For Immediate Release Sixty-Two Percent of NY Freelance Workers Report Never Being Paid for Work Performed Says New Survey Survey also found that nearly 40 percent of freelancers have had difficulty paying rent or other bills due to nonpayment for services rendered New York (May 11, 2022): A survey by the Authors Guild, Freelancers Union, […]
Support Builds for NYS “Freelance Isn’t Free” Bill
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tyler Adams, 917-597-4736, tyler@senatorgounardes.nyc To view the livestream of the press conference, click here Additional photos and videos available on request Support Builds for “Freelance Isn’t Free” Bill to Protect Freelancers Against Wage Theft Statewide One-Third of Americans Are Freelance or Contract Workers; S8369/A9368 Would Ensure Freelancers Receive Contracts, Payment Senator […]
Invasion of Ukraine Threatens Wider War – Demands International Solidarity
The world today is a very dangerous place. The Russian invasion of Ukraine marks a new threat level of a possible world war. It is a pre-World War I moment, with NATO troops massed in Poland and eastern Europe and more U.S. forces on alert, and more than 200,000 Russian troops on the move in […]
IFJ Calls on Unesco to Protect Journalists in Ukraine
27 February 2022 Since the outbreak of Russia’s armed conflict against Ukraine, the International Federation of Journalists has been in constant contact with its Ukrainian affiliates, NUJU and IMTUU, and has echoed warnings against journalists being seduced by disinformation. The IFJ and its affiliates around the world call on Unesco to do everything possible to […]
State Senator Andrew Gounardes, Assemblymember Harry Bronson Introduce ‘Freelance Isn’t Free’ Bill to Protect Freelancers Against Wage Theft Statewide
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tyler Adams, 917-597-4736, tyler@senatorgounardes.nyc To view the livestream of the press conference, click here Additional photos and videos available on request State Senator Andrew Gounardes, Assemblymember Harry Bronson Introduce ‘Freelance Isn’t Free’ Bill to Protect Freelancers Against Wage Theft Statewide One-Third of Americans Are Freelance or Contract Workers; S8369 Would Ensure […]
An Open Letter to the IOC on the Winter Olympic Games in China
President Thomas Bach […]
New York City Sues French Fashion Media Company L’Officiel USA for Failing to Pay NYC Freelancers
December 1, 2021 NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that the City ’s Law Department and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) have filed a lawsuit against L ’Officiel USA, the American subsidiary of the French-owned global media company that operates several print and digital magazines about fashion, beauty, music, film, literature, […]
DA Resolutions Opposing Police Unions and Welcoming All Media Workers
The 2021 Delegate Assembly passed the following resolutions. RESOLUTION OPPOSING THE PRESENCE OF POLICE IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT WHEREAS the institution of American policing allows officers to engage in violence, terrorism, and racism with impunity, and WHEREAS the police serve primarily to uphold the interests of capital, property owners, and racial hierarchies, and WHEREAS the […]
The 2021 NWU Delegate Assembly
The 2021 NWU Delegate Assembly (DA) was held online, October 21-23. It was our first DA since leaving the UAW, and coming out of the COVID lockdown. Despite the tremendous hardships faced by freelancers (and all workers) during the pandemic, including loss of work and little if any aid coming from the CARES Act, our […]
Rittenhouse Acquitted – Toni Morrison Banned
On November 19, a Wisconsin jury found 18-year-old racist vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all charges involving the murder of two unarmed protesters and the wounding of a third. Rittenhouse illegally crossed state lines with an AR-15 rifle he was too young to possess, to “protect” an empty used car lot that he had […]
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