Seventeen (17)Â Gimme! Coffee baristas voted today, concluding at 9 p.m., by a vote of 16 to 1 in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election in favor of organizing a union to negotiate a contract in their workplaces. The election was for non-managerial baristas at the W. State/MLK Street location; the N. Cayuga Street […]
Thanks for your support in the campaign of Ithaca College Contingent Faculty/SEIU200 United in getting a great contract with the Ithaca College (IC) Administration! After 10 1/2 hours of negotiations that ended late Sunday evening, and just prior to a strike looming on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Contingent Faculty and IC Administration came to terms […]
We’ve just received great and heartening news in hearing that the Adjunct Professors who have been organizing a union for the past two years at Tompkins-Cortland Community College (TC3) just received word from the NYS Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) that they have won their case! The Tompkins County Workers’Â Center (TCWC) has played an […]
The Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC) is very heartened by the decision of the National Labor Relations Board to formally recognize private sector graduate students as employees under federal labor law. The TCWC looks forward to working with Cornell graduate students as they seek union representation. Cornell Graduate Students United, the union for graduate workers […]
(ITHACA) The Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC) mounted simultaneous Fight for $15 Living Wage Vigils at fifteen (15) fast food restaurants throughout Tompkins County on MLK Day. About 75 living wage supporters and activists braved extremely cold weather to conduct the one hour vigils (3:30-4:30 at each location). Four of the vigils were organized in […]