A ‘Community Union’ Is In Tompkins County’s Future–Ithaca Journal OpEd

This year, the Tompkins County Workers’ Center (formally the Tompkins County Living Wage Coalition) will join the Midstate Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO (an organization of local unions) in putting on the 25th annual Labor Day Picnic from 11-3 p.m. Sept. 1 in Stewart Park. Everyone is invited. The partnership of the Workers’ Center and the [...]

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Workers’ Center Joins Assemblywoman, Barbara Lifton, In Calling Governor Paterson to Not Close Down the Ithaca Workers’ Compensation Center

Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton (Tompkins County/parts of Cortland) has taken the lead in helping to spearhead a drive to stop Governor Paterson’s move to close the Workers’ Compensation Center in Ithaca. 10 of the 11 Service Centers slated for closing by next year are upstate. To see a full copy of Lifton’s letter to Governor Paterson, [...]

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