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Nov 15, 2024 | News Story
Custodians, housekeepers and receiving clerks at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City have successfully organized with Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 241.
Workers at the medical facility will begin negotiating a first contract, seeking improved economic benefits and more security. Local 241 represents workers at Columbia University and other affiliated institutions in New York City.
Nov 15, 2024 | News Story
On Wednesday, the National Labor Relations Board issued a decision in Amazon.com Services LLC, ruling that an employer violates the National Labor Relations Act by requiring employees under threat of discipline or discharge to attend meetings in which the employer expresses its views on unionization.
Nov 8, 2024 | News Story
The result of this week’s Presidential election is obviously not what the Labor Movement hoped for, for many reasons. The Biden-Harris Administration has been the most pro-Labor in United States history, and union members turned out across the country in an effort to keep that momentum going. AFL-CIO affiliate unions alone engaged directly with more than 7.1 million members, and despite the...
Nov 8, 2024 | News Story
The Times Tech Guild—the union that powers the technology behind The New York Times—has walked off the job in a ULP strike. The work stoppage began at 12:01am Monday despite multiple rounds of intense bargaining and a practice picket that drew more than 400 outside the headquarters of The Times last week. Tech Guild members are picketing from 9am to 6pm daily outside the Eighth Avenue entrance of...
Nov 8, 2024 | News Story
The New York Metro Area Postal Union, APWU, AFL-CIO has new conference/meeting space available for rent to unions and other groups. Located in the heart of NYC right across from the Moynihan Train Hall (in the same building as the NYC CLC), the New York Metro Conference Center offers a variety of room spaces and configurations, with wi-fi, built-in screens, projectors, microphone and speaker...
Nov 1, 2024 | News Story
In the final days of the 2024 election, union members and volunteers are turning out the union vote for Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz as well as other pro-worker candidates, capping the largest voter mobilization in the Labor Movement’s history.
Nov 1, 2024 | News Story
Visual Effects (VFX) workers for Saturday Night Live (SNL) are unionizing with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), and have won official recognition of their union, IATSE announced Monday. The group includes sixteen VFX Artists and VFX Leads who unanimously signed cards indicating their support of unionizing with IATSE and whose labor is central to making Saturday...
Nov 1, 2024 | News Story
The union of 930 full-time, non-tenure track faculty at New York University, NYU Contract Faculty United (CFU-UAW), rallied Thursday to kick off bargaining their first contract with the University. Members were joined by supporters including NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, NYS Senate Labor Committee Chair Jessica Ramos, NYS Senator Brian Kavanagh, and Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani.
Nov 1, 2024 | News Story
On Wednesday, more than 400 members and supporters of The New York Times Tech Guild rallied outside the paper's headquarters to let management know they want a fair contract with just cause by Election Day. It’s up to Chairman and Publisher AG Sulzberger and the masthead to get it done!
Nov 1, 2024 | News Story
More than 1,250 members of the Writers Guild of America East and Writers Guild of America West signed a petition to support Guild members at PBS stations THIRTEEN (New York City tri-state area), WGBH (Boston), and PBS SoCal who are negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement seeking equitable union protections for animation writers, fair compensation for writer-producers, WGA coverage of...