News Articles
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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:
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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
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