ILR High Road Ithaca Fellowship
Tompkins County Workers Center

ILR High Road New York is statewide program that aims to teach ILR students practical methods for civic & community engagement and leadership. The High Road Ithaca Program offers students paid community engaged internships with partner organizations committed to social and environmental justice, diversity and equity, access and education in Ithaca and surrounding areas during the fall or spring semesters. Students work 5-10 hours a week and participate in critical reflection activities throughout the semester.

The Mission of the Tompkins County Workers’ Center is to stand up with all people treated unfairly at work. We will support, advocate for, and seek to empower each other to create a more just community and world. High Road fellow will be helping TCWC achieve its mission of standing up with all people treated unfairly at work through support, advocacy, empowerment, and movement-building.

The intern would: a) contact people who have contacted our Workers Rights Hotline and seek support from other staffers in how to handle a given case; b) provide support to our campaign to create a minimum wage in Tompkins County that is higher than the upstate NY present day minimum wage presently is; c) provide support to our campaign to create Just Cause Termination legislation in the City of Ithaca; d) whenever a new unionizing situation arises, be able to attend a union meeting when the need arises.

The ideal candidate will possess good listening skills and exhibit good judgement. They will be consulting with others in the organization when questions come up about how to handle a given case within the parameters of labor law. They should have an ability, when necessary, to attend meetings, when able, surrounding our minimum wage campaign; Just Cause campaign; and our support for local union campaigns.

The Tompkins County Workers' Center office is located on 103 W. Seneca St., Suite 301B in Ithaca.