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U.S. Department of Labor Files Discrimination Suit Against B&H Photo

This week, the United States Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against NYC-based electronics retailer B&H Photo, alleging that the store’s management discriminated against women and workers of color.

U.S. Department of Labor Files Discrimination Suit Against B&H Photo

NYS AFL-CIO Holds Friedrichs Training

This week, the New York State AFL-CIO held a training for organizers in the New York City Labor Movement in preparation for the impending Supreme Court decision in theFriedrichs v the California Teachers Association case. 

NYS AFL-CIO Holds Friedrichs Training

Union-Made in America Holiday Gift Ideas

Below is a wide range of gift possibilities, from clothes to games to sports equipment and more, made by members of UNITE HERE, Boilermakers (IBB), Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM), Machinists (IAM), United Steelworkers (USW), Teamsters (IBT), UAW, United

Union-Made in America Holiday Gift Ideas

AFL-CIO HIT Partners with Houses of Worship to Invest $300 Million in Affordable Housing in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Jersey City

New York, NY - The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT) announced a partnership with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO and a coalition of unions, area churches and developers known as the United Cl

AFL-CIO HIT Partners with Houses of Worship to Invest $300 Million in Affordable Housing in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Jersey City

Columbia TAs and RAs Rally for Union Recognition

Members of Graduate Workers of Columbia-UAW (GWC-UAW) rallied at the Low Memorial Library to call for Columbia University to recognize the UAW as the union for the school’s research assistants (RAs) and teaching assistants (TAs). 

Columbia TAs and RAs Rally for Union Recognition

Map of Construction Deaths Across NYC in the Past Year

Map of Construction Deaths Across NYC in the Past Year