The Tompkins County Workers’ Center will hold the 38th Annual Labor Day Picnic from 12 p.m./noon to 5:00 p.m. on Monday, September 2nd, in Ithaca’s Stewart Park Main Pavilion. This year’s Picnic theme will be: Women and Gender Non-Conforming Workers and Labor. The picnic is free and everyone is invited. Everyone is invited to bring […]
UAW 2300 members at Cornell are officially on strike for a fair contract. Workers are striking for an end to tiers, a yearly Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) and, of course, record raises to match Cornell’s record endowment gains. UAW 2300 will have pickets set up at 6 locations today. Pickets will be going all […]
Workers at the Cascadilla St. Greenstar location filed for election with the National Labor Relations Board this week, marking the first time workers at the co-op have done so. This comes less than two weeks after workers first announced their intention to organize on July 26th. “We were pleasantly shocked at how many of our […]
This coming Tuesday, August 6th, beginning at 5:30 p.m., the full Tompkins County Legislature will begin discussion about the possibility of creating a local law that if passed, would begin to create a higher minimum wage than the $15/hour minimum wage presently in effect for all of upstate New York. If you support this move, […]
The Tompkins County Workers’ Center’s longstanding campaign to Make the Minimum Wage a Living Wage locally is coming to fruition! We are presenting our case this coming Monday, July 8th, at 3 p.m. to the Tompkins County Legislature’s Housing and Economic Development Committee, our measure to require all employers in Tompkins County to pay a […]