Librarians and Staff employed in the Mid-Continent Public Library System - serving Jackson, Clay and Platte Counties in Missouri, have announced their intent to form a Union. Sixty-percent of Union-eligible Staff Members have signed a public petition supporting efforts to organize with Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 6360. The Workers are more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) and Microsoft have announced an expanded partnership to support a strong workforce pipeline and help Workers across North America build the skills needed to succeed in an AI (Artificial Intelligence)-powered economy. Building on a partnership that has already trained 1,500 Instructors in more»

David Edwards at RawStory reports that during a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Thursday (April 23rd), U.S. Representative Frank Mrvan scolded Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after the Trump Administration Official appeared to laugh at job losses in his District. Mrvan observed Lutnick had been supportive of Union jobs outside of government. The more»

Leah Sarnoff and Darren Reynolds at ABC News reports Teamster-represented Workers employed at Costco Wholesale locations across the country have voted to authorize a Strike, with more than 85% of Members in favor of hitting the picket lines. The Teamsters represent more than 18,000 Costco Employees nationally. Union President Sean O’Brien said: "Our more»

Claudia Irizarry Aponte and Katie Honan at The City report City Hall Officials met with Union Leaders who are pushing Mayor Zohran Mamdani to veto a controversial City Council Bill that would establish anti-protest buffer zones around schools and educational facilities. A representative of Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su met via video call with more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - New York State Agency overtime costs increased 22.7% in 2025 for a total of $1.6 billion, while the number of overtime hours increased by 5.9%, or 1.4 million hours, higher than the previous year, according to the annual report issued by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli examining State agencies’ overtime and workforce trends. The more»

The Workers of Clean Water Action and the Clean Water Fund have announced the formation of the Clean Water Guild, uniting employees of Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund as a part of The NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America (CWA). As the boots-on-the-ground force behind one of the Nation’s founding grassroots Environmental Non-Profits, more»

Joe Sommerlad at The Independent reports President Donald Trump is receiving backlash over his suggestion a European Metals Company has donated foreign steel for the construction of his White House ballroom. According to The New York Times, the Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal has donated materials to help with the $400 million project, which would appear to more»

Caitlyn Clark and Lisa Xu at LaborNotes report on the 3,800 Meatpacking Workers who are represented by United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 in Greeley, Colorado - who launched the industry’s first major Strike in 40 years. Their three-week Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike was the first time Workers had ever struck the JBS Greeley Beef more»

Noah Bond at KOLO-TV reports From Reno, Nevada that Laborers Local 169 is ramping up training efforts to prepare Workers for a major solar project near Yerington that will bring hundreds of jobs to the region. Local 169 is seeking between 200 and 300 Workers for the Libra Sol Project, a large-scale solar field spanning 4,000 acres. The positions offer more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement in response to Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s resignation as U.S. Secretary of Labor: When we’re in a crisis of costs going up, job insecurity due to AI (Artificial Intelligence) and technology, and uncertainty across the economy, we need a Labor Secretary more»

Erich Wagner at Government Executive reports a coalition of Labor Groups are suing the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) in an effort to block new regulations granting the Agency’s political appointees control over Union Elections at Federal Agencies, arguing both that the Agency robbed stakeholders of the opportunity to weigh in on the changes more»

Harper Freeman at The Chief reports New York City Labor is calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to tax the rich. Nearly a dozen Unions have signed a letter that was sent to Hochul urging her to get behind revenue-raising measures proposed in the one-house budgets of the State Assembly and State Senate - as well as other additional tax increases. Raising taxes more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - Schools across New York State are working diligently to comply with new, more stringent lead standards that will make school drinking water even safer for students, educators and others who spend time in school buildings. New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) Health and Safety has created: A fact sheet to help schools familiarize more»

(BALTIMORE, MARYLAND) - Workers employed at the Lush Cosmetics Store in Baltimore’s Harbor East Neighborhood have voted unanimously to join United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 27. Workers organized around key issues on the job, including fair pay, consistent and reliable scheduling, and a need for dignity and respect in the workplace. more»

President Donald Trump and Republicans in the House and Senate have slashed Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies and gutted Health Care Programs like Medicaid, all to fund billionaire tax breaks and ICE terror. This has left more than 400 Hospitals at risk of service cuts or closure, threatening vulnerable patients and communities. But Nurses, patients and more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Reporters, Editors, Producers and other Professionals involved in producing a successful print and digital product at Scientific American have Unionized with the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE), which represents more than 7,500 Members working in film, television, news, podcasts and on-line media. Scientific American’s more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Carter Myers-Brown at The Chief reports on New York City LanguageLine Interpreters: When a patient walks into a New York City Hospital and doesn't speak English, or when a resident calls 911 in a language other than English, it falls to a LanguageLine Solutions Interpreter to bridge the gap. Now, many of these Interpreters are more»

(BRISTOL, CONNECTICUT) - Hair and Make-Up Artists employed by Distinct Artistry at ESPN have voted overwhelmingly in favor of Unionizing with International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts (IATSE) Local 798 by a 19-to-4 margin. The 27 Hair and Make-Up Artists are employed regularly by Distinct more»

Karen Juanita Carrillo at The New York Amsterdam News reports on the third annual Union & Apprenticeship Fair that was held last week at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The event provided New Yorkers with access to stable, well-paying, Skilled Trades and Industrial-Union careers. The Fair gave those in attendance a chance to connect with Union Recruiters from more»

The type of misclassification addressed in this report occurs when an employer wrongly classifies an Employee as an Independent Contractor. The problem of Workers being misclassified as Independent Contractors is pervasive and widespread. An analysis from the National Employment Law Project focusing on State-level reports on misclassification estimated more»

Flight Attendants employed at United Airlines and represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-Communications Workers of America (AFA-CWA) have reached a tentative contract agreement with the company after more than four years of bargaining. The agreement came during mediated bargaining and is expected to: Improve base pay rates; Place restrictions more»

Michelle Kaske at Bloomberg reports New York City Doormen and building owners have reached a potential agreement on wage and benefit increases, avoiding a possible Strike as soon as April 21st that would have upended day-to-day operations at 3,500 co-ops, condos and apartment properties. The current contract is set to expire late Monday night (April 20th). more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) is focusing a spotlight on the suite of laws it enforces to protect consumers and Workers across City hotels as New York looks ahead to another busy year for tourism and hospitality. In a new Op-Ed in The Nation, DCWP Commissioner Sam Levine joined Hotel and Gaming more»

(CLEVELAND, OHIO) – Taylor Wizner at Ideastream Public Media reports Primary Care Providers employed at MetroHealth are organizing to form a Union, saying it is needed to improve working conditions and patient care. The group includes physicians, Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants - who say they are organizing because of increasing workloads more»

Erich Wagner at Government Executive reports Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has instructed leaders to terminate most of the Department’s Collective Bargaining Agreements, more than a year after President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order banning Federal Employee Unions from many agencies on national security grounds. Spared are Unions like the more»

(HIBBING, MINNESOTA) - In what could be a portent for other Counties and Cities seeking Federal funds for infrastructure projects, the GOP Trump Administration’s Transportation Department is threatening to yank $7.7 million for five County road and bridge projects, unless the County drops its requirements that contractors sign Project Labor Agreements more»

More than 10,000 32BJ Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Members rallied earlier this week on Park Avenue and voted to authorize a Strike that would paralyze the homes of 1.5 million New Yorkers. The Union Members are demanding fair wage increases, pension improvements, protection of all benefits and that the Realty Advisory Board on Labor more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - United University Professions (UUP) - America’s largest higher Education Union, is strongly supporting the Amherst Compact, a first-ever agreement by leaders of more than 50 Unions to coordinate bargaining priorities that raise the floor for Workers of all job categories across the most-densely Unionized Region of the country for more»

Jeremy Loudenback at The Imprint reports California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced a $37.2 million investment in Apprenticeship and Workforce Training opportunities, including new spending on job readiness for youth. One program will train and place young adults into health care careers. The Miguel Contreras Foundation will use a $3.5 million grant more»

The Associated Press reports the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) is launching a national TV ad campaign promoting voting by mail, stepping into a politically charged debate as skepticism about mail-in ballots has been raised by President Donald Trump and others. The 30-second message features a variety of voters, among them a Farmer and a Flight more»

Michael Sainato at The Guardian reports leaders of some of the largest Unions in the U.S. have unveiled a drive to jumpstart the country’s Labor Movement and combat growing wealth inequality under Donald Trump. To make it easier for Workers to join a Union and strengthen the hand of new Unions negotiating with powerful businesses, a string of more»

Dade Hayes at Deadline reports the topic of contract negotiations with studios and streamers was off the table earlier this week as Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) Leaders put the focus on unity and celebration at the Union’s annual Rock the City event in New York. Contract talks were recently put on more»

Eddie Velazquez at Central Current reports hundreds of Educators and Researchers that make up almost 20% of Syracuse University’s (SU) Faculty want to form a Union. The Union would include around 350 Postdoctoral Researchers, Teaching Professors, Professors of Practice and Research Professors, if a majority of those Workers vote to Unionize at an more»

Nurses at Rush University Medical Center have announced they’ve filed a petition for a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Union Election to join the National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU). This is Chicago’s largest NLRB filing on record for a Union Election in the Health Care Sector and one of the largest in more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler has issued the following statement in response to a new directive from the Trump Administration’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) through its National Emphasis Program that leaves Workers vulnerable to heat: This new policy limits OSHA’s ability to hold bosses more»

(LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA) - In the early hours of Tuesday (April 14th) morning, Members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 99 reached a tentative contract agreement (TA) with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). With a TA also in place for their Union Brothers, Sisters and Siblings in the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) - more»

In Cranston, Rhode Island - Robert Cruz is devoted to his job as Training Director at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 99/National Electrical Contractors Association’s (NECA) Joint Apprenticeship Training Center. "It's the best job. I change lives every day. I teach people ‘how to fish,’" said Cruz - who had more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - A new five-year contract has been agreed to by American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1095 after Union Membership voted 444-to-83 to approve the new deal, which covers the period from January 1st, 2027 through December 31st, 2031. The new contract includes pay raises in each of those years as more»

Here’s a huge win for libraries, museums and the communities they serve nationwide. Members of American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) have succeeded in protecting funding from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). That’s a Federal Agency the Trump Administration tried to dismantle over a more»

(THE BRONX, NEW YORK) - Seventy Workers employed at the Budweiser Beer Distribution Facility in the Bronx have voted to join United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 2D - marking the first Beer Wholesale Salesforce to join the UFCW in the U.S. Budweiser is a global brand of Anheuser-Busch and the facility is owned by Southern Glazer’s more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – The Workers’ Justice Project-Los Deliveristas Unidos is celebrating a historic milestone for Delivery Worker Organizing in New York City with the launch of the City Hall Park Deliverista Hub - the first Worker-designed Hub of its kind in the Nation. Developed through organizing by App Delivery Workers and in partnership with more»

(HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY) - Mechanics employed at the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail in New Jersey have voted overwhelmingly to join the Transport Workers Union (TWU), fulfilling the TWU’s goal of wall-to-wall Industrial Trade Union Organizing. All Workers at the privately-operated New Jersey Transit Light Rail System are now part of the TWU. Local 229 more»

This May Day, International Workers’ Day, we are calling every Worker, organized and unorganized, employed and unemployed, to hit the streets! On May 1st, Workers, Students, Immigrants and Families in more than1,000 Cities nationwide will join May Day actions. They will march, rally, and refuse business as usual to demand one thing: Workers Over more»

Katie Langford at The Denver Post reports United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 - which represents thousands of Northern Colorado Meatpacking Workers, and JBS has reached a tentative contract agreement. The UFCW announced the agreement following two days of negotiations that resumed after a three-week Strike at the Flagship Beef Processing more»

(SEATTLE, WASHINGTON) - Reach University, the Nation's Non-Profit University advancing Apprenticeship Degrees, and the Training Fund, a Labor-Management partnership with expertise in employer-driven Health Care Apprenticeship Programs, has announced the launch of the Nation's first Apprenticeship College of Health (ACH), which is designed to address the more»

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has temporarily suspended contributions to its Employee Pension Plans in an effort to "conserve cash" due to an "ongoing, severe financial crisis." "There will not be any immediate detrimental impact to our current or future Retirees if normal FERS (Federal Employees Retirement System) cost payments are temporarily withheld," more»

Communications Workers of America (CWA) Members employed by DirecTV have voted overwhelmingly to give Union Leaders the authority to call a Strike if negotiations between the CWA and the company fail to reach a fair agreement. The Strike Authorization Vote comes as CWA's contract with DirecTV - covering nearly 300 Customer Service Call Center Workers in more»

Dave Infante at Fingers reports the Staff of one of the world’s best cocktail bars has gone Union. Workers employed at Attaboy, an influential cocktail bar in New York City that is often ranked among the global hospitality industry’s most elite outfits, went public with a Union drive. They are organizing independently as Attaboy Local 134. A more»

Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Workers could go on Strike as early as May 16th if they cannot reach a deal. During a press conference held last week - Kevin Sexton, who serves as the National Vice President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), said Workers would walk off the job on May 16th if they don’t reach a new contract more»