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May 12, 2023 | News Story
Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR) resident physicians at three essential safety net hospitals in Queens are poised to strike over their employers' continued bad faith bargaining and failures to make meaningful movement towards their demands, which include living wages and patient care proposals.
May 12, 2023 | News Story
Striking Writers Guild of America East members and supporters this week made their voices heard at pickets at Steiner Studios, Silvercup Studios, Broadway Stages, the HBO/Amazon offices in Hudson Yards, and in
May 12, 2023 | News Story
On Wednesday, hundreds of NYSNA members who work for NYC Health+Hospitals and Mayoral agencies rallied at Foley Square to sound the alarm on the crisis of understaffing and high turnover that threatens care for the vulnerable patients who depend on our city’s public health system. Nurses are calling for pay equity as a matter of healthcare and racial justice, and were joined at the rally by Rev.
May 12, 2023 | News Story
Hundreds of faculty and staff represented by the Professional Staff Congress, students and CUNY allies joined forces with City Comptroller Brad Lander, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, Assembly Member Karines Reyes and members of the New York City Council and New York State Assembly yesterday on the steps of the Tweed Courthouse to oppose cuts to City of University New York colleges.
May 12, 2023 | News Story
This week, the Local 802 musicians of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" marched and played on the writers' picket line. At the same time, the striking Local 802 musicians of the DCINY Orchestra made a public statement of support: "Your Struggle is Our Struggle!" Local 802 is emphasizing that writers are fighting the same battle that musicians are fighting: the right to make sure that the...
May 12, 2023 | News Story
With union workers from IBEW Local 3 and Local 1-2 of the Utility Workers Union of America, Con Edison recently completed a six-mile-long transmission line in Queens that will carry increasingly renewable electricity, enabling the retirement of a fossil fuel-fired power plant in Astoria.
May 12, 2023 | News Story
HEART 9/11 and team leaders from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3 and NYC District of Carpenters Council are working with seniors at the High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture (CTEA) in Ozone Park, Queens, where the next generation of young men and women are educated in preparation for college, technical school
May 12, 2023 | News Story
The NYC CLC has announced its second round of endorsements for the 2023 New York City elections.
May 5, 2023 | News Story
On Friday, Barnes & Noble workers at the flagship Union Square, New York store filed for their union election with the NLRB seeking representation with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). The filing comes amid a streak of wins by the RWDSU at independent booksellers in the New York area, including McNally Jackson, Goods for the Study, Greenlight Bookstore and Book...
May 5, 2023 | News Story
“No contract, no peace!” That was the rallying cry outside of Carnegie Hall last Saturday as the DCINY Orchestra and their allies ramped up their campaign for a fair contract with DCINY.