WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Kurston Cook, who serves as a Young Worker Coordinator with the National AFL-CIO, sent along this report to the National AFL-CIO News Now Blog: This week, 20 Members of the National AFL-CIO Young Worker Advisory Council will meet in Washington, D.C. to finalize the 2012 Work Plan for the AFL-CIO Next Up Young Worker more»

(WASHINGTON) - More than 350 Workers at an IKEA Distribution Center in Perryville, Maryland have voted to Unionize with the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAM). The Maryland Cecil Daily reported earlier this week that the vote tally was 183-to-119 in favor of IAM Unionization. The National Labor Relations Board is more»

(DUNKIRK) – Nearly 30 Representatives of Organized Labor from across Chautauqua County met in Dunkirk earlier this week to begin mapping out Labor’s plans to make the County-wide Democratic Party aware that it wants to be more involved in its decisions, and also set their sites on looking within Labor’s own ranks to run Union Candidates for a host of more»

This Labor News Report comes to WNYLaborToday.com from the National AFL-CIO News Now Blog via Teresa Casertano in the National AFL-CIO Organizing Department: (BROOKLYN) - Next week, 285 Brooklyn Employees of Cablevision Systems Corporation will vote on whether to join the Communications Workers of America (CWA). Faced with low salaries and inadequate more»

(BUFFALO) – Representatives from Organized Labor and a variety of Community Groups rallied today (Friday, January 20th) outside Science Kit and Boreal Laboratories, which is owned by VWR Education, after its Tonawanda Facility laid off 41 workers earlier this week. The representatives also demanded the Monroe County Industrial Development Agency terminate more»

U.S. Representative Chip Cravaak of Minnesota was swept into office during the 2010 Mid-Term Election on the Tea Party Platform. He’s since voted for the Paul Ryan plan to kill Medicare, which would force Seniors to rely on a Voucher System which wouldn’t be likely to cover their vast health needs and costs. But did you know that he’s a raging hypocrite? more»

(ALBANY) – New York State’s Public Unions are voicing their displeasure with Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed $131.9 million budget, saying Cuomo’s targeting of Worker Pensions is nothing more than an “assault on the Middle Class” and that it’s “time for Elected Leaders to recognize that nothing gets done without trained, competent, professional Workers.” more»

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones spent $1 billion to build the gilded palace his legendary National Football League team plays in eight Sundays a year. But in the gift shops inside Cowboys Stadium and in sports apparel stores around the Nation, Cowboys fans are buying fancy jackets, jerseys and other gear made by Cambodian workers earning just 29 cents an more»