The Midtown Gazette

A Columbia Journalism School newsroom covering Midtown Manhattan in the heart of New York City.


Tag: SEIU
  • City Labor Movement Grows Despite National Decline

    Union membership in the United States continues to decline but in New York City, private sector workers are organizing faster than workers in other urban environments.

  • Calling All Voters

    The SEIU Communications Center near Times Square was abuzz with phone calls all election day as groups came in to get out the vote. Volunteers from NAACP, Marriage Equality USA and 1199 SEIU, a healthcare workers union, filled cubicles and donned headsets to make sure constituents in New York and other key states were getting…