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Feb 2, 2024 | News Story
On January 24, labor leaders from across the country traveled to New York City to participate in Climate Jobs National Resource Center’s 2024 Climate Jobs Summit—an unprecedented gathering of hundreds of labor leaders, climate experts, philanthropists, and policymakers to discuss the ways in which the U.S. can lead on building an equitable, pro-worker clean energy economy.
Feb 2, 2024 | News Story
Writers Guild of America East members at Onion, Inc. on Wednesday night reached a tentative agreement with G/O Media on a new collective bargaining agreement. The Onion Union, the 36-member bargaining unit representing the creative staff at The Onion, The A.V. Club, Deadspin, and The Takeout, made important gains in wages and workplace protections.
Feb 2, 2024 | News Story
At nine CUNY colleges, class sizes were increased, hiring freezes were enforced, adjuncts and other contingent faculty and staff were fired, some losing their health insurance, with just days to go before the start of the Spring semester. Thousands of students’ schedules were upended. These mid-year cuts are ON TOP OF another $169 million in budget reductions demanded by CUNY over the last two...
Feb 2, 2024 | News Story
The Special Election in New York's Congressional District 3 is right around the corner on February 13th and we are committed to getting out the vote for Tom Suozzi. This race is critically important—control over the 3rd District will help determine control over the entire House of Representatives. With this much at stake, and the special election only weeks away, every single day counts!
Jan 26, 2024 | News Story
Outraged over the unlawful handling of layoff negotiations and bad-faith bargaining, unionized staff at many of the top Condé Nast brands walked off the job for one day and picketed outside One World Trade Center in New York City on Tuesday.
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...