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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...
Nov 27, 2024 | News Story
Last week the Worker's Justice Project, Los Deliveristas, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, and the NYC CLC worked together to put on a legal clinic on Deferred Action. The clinic assisted workers in filing Deferred Action for Labor Enforcement Applications, which provide temporary protection from deportation and work authorization based on participation in workplace violation...
Nov 22, 2024 | News Story
Unionized employees at New York’s Hometown Newspaper, the Daily News, have taken legal action against the paper’s owner, Alden Global Capital (also known as "the destroyer of newspapers"), after the hedge fund’s representatives circumvented the union to negotiate a health-
Nov 22, 2024 | News Story
In an joint OpEd published in the Daily News this week, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) President Stuart Appelbaum and Amazon Labor Union (ALU) President Connor Spence urge Governor Hochul to sign the Warehouse Worker Injury Reduction Act, which would require annual evaluations of warehouses by
Nov 22, 2024 | News Story
Last Friday, the NYC CLC, the UFT, and the NYC Building and Construction Trades Council held a Future in Focus: Exploring the World of Organized Labor and Unionized Careers event at Lehman College in the Bronx. Future in Focus was founded in 2017, when the UFT recognized that discussions about options after high school often don’t include opportunities that exist in addition to higher education,...
Nov 22, 2024 | News Story
Last week, union members, leaders, and elected officials came together for a special dedication Mass for the Workers Chapel at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi in Manhattan.The dedication service was led by Father Brian Jordan, OFM, St. Francis Pastor and a chaplain for many construction workers’ labor unions.