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Feb 26, 2021 | News Story
The hotel industry is urging NY State to designate its staffers as crucial front-line workers so they can be vaccinated against COVID-19. More than 400 members of the Hotel Trades Council died after getting infected with COVID-19, with many employees contracting the virus on the job.
Feb 26, 2021 | News Story
Actors' Equity Association, representing actors and stage managers in live theatre, is still seeing record levels of unemployment as theatre remains closed due to the pandemic. Equity members earn their health insurance through union contracts, so thousands of workers have lost access to healthcare over the last year during the industry's shutdown.
Feb 26, 2021 | News Story
CJNY's Education Fund hosted its first 2021 Long Island Climate Change and Offshore Wind Training in coordination with Cornell's Worker Institute. We had over 30 union members join to learn the science behind climate change, how New York is leading on climate and the importance of the labor movement helping drive responsible offshore wind development.
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Feb 26, 2021 | News Story
This week at AFM Local 802, the union celebrates that the first New York "pop-up" concerts with Jon Batiste and Stay Human were covered under a union contract, and that the AFL-CIO featured Local 802 member Akua Dixon (left) for Black History Month.
Feb 26, 2021 | News Story
The labor and arts communities of New York mourn the loss of Mark Plesent, co-artistic director of the Working Theater. Since 1985, the Working Theater has produced plays and hosted industructional programs as a professional off-Broadway theater company for, about, and by the working men and women of New York.
Feb 26, 2021 | News Story
Roughly a hundred organizers have been calling workers from Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse in recent weeks, making the case for why they should unionize. The organizing effort extends well beyond the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which would represent the facility’s employees.
Feb 19, 2021 | News Story
"Nobody feels safe in the subway. Not the riders and certainly not the workers. Daily ridership was down 3.5 million last year. But more people were robbed, raped and murdered in the system than in 2019," writes Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Tony Utano in a NY Daily News Op-Ed.
"Nearly 360 riders were victims of a felony assault last year. That’s just 20 fewer than the year before,...
Feb 19, 2021 | News Story
New York’s Guggenheim Museum has signed a contract with its first-ever labor union, the latest in a wave of collective-bargaining agreements at museums across the US.
Feb 19, 2021 | News Story
On February 5th, the editorial staff of The New York Daily News announced they had unionized with the NewsGuild of New York, CWA Local 31003, with over 80% support from the newsroom. Since the announcement, management has refused to voluntarily recognize the Guild, and has begun an anti-union campaign.
Feb 19, 2021 | News Story
New York’s Attorney General, Letitia James, sued Amazon on Tuesday evening, arguing that the company provided inadequate safety protection for workers in New York City during the pandemic and retaliated against employees who raised concerns over the conditions.
The case focuses on two Amazon facilities: a large warehouse on Staten Island and a delivery depot in Queens. Ms. James argues that...