(ITHACA) Approximately 22 Gimme! Coffee baristas will have the opportunity to vote in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election on the question of whether or not to organize a union to negotiate a contract in their workplaces on Wednesday, May 31st in Ithaca. The election will be for non-managerial baristas at the W. State/MLK […]

PLEASE JOIN US! The Tompkins County Workers’ Center is cosponsoring a local March for Climate, Jobs and Justice to coincide with the national march in Washington DC this Saturday April 29. We are hoping for at least 1,000 people from across the region to participate in a visible show of concern for the rapid deterioration […]

In late February, 2017 Officer Sarah Crews, an employee of the Ithaca City Police Department (IPD) filed a lawsuit against the City of Ithaca and outgoing Chief of Police John Barber alleging years of discrimination based on her sex, gender identity and sexual orientation. Officer Crews is a gender non-conforming lesbian. Workplace harassment against her […]

The Tompkins County Workers’ Center and the Minority, Indigenous, and Third World Studies Research Group (MITWSrg) present: White Innocence: Colonialism and Race in The Netherlands and the United States A lecture and discussion with feminist scholar Gloria Wekker, Utrecht University Check out the video, thanks to “Over the Shoulder” (Jurden Alexander and Wies Van Leuken): […]

Thanks for your support in the campaign of Ithaca College Contingent Faculty/SEIU200 United in getting a great contract with the Ithaca College (IC) Administration! After 10 1/2 hours of negotiations that ended late Sunday evening, and just prior to a strike looming on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Contingent Faculty and IC Administration came to terms […]