Tompkins Workers’ Center Labor Complaint Contributes to Federal Action Against Regis Corporation (Cost Cutters) [VIDEO]

(Ithaca, NY) The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a complaint late Friday against the Minneapolis-based Regis Corporation, which operates some 10,000 hair salons nationally under 34 different brand-names, ordering Regis to cease and desist in its illegal actions. In the complaint, the NLRB investigated and then determined that the Regis Corporation had illegally solicited [...]

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Trying to keep bullying in your sight

A couple of interesting reads have crossed my path (or should I say computer monitor?) today. One describes a new law in Serbia that bans bullying in the workplace. Since the passage of the law a month ago, authorities have had about 400 complaints. Does this surprise? Not anyone whose attention has been grabbed by [...]

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In the News

More stories in the news today from the Workers’ Center: County’s Jobless Deserve More Help, Support: A Guest Viewpoint from Bev Abplanalp, Carlos Gutierrez and Mike Roenke on behalf of the Unemployed & Underemployed Support Group. In the October 27, 2010 edition of The Ithaca Journal. From the October 27, 2010 Ithaca Times: Student Group [...]

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Interns in the News

The Tompkins Weekly, a local paper that covers all of the county, has published two stories recently that featured Workers’ Center interns Kiera Lewis and Robin Comstock. Kiera is an Ithaca College student from Brattleboro, Vermont, working on forming a student labor group, the Labor Initiative in Promoting Solidarity (LIPS). One of the issues that [...]

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Monday morning Catch-up

Nothing like a Monday morning to make you feel like you’re starting anew. So, take out your calendars and mark a couple of activities down: Thursday, October 28, the TC Workers’ Center’s Unemployed & Underemployed Support Group will host special guest speaker Helen Ranck of Cornell Cooperative Extension. Helen will be talking about dealing with [...]

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Living Wage Employer

Photo: Simon Wheeler/The Ithaca Journal Proud to see the Living Wage Employer sticker on the Ithaca Free Clinic’s new door! Read about the Clinic and their new, expanded space in the Thursday, October 21 Ithaca Journal. And, for your weekend enjoyment: thanks, reader Carl Feuer, for forwarding these cartoons by Carol Simpson.

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The mission of the Tompkins County Workers’ Center is to stand up with all people treated unfairly at work or faced with critical poverty, racial, housing, health care, or other social and economic issues. We will support, advocate for, and seek to empower each other to create a more just community and world. Is this [...]

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If you haven’t had enough bus rides to DC…

It is gratifying to hear that so many of our three-busfuls of folks enjoyed the trip to Washington DC to attend the October 2nd One Nation Working Together rally. In fact, there were messages waiting on voicemail Monday morning after the rally trip asking if we are organizing buses for Jon Stewart’s October 30th Rally [...]

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Free Things to Do in Tompkins County

One of the many thought-provoking discussions that I’ve participated in with the members of the Unemployed & Underemployed Support Group is the challenge of living on less. And we’re talking really living here, not just ‘getting by.’ Social interaction, intellectual stimulation, feeling the relaxing and meditative benefits of nature and beauty: a quality life  requires [...]

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Wage Theft

Here’s a riddle for you: if there are 1,000 federal Department of Labor investigators and 135 million American workers, how can you manage to help the hundreds of thousands of those workers who are experiencing wage theft? Perhaps you empower organizations like the Workers’ Center? Interfaith Worker Justice says ‘Wage theft is the pervasive and [...]

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