Avital’s Apiaries was founded in 2010 and began as a traditional beekeeper’s business: selling honey, candles made from the wax, lip balms and lotion bars. After seeing the popularity among the lotion bars and lip balms (as well as the candles and honey) Avital’s Apiaries expanded and began selling honey-infused soaps, beeswax balms, lotions and […]
Close to 100 people attended our combined Rally and Presentation to the Tompkins County Legislature on Monday, June 19th to propose Legislation to the Legislature that the minimum wage in Tompkins County become a Living Wage. See detailed stories in: Ithaca Times Ithaca Voice Facebook ‘Live’ Video of Rally Video Credit: Chris Hannah, […]
The Enfield Town Board has called on the Tompkins County Legislature to move toward establishing the Living Wage as the Minimum Wage for all employees working within the county borders. The vote took place at the Enfield Town Board meeting on Wednesday, June 14th. The Town of Enfield is the fifth local government body to […]
Our allies at the Worker Justice Center of New York, Workers’ Center of CNY, and their partners just published Milked: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in New York State, a study that finds that a race to the bottom is occurring in the treatment and working conditions of the immigrant laborers who toil in milking parlors and […]
Seventeen (17) Gimme! Coffee baristas voted today, concluding at 9 p.m., by a vote of 16 to 1 in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election in favor of organizing a union to negotiate a contract in their workplaces. The election was for non-managerial baristas at the W. State/MLK Street location; the N. Cayuga Street […]
