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Jun 10, 2022 | News Story
"Workers are already on the frontlines of climate change," write NYC CLC President Vincent Alvarez and Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York President Gary LaBarbera in an OpEd published in PoliticsNY this week. "We rebuilt after Sandy, cleaned up flooded public schools after Ida, and are working hard to build renewable energy infrastructure.
Jun 10, 2022 | News Story
After spending years in legislative limbo, a bill that would significantly increase fines issued to construction companies found criminally liable for worker injuries or fatalities was passed by the Legislature last week.
Known as Carlos’ Law, for Carlos Moncayo, a construction worker killed on the job in 2015, the bill, which awaits Governor Kathy Hochul’s signature, would raise the maximum fine...
Jun 10, 2022 | News Story
Actors' Equity Association celebrated the news this week that the National Endowments of the Arts (NEA) will create a chief diversity officer for the first time in the agency’s history.
Jun 10, 2022 | News Story
Are you a union member working in a climate job? Climate Jobs National Resource Center's nationwide photography contest, The Future Is Union: Climate Urgency Through the Eyes of Workers is still open.
Jun 3, 2022 | News Story
Today (June 3) is the voter registration deadline for the New York State Primary Election on June 28! Check your voter registration status here.
And don't forget that Congressional and state seats have changed. Click here for THE CITY's search tool to find out how your old districts stack up with your new ones.
Jun 3, 2022 | News Story
On Wednesday, the NYC CLC hosted our annual labor and civil rights event in the form of a panel discussion centering around how union membership has contributed to narrowing the inequality gap and how it can continue to build solidarity in an effort to create prosperity that is felt by all workers.
Jun 3, 2022 | News Story
Wireless tower technicians organizing to form a union with CWA released a powerful video this week describing the struggles faced by workers in the industry and calling on tower climbers, everywhere, to come together, join the union, and take action.
Jun 3, 2022 | News Story
At the Committee on Finance Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Hearing on 5/25, Carbon Free and Healthy Schools Campaign Director Tory Kaso and CJNY union members testified before the New York City Council, urging their support for an investment to create thousands of good union jobs and reduce emissions across the city.
Kaso testified, “By taking bold action, NYC has the opportunity to lead the nation,...
Jun 3, 2022 | News Story
The Edward J. Malloy Initiative for Construction Skills (CSKILLS) is a pre-apprenticeship preparation program that involves classroom instruction and hands-on training. Since 2001, CSKILLS has placed over 2,300 New York City residents into union-registered apprenticeship programs and more than 1,600 of these apprentices remain actively employed in the unionized construction industry.
Jun 3, 2022 | News Story
After losing salary increases and money in their savings accounts during the hardship of a pandemic, Vox Media employees now face record inflation and soaring cost-of-living expenses. These factors are ignored in management’s most recent counterproposals, as are proposals to address other chronic problems experienced by the Vox Media Union members: Many regularly work more than 40 hours a week;...