New York Labor History Association
THIRD ANNUAL DEBRA E. BERNHARDT LABOR JOURNALISM AWARD

Award presentation and panel about using history to understand current issues with investigative journalists and labor activists.
Speakers: Ginger Adam Otis, NY Daily News; Sarah Leonard, The Nation; and Ed Ott, CUNY

Thursday, October 12, 2017, 6-8pm

Tamiment Library / Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
This NYLHA award is co-sponsored by LaborArts / Metro New York Labor Communications Council / the NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO / and the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at NYU’s Tamiment Library.

10th Floor, 70 Washington Square South, Bobst Library, NYU
RSVP recommended, e-mail
with guest names & title of event

LaborArts.org/Bernhardt | | 212 966-4014 x1703

March and Rally for Spectrum Strikers

posted on September 18, 2017 by Margarita Aguilar

March & Rally to Support Spectrum Strikers

Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 3:00 PM

Spectrum workers have been on strike for six months. On Monday, September 18 they’ll be marching from Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn across the Brooklyn Bridge to a rally in Manhattan at Foley Square.

Cadman Plaza: 2/3 to Clark Street; A/C to High Street

Foley Square: at 4:00PM
4/5/6 train to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall; J/Z to Chambers Street; R/W to City Hall

Location: Foley Square; Centre Street & Worth Street; New York, NY 10013

Support the Spectrum workers

posted on August 2, 2017 by Margarita Aguilar

IBEW Local 3 Spectrum workers need your help. The NYC Franchise agreement for Charter/Spectrum is up before the City Council for review now. Please support good union jobs and share your concerns and complaints about Charter/Spectrum with the New York State Public Service Commission by emailing .

New Sun-Times/Reader owner: ‘We have the right voice’ to grow | Chicago Sun-Times

posted on July 17, 2017 by Margarita Aguilar

Source: New Sun-Times/Reader owner: ‘We have the right voice’ to grow | Chicago Sun-Times

Talking to an IBEW Local 3 striker

posted on June 30, 2017 by Margarita Aguilar

Some four months later IBEW Local 3 members are still on strike. “They don’t want to come to the table,” said union member Michael Auerbach handing out leaflets on the corner of 6^th Avenue and 23^rd Street on Thursday morning, June 29. “Spectrum is trying to break us in small bunches like apples falling from a tree. They want to bring in newbies who don’t know what unions are so they can drive down wages.

“It’s important for workers to see long term. They offer a little bit in the short term and then screw you for the long term. People have to remember there is a future and it’s your kids and grandkids.

“We in Local 3 support each other. There was a reason that unions were built and it’s every bit as important now as it was in the beginning.

Stringer Accuses Spectrum of Trying to ‘Take Advantage’ of Workers on Strike | Observer

posted on June 22, 2017 by Margarita Aguilar

“We are not gonna allow a corporate conglomerate to take advantage of our families and our children.”

Source: Stringer Accuses Spectrum of Trying to ‘Take Advantage’ of Workers on Strike | Observer

Metro New York Labor Communications Council Holds 42nd Annual Convention

posted on May 18, 2017 by Margarita Aguilar

LaborPress – New York, NY – The Metro New York Labor Communications Council held its 42nd Annual Convention on Friday, May 12, at the 1199 SEIU headquarters in Midtown Manhattan.

Source: Metro New York Labor Communications Council Holds 42nd Annual Convention