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Mar 10, 2023 | News Story
New York is a union town and Saturday Night Live is built with union labor. But NBC Universal has resisted negotiating a fair union contract with its newly organized editorial crew.
Mar 10, 2023 | News Story
After more than a year of bargaining, the union membership of the Whitney Museum Union of Local 2110 UAW have voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first union contract with the Museum. The three and a half year Agreement will increase employee wages retroactively to January 1 by 15% on average with additional increases of 9.5% during the contract. Employees will also receive a $1000 ratification...
Mar 10, 2023 | News Story
President Biden unveiled his new federal budget yesterday, building on his commitment to fostering an economy that focuses on putting working families first.
Biden's budget proposal reduces the federal deficit by nearly $3 trillion and includes proposals aimed at lowering the cost of healthcare, prescription drugs, childcare, housing and education while making new investments in domestic...
Mar 10, 2023 | News Story
We join Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Reps. Bobby Scott (Va.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) in their call to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. Working people are sick of corporations raking in record profits while we can barely support our families.
That’s why we’re organizing like never before. Work stoppages were up 52% in 2022, and the number of workers involved in stoppages...
Mar 3, 2023 | News Story
On Tuesday, President Biden announced his nomination of Deputy Secretary of Labor Julie Su to succeed Marty Walsh as the next U.S. Secretary of Labor. AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement:
"Simply put: There’s no one more dedicated and qualified to defend the fundamental rights of working people than Julie Su. It’s her life’s work. The AFL-CIO is thrilled with her historic...
Mar 3, 2023 | News Story
With their union contract set to expire the next day, almost 500 CUNY faculty and staff rallied outside CUNY’s Midtown headquarters Monday morning to take their demands for a new contract straight to management’s front door. The Professional Staff Congress (PSC) – the union representing 30,000 faculty and staff at CUNY – was joined by students and advocates in calling for a new agreement that...
Mar 3, 2023 | News Story
Arbitrator Howard Edelman this week handed down a decision that stops New York City Transit from carrying out the Spring A Division Pick, taking plans for service cuts off the table for now. Finding that the MTA had over-stepped past practice, Edelman ruled that the pick put forward by NYCT put an unacceptable burden on Conductors and Train Operators.
Mar 3, 2023 | News Story
NYSNA Health+Hospitals/Mayorals nurses held a system-wide day of action including a rally and speakout along with candlelight vigils yesterday to mark the expiration of their contract at 11 city-run hospitals. Public sector nurses, who staff New York City’s public hospitals and mayorals agencies, are demanding that the city live up to its agreement on pay parity with the private sector to stop...
Mar 3, 2023 | News Story
After delivering a petition last week signed by a majority of contract faculty, NYU contract faculty with Contract Faculty United – UAW, campus allies, and NYC Comptroller Brad Lander rallied Wednesday to tell the university administration to respect their right to collective bargaining and agree to a fair and neutral process to recognize their union.
Mar 3, 2023 | News Story
On February 14, an NLRB election count for the first neighborhood umbrella group of Blank Street Coffee locations was held, with workers in West Brooklyn voting overwhelmingly to join UFWC Local 1500. The stores covered by the election include 277 Bedford Ave, 776 Lorimer St, 225 Wythe Ave, 147 Montague St, 2 Metrotech Center, and 178 Court St. Two more elections are ongoing (Park Slope and...