The Tompkins County Worker’s Center is delighted to announce another wonderful organization in the community certified as a Living Wage Employer. The Sciencenter, founded in 1983, grew out of passion to make science accessible to underserved youth and the Ithaca community as a whole, regardless of ability or income. Today, the Sciencenter continues upholding that […]

Avital’s Apiaries was founded in 2010 and began as a traditional beekeeper’s business: selling honey, candles made from the wax, lip balms and lotion bars. After seeing the popularity among the lotion bars and lip balms (as well as the candles and honey) Avital’s Apiaries expanded and began selling honey-infused soaps, beeswax balms, lotions and […]

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 […]