On Tuesday, July 24th, participants in the 43rd Annual UALE Northeast Summer School for Women in Unions and Worker Organizations will hold a Rally on The Commons in Ithaca, in coordination with the Tompkins County Workers’ Center and Cornell Graduate Students United (CGSU). [Sign up to say you’re able to make it on our Facebook […]
A group of community leaders* (see list below) are studying the benefits and challenges to paying all workers in Tompkins County a local minimum wage that is a Living Wage**. We are asking workers throughout Tompkins County, INCLUDING YOU, to join us for an Information Gathering Session on July 28th, from 11 am to 1 […]
For millions of people in the US, pay is not increasing as fast as the cost of living. This problem is severe in Tompkins County, which has the highest housing costs in upstate New York. Working people are moving out of the county to afford the necessities of life. One solution is to raise the […]
Here is a link to the Facebook Live video transcript of the community forum “A Community Conversation about Local Human Rights Enforcement” co-sponsored by the Tompkins County Human Rights Commission, Dorothy Cotton Institute (DCI), Activists Committed to Interrupting Oppression Now (ACTION), Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), Black Lives Matter Ithaca (BLMI), and the Tompkins […]
Available by sliding scale donation, these snazzy navy blue T-Shirts are now available at the Tompkins County Workers’ Center office on The Commons in downtown Ithaca (115 The Commons/E. Martin Luther King, Jr. Street, above Autumn Leaves Used Books). You can also call our office in advance to let us know you’re coming down (607-269-0409) […]