(Ithaca) Alternatives Federal Credit Union (AFCU) today announced its new Living Wage calculations for a single individual living in Tompkins County based on 2016 living/rental costs. This amounts to $15.11/hour. The Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC) applauds AFCU’s commitment to paying its own workers a Living Wage and providing the research that helps establish the […]
The history of Tiny Timber began with Buzz Dolph, originally a stone setter, who always found pleasure derived from actively working, building whatever he could. Buzz could be described as a person who was never idle, constantly keeping his hands busy with more than one building project at a time. The idea that became Tiny […]
The Tompkins County Workers’ Center, the Tompkins/Cortland Labor Committee, and the Midstate Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, will hold the 34th Annual Labor Day Picnic from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, September 4th, in Ithaca’s Cass Park, in a pavilion IMMEDIATELY NORTH of the Ithaca Children’s Garden (note the change from the usual location […]
We invite you to hear from dairy farmworker leader Crispin Hernandez and the co-authors of the recently published report Milked: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in New York State at an Ithaca forum: Milk Cows, Not Workers Monday, July 31, 7pm Unitarian Church, 306 N. Aurora St. (@ Buffalo St. entrance), Ithaca Free and open to public […]
The Tompkins County Worker’s Center is pleased to have the Center for Transformative Action (CTA), a longtime anchor of social justice innovation in Tompkins County, certified as a Living Wage Employer. CTA is an educational non-profit organization affiliated with Cornell University since 1971. It originally opened as the Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy. […]