Hotel Workers Detail Human Rights Abuses at Hilton Garden Inn Ithaca and Other Local Hotels

The Tompkins County Workers’ Center has embarked on a critical campaign that is keenly focused on organizing with the workers that are most directly affected by low wages; lack of health care; lack of the ability to organize for ourselves in the workplace; a lack of worker’s rights; and a lack of simple free speech. [...]

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“Building a Movement to End Poverty: The 40th Anniversary of MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign and What It Means for Today”: A Public Presentation by Willie Baptist, of the University of the Poor; Friday, 11/9 @ 5 p.m. at BOCES Community School, 214 Elmira Roa

The Workers’ Center has been affiliated for the past six years with the national Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) whose Mission is to unite the poor across color lines as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty. This Mission guides just about every aspect of the Workers’ Center commitment and [...]

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