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Featured Member
Preston Clinton
Preston is junior at Ithaca College and is excited to offer a hand at
the Workers' Center as an intern this spring semester. Preston had long
pursued the relations between employers and employees. These early
concerns for workers' rights stemmed from a family history of union
membership. Preston remembers his father working long
hours (including weekends) in order to provide for his family, all the
while bringing home Carpenters' Local 67 tee shirts and hats. These
beginnings led Preston to investigate the influence of governments on
labor and prompted him to major in politics
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Service Learning in Social Justice
This program provides service learning opportunities about social justice for hundreds of university, college, and secondary schools students in Tompkins County. We
provide internships and volunteer experiences, and deliver programs about social justice both in classrooms and in the community.
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The hotel industry in Ithaca employs over 600 workers. Each hotel sets its own pay scale but
the general wage is in the $7.15-8.00 range. This is well below a living wage in Tompkins County.
We are seeking to publicly recognize and reward employers in the private, public and non-profit sectors that do pay a
living wage, and to provide market-based rewards and incentives for them and others that would like to do so.
The Workers' Center is committed to the principle that everyone has the right to comprehensive health care (in fact,
this right is guaranteed to us by U.S signature, in 1948, to the