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 […]
A once in a generation plan to make NY’s Minimum Wage a LIVING WAGE is on the agenda of the state legislature, and YOU CAN HELP. See below for more information or call TCWC: 607-269-0409; Text 607-339-1680; or E-mail tcwrh@tcworkerscenter.org. The Raise the Wage Act (S1978/A2204) would restore New York’s badly eroded minimum wage to […]
It’s official. Management of the Advocacy Center in Ithaca has agreed to recognize its new staff union. These workers will now be affiliated with the Elmira-based Communication Workers of America (CWA) Local 1111. The unionization process began just five months ago when a representative from the staff, seeking information on the unionization process, approached the […]