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Jul 2, 2021 | News Story
Staff members of Brooklyn Defender Services (“BDS”), a non-profit public defender organization in Kings County, this week announced the formation of the BDS Union as a chapter of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (“ALAA”) – UAW Local 2325. An overwhelming, decisive majority of non-managerial workers across practice areas and roles has signed cards indicating support for unionization. The...
Jul 2, 2021 | News Story
Editorial employees of Insider overwhelmingly voted 241-14 to be represented by The NewsGuild of New York, TNG-CWA Local 31003 in a National Labor Relations Board election that concluded this week. The more than 300-person bargaining unit includes reporters, web editors, producers, video editors, social media producers, animators, photographers, designers, and copy editors.
Jul 2, 2021 | News Story
Workers at Change.org, a global platform that empowers people to start and win campaigns that address pressing issues in their lives and communities, this week announced that they have formed a union, Solidarity at Change, with the Communications Workers of America’s CODE-CWA project. A strong majority of the approximately 70 eligible Change.org workers in the United States voted for the union,...
Jul 2, 2021 | News Story
One of the priorities Climate Jobs NY leaders emphasized to Secretary Granholm was Carbon Free and Healthy Schools, a campaign committed to making NYC schools carbon free, healthier and safer, while creating good union jobs and saving schools millions in energy costs. We can make NYC schools a model for the nation, and YOU can help.
Jul 2, 2021 | News Story
In recent weeks, hundreds of members and allies of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, the union representing the Metropolitan Opera’s stagehands and skilled craftspeople, gathered in person in front of Lincoln Center to protest the opera company locking out its workers. Now, the union is taking the fight online with the images of hundreds more in a first-of-its-kind...
Jun 25, 2021 | News Story
As we await the final results of Tuesday’s primary elections, the NYC CLC thanks all who participated in our 2021 NYC Labor Votes political program. The New York City labor movement once again showed that by working together, we can support pro-labor candidates across all levels of city government.
Jun 25, 2021 | News Story
n recent weeks, hundreds of members and allies of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, the union representing the Metropolitan Opera’s stagehands and skilled craftspeople, gathered in person in front of Lincoln Center to protest the opera company locking out its workers. Now, the union is taking the fight online with the images of hundreds more in a first-of-its-kind...
Jun 25, 2021 | News Story
In a giant step forward for all New York patients, nursing home residents, nurses and healthcare workers, legal mandates are now in place to set and enforce staffing standards at every hospital and nursing home in New York, regardless of whether the facility is public or private, not-for-profit or for-profit, union or non-union.
Jun 25, 2021 | News Story
More than a thousand coal miners at Warrior Met Coal are now in the third month of their strike in the right-to-work state of Alabama. The miners walked off the job on April 1 after their union, the United Mine Workers of America, called the first strike to hit the state’s coal mining industry in four decades. Workers are fighting for improvements to wages and benefits after they agreed to...
Jun 25, 2021 | News Story
The NewsGuild of New York has filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge with the NLRB after Gannett managers offered employees benefits in exchange for rejecting the union and created the impression that management was spying on workers’ protected union activities.