The workers at the Starbucks on Erie Boulevard East in DeWitt will vote May 6 on whether to unionize.
Labor & Employment
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‘A rising tide lifts all boats’: Syracuse University professors and researchers aim to make the university a union campus
If the educators and researchers at Syracuse University vote to form the union, they could add another 350 unionized workers to 3,000 already unionized.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
ICE won’t provide City Hall, Syracuse Police Department with details on East Side operation
A city councilor on Tuesday spotted federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Syracuse’s university neighborhood, but ICE won’t say why the agents were there.
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Does anyone answer New York’s unemployment hotline?
One week in June, only a third of the people who called the Labor Department’s unemployment help line reached a real person.
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TCGPlayer workers, eBay strike deal on severance package with company set to move
Under the severance agreement, workers will receive 20 weeks of pay and seven months of mental health benefits, workers said.
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TCGPlayer workers file complaint with NLRB as eBay adds security
Workers allege eBay didn’t properly notify the workers of TCGPlayer’s closure. The company has since at least tripled the size of its security staff, workers said.
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An Upstate orchard is putting new farmworker protections to the test
New York’s farm labor law was meant to transform life for agricultural workers. One apple farm shows how hard that may be.
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TCGPlayer to move to Kentucky after extensive union negotiations, will lay off 220 workers
TCGPlayer employees for 18 months had been fighting for better pay and other benefits. eBay on Thursday told employees they plan to move the company and lay off its workers.
Posted inCity of Syracuse
Syracuse living wage law needs overhaul, hasn’t been enforced for about a decade, city auditor finds
City Auditor Alex Marion’s review of the law was the first in about eight years. A committee established by the law hasn’t met since 2014.
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Salt City Coffee employees overturn union effort
In May, employees at Salt City Coffee voted to unionize. On Wednesday night, employees voted to decertify the union.
