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Sep 16, 2022 | News Story
Responders and survivors of 9/11 are suffering and dying from cancers and other illnesses caused by toxic exposures from the tragedy 21 years ago. We have been able to care for our heroes through the World Trade Center Health Program, but that program is facing cuts and will stop accepting new applicants in 2024 unless Congress and the Senate act to properly fund it. It is critical that we renew...
Sep 16, 2022 | News Story
Update: With the October 31 deadine looming, PSLF.nyc's "Student Debt Free, ASAP" Campaign launched a Week of Action in collaboration with the City of New York, CUNY, the Brooklyn, New York and Queens Public Libraries and the New York Sta
Sep 11, 2022 | News Story
This weekend, we honor the memories of all those who tragically lost their lives 21 years ago on September 11th, including the more than than 600 who were members of New York City unions. In addition to the first responders who were lost rushing to the aid of others, these included restaurant workers, communications workers, building trades workers and others in the World Trade Center and...
Sep 9, 2022 | News Story
Saturday, September 10th, 10AM: The New York City Labor Day Parade and March is returning to Fifth Avenue for the first time since 2019! Tens of thousands of workers representing more than 200 unions and constituency groups will come together in solidarity on the 140th Anniversary of the first Labor Day parade in the United States, when more than 10,000 workers marched from New York City Hall to...
Sep 9, 2022 | News Story
Workers aboard the Staten Island Ferry are sounding alarms about a staffing crisis they say has made it difficult to keep the iconic passenger boats running on time. The manpower shortage is so severe, the NBC NY I-Team reports, that ferry workers are sometimes asked to spend the night in terminal parking lots or makeshift sleeping quarters because commuting home between shifts would not allow...
Sep 9, 2022 | News Story
The Major League Baseball Players Association announced Wednesday that it is formally affiliating with the AFL-CIO with a goal of supporting the efforts and strengthening the voice of the national labor movement.
“The MLBPA has a proud, 56-year history of success rooted in unity and a highly engaged membership,” Executive Director Tony Clark said. “We look forward to bringing that history and...
Sep 9, 2022 | News Story
Workers at a John Catsimatidis-owned oil company who were fired after they went on strike last year must be offered their jobs back, according to a settlement between the firm and the National Labor Relations Board.
Sep 9, 2022 | News Story
Out of the ashes of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire rose the modern labor movement. Now, more than a century later, working people from around the nation are joining together to build the National Memorial to the workers who died in the Triangle Fire and to honor the legacy of reform their deaths inspired.
To mark the 140th Anniversary of the first New York City Labor Day Parade, step...
Sep 2, 2022 | News Story
This year, the New York City Labor Movement will come together on Fifth Avenue for the first time since 2019, bringing back our annual Labor Day Parade with a spectacular show of solidarity and pride. And we'll do so on the 140th Anniversary of the first Labor Day Parade to ever take place in the United States, when more than 10,000 workers marched from New York City Hall to Union Square in 1882...
Sep 2, 2022 | News Story
60 million non-union workers in the U.S. say they would join a union if given the chance, but many don’t know where to begin. The Worker Organizing Resource and Knowledge (WORK) Center, launched this week by the U.S. Department of Labor, is a one-stop shop for information and resources on unions and collective bargaining for workers, employers, unions, government agencies, students and anyone...