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Jun 25, 2021 | News Story
n recent weeks, hundreds of members and allies of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, the union representing the Metropolitan Opera’s stagehands and skilled craftspeople, gathered in person in front of Lincoln Center to protest the opera company locking out its workers. Now, the union is taking the fight online with the images of hundreds more in a first-of-its-kind...
Jun 25, 2021 | News Story
In a giant step forward for all New York patients, nursing home residents, nurses and healthcare workers, legal mandates are now in place to set and enforce staffing standards at every hospital and nursing home in New York, regardless of whether the facility is public or private, not-for-profit or for-profit, union or non-union.
Jun 25, 2021 | News Story
More than a thousand coal miners at Warrior Met Coal are now in the third month of their strike in the right-to-work state of Alabama. The miners walked off the job on April 1 after their union, the United Mine Workers of America, called the first strike to hit the state’s coal mining industry in four decades. Workers are fighting for improvements to wages and benefits after they agreed to...
Jun 25, 2021 | News Story
The NewsGuild of New York has filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge with the NLRB after Gannett managers offered employees benefits in exchange for rejecting the union and created the impression that management was spying on workers’ protected union activities.
Jun 25, 2021 | News Story
Musicians are working again, thanks to a unique partnership between NYC and Local 802. The union just completed an 8-week performance series called Music Heals, with an encore production on the way. Union musicians performed live at vaccination sites throughout the city in a program co-sponsored by the Mayor’s Office for Media and Entertainment. The partnership paid out almost $200,000 in union...
Jun 25, 2021 | News Story
The recently formed AJWS Union announced this week that management at American Jewish World Service, a leading global Jewish human rights organization. has formally and voluntarily recognized the workers' union affiliated with OPEIU Local 153.
Jun 25, 2021 | News Story
Over the past two weeks, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew have toured New York City schools with solar power and energy efficiency retrofits, highlighting the need for Carbon Free and Healthy Schools across the City.
Jun 24, 2021 | Press Release
Dear Supporters, As we await the final results of Tuesday’s primary elections, the NYC CLC thanks all of our affiliates, political directors, and activists for participating in our 2021 NYC Labor Votes political program. The New York City labor movement once again showed that by working together, we can support pro-labor candidates across all levels of city government.
Jun 18, 2021 | News Story
Members of the New Yorker, Pitchfork, and Ars Technica Unions announced this week that a strike has been averted and that they have reached an agreement in principle on their first contracts with Condé Nast.
Jun 18, 2021 | News Story
Employees at the New York office of Oxford University Press announced Wednesday that they are unionizing.