Last week’s Unemployed & Underemployed Support Group welcomed a guest facilitator, Dr. Tom Hodgson, whose topic was depression during the holidays due to difficult circumstances in your life. We had a great conversation, with our caring members offering each other advice and consolation. One thing came up that many people can understand: why do friends […]
Yes, we’ve been away for a long time: conferences, social forums, holidays and vacations and playing catch-up after all that have scrambled our work days. But we’re back, better than ever, so here we go. Today I wanted to share information about one of the really engaging talks we heard at the conference we attended. […]
As it turns out, the Assembly Labor Committee did not put A5414, The Healthy Workplace Bill, aside for further consideration: they threw it in the wastebasket, letting down New York’s workers and the NYS Senate. I am terribly disappointed that Labor Chair Susan John was not able to show the necessary leadership on this issue. […]
A Workers’ Center member came to us recently, concerned about a story she’d heard from a friend. The friend’s relative was being required by the Department of Social Services to work 35 1/2 hours a week. For this, he received about $50.00 every two weeks. Not only was he required to work nearly full time, […]
The following post was written by Samantha Wolfe, a junior sociology major at Ithaca College and an intern at the Workers Center: Sunday March 21 I traveled to and from D.C. with 30 other Ithacans in the span of 24 hours. We were mobilized by the leaders of the Immigrant Rights Coalition, an organization that […]