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Nov 8, 2024 | News Story
The result of this week’s Presidential election is obviously not what the Labor Movement hoped for, for many reasons. The Biden-Harris Administration has been the most pro-Labor in United States history, and union members turned out across the country in an effort to keep that momentum going. AFL-CIO affiliate unions alone engaged directly with more than 7.1 million members, and despite the...
Nov 8, 2024 | News Story
The Times Tech Guild—the union that powers the technology behind The New York Times—has walked off the job in a ULP strike. The work stoppage began at 12:01am Monday despite multiple rounds of intense bargaining and a practice picket that drew more than 400 outside the headquarters of The Times last week. Tech Guild members are picketing from 9am to 6pm daily outside the Eighth Avenue entrance of...
Nov 8, 2024 | News Story
The New York Metro Area Postal Union, APWU, AFL-CIO has new conference/meeting space available for rent to unions and other groups. Located in the heart of NYC right across from the Moynihan Train Hall (in the same building as the NYC CLC), the New York Metro Conference Center offers a variety of room spaces and configurations, with wi-fi, built-in screens, projectors, microphone and speaker...
Nov 1, 2024 | News Story
In the final days of the 2024 election, union members and volunteers are turning out the union vote for Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz as well as other pro-worker candidates, capping the largest voter mobilization in the Labor Movement’s history.
Nov 1, 2024 | News Story
Visual Effects (VFX) workers for Saturday Night Live (SNL) are unionizing with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), and have won official recognition of their union, IATSE announced Monday. The group includes sixteen VFX Artists and VFX Leads who unanimously signed cards indicating their support of unionizing with IATSE and whose labor is central to making Saturday...
Nov 1, 2024 | News Story
The union of 930 full-time, non-tenure track faculty at New York University, NYU Contract Faculty United (CFU-UAW), rallied Thursday to kick off bargaining their first contract with the University. Members were joined by supporters including NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, NYS Senate Labor Committee Chair Jessica Ramos, NYS Senator Brian Kavanagh, and Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani.
Nov 1, 2024 | News Story
On Wednesday, more than 400 members and supporters of The New York Times Tech Guild rallied outside the paper's headquarters to let management know they want a fair contract with just cause by Election Day. It’s up to Chairman and Publisher AG Sulzberger and the masthead to get it done!
Nov 1, 2024 | News Story
More than 1,250 members of the Writers Guild of America East and Writers Guild of America West signed a petition to support Guild members at PBS stations THIRTEEN (New York City tri-state area), WGBH (Boston), and PBS SoCal who are negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement seeking equitable union protections for animation writers, fair compensation for writer-producers, WGA coverage of...
Oct 25, 2024 | News Story
We need a President, Congress, and local elected officials who will fight for workers and protect our union rights! That's why the NYC CLC, AFSCME DC 37, Laborers Locals 66, 78, 79, and 1010, PEF, IBEW Local 3, UFCW Local 1500, RWDSU Local 338, UFT, PSC-CUNY, CWA 1180, IATSE Local One, and members of many other unions from across NYC stood united at City Hall Park Wednesday to get out the vote...
Oct 25, 2024 | News Story
On Wednesday, the New York City Council overwhelmingly passed the Safe Hotels Act by a vote of 45-4. This crucial bill, introduced by Councilmember Julie Menin, licenses hotels—bringing NYC in line with other large cities to protect guests, workers and communities by ensuring that hotels live up to reasonable standards.