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Teamsters Rally at City Hall

Essential workers marked one year on strike with a rally at City Hall yesterday, calling on Mayor Adams to stop doing business with their union-busting employer.

Teamsters Rally at City Hall

Climate Jobs NY Update: Happy Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day! Today, we honor the environment that we have been given, and we’re reminded of our obligation to protect it through efforts to make our communities more sustainable, create new union jobs and reduce our carbon footprint.

Climate Jobs NY Update: Happy Earth Day!

AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler on the future of America's labor movement

Liz Shuler is the first woman ever elected president of the AFL-CIO.

She took over a time when the world of work has been turned upside down.

Union organizing is happening in some unexpected places, and sometimes in ways that disrupt the traditional union playbook.

AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler on the future of America's labor movement

32BJ SEIU Essential Building Service Workers Rally on Park Avenue, Authorize Bargaining Committee to Call for a Strike

On Wednesday, an estimated 10,000 building services essential workers, including 32BJ SEIU members from New York to Washington, D.C.

32BJ SEIU Essential Building Service Workers Rally on Park Avenue, Authorize Bargaining Committee to Call for a Strike

Climate Jobs NY Update: Carbon Free & Healthy Schools Training

On Tuesday, April 12th, the Worker Institute’s Labor Leading on Climate Initiative and Climate Jobs NY delivered a Carbon Free & Healthy Schools training.

Climate Jobs NY Update: Carbon Free & Healthy Schools Training

Support Theatre Workers Fighting for a Union Contract

Actors’ Equity Association has filed with the NLRB to bargain on behalf of the actors and stage managers on the national tour of Broadway’s Waitress, which is running concurrently with a unionized tour.

Support Theatre Workers Fighting for a Union Contract