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 […]

This year’s 36th Annual Labor Day Picnic was a broadcast rather than an actual Picnic given the realities of the pandemic. The theme for this year’s event was: “Essential Workers Deserve More than Gratitude,” recognized that our government and economy have put our hardest, and often least paid, workers in serious danger throughout the COVID […]

From our friends at the National Employment Law Project Radical Inequality, Records, and Recovery by Han Lu Areas of expertise: Criminal Records and Employment, Workplace Equity Read Profile PrevNext For the more than 70 million adults in the United States with arrest and/or conviction records, unemployment rates have long surpassed Great Depression levels, and are […]

Your employer may ask you to sign a COVID-19 liability waiver. This waiver seeks to prevent you from bringing any lawsuit against the employer should you become ill or otherwise suffer from inadequate safety precautions at work during the pandemic. The employer may threaten to refuse to hire you or may fire you if you […]