Mobilizing for Our Rights and Fighting for a Countywide Living Wage: Over 350 People At 34th Annual Labor Day Picnic in Ithaca: List of Awards
Over 350 people attended the Tompkins County Workers’ Center and Midstate Central Labor Council’s 34th Annual Labor Day Picnic @ Ithaca’s Stewart Park on Monday, September 4th. The Picnic organizers focused on the theme: Mobilizing for Our Rights and Fighting for a Countywide Living Wage. Incredible music was provided by the Ithaca Bottom Boys. Watch […]
Why Clarissa Needs a Living Wage…
I have been struggling to find employment and keep it. I will get hired places and then let go before training even starts because I don’t have transportation to go to Elmira, Horseheads and all the other locations they send for training. When I find a job that doesn’t require me to travel out of […]
Teens Talk Living Wage
Four of the Youth Fellows of the Youth Organizing Fellowship, responded to why they thought a Living Wage for all people in Tompkins County is a necessity. Anacheliz Living wage would not only benefit adults but young people as well. We might want to buy the newest thing but some of us work to help […]
Tompkins County Living Wage Biennial Update Announced Today – $15.11/hour
(Ithaca) Alternatives Federal Credit Union (AFCU) today announced its new Living Wage calculations for a single individual living in Tompkins County based on 2016 living/rental costs. This amounts to $15.11/hour. The Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC) applauds AFCU’s commitment to paying its own workers a Living Wage and providing the research that helps establish the […]
Meet the 103rd Certified Living Wage Employer: Tiny Timber, LLC
The history of Tiny Timber began with Buzz Dolph, originally a stone setter, who always found pleasure derived from actively working, building whatever he could. Buzz could be described as a person who was never idle, constantly keeping his hands busy with more than one building project at a time. The idea that became Tiny […]
Monday, 7/31 in Ithaca: Stop ‘Milking’ NYS Dairy Farmworkers: NYS Farmworkers Fight for the Right to Organize
We invite you to hear from dairy farmworker leader Crispin Hernandez and the co-authors of the recently published report Milked: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in New York State at an Ithaca forum: Milk Cows, Not Workers Monday, July 31, 7pm Unitarian Church, 306 N. Aurora St. (@ Buffalo St. entrance), Ithaca Free and open to public […]