Can you make it to tonight’s Emergency Rally @ 6 p.m. at Ithaca College’s Emerson Suites (Campus Center)? Faculty, students, members of the TCWC and the larger labor community will be @ Emerson Center to demand answers from the Ithaca College Board of Trustees while they hold a celebration of the implementation of the Ithaca […]
This Thursday (November 17) at 7pm in Ives Hall 105 at Cornell University, students will be putting on a presentation of the play Pray for the Dead A Musical Tale of Morgues, Moguls and Mutiny. The play is a musical comedy about political and corporate corruption told through a story of a morgue workers’ union […]
Within the past year, both Part-Time and Full-Time Contingent Faculty at Ithaca College (IC) unionized with SEIU200 United as their union. (‘Contingent faculty’ are non-tenure track college teachers. At IC, they earn poverty wages, receive no health benefits, and must re-apply for their job every year.) Negotiations have begun in recent months and both PTers […]
Who/What: We, the Community and Striking Verizon Workers Where: Verizon Store @ Tops Plaza on Meadow Street in Ithaca [parking easily accessible throughout Tops Plaza] When: Tuesday, April 26th, from 12-2 p.m. Please join the Tompkins County Workers’ Center in our show of support and solidarity with workers from the Communications Workers of America who […]
WHAT: Ithaca City Council is considering throwing its support behind our movement to make the Living Wage a minimum wage in Tompkins County. They will decide this at the next Council meeting. Come help us make the Minimum Wage a Living Wage! WHEN: 5:30-6:00 pm, Wednesday, December 2, RALLY next to City Hall, 108 E. […]