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Jan 19, 2024 | News Story
UAW Local 2325 has announced that a supermajority of staff from the New York-based Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund declared their intent to unionize. AALDEF was the first nonprofit on the east coast to address civil rights issues impacting Asian Americans locally and nationwide.
Jan 19, 2024 | News Story
The Special Election for the 3rd Congressional District in Queens and Long Island is coming up on Tuesday, February 13. Early voting in the district begins on Saturday, February 3 and continues through Sunday, February 11.
Jan 19, 2024 | News Story
Musicians of the American Federation of Musicians of the U.S. & Canada (AFM) will begin bargaining with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) this month. Negotiations for the film and motion picture work are set to begin on January 22 at the AMPTP headquarters in Sherman Oaks, CA.
Jan 12, 2024 | News Story
Condé Nast executives—who have sought to intimidate and surveil the company’s unionized workers since management announced layoff plans in November—are now facing further legal action from The NewsGuild of New York over unlawful bargaining tactics during Condé Union’s layoff negotiations. The executives shared their latest proposal for layoffs with the NewsGuild on Thursday, which offered far...
Jan 12, 2024 | News Story
Last spring, a majority of contract faculty at NYU called on then President Hamilton to meet and work out a fair process by which the NYU administration would recognize their union, Contract Faculty United-UAW, and start to bargain. After ten months of negotiation, last week the union announced that the administration has agreed to a fair election process, giving faculty the opportunity to...
Jan 12, 2024 | News Story
Musicians of the American Federation of Musicians of the U.S. & Canada (AFM) will begin bargaining with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) this month. Negotiations for the film and motion picture work are set to begin on January 22 at the AMPTP headquarters in Sherman Oaks, CA.
Jan 12, 2024 | News Story
Through an interagency partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Board will now work with noncitizen workers (including undocumented workers) and their advocates to gain temporary protection from prosecution and potential deportation, as well as the ability to work legally in the U.S., if the worker is party to a workers' compensation claim.
Jan 5, 2024 | News Story
Workers at City World Ford in the Bronx are on strike! In July, the workers voted unanimously to unionize with UAW Local 259. Management has repeatedly ignored requests for information and dates to bargain, so the members voted unanimously to authorize a strike starting yesterday.
Jan 5, 2024 | News Story
New York’s minimum-wage workers had more than just the new year to celebrate Monday, with a pay bump kicking in as the clock ticked over to 2024. In the first of a series of annual increases slated for the Empire State, the minimum wage increased to $16 in New York City and some of its suburbs, up from $15. In the rest of the state, the new minimum wage is $15, up from $14.20.
Dec 29, 2023 | News Story
Just after midnight on Thursday, a bargaining committee composed of 32BJ SEIU members who clean New York City commercial building offices, transportation hubs and universities and union officers reached a tentative agreement with the Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations.