Political & Legislative Action
NYC Labor Votes
Building on the Labor Counts! Census 2020 campaign from 2018-2020, Labor Votes! will focus on educating, engaging and facilitating union members’ and their households’ ability to cast their ballot during the 2020 and 2021 elections. Labor Votes! is the member-to-member political program of the NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO.
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We are only 5 weeks away from the June 22 Primary Election in New York City and our member-to-member voter outreach is officially underway.
On Saturday, Laborers Local 79, NY Communities for Change, labor and community allies marched for safe and responsible development.
The labor-led Carbon Free and Healthy Schools campaign continues to gain support as the mayoral primary and federal infrastructure talks heat up.
Hundreds of union members and supporters rallied yesterday in front of Lincoln Center Plaza to reject the union busting tactics of Metropolitan Opera House General Manager Peter Gelb and the Metropolitan Opera House Association and demand a fair contract for all Met artists.
The Department of Interior’s approval of the Vineyard Wind Project, the first large-scale offshore wind project in the U.S., puts into action the Administration’s promise to build a green new economy with good family-sustaining union job
Join NYC Labor Votes, Saturday, May 22 at 10AM as we continue our efforts to support labor-endorsed candidates for NYC Council.
Join NYC Labor Votes, Saturday, May 22 at 10AM as we continue our efforts to support labor-endorsed candidates for NYC Council.
Join NYC Labor Votes this Saturday, May 15 at 10AM as we kick off our efforts to support labor-endorsed candidates for NYC Council.
On Wednesday and Thursday nights, eight of New York's leading Mayoral candidates participated in a virtual "Conversation with the Candidates" to make their cases before New York City's labor movement.
Governor Cuomo this week signed the NY HERO Act, giving an array of essential workers in New York new on-the-job protections. The bill, which was sponsored by state Sen.