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May 26, 2023 | News Story
Barnes & Noble workers at the Park Slope, Brooklyn store yesterday filed for their union election with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) seeking representation with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). This comes just days after workers at the Barnes & Noble College Booksellers store on the Rutgers University campus won their union election unanimously with...
May 26, 2023 | News Story
UFT members are currently working under an expired contract. A fair contract would provide a fair wage increase to educators; allow more time to support students with less time spent on unnecessary tasks; ensure a safe school environment; and grant educators adequate prep time, among other important working-condition improvements.
Every day, members of the UFT go above and beyond academics and...
May 26, 2023 | News Story
The New York Times Guild, a unit of The NewsGuild of New York, announced on Tuesday that it has reached a tentative agreement with The New York Times Company on a new collective bargaining contract after more than two years of negotiations. The tentative agreement, which must be ratified by members to go into effect, is a five-year deal that will be effective until March 2026.
May 26, 2023 | News Story
Hundreds of workers at Brooklyn Defender Services rallied during a lunch time picket on Wednesday, calling on BDS management to stop stalling on contract negotiations with the union and come to the table with serious proposals. BDS workers, represented by the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW 2325, won a landslide NLRB election of 207-83 in 2021, and have been bargaining for a first contract...
May 26, 2023 | News Story
When Mayor Adams and city leaders unveiled the nation’s first proposed minimum pay rate for food delivery workers last year, they made a bold promise: New York would finally deliver economic stability for an “essential” workforce. The city was required by Local Law 115 of 2021 to implement a minimum pay rate for delivery workers — or “deliveristas” — by Jan. 1, 2023, but months later, the workers...
May 26, 2023 | News Story
In affiliation with Workers United, Barbancino Pizza in Crown Heights is on track to become NYC's first unionized pizzeria! On Monday, workers filed for election with the NLRB and delivered a letter requesting voluntary recognition to the restaurant's owners.
May 26, 2023 | News Story
The delegates of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO on Thursday, May 18 approved fourth terms for President Vincent Alvarez and Secretary-Treasurer Janella T. Hinds. The vote carried by acclamation at a meeting of 148 delegates representing 69 unions. The delegates also elected the CLC’s 40-member Executive Board. Thirty-eight previously serving Board members were re-elected; new...
May 24, 2023 | Press Release
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, May 24, 2024
First Elected in 2011, the President and Secretary-Treasurer Will Serve Fourth Four-Year Term
New York, NY – The delegates of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO on Thursday approved fourth terms for President Vincent Alvarez and Secretary-Treasurer Janella T. Hinds. The vote carried by acclamation at a meeting of 148 delegates...
May 19, 2023 | News Story
Across New York City, resident physicians, alongside their nursing coworkers, are at the center of patient care in our hospitals. Elmhurst physicians are ready to strike if Mount Sinai does not agree to award them parity in salary and benefits with Mount Sinai Hospital resident physicians. Currently, there is a two-tiered system of treatment of resident physicians in New York City: By and large,...
May 19, 2023 | News Story
On Tuesday, workers at GrowNYC announced their employer will recognize the workers’ union formed with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). On Monday, April 25, 2023, a delegation of workers representing nearly two-hundred employees at around 70 GrowNYC Greenmarkets, farm stands, and CSA pick-up locations, and who work across GrowNYC’s operations in hundreds of schools in...