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New York City Central Labor Council ( NYCCLC) is the largest local labor membership organization under the direction of the national AFL–CIO. Founded in 1959 the NYCCLC represents over 400 local New York City unions in both the public and private sectors of the New York economy. [2] Of the 11 million total workers represented by the AFL–CIO ...
In New York City, a planned congestion pricing scheme would charge vehicles traveling into or within the central business district of Manhattan. This disincentivizing fee, intended to cut down on traffic congestion and pollution, was first proposed in 2007 and included in the 2019 New York state government budget by the New York State ...
The Rent Is Too Damn High Party (Rent Is 2 Damn High Party) is a single issue political party, primarily active in the state of New York, that has nominated candidates for mayor of New York City in 2005 and 2009, and for governor and senator in 2010. Jimmy McMillan was the mayoral candidate both times as well as a candidate for governor. [1]
When the New York State Wage Board announced that the minimum wage in New York City would be raised to $15 an hour by December 31, 2018, Patrick McGeehan argued in the New York Times that it was a direct consequence of the Fight for $15 protests, and that "the labor protest movement that fast-food workers in New York City began nearly three ...
The Laborers' International Union of North America ( LIUNA, stylized as LiUNA! ), often shortened to just the Laborers' Union, is an American and Canadian labor union formed in 1903. As of 2017, they had about 500,000 members, [3] about 80,000 of whom are in Canada. [citation needed] The current general president is Brent Booker who was ...
The Communications Workers of America ( CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States, representing about 700,000 members in both the private and public sectors (also in Canada and Puerto Rico ). [1] [2] The union has 27 locals in Canada via CWA-SCA Canada (French: Syndicat des communications d'Amérique ...
American Federation of Musicians. The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada ( AFM / AFofM) is a 501 (c) (5) [3] labor union representing professional instrumental musicians in the United States and Canada. The AFM, which has its headquarters in New York City, is led by president Tino Gagliardi.
The local is new, by trades-union standards, having been formed in 2011 via a merger of three independent locals - Local 106 of Albany, New York, Local 545 of Syracuse, New York, and Local 832 of Rochester, New York. [25] Local 158, now comprising three united but semi-autonomous districts is led by Business Manager Jonathan Lanse, and based ...