Here is a link to the Facebook Live video transcript of the community forum “A Community Conversation about Local Human Rights Enforcement” co-sponsored by the Tompkins County Human Rights Commission, Dorothy Cotton Institute (DCI), Activists Committed to Interrupting Oppression Now (ACTION), Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), Black Lives Matter Ithaca (BLMI), and the Tompkins […]
Available by sliding scale donation, these snazzy navy blue T-Shirts are now available at the Tompkins County Workers’ Center office on The Commons in downtown Ithaca (115 The Commons/E. Martin Luther King, Jr. Street, above Autumn Leaves Used Books). You can also call our office in advance to let us know you’re coming down (607-269-0409) […]
Thanks so much for your engagement with us at the Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC) over the years in order to build our collective and local grassroots labor movement!! We at the TCWC have historically realized how very important it is for us to raise the money we need to raise from our grassroots base, […]
On Monday, April 30th, the Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC), along with waitstaff, bartenders, customers and an Human Resources expert, attended one of a number of hearings being held throughout New York that are being held by the NYS Dept of Labor to study the possible ENDING of the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers. Six […]
It took over a year, but workers won a victory when a Federal arbitrator ruled yesterday that Cornell violated the law in its zeal to defeat graduate student organizing efforts in March 2017. [The Tompkins County Workers’ Center, as a community labor organization, has strongly supported the Cornell Graduate Students United (CGSU) for the past […]