Building Trades
A construction agreement between an owner and a regional building trades council, representing all the construction craft unions in a given geographical area.
What is a Project Labor Agreement (PLA)
This union represents workers in grocery stores such as Fairway, D’Agostinos, Stop & Shop & Gristede’s. With over 20,000 members in the New York area
What is the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1500 (UFCW Local 1500)
How many council members have a CUNY campus or CUNY students in their district?
Who are 51 Council Members
This industry is the most unionized industry group in New York City, followed by health care, social services and the construction industry.
What is Education
In 2013, De Blasio campaigned on a plan to ban this industry. The workers' attorney Norman Siegel stated: Whatever the government does, it has to have a rational basis, connected to a legitimate government interest. And, I don’t know what the legitimate government interest is in getting rid of _? Name the industry
What is the Horse Carriage Industry ( they are currently represented by TWU Local 100)
In 1882, New York City labor unions held their first parade in celebration of their movement before the official creation of this holiday. Made official in 1894 because labor activists pushed for a federal holiday to recognize the many contributions workers have made to America’s strength, prosperity, and well-being.
What is Labor Day Holiday
A formal system of employee training that combines on-the-job training with related technical instruction. This system provides a gateway to formally joining the build trade unions.
What is apprenticeship
A large number of private sector workers are considered excluded workers in current federal labor law. Name one of these sectors.
Who are Farmworkers, home-healthcare workers, domestic workers and freelancers
The right to be represented by unions and to bargain collectively for their salary was enacted into law in 1967 by the passage of this law.
What is the Taylor Law (also known as the Public Employees' Fair Employment Act)
After the passage of Vision Zero, these workers have been punished for fatally striking or wounding pedestrians and denied due process; these workers transport 2.5 million passengers every day.
Who are Bus Drivers
Provides a safe threshold of nurse-to-patient ratio to ensure patient care needs are met and working environment and conditions support staff to deliver quality care.
What is Safe Staffing
The earliest recorded strike occurred when New York journeymen tailors protested a wage reduction.
What is the Strike in 1768
Passed by Congress in 1931, this federal law requires private contractors to pay “prevailing wages” to employees on all federally funded construction projects over $2000.
What is the Davis-Bacon Act
This union represents nearly 40,000 non-managerial hospitality and gaming employees working in all departments across New York Northern New Jersey.
What is the Hotel Trades Council
Founded in March 1960 in New York City, largely in response to perceived unfairness in the educational system's treatment of teachers. Immediately began its campaign to gain collective bargaining rights and won a promise from the New York City School Board in the 1960-1961 school year.
What is the United Federation of Teachers (UFT)
This coalition of labor unions represents 2.6 million working people. Their mission is to advocate for a clean energy economy at the scale climate science demands, create good union jobs, and support more equitable communities and a more resilient New York.
What is Climate Jobs New York (CJNY)
The name given to non-union Labor Brokers in the NYC construction industry who target workers who have recently been released from prison to perform work for third party companies. They profit by taking a cut of the wages paid by the company.
What is Body Shop
On March 29, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis, Tennessee, in support of the Black sanitary public works employees, who were represented by this union. The workers had been on strike since March 12 for higher wages and better treatment.
What is AFSCME Local 1733
One of North America’s largest building-trades unions, with over a half million members working in the construction and wood-products industries.
What is the United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC)
Most private-sector unions gain recognition at workplaces after this type of election takes place; where a majority of employees vote to approve a union as their exclusive bargaining representative.
What is a secret-ballot election
The newest members of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators (CSA), who are predominantly women of color and still seeking pay parity with their DOE counterparts.
Who are the Early Childhood Directors & Assistant Director
This industry has the highest % of workplace related deaths, accounting for 26 percent of all worker deaths in New York City, compared to 19 percent nationwide. 68% of workers who died on private worksites in NYC were non-union.
What is Construction
This Coalition built the NY HERO Act from the ground up to push for real protections and a voice in the workplace, and is actively organizing for its enforcement.
What is the NY Essential Workers Coalition
In 1903, the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) lobbied for the State of New York to pass this law, which allowed for the registration of qualified nurses and created the title of “Registered Nurse”.
What is the Nurse Practice Act
Representing more than 100,000 tradesmen and tradeswomen across NYC and consists of local affiliates of 15 national and international unions.
What is the Building Trades and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York
This act, passed by Congress in 1935, protects workplace democracy by providing employees the fundamental right to seek better working conditions and representation without fear of retaliation.
What is the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
Process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights for workers.
What is Collective bargaining
This local union represents asbestos, lead and hazardous waste handlers. They perform 75% of all asbestos removal in the New York City area and are over 80% immigrant workers from Latin America and Eastern Europe.
What is LIUNA Local 78 (Laborers' International Union of North America)
Formed in 2015 in response to it’s university’s crisis. It brings together students, workers, and communities under one banner to fight for access to quality higher education throughout all of its college campuses.
What is the CUNY Rising Alliance
This event took place in 1911 when factory workers, mostly immigrant women, had been trapped inside a burning 10-story building by the owners that had locked the fire exits to prevent alleged employee theft. In just 30 minutes, 146 workers were trapped and fatally burned or jumped to their deaths when a fire erupted at the lower Manhattan factory.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire