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Dec 13, 2024 | News Story
The New York Times Guild, a unit of The NewsGuild of New York, announced on Tuesday that it has reached a tentative agreement with The New York Times Company on a new collective bargaining contract after more than two years of negotiations. The tentative agreement, which must be ratified by members to go into effect, is a five-year deal that will be effective until March 2026.
Dec 13, 2024 | News Story
A supermajority of employees from the International Rescue Committee office of New York have announced their intent to form a union with the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 153. The IRC NY office is the eighth IRC regional office to announce the formation of their union with OPEIU, and IRC NYC workers have called on IRC leadership to avoid a wasteful and...
Dec 13, 2024 | News Story
Climate Jobs New York celebrated this week as new legislation took effect that will create an ambitious and impactful program to install solar power on public buildings. The program will bring cleaner air, emissions reductions, and high-quality jobs to the city.
Dec 13, 2024 | News Story
On Friday, December 6, the New York Metro Area Postal Union, the largest local in the American Postal Workers Union, dedicated the opening of the Josie McMillian Training and Conference Center located on the first floor of the New York Metro Area Postal Union building at 350 West 31st Street in New York City. Attending the dedication were leaders from the National APWU in Washington, DC, retired...
Dec 13, 2024 | News Story
Governor Hochul can make New York a leader in protecting the public and its workers by signing the LOADinG Act (S. 7543-B Gonzalez/A. 9430-B Otis).
Dec 6, 2024 | News Story
REI SoHo ski shop workers unionized with the RWDSU walked off the job on a ULP strike on Wed, Dec 4, and remain on the picket line. Ski shop workers are required to melt plastic and wax to repair skis, up to 8-15 pairs a day at the peak of ski season. This work has typically been done with the use of respirators in past years. Yet, on October 4, REI imposed a new “voluntary respirator policy”...
Dec 6, 2024 | News Story
Unionized editorial staff at Forbes – who ordinarily would be staffing the launch of the magazine’s most important issue of the year, “30 Under 30” – have walked off the job. The one-day ULP work stoppage is in protest of the business magazine’s continued intransigence at the bargaining table and repeated labor law violations.
Dec 6, 2024 | News Story
Service technicians at a Mercedes Benz dealership on Manhattan’s far west side rallied with union allies on Monday to put pressure on the dealership’s owner to agree to a first collective bargaining agreement. Workers at Mercedes Benz of Manhattan voted to unionize with United Auto Workers Local 259 in May, and the new union members say that management has done everything it can to discourage...
Dec 6, 2024 | News Story
Staff at The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a vote on unionization with Local 2110 UAW. The wall-to-wall unit that Local 2110 has petitioned for includes educators, gallery attendants, curatorial staff, archivists, retail, warehouse, facilities and other administrative staff. The Museum is the latest in a growing movement of museum...
Nov 27, 2024 | News Story
Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) members at WNET THIRTEEN have unanimously ratified a new two-year collective bargaining agreement. The 10-member WNET bargaining unit, which consists of promotional writers for the tri-state area PBS station THIRTEEN, secured job protections that will allow them to continue doing their vital promo, fundraising and pledge drive work for the station. Deal...