Newfield’s Greensprings Natural Cemetery is easily one of our most unique Certified Living Wage Employers. Located atop a picturesque hill surrounded by 8,000 acres of forest, the non-profit burial ground doubles as a nature preserve comprised of awe-inspiring meadows and woodlands. Greensprings turns our country’s conventional approach to burial on its head by providing low-density […]

We have way too many people who come to us @ the Tompkins County Workers’ Center have been the victim of Wage Theft. This image graphically lays out the monetary costs, on a national level, of Wage Theft as compared to the combination of ALL: 1) burglaries; 2) robberies; 3) larcenies; and 4) auto theft. […]

Over 350 people attended the Tompkins County Workers’ Center and Midstate Central Labor Council’s 35th Annual Labor Day Picnic @ Ithaca’s Stewart Park on Monday, September 3rd. The Picnic organizers focused on the theme: Why a Union? Why a Living Wage?  Incredible music was provided by ‘Alexander Bradshaw and the Labor Day Specials’. Every year, […]

If you’re on social media in Tompkins County, you may have seen a Facebook post with a LOT of community commentary on the dangerous situation of a worker laying scaffolding some 5-6 stories up at the Hilton Canopy Hotel construction site without a guardrail, harness, or firm decking in place. Since the post, the Ithaca […]

(ITHACA) The Tompkins County Workers’ Center, the Midstate Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO and Tompkins/Cortland Labor Committee, will hold the 35th Annual Labor Day Picnic from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, September 3rd in Ithaca’s Stewart Park Main Pavilion. This year’s Picnic theme will be: ‘Why a Union? Why a Living Wage?’ [Sign up […]