As Holiday Season Approaches, Religious Task Force for a Living Wage Calls on Borders and Barnes and Noble Bookstores in Ithaca to Pay a Living Wage

(Ithaca) The Tompkins County Religious Task Force for a Living Wage today called on two area bookstores, Borders and Barnes and Noble, to join other area bookstore businesses in agreeing to pay employees a Living Wage. The Tompkins County Living Wage, the minimum amount of income and resources required to meet a single person’s basic [...]

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Lakeside Nursing Home Workers Settle Contract with New Owners; Victory for Workers and Community

(Ithaca) The 130 workers at Lakeside Nursing Home, organized through their union the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1199, today reached a new labor agreement with Peregrine Health Management, the new owners of Lakeside (now officially Cayuga Ridge) Nursing Home. Healthcare workers at Lakeside had been told last week that they had to reapply [...]

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