(Ithaca) GreenStar Food Coop, with over 200 employees, has become the largest Living Wage Certified employer in Tompkins County that is not a government organization. The Tompkins County Living Wage is currently $15.37/hour, and there are now 124 certified employers. “This is so significant because the grocery industry typically pays low wages,” said Pete Meyers, […]
For the past 18 years, the Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC) has been on a move to change the way workers are treated in the workplace, advocate for increased wages, and support workers’ organizing efforts to improve workplace conditions. For the past nine months, our work has been ESPECIALLY important given the realities of the […]
Ithaca College faculty is asking for community support to put a STOP to the severe austerity measures that many on campus–and ESPECIALLY Contingent Faculty and staff–are suffering. Please read the message below and then sign on! (Drawing courtesy of Eric Machan Howd)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dear Ithaca College Members & Community Supporters:We’d like to take a minute of your […]
The Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC) is pleased to be offering a position of Community Organizer with our organization, which is made possible by a grant. If interested in applying, please consider not limiting what you put on your resume OR cover letter, as you are welcome to draw from lived experience! Including non-traditional experience. […]
The TCWC is cosponsoring, along with the Fiscal Policy Institute, the NY Immigration Coalition, the Workers’ Center of Central New York, and Alianza Agricola, a Town Hall surrounding the issues facing ‘excluded workers’ in New York. Register for Tuesday’s event by going to https://bit.ly/3iUcczE #FundExcludedWorkers is a statewide campaign to create a fund for workers […]