(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has invalidated a Union loss in a Representation Election at the Ace Heating & Air Conditioning Company in Cleveland by ruling the contractor unlawfully threatened Employees with business closure. The ruling reverses the finding of an administrative law judge and calls for a second more»

Nearly 40,000 Verizon Strikers returned to work on June 1st with their heads held high, after a 45-day Strike in which they beat back company demands for concessions on job security and flexibility, won 1,300 additional Union jobs and achieved a first contract at seven Verizon Wireless stores. “Walking into work the first day back chanting 'one day more»

(DUNKIRK, NEW YORK) - From a gurney in the emergency room at Buffalo General Hospital on May 6th, Joe Sweeny (pictured below/Photo Courtesy of NYSUT) wanted to make sure his longtime companion Mary Ellen Decker did not forget … the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) tickets to a May 9th fundraiser for Southern Tier U.S. Congressional Candidate more»

(CUBA, NEW YORK) – First Transit Drivers in the Allegany County Town of Cuba in Western New York have decided to Go Union With Teamsters Local 264, voting 30-to-5 for Union Representation, Local 264 Business Agent Tony Vaccaro tells WNYLaborToday.com. And with the company recently winning additional work through a new contract, Vaccaro says that more»

(DUNKIRK, NEW YORK) – Councilman Don Williams, Jr. did not mince any words during what was described by Chautauqua County Building Trades Representatives as a Solidarity News Conference held earlier this week in regards to a Non-Union contractors’ group recently holding a public event to bad mouth Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) in expectation more»

(MAYVILLE, NEW YORK) - Jamestown AFL-CIO Central Labor Council President and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 106 Business Manager David Wilkinson has been named to the Chautauqua County Regional Solutions Commission Board. Wilkinson (pictured below/WNYLaborToday.com File Photo) will serve as Organized Labor’s only more»

For the short term, the U.S. Supreme Court will not decide against Organized Labor in the controversial Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Association case. While it’s great to not have the threat of this case looming over our heads, the truth is that one bump in the timeline on one court case doesn’t change the reality for Working Families in more»

(OLEAN, NEW YORK) – Workers represented by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) who are employed at the Social Security Office in Downtown Olean continue to experience the same medical conditions as they did in late September while at work - strong outbreaks of hives and respiratory issues, a Union Representative says. more»

(SHIPPENSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA) - A former Walmart Employee - who claims she was fired after complaining that her boss told her she had to "choose between her career and her kids" - is suing the retail giant in Federal Court. Rebecca Wolfinger of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania claims in her U.S. Middle District Court suit that she was the victim of sex more»

(DETROIT) - Sixty-six Nurse Anesthetists will be walking out of two St. John Providence Hospitals in Detroit tonight (Thursday, December 31st) at midnight. Known on Twitter as the #Michigan68 – the Nurse Anesthetists are taking a very strong stand that’s being watched around metro Detroit and the Nation. They are the Highly-Skilled Nurse more»

(NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT) - Yale’s three-week-old Student Protest Movement joined forces with the University’s Labor Unions, promising to push together for a more diverse campus that treats students and workers better and improves its Mental Health Care. Organizers with Next Yale, the organizing group behind recent Student Protests over the more»

(MAYVILLE, NEW YORK) – Surprisingly, Majority Republicans on the Chautauqua County Legislature overwhelmingly voted Wednesday evening (November 18th) to approve a new contract that covers 950 Public Workers, bringing to an end a four-year run of Civil Service Employee Association (CSEA)-represented County Employees working without a new deal. In more»

(MAYVILLE, NEW YORK) – After working under an expired contract for the past four years, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)-represented Public Workers in Chautauqua County have ratified a new agreement, which now goes to the Republican Majority County Legislature for its approval on November 18th, Union President Steve Skidmore tells more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Sean McGarvey serves as President of the National AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades Department. He authored the following story that appeared in The Huffington Post. Here in Western New York, the Affiliated Member Unions of the Buffalo Building & Construction Trades Council and the Niagara County more»

(DALLAS, TEXAS) - Standing before a giant map in his Dallas office, Bill Minick doesn't seem like anyone's idea of a bomb thrower. But backed by some of the biggest names in Corporate America, this mild-mannered son of an evangelist is plotting a revolution in how companies take care of injured Workers. His idea: Let them opt out of State Workers' more»

In Wisconsin - in February of 2011, tens of thousands of protesters descended on the capital, Madison, to protest an extreme Union-Busting Bill aimed at reducing the power of that State’s Teacher Unions. Ultimately those protests failed, but they were a remarkable display of Worker Solidarity and Middle Class Organizing. Largely, this was because more»

(PIEDMONT, ALABAMA) - Facing pay as low as $9.70/hour, unaffordable Health Care and abusive use of Temp Positions, Workers at a Parts Plant operated by the Global Auto Supplier Commercial Vehicle Group (CVG) announced this week that they have voted – overwhelmingly - to join the United Auto Workers (UAW). The 89-to-45, vote marks a rejection of the more»

(MAYVILLE, NEW YORK) - In what’s become almost a weekly story here in Western New York, Members of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Local 807/Unit 6300 will conduct an informational picket and rally late tomorrow (Wednesday, September 23rd) outside the Chautauqua County Office Building in Mayville to protest the lack of a new contract. more»

(JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK) - Look around and you’ll see more and more Union Leaders and Members across Western New York, New York State and the Nation who are making the decision to run for Public Office. Case in point: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 106 Business Manager and Jamestown AFL-CIO Central Labor Council President more»

(JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK) – Christopher Maggio - a Member of Jamestown Teachers Association, Was Presented With the Joseph H. Mason Community Service Award Wednesday Evening (August 5th) During the United Way of Southern Chautauqua County’s Annual Salute to Labor Dinner – Which Celebrates the Longstanding Partnership Between Organized Labor more»

(BOSTON) - Labor Unions, Stung by Legislative Maneuvering to Ease Privatization at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), are Targeting Top House Democrats, Meeting Privately To Strategize and Discussing the Possibility of Running More Pro-Union Candidates Against Incumbents. In Fact, One Union Official Even Proposed Picketing a more»

(MAYVILLE, NEW YORK) – After Waiting Three-and-a-Half Years With No Results, the Leaders of the Union Representing 950 Government Workers in Chautauqua County say Enough is Enough and it’s Time They Receive a New Contract. Dozens of Members and Supporters of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Unit 6300 Rallied in Mayville Wednesday more»

(CORTLAND, NEW YORK) – 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEI)-Represented Workers at the Crown Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Cortland are Planning an Informational Picket to Protest What They Say is a Failure by Management to Increase Standards in the Nursing Home and Share the Burden of Rising Insurance Costs. More Than 100 more»

(ROCHESTER, NEW YORK) - VOICE/Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Child Care Providers From Monroe County, Parents and Community Members Recently Met to Discuss How Late and Short Payments Have Adversely Affected Child Care Programs. While County Officials, Including Department of Human Services Commissioner Kelly Reid, Were Scheduled to Attend The more»

(PHILADELPHIA) - Anyone Reading the Newspaper Would Assume Unions and Management Can't Possibly Get Along and That the Worst Thing That Could Happen to Any Business Would be for it to Have a Unionized Workforce. Yet, When Jeffrey Brown Founded His 11-Store Chain of Shoprite Supermarkets, he "Chose to be Union." Here's Why: "Well, I Was Coming From My more»

(MOUNT OLIVE, ILLINOIS) - Bill Fyalka Grew Up in Mount Olive Hearing Stories From Family Members About Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, the Famous Union Activist Known as "the Grandmother of All Agitators," Who’s Buried in This Illinois Town's Union Miners Cemetery. Fyalka, 60, Followed Some of Those Family Members Into the Coal Mines, Working at Freeman more»

(BOSTON) - For More Than Three Years, Workers Doing Asbestos Removal and Demolition Jobs for Several Woburn Companies in Massachusetts Were Paid in Cash, Resulting in More Than $700,000 in Unreported Wages, Federal Prosecutors Have Charged in an Indictment. Meanwhile, Construction Workers Around the State - Particularly Immigrants Hired by Subcontractors - more»

(WHITING, INDIANA) - Striking United Steelworkers (USW)-Represented Workers Who Picketed Outside the BP Whiting Refinery in Indiana for the Last Few Months Didn't Swear or March Up and Down the Picket Line or Throw Nails Outside the Gate, Bust Windows or Park Junk Cars on the Railroad Tracks Where Oil Tank Cars Exit Before Hurling the Keys Into Nearby Lake more»

(WHITING, INDIANA) - BP and Union Representatives said Wednesday (April 29th) They've Reached a Tentative Agreement on a New Contract, Which Means Nearly 1,100 Workers Who've Been Out on Strike for Nearly Three Months Could be Returning to Work Soon. BP Spokesman Scott Dean said the Company and United Steelworkers (USW) Local 7-1 Representatives are in the more»

(MASSILLON, OHIO) – Registered Nurse (RN) Ann Wayt Recently Won a $2 Million Award Against the Affinity Medical Center After the Massillon, Ohio Hospital Fired Her and Attempted to Ruin Her Reputation for Helping Unionize Nurses. Many May Think the Size of the Jury Award are the Most Important Words in That Sentence, But for Wayt – an RN for 38 more»

(CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA) - After Months of Working to Organize Workers at Boeing's North Charleston Sites, The International Association Of Machinists (IAM) Recently and Abruptly Decided to Postpone the Vote. But While Some May Herald This as a Defeat for Unions in South Carolina, it Really Isn't. This is Because a Union Already Exists at Boeing and more»

(PHILADELPHIA) - A Pay Raise is On the Way for Some Subcontract Workers at the Philadelphia International Airport Who Took to the Picket Line Late Last Week in Order to Protest Low Wages. Now, Prospect Airport Services Incorporated says an Increase in the Base Minimum Wage for its Philadelphia Workers "in the Near Future is Anticipated." Non-Unionized more»

(THE STATE OF WISCONSIN) - With Right-To-Work (For Less) in Their Rear View, Wisconsin Republicans are Winding Up to Repeal Prevailing Wage - the Law That Ensures Fair Pay for Construction Workers - and a Newly-Released Report From the Anti-Union Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Group and the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance (WTA) Could Factor Mightily more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The National AFL-CIO and the Canadian Labour Congress Have Come Together in Cross-Border Cooperation to Fight Fast-Track Passage of the Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Trade Deal, as Well as Other Trade Deals The Two Labor Organizations Released the Following Statement Tuesday (March 31st): The American Federation of more»

(WILLIAMSVILLE, NEW YORK) - Western New York AFL-CIO Area Labor Federation (WNYALF) President Richard Lipsitz is Looking Forward to Recognizing, Detailing and Celebrating a Host of Accomplishments Realized by Organized Labor Across Western New York in 2014 During Saturday’s Annual WNYALF Meeting at the United Auto Workers (UAW) Union Hall in the more»

(ATLANTA) - “As Long as Mexican Workers ‘Don’t Have Rights,’ Workers in America are ‘Under Threat.’” - With These Words Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, President of the Mexican Mine And Metalworkers’ Union Los Mineros, Recently Addressed the National AFL-CIO Executive Council at its Winter Meetings That more»

(ROCHESTER, NEW YORK) - You Know When They’re On a Picket Line Fighting for Fair Wages and Benefits. You Hear Their Prominent Voices at Rallies Supporting the Most Critical Social Justice Issues of Our Times. And You Know When They’re Putting Their Full Force and Effort Into Electing a Labor-Friendly Candidate. But What Most People more»

(LANSING, MICHIGAN) - A Newly-Elected State Representative From Midland Has Drafted Legislation to Extend the Reach Of Michigan's Right-To-Work Law (For Less) to Public Safety Personnel - the Only Union Members Exempt Under the 2012 Law. Republican State Representative Gary Glenn is Currently Courting Co-Sponsors for the Legislation, saying he Hopes to more»

The Rushed Rollout of the Common Core State Standards Under Governor Andrew Cuomo During the 2012-13 School Year Set Off Alarm Bells in School Hallways and Living Rooms Across the State. All of a Sudden, Teachers and Parents in New York Were Being Told Well Over Half of the Student Population Had Failed to Make The Grade Based On the New Common more»

Now That the Economy is Starting to Rebound From the Great Recession, the Question is Not Simply How Many Jobs are We Creating, But are We Creating Jobs That Raise Wages for All? To Ensure a Strong Recovery, We Need Family-Sustaining Wages. And the Answer is Clear: The Best Solution to Low, Stagnant Wages is to Join a Union. Connecticut Workers are Doing more»

(THE STATE OF ILLINOIS) - Republican State of Illinois Comptroller Leslie Munger and Democratic Attorney General Lisa Madigan Both Agree That GOP Governor Bruce Rauner’s Executive Order Intended to Invalidate Fair-Share Provisions in State Law and Union Contracts is Illegal - That According to the Influential Capitol Fax Newsletter, Which Broke the more»

(CHICAGO) - Earlier This Week, Republican Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner Officially Launched His War Against Government Unions With an Executive Order to Block Fair Share Union Fees and Also Began to Pursue Legal Action to Prevent Public-Sector Unions From Tapping Those Fees. Rauner State Employees Who Choose Not to Participate in Unions Still Must Pay more»

(JAMESTOWN) – A Four-Month-Long Strike by Union-Represented Workers at RHI Monofrax in Falconer, Located Just Outside the Western New York City of Jamestown in the State’s Southern Tier, is Now Officially Over. Membership of the Second of Two Unions That Had Struck - National Conference of Firemen and Oilers Local 266-F, an Affiliate of the more»

(JAMESTOWN) – A Revised Contract Offer Made by RHI Monofrax to its Striking Employees Represented by the National Conference of Firemen and Oilers Local 266-F - an Affiliate of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Will be Considered by the Membership On Wednesday (February 4th). While No Official Word Has Yet to Come From the Union more»

(FALCONER, NEW YORK) - It Would Seem as Though a Four-Month Strike at RHI Monofrax’s Plant in the Southern Tier – Which Impacted a Combined Total of 150 Union-Represented Workers – is Finally Over. However, While One of the Two Involved Unions Has Issued a Formal Announcement That its Members Have Ratified a New Five-Year Contract, the more»

(OLEAN) – New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) Southwestern New York Regional Director Anna Geronimo Has Been Elected as the New President of the Cattaraugus-Allegany AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, Western New York AFL-CIO Area Labor Federation (WNYALF) President Richard Lipsitz Tells WNYLaborToday.com. “She is an Extraordinary and more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Lee Saunders Issued the Following Statement Regarding the U.S. Department of Labor’s Release of its 2014 Union Membership Statistics: At a Time When ‘Too Many’ Americans are Struggling Just to Make Ends Meet, the Labor more»

(ALBANY) – Organized Labor is Extremely Unhappy With Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Proposed 2015 Budget State That He Outlined On Wednesday (January 21st), Including Issuing Tough Rebukes From the New York State AFL-CIO and the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) Union – Which says Cuomo Misrepresented the Reality of Public Education. The more»

(WESTERN NEW YORK) – Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)-Represented Workers Employed at Two Western New York Nursing Homes – Which Were Formerly Owned by Counties - Have Voted to Approve Contracts With Their New Employers, Union Representatives Announced Monday (January 12th). On January 5th, CSEA Members Overwhelmingly Approved a more»

(NEW JERSEY) – Under the Watchful Eye of the New Jersey State AFL-CIO, Two Labor Legislators Have Shepherded a Package of Buy American Bills Through the State Legislature, Which Were Approved by the State Assembly During the Final Voting Session of 2014. The State Senate Passed the Jobs-Creation Package Back in June, Which Would Help Strengthen more»