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Support Actors’ Equity Association’s Tour Negotiations!

Actors’ Equity Association, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, has been bargaining with the Broadway League for over two months on an agreement for shows on tour.

Support Actors’ Equity Association’s Tour Negotiations!

Starbucks Workers Hold One Day Walkout

Workers at more than 115 Starbucks locations across the country including two in Astoria and one in Williamsburg walked off the job Wednesday to pressure the company to negotiate contracts with the unionized stores.

Starbucks Workers Hold One Day Walkout

Virtual Event: Lifting Up Women on the Shop Floor

Picture a manufacturing worker. Are you imagining a woman wielding a torch or assembling an SUV? 

The manufacturing sector provides good jobs with family-supporting wages and benefits, which do not require four-year degrees. More women should hold these jobs.

Virtual Event: Lifting Up Women on the Shop Floor

Actors’ Equity Association Urges Increased Arts Funding for New York State

Actors’ Equity Association, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, is part of the call to invest in New York State’s arts industries. Assembly Member Daniel J. O’Donnell and Senator José M.

Actors’ Equity Association Urges Increased Arts Funding for New York State

32BJ Bronx Building Workers Win Wage Increases, 4 Year Deal, Avert Strike

After weeks of bargaining and organizing in the streets to make their voices heard, 32BJ SEIU and the Bronx Realty Advisory Board this week reached a tentative agreement that achieves wins for the union's membership.

32BJ Bronx Building Workers Win Wage Increases, 4 Year Deal, Avert Strike

112th Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Commemoration

Friday, March 24, 11:30AM-1PM: Please join us for the commemoration of the 112th anniversary of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, one of the pivotal events in US history and a turning point in labor’s struggle to achieve fair wages, dignity at work and safe working condi

112th Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Commemoration