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Jun 25, 2021 | News Story
The NewsGuild of New York has filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge with the NLRB after Gannett managers offered employees benefits in exchange for rejecting the union and created the impression that management was spying on workers’ protected union activities.
Jun 25, 2021 | News Story
Musicians are working again, thanks to a unique partnership between NYC and Local 802. The union just completed an 8-week performance series called Music Heals, with an encore production on the way. Union musicians performed live at vaccination sites throughout the city in a program co-sponsored by the Mayor’s Office for Media and Entertainment.
The partnership paid out almost $200,000 in union...
Jun 25, 2021 | News Story
The recently formed AJWS Union announced this week that management at American Jewish World Service, a leading global Jewish human rights organization. has formally and voluntarily recognized the workers' union affiliated with OPEIU Local 153.
Jun 25, 2021 | News Story
Over the past two weeks, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew have toured New York City schools with solar power and energy efficiency retrofits, highlighting the need for Carbon Free and Healthy Schools across the City.
Jun 24, 2021 | Press Release
Dear Supporters,
As we await the final results of Tuesday’s primary elections, the NYC CLC thanks all of our affiliates, political directors, and activists for participating in our 2021 NYC Labor Votes political program. The New York City labor movement once again showed that by working together, we can support pro-labor candidates across all levels of city government.
Jun 18, 2021 | News Story
Members of the New Yorker, Pitchfork, and Ars Technica Unions announced this week that a strike has been averted and that they have reached an agreement in principle on their first contracts with Condé Nast.
Jun 18, 2021 | News Story
Employees at the New York office of Oxford University Press announced Wednesday that they are unionizing.
Jun 18, 2021 | News Story
The newsroom employees at MSNBC and The Choice on Peacock yesterday announced that they have unionized with the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) for the purpose of collective bargaining. The 315-member bargaining unit includes writers, producers, booking producers, fact checkers, and planners at every program airing on MSNBC and The Choice on Peacock. A clear majority of staff signed a...
Jun 11, 2021 | News Story
Journalists at The Atlantic announced the formation of a union on Monday, reporting that 80% of staff writers, copy editors, fact checkers, staff editors, art directors, engineers and producers at the magazine and online platform had signed cards indicating support for The Atlantic Union. They will become part of the NewsGuild of New York and represent close to 100 people.
Jun 11, 2021 | News Story
This week it was announced that an overwhelming majority of staff at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, a nonpartisan law and policy institute, have joined together to form a union with the National Organization of Legal Services Workers (NOLSW), UAW Local 2320.