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Unique Unitized Glass Curtain Wall That’s Being Erected At The New U.S. Courthouse Project In Downtown Buffalo Is The Work Of CBO Glass Of Alden & 100 Union Glaziers And Glass Fabricators Represented By Painters District Council 4

Published Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Pictured Above: Buffalo’s new U.S. Courthouse project features a unique Unitized Curtain Wall glass product and system that is locally-made- and -installed by CBO Glass of Alden, a Union employer whose Glazier Workforce is represented by IUPAT (International Union of Painters & Allied Trades) District 4 in Cheektowaga. A stellar Labor-Management more»

United Food & Commercial Workers Union And World’s Largest Hog Slaughterhouse In North Carolina Now Getting Along After Long Worker Unionization Campaign

Published Tuesday, August 24, 2010
(TAR HEEL, NORTH CAROLINA) - The owner of the world's largest hog slaughterhouse and the Union it fought in one of the South's longest-running Labor Disputes have buried more than 15 years of animosity. A year after their first Labor Contract took effect in the Union-hostile region, the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) and managers of the more»

The New York State AFL-CIO Announces Its 2010 Endorsements, Including Andrew Cuomo For Governor And U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand

Published Sunday, August 22, 2010
Editor’s Note: The following information appears on the New York State AFL-CIO’s website. For a full list of the New York State AFL-CIO’s individual candidate endorsements, including the New York State Assembly and Senate, visit www.nysaflcio.org. New York State AFL-CIO Announces Endorsement Of Andrew Cuomo For Governor The 2.5-million member New more»

Sunday Labor Column: Labor-Endorsed State Senator George Maziarz “Gets Chummy” With Anti-Union Gubernatorial Candidate Carl Paladino & WNYLaborToday.com’s Labor News Video Reports On The Mott’s Strike Nearing 1,000 View Mark On YouTube

Published Sunday, August 22, 2010
Pictured Above: WNYLaborToday.com has received a great response on its recently-published story involving Unionized Workers at Crawford of Jamestown’s furniture plant in the Southern Tier, as well as inquiries for further information on a 20% discount the company is offering to Union Members across Western New York on the purchase of any of their many lines more»

CWA News From Across The Nation: CWA Local 1298 Reaches Tentative Agreement For AT&T Workers And CWAers to Build Broadband “Anchor Network” In California

Published Sunday, August 22, 2010
CWA Local 1298 Reaches Tentative Agreement For AT&T Workers CWA (Communications Workers of America) Members' solidarity during 18 long months of bargaining paid off last week in Connecticut when Local 1298 reached a tentative agreement with AT&T that includes job protection language the company had refused to include earlier. "We hung tough, the more»

Newest Green Building In Chautauqua County Focuses Spotlight On International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers Local 106 – Which Is Partnering In A First-Ever, Solar Power Demonstration Project With The City Of Jamestown

Published Friday, August 20, 2010
Pictured Above: IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) Local 106 Business Manager David Wilkinson (right) inspects and discusses his Chautauqua County Union’s new solar cell panel system that is located atop the Union’s newly-expanded Green Headquarters in Jamestown with Local 106 Membership Development Director David Painter. more»

New York's Economic Development Efforts Fail – That According To New IDA Report That Finds Slow Job Creation And Agencies Hiding From Public Scrutiny

Published Thursday, August 19, 2010
(NEW YORK) - The statewide New York Industrial Development Agency Coalition (NY/IDAC) has released a report that finds New York State's main economic development tool - Industrial Development Agencies (IDAs) - are spending spiraling amounts of tax dollars each year while failing to create jobs and hiding from public scrutiny. No Return On Our Investment: more»

Iowa Wind Tower Workers Go Union With The International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers

Published Thursday, August 19, 2010
(DES MOINES, IOWA) - Workers at the Trinity Structural Towers plant have voted to Go Union after a series of high-profile accidents due to company neglect in Iowa. As a result, more than 130 workers at Trinity Structural Towers – Iowa’s leading manufacturer of wind towers – have voted to join the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local more»