efforts from the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP).
Aug 19, 2022 | News Story
TIME Union workers have voted unanimously to ratify a new contract, a historic agreement that covers all TIME editorial employees without any divisions among the print and digital sides of TIME or TIME for Kids. The deal was finalized on July 21and ratified this week. The union of more than 80 employees is represented by The NewsGuild of New York. The TIME digital and TIME for Kids workers...