(ITHACA) The Tompkins County Workers’ Center, the Midstate Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO and Tompkins/Cortland Labor Committee, will hold the 35th Annual Labor Day Picnic from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, September 3rd in Ithaca’s Stewart Park Main Pavilion. This year’s Picnic theme will be: ‘Why a Union? Why a Living Wage?’ [Sign up […]
As students begin to arrive at Cornell University, we at the Tompkins County Workers’ Center are in support of our local sisters and brothers in the Tompkins-Cortland Building & Construction Trades Council (TCBCTC). The TCBCTC is rightfully upset about the ways in which Cornell building development has circumvented Cornell’s traditional work with local building trades […]
On Tuesday, July 24th, participants in the 43rd Annual UALE Northeast Summer School for Women in Unions and Worker Organizations will hold a Rally on The Commons in Ithaca, in coordination with the Tompkins County Workers’ Center and Cornell Graduate Students United (CGSU). [Sign up to say you’re able to make it on our Facebook […]
A group of community leaders* (see list below) are studying the benefits and challenges to paying all workers in Tompkins County a local minimum wage that is a Living Wage**. We are asking workers throughout Tompkins County, INCLUDING YOU, to join us for an Information Gathering Session on July 28th, from 11 am to 1 […]
For millions of people in the US, pay is not increasing as fast as the cost of living. This problem is severe in Tompkins County, which has the highest housing costs in upstate New York. Working people are moving out of the county to afford the necessities of life. One solution is to raise the […]