Tuesday, November 5th is Election Day – A Very Important Day for Working People across Western New York, New York State and the Nation. As a Working Person/Union-Represented Worker and Non-Represented Worker, It’s Your Opportunity to Step Forward and Make a Statement by Voting For Those Candidates Supported by Organized Labor - and Especially more»

(OLEAN) – The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is Expected to Schedule a Hearing Concerning 18 Challenged Ballots to Decide Whether a Recently-Established Bargaining Unit at Olean General Hospital Will Be Represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) An NLRB Election was Held on Friday (October 25th) in Olean and When the 118 Votes more»

(WASHINGTON) - With Fresh Capitol Hill Budget Battles on the Horizon, the Head of the Leading Labor Federation Issued a Blistering Warning to Unions' Democratic Allies on Monday (October 21st), saying the National AFL-CIO Would "Never Stop Working" to End the Political Careers of Democrats Who Cut Entitlement Programs. "No Politician … I Don’t more»

(BATH) – Steuben County Administrator Mark Alger Has Once Again Chosen to Travel Down the Road of Secrecy by Denying the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Access to the Sales Agreement for the County’s Health Care Facility in Bath, Union Officials Charge. In Fact, the County Has Refused to Honor Multiple Freedom of Information (FOI) and more»

(MAYVILLE) - Tired of Being Pawns in the Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards’ Political Games, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Members in the Southern Tier have Voted Overwhelmingly to Reject a Fact Finder’s Recommendation to Settle Contract Talks with the County. “We are Dealing with a County Executive who Has Little more»

(ALLEGANY) – EverPower Wind Holdings, Incorporated has Reached an Agreement with the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 17 and Laborers Local 621 to Use Local Labor on the Pittsburgh-Based Utility-Grade Wind Energy Products Company’s Proposed Allegany Wind Project, it was announced Thursday (September 26th). The $140 more»

(NEW YORK) - Top Leaders of the United Steelworkers (USW) Union Confirmed Being Joined by the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) and Steel Bridge Fabricators in a Meeting that took place this past week, which was Led by New York Governor’s Andrew Cuomo’s Office, in addition to Public Authority Transportation Officials - to Consider Ways more»

(ALBANY) – The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) is Warning New York State Lawmakers that Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Plan to Run Down State Psychiatric Services Will Put More Sick People on the Streets and Stick Local Taxpayers With the Bill. “Too Many People Suffering From Mental Illness Can’t Get the Help They Need Now and more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 106 Business Manager David Wilkinson and his Wife, Kim, pose for a Photo taken at Bergman Park in Jamestown on Sunday (September 1st) beside a List of the Past Recipients of the George Ritzer Memorial Labor Award. Wilkinson - who has Played Such a Prominent more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: James Bertolone serves as President of the Rochester & Genesee Valley Area Labor Federation, whose 300 Affiliated Union Locals Combine to Represent 100,000 Union Members in the Rochester & Finger Lakes Regions of New York State. He also serves as President of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 215 more»

Low-Wage Workers are taking to the Streets Today (Thursday, August 29th) in 50 Cities across the United States, The Huffington Post is Reporting. The Protests, which Come Ahead of Labor Day, are an Outgrowth of the July Strikes that took place in a Number of Cities Across the Country, including New York, Chicago and Detroit. Only This Time, They're more»

(WASHINGTON) - Finally, there was Action in the U.S. Senate This Week on Nominations to Several Important Executive Branch Positions. First up was Richard Cordray, who - after a Two-Year Wait - was Confirmed as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by a 66-to-32 Vote. The Senate then Voted to Confirm Buffalo Native Tom Perez as Secretary of more»

(SHAKOPEE, MINNESOTA) – Union-Represented Workers at a Concrete Products Manufacturing Facility in Shakopee, Minnesota have Gone Out on Strike, Pledging to Walk the Picket Line until Cretex Companies Abandons its Attempt to Strip Workers of their Pension Benefits. The Union-Represented Workers at Cretex’s Shakopee Facility Manufacture Manhole more»

CWA Activists Press Their Senators On NLRB CWA Legislative and Political Team Activists continued to Press their Senators on the need to Confirm all Five Presidential Nominations to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and to Change the Senate Rules, If Necessary, to Get It Done. Indiana CWAers met with Senator Joe Donnelly on June 7th, and so far, more»

(OLEAN) – Saying Safe-Staffing is Needed with Nurses Being Forced to Take On Too Many Patients at One Time, 220 New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-Represented Registered Nurses (RNs) will hold an Informational Picket outside Olean General Hospital on Wednesday (June 19), the Union announced. The RNs have also been in New Contract Negotiations more»

Fusao Ohori, a Representative of the All-Japan Seamen’s Union - which Represents the Crews of Ships at Sea - flew from Tokyo to walk Picket Lines with Locked-Out Longshore Workers in Vancouver and Portland. Along with Ohori’s visit, the All-Japan Seamen’s Union contributed one million yen to the ILWU. That translates to an estimated more»

(MICHIGAN) - This is How Hope Turns Into Despair: More than a year since they Voted to Form a Union, Panera workers in Michigan are Still Waiting. The Franchisee that owns the Panera Bread Stores in the Region Refused to Recognize the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco and Grain Millers (BCTGM) Union as the Official Representative of the Bakers and Refused to more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Retired National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 3 President Robert McLennan, who now serves as Labor Liaison for State Senator Tim Kennedy of Buffalo, announced during the Buffalo AFL-CIO Central Labor Council Meeting that was held on Tuesday Evening (June 11th) that the Buffalo-Western New York Region more»

NYSUT Editor’s Note: An Estimated 20,000 Teachers, Parents, Students, Union Members and Community Allies of Education (Pictured Above) took part in a Massive Rally that was held in Albany on Saturday (June 8th) for the Reduction of State-Mandated Testing and Additional Funding for Education. You can learn more about the One Voice United Rally at more»

(WISCONSIN) - Last week, 150 Members of the Palermo Workers Union and their Allies Marched 18 miles from the Palermo's Pizza Plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to the Mequon Home of Palermo’s Co-Owner Angelo Fallucca to Demand that He and his Brother and Co-Owner, Giacomo, meet with them in their On-Going Dispute over Workers’ Rights. A year ago, the more»

(ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA) – Union-Represented Locomotive Builders are demanding that General Electric (GE) Stop the Transfer of Nearly a Third of the Plant’s Jobs to a Non-Union, Lower-Wage Factory in Texas and are Rallying to Draw Public Attention to the Decision. The Three Actions - One for Each Shift - follow the Profitable Factory’s April more»

(ALBANY) - In a Vocal Pushback against Out-of-Control Standardized Testing, the Out-Sized Influence that Giant Testing Companies are having on Teaching and Learning, and New York’s Inequitable School Funding System, a Coalition of Parents, Educators, Community Members and Students will Rally in early June in Albany to Fight For The Future Of Public more»

(WEST, TEXAS) - The West, Texas Fertilizer Plant, where a Fire and Explosion last week claimed at least 14 lives - including 11 Firefighters and EMTs - and injured more than 200, was last Inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 1985. In 2011, the West Fertilizer Company filed an Emergency Response Plan with the U.S. more»

“Unions are the problem.” These were the words that Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie used in response to a question posed by a Teacher at a recent Town Hall Meeting. The Governor has clearly taken a page out of the Union-Busting Playbook by trying to brand the Union as a Self-Interested Third Party, but the Teacher sensibly more»

(ALBANY) – New York State Health Committee Chair and Assemblyman Richard Gottfried joined more than 1,300 Members of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) and Nursing Students earlier this week during a Rally held in Albany to speak out against the Shortage of Nursing Staff in New York Hospitals. "Safe Staffing Levels reduce avoidable more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - A New Report from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) shows that construction Deaths more than tripled on New York City Work Sites in 2012, with 21 Workplace Fatalities versus six from the year before. The sudden surge coincides with an Uptick in Building Projects in the Region and represents the Most Construction more»

A New Six-Year Master Contract covering 14,500 Waterfront Workers who are represented by the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) has been overwhelming approved by ILA Members in a Ratification Vote conducted at Ports on the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, it was announced today (Wednesday, April 10th). The ILA negotiated the Master Contract with more»

Just in case you haven’t taken the time to watch the March/April Edition of WNYLaborToday.com’s New Labor News TV Magazine… Western New York Labor News… NOW! as yet, here’s what you’re missing: More than 200 Union Leaders and Delegates were in attendance at the recently-held 2013 Western New York AFL-CIO Labor more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: What's Behind the Momentum for Paid Sick Days? originally appeared on The Huffington Post by Ellen Bravo, director of Family Values @ Work. In just two weeks, the Movement for Paid Sick Days has seen three victories - in Portland, Oregon, in Philadelphia and, most recently, in New York City. Local Coalitions in each more»

(NEW YORK) – The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) welcomed the news this week that State Lawmakers and Governor Andrew Cuomo have rejected a Proposal to bring For-Profit Healthcare to New York. NYSNA had raised Serious Concerns about Proposals in the initial State Budget to loosen Certificate of Need Requirements and to allow the creation of more»

The Average American Cashier makes $20,230 a year, which in a Single-Earner Household would leave a Family of Four living under the Poverty Line. But if he works the Cash Registers at QuikTrip, it’s an entirely different story. The Convenience Store and Gas Station Chain offers Entry-Level Employees an Annual Salary of around $40,000, plus more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – On the One-Year Anniversary of the Implementation of the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, United Steelworkers (USW) President Leo Gerard says: “If this is success, we’re in a heap of trouble.” “The One-Year Anniversary of the start of the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will spark a debate about more»

Costco CEO Craig Jelinek has joined the Push to Raise the Federal Minimum Wage to $10.10 Per Hour by saying he supports the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013, which would not only Raise the Current Wage from $7.25, but would Index the Wage to Inflation and Raise Wages for Tipped Employees too. Costco already pays its Starting Employees a Wage of $11.50 Per Hour more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: While perusing the Social Network Facebook, Your Regional, On-Line Labor Newspaper ran across the following thought-provoking information that we would like to share with our many Viewers/Readers:

(WASHINGTON) - More than 1,500 People rallied on Capitol Hill Tuesday (February 12th) in support of Working Families and to tell Congress not to make any Benefit Cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. They also told Congress to Close Tax Loopholes for Big Corporations and the Wealthiest 2% and to Prevent the Sequester from going into Effect and more»

In Packed Hearing Rooms where tempers run short and accusations fly, the Missouri and Kansas Legislatures are consumed with Debates on Bills intended to weaken Unions. This expenditure of energy at first seems puzzling. Most Private- and Public-Sector Unions are not particularly powerful in either State. Kansas already is a Right-To-Work (For Less) State, more»

(BROOKLYN) – New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-Represented Nurses and Physicians from two Brooklyn Hospitals on the verge of closure - Long Island College Hospital (LICH) and the Interfaith Medical Center - joined with Clergy, Neighbors and Patients from the Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bed-Stuy) Community in front of Governor Cuomo’s Office in more»

(STATE OF MICHIGAN) - A Coalition of Michigan Labor Unions - including the United Auto Workers (UAW) - and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have asked a Judge to Strike Down the recently-passed Right-To-Work For Less Law (RTWFL), because it was enacted while the Public was Locked-Out of the Capitol - which is a violation of the Open Meetings Act, more»

(ITHACA) – A group of 70 Workers employed by the Non-Profit Tompkins Community Action (TCA) Organization in Ithaca have voted for Union Representation with the International Union of Painters & Allied Trades (IUPAT/District Council 4, which represents nearly 1,800 Construction and Non-Construction Workers in a Region that encompasses 33 New York more»

(ELMIRA) – Residents of the Chemung County Skilled Nursing Facility are joining Registered Nurses (RNs) represented by the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) in a campaign to tell County Officials that Privatizing the Elmira Facility would be an Expensive Mistake. As such, NYSNA is embarking on a Public Awareness Campaign and over the next more»

(ALBANY) – The New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) Union said today that the Education Reform Commission's Interim Report can serve as a Template for Productive Discussions about how to further improve New York's already-strong Public Education System. NYSUT President Richard Iannuzzi said the Commission's Report recognizes that Excellence Abounds more»

A Temporary Deal has been reached between the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMA) that will delay for 30 days a strike that was scheduled to start today (Sunday, December 30th). The Strike would have shut down East Coast Ports from Boston to Miami, with 14,000 Workers taking part. A Strike will more»

(LANSING, MICHIGAN) - Hundreds of Michiganders flooded the State Capitol building in Lansing on Thursday (November 29th) to tell their Legislators to reject a Right-to Work for less Proposal currently before a Legislative Committee. Working Families oppose the Legislation that would make it easier for Corporations to take advantage of their Employees and more»

(EVERETT, WASHINGTON) - “I certainly admit going in with an attitude of ‘let’s-see-what-this-is-about,’” Johnson & Johnson Vice President Donald Bohn says about cooperating with Labor Unions. “It turns out we have a lot more in common than you might think.” And that’s why, about four years ago, Johnson more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Richard Iannuzzi (pictured above), who has headed the Statewide Union since April 2005, is president of the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) – which represents more than 600,000 Members who work in, or are retired from, New York's Schools, Colleges and Health Care Facilities, including Classroom Teachers, more»

The Campaign for America's Future (CAF) launched a new Website this week - Wage Class War - saying that the 2012 Election was, in large part, about Class Warfare and that the Democrats who sided with the Middle Class and Poor were the victors. Starting with the President, and working its way down to many U.S. Congressional Democrats, the argument was more»

(OLEAN) – On Friday (November 16th), New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-Represented Nurses from Olean General Hospital and from across Western New York will hold a Rally to publicly ask the question: Will a Registered Nurse be there when you need one? The Registered Nurses (RNs) want to make sure this is a question their Patients will never more»

In the wake of President Obama's Re-Election, one CEO is doubling down on his criticisms of Obamacare. Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter said he plans on Passing the Costs of Health Care Reform to his Business onto his Workers. Schnatter said he will likely Reduce Workers’ Hours, as a result of President Obama's Re-Election, The Naples News more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – On Tuesday, it was the Voters’ turn to speak and the message they clearly sent as they re-elected President Obama was unmistakable: It’s time to rebuild the Middle Class and Invest in America. According to a National Election Night Survey conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates for the National AFL-CIO, Voters more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured Above, United Auto Workers (UAW) Region 9 Officials present Representatives of theVeterans Administration (VA) Hospital in the Southern Tier City of Bath a new Chevrolet Van. It’s the third donation - totaling an overall cost of $50,000 - of a Van to VA Hospitals in Buffalo and Bath by the UAW over the more»