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Jan 26, 2024 | News Story
The Onion Union announced that 97% of their 35-member bargaining unit signed a pledge to strike if they do not reach a fair agreement with parent company G/O Media before their contract expires on January 31.
This week, the Writers Guild of America East filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge against G/O Media for “bargaining in bad faith” at Onion Inc. (The Onion, The A.V. Club, Deadspin, The...
Jan 26, 2024 | News Story
Journalists at New York’s Hometown Newspaper, the Daily News, walked out Thursday — the first walkout since the end of their historic strike in 1991 — fed up with chronic cuts ordered by the paper’s owner, the ‘destroyer of newspapers’ Alden Global Capital.
The 24-hour work stoppage included an in-person picket beginning at 10 a.m. and rally at noon at 1412 Broadway. The location is outside...
Jan 26, 2024 | News Story
Retail worker members of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) rallied with elected allies in Herald Square yesterday for a rally announcing the Retail Worker Safety Act. For retail workers toiling on the front lines, retail violence is a growing workplace issue.
Jan 26, 2024 | News Story
CIR members at NYC H+H are in contract negotiations with the city and haven't seen any movement that would give members a fair contract. The current proposal on the table would make CIR members in NYC's public sector hospitals the lowest-paid resident physicians in the city. The impacts that will have on patient care and the ability to keep Health+Hospitals as a competitive site to complete...
Jan 19, 2024 | News Story
On Thursday, January 18, the bakers, porters, wholesale drivers, and market staff at She Wolf Bakery marched on the boss to share that a majority of workers had signed RWDSU authorization cards. The workers at the Greenpoint, Brooklyn bakery are demanding voluntary recognition of their union so that contract negotiations can commence swiftly. They have also filed for a union election with the...
Jan 19, 2024 | News Story
UAW Local 2325 has announced that a supermajority of staff from the New York-based Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund declared their intent to unionize. AALDEF was the first nonprofit on the east coast to address civil rights issues impacting Asian Americans locally and nationwide.
Jan 19, 2024 | News Story
The Special Election for the 3rd Congressional District in Queens and Long Island is coming up on Tuesday, February 13. Early voting in the district begins on Saturday, February 3 and continues through Sunday, February 11.
Jan 19, 2024 | News Story
Musicians of the American Federation of Musicians of the U.S. & Canada (AFM) will begin bargaining with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) this month. Negotiations for the film and motion picture work are set to begin on January 22 at the AMPTP headquarters in Sherman Oaks, CA.
Jan 12, 2024 | News Story
Condé Nast executives—who have sought to intimidate and surveil the company’s unionized workers since management announced layoff plans in November—are now facing further legal action from The NewsGuild of New York over unlawful bargaining tactics during Condé Union’s layoff negotiations. The executives shared their latest proposal for layoffs with the NewsGuild on Thursday, which offered far...
Jan 12, 2024 | News Story
Last spring, a majority of contract faculty at NYU called on then President Hamilton to meet and work out a fair process by which the NYU administration would recognize their union, Contract Faculty United-UAW, and start to bargain. After ten months of negotiation, last week the union announced that the administration has agreed to a fair election process, giving faculty the opportunity to...