CWA 1180 - Worksite Organizing

Want to form a union?

Local 1180 represents workers in every City agency and at other public sector employers such as the Transit Authority and the Health and Hospitals Corporation. We also represent workers at several nonprofit organizations,


	Local 1180 has launched a new organizing campaign to unionize workers at not-for-profit organizations. Click here to find out more!

such as Human Rights Watch, the ASPCA, and Planned Parenthood New York City.

With a union, you have the legal right to bargain over your pay, benefits, employment security, health and safety, retirement, and more. A union also gives you the ability to negotiate over policies that affect promotions, layoffs, and other aspects of your job.

Interested in forming a union in your workplace? If you are, Local 1180 can help you and your co-workers build the majority support you will need. Please contact organizer Erin Mahoney at 212-226-6565 ext. 4958 or email her at emahoney@cwa1180.org.

Unionization efforts

Ripe for Organizing: 1180 out to Enlist Not-for-Profit Staff (4/07)
By Meredith Kolodner, The Chief Leader
1,300 Coordinating Managers join Local 1180 (5/06)

Administrative Job Opportunity Specialists join Local 1180 (8/05)
Organizing against the odds (5/05)
When 311 workers at King Teleservices decided to form a union, the idea caught on fast. But shoddy labor law opened the door for management to conduct a campaign of intimidation.
Coordinating Managers moving closer to union representation (1/05)

311 workers join 1180 (7/04)

Union wins suspension case on illegal welfare policy (7/04)

Organizing (5/04)
Slow but steady headway in organizing additional titles

HHC found guilty! (1/04)
Guilty of interference, restraint, and coercion of public employees in the exercise of their rights at work, as protected in the New York City Collective Bargaining law, HHC was ordered to "not interfere with the holding of union membership meetings on HHC property during off-hours."

Justice delayed is justice denied (5/01)
The problem with the grievance process and what we should do about it
ACS members put a stamp of value on their work (12/00)
Organize across five boroughs to create new union positions

Out-of-title, out of line! (5/99)
Union takes on pattern of contract violations

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