This coming Tuesday, August 6th, beginning at 5:30 p.m., the full Tompkins County Legislature will begin discussion about the possibility of creating a local law that if passed, would begin to create a higher minimum wage than the $15/hour minimum wage presently in effect for all of upstate New York. If you support this move, […]
The Tompkins County Workers’ Center’s longstanding campaign to Make the Minimum Wage a Living Wage locally is coming to fruition! We are presenting our case this coming Monday, July 8th, at 3 p.m. to the Tompkins County Legislature’s Housing and Economic Development Committee, our measure to require all employers in Tompkins County to pay a […]
If what you read below disturbs you as much as it does for us at the Tompkins County Workers’ Center, please consider sending an email to the ENTIRE County Legislature by emailing some version of the following (using your own words is always helpful!): “I am writing to share with you important new and disturbing […]
Alternatives Federal Credit Union and the Tompkins County Workers’ Center were pleased to join in the release of the 2023 Annual Living Wage Report yesterday, November 8th. The Report was produced by a team from the Ithaca and Buffalo Co-Labs of Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations led by Ian Greer and Rusty Weaver, […]
Over 350 people attended the Tompkins County Workers Center and the Midstate Council for Occupational Safety and Health (MCOSH) 37th Annual Labor Day Picnic @ Ithaca’s Stewart Park on Monday, September 4th. The Picnic organizers focused on the theme: Immigrant Workers, Past and present. Incredible music was provided by ‘Colleen Kattau and ‘Some Guys’. MOTHER […]