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Jul 15, 2022 | News Story
Last week, one of the Starbucks Workers United leaders who had recently led the successful unionization of his store in Astoria, Queens was unjustly fired by the company. This is the first firing of a union leader in downstate NY. Austin Locke, a Starbucks employee for almost six years, was fired July 5, just days after the store voted in favor of unionizing.
Jul 15, 2022 | News Story
On Wednesday, less than an hour after Guttmacher Employees United won their union with OPEIU Local 153 by an overwhelming margin of 61-2, the Guttmacher Institute fired Sam Heyne, a leading organizing committee member at the NYC-based nonprofit research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States and globally.
Jul 15, 2022 | News Story
On Feb. 17, WNBA star, Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) member and our union sister Brittney Griner was detained upon her arrival in Moscow.
Griner is a two-time Olympic gold medalist. An elite global athlete. And one of us. This is why we must do everything in our power to bring her home as soon as possible. The State Department has officially classified Griner as...
Jul 15, 2022 | News Story
DC 9 Business Manager Joseph Azzopardi has penned an OpEd for amNY on the importance of union labor and the role of the Finishing Trades in transitioning to clean energy. Joe highlighted the role of Climate Jobs NY in bringing together the labor movement to build an equitable clean energy economy at the scale that climate science demands all the while creating community-sustaining union jobs. Joe...
Jul 8, 2022 | News Story
This week, the New York State AFL-CIO announced the endorsements of candidates running in primary races for Congress and New York State Senate. The remainder of the endorsements will take place at the New York State AFL-CIO convention in August. Primary elections for Congressional candidates and state Senate candidates will take place on August 23rd, with Early Voting from August 13-21st. Click...
Jul 8, 2022 | News Story
Management has slow-walked WIRED Union's bargaining for over a year, refuses to discuss rights participation, and refuses to allow members of the Reviews team in the bargaining unit, in spite of their vital work for the outlet. Over 97% of members are prepared to walk out on Prime Day if a deal is not reached. These workers deserve equitable pay, the security that comes from guaranteed annual...
Jul 8, 2022 | News Story
Carlos Moncayo (pictured) was just 22 when he was crushed to death by thousands of pounds of dirt at a construction site in Manhattan’s meatpacking district. More than seven years later, a construction safety bill named after him could become law, if Gov. Kathy Hochul chooses to sign it. The legislation, passed by the Legislature in June and known as Carlos’s Law, would dramatically raise the...
Jul 8, 2022 | News Story
Unionized employees of HarperCollins Publishers have voted by 99% to authorize a strike if the publisher does not agree to a fair contract. Local 2110 of the UAW represents 250+ employees in editorial, sales, publicity, design, legal, and marketing departments.
Jul 8, 2022 | News Story
Mayor Eric Adams and DC 37 reached a deal this week that boosts lifeguards' starting salary this year by almost 22-percent with a $1,000 retention bonus to be paid out in September. Last month, the city announced that “due to the national lifeguard shortage” it was canceling a wide array of programs including its Learn to Swim program. The shortfall in personnel had resulted in full or partial...
Jul 8, 2022 | News Story
Production workers at the long-running animated television shows The Simpsons, American Dad! and Family Guy have gained voluntary recognition from their parent company, 20th Television Animation, to join The Animation Guild. The production workers won with 90% support across all three shows.