Alternatives Federal Credit Union and the Tompkins County Workers’ Center were pleased to join in the release of the 2023 Annual Living Wage Report yesterday, November 8th. The Report was produced by a team from the Ithaca and Buffalo Co-Labs of Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations led by Ian Greer and Rusty Weaver, […]
Over 350 people attended the Tompkins County Workers Center and the Midstate Council for Occupational Safety and Health (MCOSH) 37th Annual Labor Day Picnic @ Ithaca’s Stewart Park on Monday, September 4th. The Picnic organizers focused on the theme: Immigrant Workers, Past and present. Incredible music was provided by ‘Colleen Kattau and ‘Some Guys’. MOTHER […]
The Tompkins County Workers’ Center and the Midstate Council for Occupational Safety and Health will hold the 37th Annual Labor Day Picnic from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, September 4th in Ithaca’s Stewart Park Main Pavilion. This year’s Picnic theme will be: Immigrant Workers: Past and Present. [See Facebook event page here.] The […]
As workers continue to organize at a historic pace and inch closer to governing power in their workplaces, companies like Starbucks continue to retaliate and undermine their victories. The store closures in Ithaca, New York are yet another example of the vicious anti-union campaign Starbucks is carrying out across the country where 7,000 workers at […]
Workers and advocates call for expanding safety net access to self-employed workers and freelancers, cash economy workers in fields of domestic work and day labor, workers recently released from incarceration, and workers without work authorization. ITHACA – Local workers, advocates, and elected officials will launch a push at a Press Conference on Tuesday, February 14th […]
