(FALCONER) - The National Conference of Firemen and Oilers (NFCO) Local 266-F - an Affiliate of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) - Has Filed Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Charges Against RHI Monofrax, Alleging the Company is Actively Encouraging its Union-Represented Workers to Abandon Their Strike and Return to Work. In Addition, Dean DeVita more»

(ATLANTA) – In a Major Victory, Sysco Workers Have Voted to Join Teamsters Local 528 in Atlanta. With 423 Workers in the Bargaining Unit, the Vote for Teamster Representation is the Biggest at Sysco in Years. This Week’s Vote Count of 220-to-141 Comes as the Federal Trade Commission Continues (FTC) its Review of the Proposed Merger Between more»

(SALAMANCA) - Let-Go United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local One-Represented Parkview Supermarket Workers in Salamanca are Fighting for Their Jobs. The Workers Will Conduct Leafleting Outside the Southern Tier Grocery Store Today (Wednesday, December 17th) After Failing to be Rehired by the Store’s New Owners - Jake and Mark Sander, Who more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: A Total of 150 Striking, Union-Represented Workers are in Week 10 of Their Walkout at RHI Monofrax Just Outside Jamestown, Which is Placing a Strain On the Families of the Company’s Employees and Cast a Pall Over the Upcoming Holiday Season. According to Union Representatives, RHI Monofrax Wants its Striking more»

(WASHINGTON) – Just a Month After Voters Handed Republicans Control of an Unprecedented Number of State Legislative Chambers Across the Country, Party Leaders in Key States are Preparing a Raft of Proposals That Would Severely Weaken the Political Power of Labor Unions. The Most Immediate Threat Comes From So-Called Right-to-Work (For Less) more»

(FALCONER) – Union Representatives From Across Western New York Joined With Their Southern Tier Counterparts Late Today (Wednesday, December 3rd) to Take Part in a Major Solidarity Rally That Was Held Outside RHI Monofrax’s Plant in Falconer in an Effort to Focus Public Attention On a Strike That is Now in its Ninth Week. A Total of 150 more»

(TROY, NEW YORK) - Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey Once said: "The History of the American Labor Movement Needs to be Taught in Every School in This Land. America is a ‘Living Testimonial’ to What Free Men and Women Organized Into Free Democratic Trade Unions Can Do to Make a ‘Better Life.’ We Ought to be Proud of it." more»

(LYSANDER, NEW YORK) - The United Union of Roofers is Protesting Anheuser-Busch's Use of a Non-Union Binghamton Contractor to Repair the Roof at its Brewery Near Baldwinsville, Just Outside Syracuse. Two Members Of Roofers Local 195 Stood at the Entrance to the Brewery On Route 31 in Lysander for Three and a Half Hours Earlier This Week (Tuesday, November more»

(BUFFALO) – With a Big Assist From U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, Western New York Labor Has Been Successful in its Fight to Keep the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) Regional Office in Buffalo, it Was Announced Friday (November 7th). Assisting in the New York State AFL-CIO-Led Campaign, the Western New York AFL-CIO Area Labor Federation more»

Yeah, You Read That Number Correctly - One Dollar and Twenty-One Cents an Hour. From NBC's Bay Area Affiliate: The Labor Department said Eight Employees of Fremont (California)-Based Electronics For Imaging (EFI) Were Flown in From India and Worked 120 Hour Weeks to Help With the Installation of Computers at the Company's Headquarters. The Employees more»

(BOSTON) - After Nine Months of Organizing Supported by Students in Emerson P.R.I.D.E. (Progressives and Radicals in Defense of Employees), 100 Food Service Workers at Emerson College in Boston Have Won Union Recognition With UNITE HERE Local 26. The Sodexo Food Service Workers Joined UNITE HERE Local 26 Following an Overwhelming Vote in Favor of more»

(FALCONER) – New Contract Negotiations are Set to Resume On October 15th Between Striking RHI Monofrax Workers, Who are Represented by the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 266-F in the Southern Tier Town of Falconer, IAMAW Business Representative Pete more»

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(CENTRAL NEW YORK) – Management Overseeing Five Central New York Planned Parenthood Clinics Has Relented and Will Now Allow More Than 60 of Their Employees Who Want Unionization to Participate in a Vote That Will be Held On September 25th, Communications Workers of America (CWA) Representatives Tell WNYLaborToday.com. The Planned Parenthood Workers - more»

(DUNKIRK) – 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East-Represented Workers at Brooks Memorial Hospital in Dunkirk Have Ratified a New, Three-Year Contract That Maintains Quality Care and Good Jobs for This Southern Tier Community, Union Officials Announced This Week. 1199 SEIU Represents 170 Workers Who are Employed at more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured Above (Photo Courtesy of Jamestown AFL-CIO President David Wilkinson) – From Left to Right: 2014 George Ritzer Memorial Labor Award Winner and New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) Representative Valerie Hagglund, Jamestown Councilman and Jamestown AFL-CIO Labor Council Board Member George Spitale more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Mary Kay Henry (Pictured Above) is the International President of Service Employees International Union (SEIU). You Can Access Her Labor Day Message Directly at: http://www.thenation.com/article/181426/true-meaning-labor-day# To Many Americans, Labor Day’s Become An Important Way to Send Off the Slower Pace more»

(DUNKIRK) – A Tentative Contract Agreement Has Been Reached Between Brooks Memorial Hospital Management in Dunkirk and 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East That Impacts 170 Workers Who are Employed at the Southern Tier Medical Facility, 1199 SEIU Officials Announced Tuesday (Tuesday, August 26th). Brooks Memorial more»

(OLEAN) – Teamsters Local 264 Members At Stroehmann Bakeries and Grocery Haulers Incorporated (GHI) in the Cattaraugus County City of Olean Have Voted Overwhelmingly to Ratify Contracts That Provide for Significant Workplace Improvements, Union Officials Announced Thursday (August 21st). Fifteen Route Sales Drivers and Garage Mechanics at Stroehmann more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: The United Way of Southern Chautauqua County’s 21st Annual Salute to Labor Awards Dinner Honored Former and Retired International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 106 President Donald Emhardt With its Joseph H. Mason Community Service Award Late Last Week. Pictured Above With Emhardt are Several more»

(CINCINNATI/DAYTON, OHIO) – United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 75 Members Who are Employed by Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio’s Kroger Stores Have Voted to Ratify a New Collective Bargaining Agreement, the Union Has Announced. Union Officials say Through the Hard Work of the UFCW Members of the Cincinnati and Dayton Bargaining more»

(DUNKIRK) – 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-Represented Health Care Workers Will Hold an Informational Picket This Afternoon (Thursday, August 7th) Outside Brooks Memorial Hospital in Dunkirk to Draw Public Attention to Hospital Management’s Contract Proposals, Which Union-Represented Workers say are “Unacceptable” more»

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(DUNKIRK) - Frustrated Over Little Progress Being Made in Negotiating a New Contract, 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-Represented Workers at Brooks Memorial Hospital in Dunkirk Have Delivered a 10-Day Notice of Picket to Hospital Management, Union Officials Announced Today (August 1st). Contract Talks Began in Early March, But Have Made more»

(CENTRAL NEW YORK) – When Non-Represented Workers Employed in a Non-Union Workplace Take the Initiative to Get More Than Enough Signed Cards to Have a Union, You Know it’s Seriously Needed. And That’s What’s Happening Right Now With More Than 60 Health Care Workers Who are Employed by Planned Parenthood at Five Central New York more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Hundreds of 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East Members Held an Informational Picket Outside Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan Wednesday (June 18th), Joining Thousands of Their Union Brothers and Sisters - Who Also Held Similar Pickets at More Than 100 New York City-Area Hospitals, Nursing Homes and more»

(FREDONIA) - Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 266/National Conference of Firemen and Oilers (NCFO) Announced Late This Week the Union Has Reached Agreement With ConAgra Foods After Two Days of Bargaining Over the Impact of the Scheduled Closing of the Company’s Local Carriage House Facilities by the End of This Year. In What Can more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor's Note: Photos Courtesy of the Western New York Area AFL-CIO Labor Federation. (FREDONIA) – Local Business and Community Leaders Were Expected to Join With Union Members During a Rally Held Today (Thursday, May 29th) in Fredonia Where ConAgra Foods Will Be Publicly Asked to Maintain a Portion of its Operations in Northern more»

(SALAMANCA) - This Friday (May 23rd), Health Care Workers Represented 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East and Employed at 11 Absolut Care Nursing Homes Across Western New York and the Southern Tier Will Participate in an Informational Picket at the Absolut Care Facility in Salamanca, Union Officials Announced. The more»

(MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN) - Sad News Out of Milwaukee: Spanish Train-Maker Talgo is Vacating its Factory in the City, Four Years After Republican Governor Scott Walker Rejected Millions in Federal Stimulus Money to Create a Milwaukee-to-Madison Commuter Line. The Funding, Which Was Part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Was Meant to Create more»

(OLEAN) – After 17 Months of Difficult Negotiations With Management, a New Four-Year Contract Impacting 230 New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-Represented Nurses at Olean General Hospital (OGH) in the Southern Tier Has Been Overwhelmingly Approved. The Agreement, Which is Retroactive from January 31st, 2013 and Runs Until January 31st, 21018 more»

(ALBANY) - New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) Union This Week Criticized the Regents for Failing to Act to Protect Students from Educationally Unsound "Sit-and-Stare" Testing Policies Adopted by a Number of School Districts, Saying the Regents' Silence Sends an “Irresponsible Message” and Unacceptably Puts Children "Inside the Crossfire of more»

(MICHIGAN) - In the Pre-Dawn Twilight of December 4th, 2012, Randy Richardville - the Republican Majority Leader of the Michigan Senate, Called an Old Friend to Deliver Some Grim News. Richardville's Two-Hour Commute to the State Capitol in Lansing Gave Him Plenty of Time to Check in With Friends, Staff and Colleagues, Who Were Accustomed to His Early more»

(JESUP, GEORGIA) - On February 20th, Sarah Jones - Who Was Working as 2nd Assistant Camera on the Film Midnight Rider in Jesup, Georgia - Died on a Train Trestle at the Age Of 27. Several Other Crew Members Were Injured, Some Severely, as well. Her Friends and Supporters Have Set Up a Facebook Page, Slates For Sarah, to Honor Her Life and to Raise Awareness more»

(SYRACUSE) - The Union Representing Workers at Syracuse Hancock International Airport's Food and Retail Shops is Demanding its Members be Given First Dibs on Their Jobs When a New Airport Concessionaire Takes Over in April. Unite Here! Local 150 President Ann Marie Taliercio said New York City-Based Creative Food Group is Refusing to Give "First more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - United Food & Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) President Joe Hansen is Applauding the Decision Made by the Retailer – The Gap - This Week, Which Announced it Will Raise its Employees Hourly Wages, and Used the Opportunity to Challenge Big Box Retailer Walmart to Do the Same. In A Statement Released by the UFCW, more»

(KEMPER COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI) - In the State of Mississippi, a Dying Power Plant Construction Project is Being Given New Life as Developers Turn to Union Halls for Help. Mississippi Power’s New 582-Megawatt Project in Kemper County Had Faced Serious Logistical Struggles When Non-Union Contractors Fell Behind on the $4 Billion Utility Build. So in more»

(ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA) - Education Minnesota Scored a Rare Win in the Charter-School Sector Last Week When 25 Teachers at a German Immersion School in St. Paul Gave 80% Support to Forming a Union, Making It the Sole Unionized Charter School in the State. Charter Schools Have Been an Elusive Target For the Statewide Teacher Organization, Despite Its Almost more»

(WASHINGTON) - A Surprisingly Controversial Rule That Would Have Required Businesses to Hang Posters in the Workplace Spelling Out U.S. Workers' Labor Rights Will No Longer Go Into Effect, HuffPost Has Learned. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Agency Responsible For Enforcing Labor Law on Unions and Companies, Had Until Late Last Week to more»

(CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY) - It Was Friday, December 13th and Chautauqua County Labor Leader David Wilkinson Was Sitting In His Plow Truck, Trying to Begin to Push Out the Massive Amount of Snow That Had Fallen and Buried His Long Driveway at His Home in the Jamestownb Area. But the Newly-Named President of the Jamestown AFL-CIO Central Labor Council and Current more»

(THE STATE OF ILLINOIS) - A For-Profit Company’s $77 Million Contract with the State of Illinois Will End Next April - and the Work Placed Back Into the Hands of Public Employees – Following a Ruling Sought by the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 31, it was Announced This Week. The Council more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: The Photos That Appear With This Labor News Story are Courtesy of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 106, the Ahlstrom Schaeffer Electric Corporation and the United Way of Southern Chautauqua County. (JAMESTOWN) – Thanks to International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - In Washington, D.C., There’s Great News for Working Families. The District of Columbia Council Has Voted to Raise the Minimum Wage to $11.50 and Extend Paid Sick Days to Tipped Workers. The Measures Now Go to Mayor Vincent Gray for Consideration. The Minimum Wage Will Increase in Three Steps to $11.50 by July 2016. Beginning in more»

NBC Production Workers Have Been Trying to Form a Union For More Than a Year With the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE). But Peacock Productions, a Subsidiary of NBC, Has Not Acted in Good Faith in Negotiations. And That’s Why the National AFL-CIO - President Richard Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Shuler and Executive Vice President more»

(JAMESTOWN) - While There’s “Much To Be Proud Of,” Jack Rudy (Pictured Above) Tells WNYLaborToday.com of His 20 Years of Heading the Jamestown AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, What the Outgoing Labor President Will Hold Dearly is His Early Memory of Being Introduced to the Labor Movement at the Young Age of Eight – Walking a Picket more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 106 Business Manager/Jamestown AFL-CIO Central Labor Council President David Wilkinson (Pictured Above, On The Left) Sits Next to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo Sunday (December 15th) in Dunkirk as the Governor Traveled to the Chautauqua County City to more»

(DUNKIRK) – Southern Tier Labor Leader David Wilkinson Minces No Words When Speaking About the Role New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo Could Play If He Decided In Favor Of Repowering the NRG Power Plant in Dunkirk. “The Governor Has His Thumb on ‘Everything.’ There is ‘No Doubt’ About That. All He Would Have to Do is more»

(IRVING) - 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has Filed Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Charges Against the TLC Health Network for Refusing to Bargain in Good Faith Over the Terms of the Closure of the Southern Tier Hospital and Nursing Home. The Union, Which Represents More Than 200 TLC Workers Employed at the Chautauqua County Town of Irving more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 106 Business Manager David Wilkinson (Pictured Above/WNYLaborToday.com Photo) has Accepted the Nomination to Become the New President of the Jamestown AFL-CIO Central Labor Council. Wilkinson will Formally Take the Reigns from Out-Going and Long-Time more»

Many a Jaw Dropped at the United Auto Workers’ (UAW) Support for the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement. The UAW Seeks Fair Trade and a More Equitable Global Economy that Raises the Standard of Living for Workers Who Have Created Enormous Wealth Around the World. The Union has a Proud History of Advocating for Fair Trade and Believes that Worker and more»