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The New York Central Labor Council is a labor membership organization devoted to supporting, advancing and advocating for its member organizations and all 'working class' people of New York City. The New York City Central Labor Council plays a major role in New York City affairs and politics. The Council sponsors many protests, and throws its ...
By the mid-1990s, Labor Militant became part of a campaign to form the Labor Party where it was in the leadership of the New York Metro Chapter. The New York Metro Chapter, the largest in the country, saw Labor Militant and its allies run again for the leadership of the chapter under the United Action slate only to be defeated in an Executive ...
The United Federation of Teachers ( UFT) is the labor union that represents most teachers in New York City public schools. As of 2005, there were about 118,000 in-service teachers and nearly 30,000 [2] paraprofessional educators in the union, as well as about 54,000 retired members. In October 2007, 28,280 home day care providers voted to join ...
The Tamiment Library is a research library at New York University that documents radical and left history, with strengths in the histories of communism, socialism, anarchism, the New Left, the Civil Rights Movement, and utopian experiments. The Robert F. Wagner Archives, which is also housed in Bobst Library at NYU, documents American labor ...
Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union of New York, Brooklyn, and New Jersey was an early trade union organization that later broke up into various locals, which are now AFL–CIO members. The establishment of the CLU predates the consolidation of New York City (1897) by nearly two decades and is best known as the organization that ...
Website. www.nycdistrictcouncil.com. The N.Y.C. District Council of Carpenters maintains jurisdiction over carpentry, dock builder, timber man, millwright, floorcovering, specialty shops and exhibition work in the New York City area. As of 2015 the council oversees 7 member locals: 157, 740, 926, 45, 1556, 2287 and 2790.
The National Association of Letter Carriers started in 1889 and grew quickly. It had 52 branches with 4,600 members in 1890, and 335 branches by 1892. It focused on forcing postmasters to honor federal law mandating an 8-hour day for federal employees. In 1893 it won a Supreme Court decision and $3.5 million in back overtime pay.
City State Population (2022 estimate) [1] [2] Rank Term start Form of government List Eric Adams: Democratic New York City: New York: 8,335,897 1 January 1, 2022 Mayor–council: List: Karen Bass: Democratic Los Angeles: California: 3,822,238 2 December 11, 2022 Mayor–council: List: Brandon Johnson: Democratic Chicago: Illinois: 2,665,039 3 ...