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Aug 19, 2022 | News Story
Last week, the New York City Central Labor Council launched its first Common Sense Economics workshop. Participants were engaged in hands-on activities and learned about local campaigns like the CUNY Rising Alliance. The workshop gave participants the opportunity to share their experiences with the economy and examine how institutional racism is a tool to divide working people.
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Aug 12, 2022 | News Story
For more than 10 years, Staten Island Ferry workers have been fighting for a new contract with the New York City Department of Transportation. This means that their wages and benefits have not changed since the last contract expired in 2010. This is unacceptable.
Stagnant wages and benefits have created high turnover. With fewer workers available to operate the ferries, there has been decreased...
Aug 12, 2022 | News Story
This week, City Hall announced they successfully settled their suit with Chipotle, resulting in a historic $20 million settlement. The City’s complaint alleged nearly 600,000 violations of New York’s Fair Workweek law. The $20 million amount represents the largest settlement under the Fair Workweek law thus far. All of the multi-million dollar settlement will be distributed as worker relief. An...
Aug 12, 2022 | News Story
Teamsters Local 804 this week announced a donation of $188,000 to two hospitals serving New York’s children. The donations result from a class-action lawsuit against UPS, which illegally deducted money from employees’ paychecks for the company’s charity program. About 6,000 UPS workers in the New York City region were part of the settlement.
St. Mary’s Hospital for Children and St. Jude Children’...
Aug 12, 2022 | News Story
Hundreds of workers employed by Gannett-owned newsrooms took a coordinated lunch break yesterday in response to a string of emails from upper management last week that threatened layoffs due to the company’s second quarter financials.
Aug 12, 2022 | News Story
Last month, CJNY's LI Regional Director, Mariah Dignan, spoke with students at William Floyd HS in Mastic Beach about the importance of union career pathways and the integral role labor will play in offshore wind development in NYS. The students were interested in learning more about how to apply for apprenticeship programs upon graduation!
Aug 12, 2022 | News Story
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on this week’s Senate victory for working people:
Today the Senate passed legislation that will transform the lives of working families at every level, and we urge the House of Representatives to pass this bill swiftly and send it to President Biden’s desk.
Aug 11, 2022 | Press Release
For Immediate Release
August 11, 2022
Contact: kwhalen@nycclc.org, 347-453-7131
Aug 5, 2022 | News Story
New York City’s neglect for its Staten Island Ferry mariners, who have been working for the last 11 years without a contract, impacted other working New Yorkers this week when the system suffered service disruptions due to understaffing caused by the NYC Department of Transportation's failure to attract and retain qualified mariners. The Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (MEBA), which...
Aug 5, 2022 | News Story
Nearly 300 journalists at Reuters, the global news agency, walked off the job yesterday for 24 hours in protest of management’s slow-walking contract renewal negotiations, the first major labor action by journalists at the company in more than 30 years. Reuters journalists, photographers, videographers, copy editors, producers and technicians are represented by The NewsGuild of New York. Here in...