The Tompkins County Workers’ Center will hold the 36th Annual Labor Day Picnic from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, September 2nd in Ithaca’s Stewart Park Main Pavilion. This year’s Picnic theme will be: SOLIDARITY. The picnic is free and everyone is invited. Everyone is asked to bring a dish to share and to […]

by Isaiah Gutman On Monday, July 1, the Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC) hosted an event with Israeli labor organizer, Assaf Adiv. Adiv, who originally planned to speak in person, ended up calling in from New York City after travel problems. Adiv spoke at length on both the labor situation in Israel in general for […]

We here at the Tompkins County Workers’ Center are very happy that some key pieces of legislation in New York State that we have been long pushing for have recently passed into law—or are close to becoming law. In some cases, we’ve been advocating for these laws for years, and are delighted to see these […]

During this past year, the Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC) has been strongly supporting a group of workers wanting to organize a union at GreenStar Coop in Ithaca. Some of the reasons that unionizing workers point to as their reason to organize include: insufficient job security, unfair or inconsistent wages, blatant favoritism, and unprofessional conduct […]

We here at the Tompkins County Workers’ Center are very happy to inform you that some key pieces of legislation that your Workers’ Center has been pushing for have recently passed into law—or are close to becoming law. In some cases, we’ve been advocating for these laws for years, and are delighted to see these […]