(ITHACA) Fast food workers in New York State will reap the first benefits of their Fight for $15 activism on January 1st as the minimum wage in the industry rises to $9.75/hour ($10.50 in NY City). This is a $1 or 11 percent increase over 2015. Over 180,000 working families will see this increase in […]
[Editors Note: This article appeared in the most recent edition of the TCWC Newsletter, The Workers Edge. To support the Ithaca Health Alliance in their spring fundraising drive through their Union, please go to http://ihaunion.peaksmaker.com] By Valarie FitzRandolph in behalf of the Ithaca Health Alliance Workers’ Union: Rob Brown, Andrea Levine, Linda Knewstub and Abby […]
(ITHACA) The New York State Department of Labor’s (DOL) Acting Commissioner, Mario Musolino, today announced that the wages for all ‘tipped workers’ in New York State will be increased to $7.50/hour as of 12/31/15.  Says Erin Leidy, a pizza delivery driver in Ithaca and member of TCWC: “It’s just good economic sense to put […]
(Ithaca) A year and a half ago, Milton Webb and Stanley McPherson, two workers with ReCommunity Recycling (which was taken over by Casella Waste Systems in early 2014), a subcontractor with the Tompkins County Solid Waste Division, approached the Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC) wondering why they weren’t making a Living Wage, considering the fact […]
[Editor’s Note: This special news is a result of a growing Alliance of Upstate New York Workers’ Centers. Rebecca Fuentes works with the Central New York Workers’ Center based in Syracuse, and Carly Fox works with the Workers Justice Center of NY. The Tompkins County Workers’ Center is proud to be a part of this […]