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Nov 19, 2021 | News Story
This week, the New York Daily News reported that billionaire John Catsimatidis is flouting labor law by underpaying oil truck drivers delivering heating oil to public schools and other city buildings, based on a compliant filed with the New York City Comptroller.
United Metro Energy Corp. has received over $100 million in City contracts, but records provided by Teamsters Local 553 show that the...
Nov 19, 2021 | News Story
This week was National Apprenticeship Week, and the labor movement has been celebrating the drive and success of thousands of union apprentices across the country. Apprenticeships offer workers the chance to earn while they learn, opening doors to the middle class as an alternative to traditional higher education. Click here to watch a new video from the Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) about...
Nov 19, 2021 | News Story
Ready to serve a scrumptious union-made Thanksgiving dinner this year? Here's what you need to prepare your intimate family feast, from union-made cookware to favorite recipes from Union Plus.
Nov 12, 2021 | News Story
This week, the NYC Labor Movement joins the rest of our nation in thanking and recognizing our dedicated servicemembers and their families.
Nov 12, 2021 | News Story
The passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is a monumental political and legislative accomplishment. This is a $1.2 trillion investment in our infrastructure after decades of decline, and America’s workers are ready to rebuild our country.
This is a tremendous victory for working people in New York State in particular, where the investment will mean:
Nov 12, 2021 | News Story
On Wednesday, the New York City Council passed a groundbreaking law regulating construction industry body shops, which prey on people returning home from incarceration and leverage workers' parole mandates of maintaining employment as a condition of their release. These body shops take advantage of the scarcity of job opportunities available to formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, who are told that...
Nov 12, 2021 | News Story
Student workers including undergraduate and graduate teaching and research assistants at Columbia University are wrapping up the second week of their strike, the second-largest in the country. This week's actions included pups on the picket line, bargaining, digital picketing, teach-ins, music, rallies, and more. Click here for today's schedule of events.
Nov 8, 2021 | News Story
The temperature is dropping and it's time to update that wardrobe with some Union-Made goods to keep you warm.
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Nov 5, 2021 | News Story
On Wednesday, Columbia University student workers including undergraduate and graduate teaching and research assistants went on strike, in what constitutes the second-largest such action happening in the United States right now, second only to the strike still being fought by their UAW siblings at John Deere.
Nov 5, 2021 | News Story
New York City taxi workers this week reached a historic debt relief agreement with New York City and a private asset management company after more than a month of protests and fifteen days of a hunger strike calling on the City to to do more to help resolve the financial and humanitarian crisis that has plagued taxi medallion owner-drivers.