The Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC) is pleased to be offering a position of Operations Manager with our organization. TCWC Operations Manager Job Description‘Together, creating a dignified and just workplace and society’ Position: Operations ManagerLocation: Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC)Schedule: 20 hours per week with flexible schedule, with potential for increased hours in the future. […]
New York State Lawmakers are expected to pass Healthcare for All (H4A) but not a renewal of the Excluded Workers’ Fund. H4A would significantly expand access to health insurance for undocumented New Yorkers. As negotiations currently stand, it seems unlikely that the cash-relief provided by the Excluded Workers Fund will make it into the 2022 […]
The Tompkins County Workers’ Center strongly opposes the equation of police benevolent associations with labor unions. This statement explains why our commitment to both racial justice and the rights of workers leads us to distinguish between trade unions and organizations designed to reinforce the formidable power of policing. The past year has seen an explosion […]
45 signatures were collected in support of the opposition. Since the passage of the Farmworker Fair Labor Standards Act in 2019, organizers and farmworkers have contended with a lack of infrastructure within PERB to handle the certification of farmworker unions and to investigate unfair labor practice complaints. PERB, the Public Employees Relations Bureau, is the […]
By Sara Tsai (Source: on labor) The Current Overtime Threshold for Farmworkers On January 28, 2022, the New York Farm Laborer Wage Board made a landmark decision to lower the current 60-hour overtime threshold for farm workers to 40 hours. Workers start earning time-and-a-half pay for hours worked in excess of the OT threshold. Beginning in 2024, the threshold […]