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Unionized TCAT Workers Rally for Fair Contract as Negotiations Over Wages and Staffing Intensify
Employees represented by the United Auto Workers Local 2300 union rallied outside the Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit office on Thursday to generate support and awareness about their ongoing negotiations for a new contract. The TCAT oversees all bus lines that service Ithaca and Cornell. In December, the workers’s contracts expired, launching a series of negotiations between the union and TCAT management. According to a statement released on its website, the UAW Local 2300 “continues to focus on our priorities of fair wages for all members, equal pay for equal work, and ensuring staffing levels meet the needs of our community without forcing our members to work 6 days a week,…
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‘Human Need, Not Corporate Greed,’ Cornell SIPS Advocacy Members Urge the Public to Stand Up For Science Amid Recent Executive Orders
About 150 School of Integrative Plant Science students, faculty and supporters assembled outside of Mann Library at 3 p.m. on Thursday. Protestors carried signs demanding access to science for all in the face of recent executive orders and echoed chants for “human need, not corporate greed.” Speakers called for members of the Ithaca community to “stand up for science,” emphasizing the loss of research funding through National Institutes of Health grants and the backpedaling of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at universities under the Trump administration. In response to President Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order on Unleashing American Energy, the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently froze funding to the Partnerships…