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Oct 1, 2021 | News Story
New York State has added additional funding for a COBRA subsidy in the most recent state budget. This program provides assistance equal to 50% of COBRA/continuation premiums. Many of Equity members are still out of work, and as such have lost access to their union health insurance. COBRA allows them to maintain their health care, and the subsidy makes it far more affordable.
Sep 28, 2021 | News Story
Today is National Voter Registration Day!
New Yorkers have 10 days to complete their voter registration for the November 2 General Election.
November 2, 2021 General Election Deadlines:
MAIL REGISTRATION (N.Y. Election Law Section 5-210(3)) Applications must be postmarked no later than October 8, 2021 and received by a board of elections no later than October 13, 2021 to be eligible to vote in...
Sep 24, 2021 | News Story
NYC Health + Hospitals resident physicians are organizing through the Committee of Interns and Residents and demanding change to the root drivers of resident burnout, depression, and suicide. Long before the COVID-19 crisis, rampant long work hours, cultures of hazing and bullying, student debt and a lack of mental health services in residency put these frontline physicians in danger across the...
Sep 24, 2021 | News Story
After weeks of strikes and protests, Nabisco workers last weekend voted to ratify a new contract and end their strike. The new agreement includes hourly wage increases each year for 4 years, a $5000 bonus for all employees, doubles 401(k) contributions, and blocks Mondelez's planned health care cuts. Approval of the contract ends the BCTGM’s strike against Nabisco which began on August 10, 2021.
Sep 24, 2021 | News Story
After months of negotiating successor contracts to the Producer-IATSE Basic Agreement, and the Theatrical and Television Motion Picture Area Standards Agreement, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which represents major film and television production companies, announced it does not intend to make any counteroffer to the IATSE’s most recent proposal.
Throughout the...
Sep 24, 2021 | News Story
This week a coalition of legal services unions, tenants, community organizations, and elected officials sent a letter to the New York State Office of Court Administration (OCA) and Governor Hochul urging them to halt plans that would force litigants and attorneys into New York City’s Housing Courts while the COVID-19 pandemic continues to put communities in danger of sickness and death.
Sep 24, 2021 | News Story
This week during Climate Week NYC, union members, labor leaders, policymakers, scientists, and climate justice activists came together for the second annual Climate Jobs Summit. Speakers included Secretary Marty Walsh, U.S. Department of Labor, Secretary Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Liz Shuler, President, AFL-CIO, Vincent Alvarez, President, NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO...
Sep 24, 2021 | News Story
With management's best and final contract offer nearly due and a number of key demands still unresolved, members of the Legal Service Staff Association/NOLSW UAW Loacal 2320), the unionized staff of Legal Services NYC, turned up the pressure the best way they know how to: by withholding their labor.
Sep 23, 2021 | News Story
Thank you to Ed Rosario, President of the New York Chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) for your presentation on Hispanic Heritage month and the great work of NYC LCLAA.
At this link please find the application to join the NYC Chapter. Also, more information about LCLAA can be found at https://lclaa.org/.
Sep 17, 2021 | News Story
We hope you’ll be joining us on Tuesday, September 21 for the second annual virtual Climate Jobs Summit to hear from labor leaders, climate activists, policymakers, scientists, and allies from states across the country, along with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, and more, about the surging labor-led movement for climate jobs!