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Teamsters Rally at City Hall

Essential workers marked one year on strike with a rally at City Hall yesterday, calling on Mayor Adams to stop doing business with their union-busting employer.

Teamsters Rally at City Hall

Climate Jobs NY Update: Happy Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day! Today, we honor the environment that we have been given, and we’re reminded of our obligation to protect it through efforts to make our communities more sustainable, create new union jobs and reduce our carbon footprint.

Climate Jobs NY Update: Happy Earth Day!

Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery Doubles as Training Ground for Aspiring Masons

Welcome to the Brooklyn classroom of 14 aspiring masonry workers: A 19th century mausoleum inside the serene expanse of Green-Wood Cemetery.

Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery Doubles as Training Ground for Aspiring Masons

Met Orchestra Raises $17K for Ukrainian Opera Orchestra Musicians

Musicians of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra organized a fundraiser for the musicians of the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv.

Met Orchestra Raises $17K for Ukrainian Opera Orchestra Musicians

AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler on the future of America's labor movement

Liz Shuler is the first woman ever elected president of the AFL-CIO.

She took over a time when the world of work has been turned upside down.

Union organizing is happening in some unexpected places, and sometimes in ways that disrupt the traditional union playbook.

AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler on the future of America's labor movement

Climate Jobs NY Update: Carbon Free & Healthy Schools Training

On Tuesday, April 12th, the Worker Institute’s Labor Leading on Climate Initiative and Climate Jobs NY delivered a Carbon Free & Healthy Schools training.

Climate Jobs NY Update: Carbon Free & Healthy Schools Training