This year’s 36th Annual Labor Day Picnic was a broadcast rather than an actual Picnic given the realities of the pandemic. The theme for this year’s event was: “Essential Workers Deserve More than Gratitude,” recognized that our government and economy have put our hardest, and often least paid, workers in serious danger throughout the COVID […]
From our friends at the National Employment Law Project Radical Inequality, Records, and Recovery by Han Lu Areas of expertise: Criminal Records and Employment, Workplace Equity Read Profile PrevNext For the more than 70 million adults in the United States with arrest and/or conviction records, unemployment rates have long surpassed Great Depression levels, and are […]
Your employer may ask you to sign a COVID-19 liability waiver. This waiver seeks to prevent you from bringing any lawsuit against the employer should you become ill or otherwise suffer from inadequate safety precautions at work during the pandemic. The employer may threaten to refuse to hire you or may fire you if you […]
The full video for the Tuesday “Worker Power, Racial Justice and Mutual Aid Webinar” can be found by clicking this link! It is 92 minutes long.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~As you know, Tompkins County, along with the whole country, is reeling from a pandemic that we have no way of predicting where it will take us societally. As residents […]
(Ithaca, NY) New research initiated by the Tompkins County Workers’ Center, and carried out by Cornell-Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) Buffalo and Ithaca Co-Labs, has uncovered how deep racism in Tompkins County goes, and how important raising our minimum wage to a living wage really is. Almost three-quarters of all Black workers, over age 18, […]