New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH), founded in 1980, is a non-profit coalition of 200 local unions and more than 400 individual workers, physicians, lawyers and other health and safety activists dedicated to the right of worker safety on the job. NYCOSH operates throughout New York City, Long Island and the Lower Hudson Valley. The website gives information and assistance for those injured on the job and other training and safety resources. This series also includes the Twitter feed for NYCOSH, which highlights news on workers health and safety from New York State.
Also includes the website for the, NY Healthy Nail Salon Coalition, which was founded by organizations Adhikaar and the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) in 2014. The Coalition works to combat wage theft, health and safety violations, and other abuses in the nail salon industry. The Coalition eliminated the tipped sub-minimum wage for nail salon workers in 2019. They work through organizing, campaigns, and training. The website contains news and press releases from the Coalition, action campaigns, information on the Nail Salon Minimum Standards Council Act, and other resources.
