Close to 100 people attended our combined Rally and Presentation to the Tompkins County Legislature on Monday, June 19th to propose Legislation to the Legislature that the minimum wage in Tompkins County become a Living Wage. See detailed stories in: Ithaca Times Ithaca Voice Facebook ‘Live’ Video of Rally Video Credit: Chris Hannah, […]
The Enfield Town Board has called on the Tompkins County Legislature to move toward establishing the Living Wage as the Minimum Wage for all employees working within the county borders. The vote took place at the Enfield Town Board meeting on Wednesday, June 14th. The Town of Enfield is the fifth local government body to […]
Our allies at the Worker Justice Center of New York, Workers’ Center of CNY, and their partners just published Milked: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in New York State, a study that finds that a race to the bottom is occurring in the treatment and working conditions of the immigrant laborers who toil in milking parlors and […]
Seventeen (17) Gimme! Coffee baristas voted today, concluding at 9 p.m., by a vote of 16 to 1 in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election in favor of organizing a union to negotiate a contract in their workplaces. The election was for non-managerial baristas at the W. State/MLK Street location; the N. Cayuga Street […]
(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 […]
