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Mar 31, 2023 | News Story
Members of the Bird Union (affiliated with Communications Workers of America) rallied Thursday outside Audubon Society headquarters to demand that their employer agree to a more equitable organization. The workers were joined by supporters including the NYC CLC and elected officials, with no shortage of bird puns.
Mar 31, 2023 | News Story
More than 1,100 employees at The New York Times walked out on Dec. 8 as a part of their collective fight to reach a complete and equitable contract.
Three months later, company executives, including C.E.O. Meredith Kopit Levien and Publisher A.G. Sulzberger, are still signing off on proposals that fail to recognize the value of Times employees, even as their work rakes in record profits for the...
Mar 31, 2023 | News Story
Actors’ Equity Association, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, has been bargaining with the Broadway League for over two months on an agreement for shows on tour.
Negotiations with the League have stalled over vital issues like fair wages, sufficient coverage and per diem rates that cover rising housing and food costs. 85...
Mar 31, 2023 | News Story
Actors’ Equity Association, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, is celebrating International Transgender Day of Visibility with a new video from its transgender, nonbinary, genderqueer and gender nonconforming members. Hear what they have to say, and explore other resources Equity has for its trans members and allies on...
Mar 31, 2023 | News Story
Statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee testimony:
Mar 24, 2023 | News Story
The staff of the Hispanic Society of America, located at 613 West 155th Street, have authorized a strike after more than a year of negotiations for a union contract. Workers unionized in 2021 after the Board of Trustees of the Society terminated their pension plan while keeping wages stagnant for years.
Mar 24, 2023 | News Story
Hundreds of Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) members at Hearst Magazines walked off the job yesterday to demand management agree to a fair first union contract at their last scheduled day of negotiations on March 28.
Mar 24, 2023 | News Story
After months-long stalls in negotiations —some regarding pressing matters like health benefits, working conditions, and pay—with NBCU and the threat of an April 1 strike for Saturday Night Live's editorial team, the Motion Picture Editors Guild/IATSE Local 700 announced last week that they had reached a tentative contract agreement. And this week, the crew voted unanimously in favor of...
Mar 24, 2023 | News Story
On March 6th, two more neighborhood umbrella groups of Blank Street Coffee voted overwhelmingly to join UFCW Local 1500, joining their 34 colleagues in West Brooklyn who voted to unionize in February. The new units consist of 24 workers from Central Brooklyn and 30 from Chelsea/West Village.
Mar 24, 2023 | News Story
Workers at more than 115 Starbucks locations across the country including two in Astoria and one in Williamsburg walked off the job Wednesday to pressure the company to negotiate contracts with the unionized stores. They also called for a halt to the coffee retailer’s anti-union tactics, which have brought censure from both federal judges and the National Labor Relations Board.