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Aug 13, 2021 | News Story
TWU Local 100 and state lawmakers demanded Tuesday that the MTA resume cash transactions at subway token booths, saying the no-cash policy started during the pandemic discriminates against low-income New Yorkers. They gathered outside Broadway Junction subway station in East New York to demand the agency immediately resume the hand-to-hand transactions, which ended in March 2020 out of concerns...
Aug 13, 2021 | News Story
This week it was announced that an overwhelming majority of staff at Make the Road New York have officially chosen to form the Make the Road New York Union, affiliating with the National Organization of Legal Services Workers, UAW Local 2320. The union was certified via a card count process overseen by Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas. The workers announced they were forming a union back in...
Aug 13, 2021 | News Story
Actors’ Equity Association reached a new three-year collective bargaining agreement with Off-Broadway League, the employers' guild for Off-Broadway theatre.
“This agreement happened because we all stood together,” said Stephen Bogardus, Equity principal councilor and chair of the Off-Broadway Negotiating Committee. “We had a diligent, passionate negotiating team, and we were able to push ahead...
Aug 13, 2021 | News Story
After experiencing a summer of intense storms and wildfires throughout the country, it is crucial that we show support for the offshore wind industry that will create good union jobs and help address the climate crisis.
Aug 6, 2021 | News Story
The New York City Labor Movement was shocked and profoundly saddened to learn yesterday of the sudden passing of AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka. As leader of our nation’s Labor Movement, he championed the belief that all work has dignity, along with the rights of all working people to bargain collectively, to fair wages and workplace safety, and to a voice at work.
Aug 6, 2021 | News Story
On Friday, curators, conservators, editors and other employees at the Guggenheim Museum filed to form a union with the Technical, Office and Professional Union, Local 2110. It will be the second union to form at the museum in two years, since art handlers, maintenance mechanics and other Guggenheim employees voted to join Local 30 of the International Union of Operating Engineers in 2019.
Aug 6, 2021 | News Story
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is seeking public comment on a proposed sale notice for the offshore wind energy areas in the NY Bight, far off Nassau County's shores (see image). The New York labor movement has fought and secured strong labor standards for offshore wind and large-scale renewable energy projects here in New York, and now we need to establish strong standards at the...
Aug 6, 2021 | News Story
Actors’ Equity Association reached an agreement with the Broadway League on COVID safety protocols for the Production Contract— the contract on which Broadway actors and stage managers work. Key provisions of the agreement include improved HVAC standards, mandated vaccines for the workforce and weekly testing for employees.
“This is an important milestone on the path to getting all our members...
Aug 6, 2021 | News Story
National Night Out is a community-building event hosted annually on the first Tuesday of August in partnership with local police and first responders. This year’s events — there were over 70 in New York City alone — were two years in the making.
Aug 5, 2021 | Press Release
The New York City Labor Movement is shocked and profoundly saddened to learn of the sudden passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. As leader of our nation’s Labor Movement, he championed the belief that all work has dignity, along with the rights of all working people to bargain collectively, to fair wages and workplace safety, and to a voice at work.