Action Alert: Stop Wage Theft Now!

With little or no fanfare, the NYS Senate passed the Wage Theft Prevention Act on June 30. They sent it to the Assembly that same day and then… nothing happened.

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How to Support Good Business

From time to time, we get phone calls or other requests from people, asking us to recommend good restaurants or good businesses, ones that haven’t been involved in problems with their workers. Generally, we don’t tell people to boycott businesses, unless the business has been recalcitrant in correcting mistakes. All of us involved in the [...]

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Labor Initiative in Promoting Solidarity

Education is the big industry in Tompkins County; the second largest employer is Ithaca College. IC employees receive generous time off, benefits — and a living wage. But the dining workers do not share decent salaries and benefits because they work for Sodexo, a multinational subcontractor.The IC administration says that Sodexo can make its own [...]

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Workers’ Issues in the News

The press is ablaze with stories about workers’ issues right now; I thought we’d share a few with you. First off, Ithaca College’s Buzzsaw magazine had an article by Lyndsey Lyman about the realities of living without an adequate income, Battling the Poverty Line: the modern paradox of life without a living wage. Image to [...]

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National Day of Action Against Wage Theft

Today is the day that all of us should reflect on the crime that almost never goes punished: wage theft. Interfaith Worker Justice has a page on its website describing some of the actions IWJ affiliates are planning. Earlier this week, I posted a bit about a wage theft case involving immigrant workers mistreated while [...]

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Stories from our Unemployed & Underemployed Support Group

A young worker, laid off and newly diagnosed with a serious health condition, finds herself unemployed after surgery. Now that she’s healthy again, potential employers say either ‘not enough experience’ or ‘you’re over-qualified.’ In the meantime, student loans in forebearance… Educated and experienced laid off teacher is torn between a series of fruitless interviews and [...]

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Wage Theft and Unemployment

Our friends at National Employment Law Project and the a few of their pals (notably the other 98%, True Majority, Americans for Responsible Taxation and US Action) are asking everyone to contact their Senators tomorrow, Tuesday November 16, to support those Americans who are unemployed and about to lose their Unemployment benefits. Here is their [...]

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Sign the Petition: A Living Wage for *All* Ithaca College Workers!

The Tompkins County Workers’ Center is working with the Labor Initiative in Promoting Solidarity (LIPS), a student-led group at Ithaca College that is designed to unite workers, students, faculty, and community members of Ithaca College, Ithaca, and Tompkins County. Our purpose is to educate the community as well as ourselves about labor issues and initiate [...]

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Cultura series at the Workers’ Center

Cultura, an arts series designed to introduce Tompkins County residents to the culture of South and Central America, has two more sessions scheduled in its craft series. The workshops are free and will be held at the Workers’ Center Saturday November 13th and Saturday November 2oth. Both sessions run from 1 — 2:30. All ages [...]

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Bullying Support Group Forming

The Tompkins County Workers’ Center is planning to sponsor a support group or series of speakers on the topic of workplace bullying. Bullying is the second most common complaint we receive at the Workers’ Center, topped only by unfair termination (which is sometimes related to bullying as well). We’ve heard the stories of the stress-related [...]

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