Gregory Bacon at The Dunkirk Observer reports the Chautauqua County Legislature has approved a new contract with Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Unit 6300, which represents more than 700 County Workers, and with the CCSEA - which represents 118 Members, most of which are Dispatchers, Corrections Officers or other Employees of the County Jail. more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, Laborers Local 210 Business Manager Pete Capitano (on the left) and his Brother, Sam - who serves as Business Manager of Upstate New York LIUNA (Laborers International Union of North America), co-hosted the first in what will be a series of mentorship seminars held across New York State that offer a more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, Phil Rumore took some time to talk to WNYLaborToday.com before his final day on the job at the end of June after more than 41 years serving as President of the 3,800-Member Buffalo Teachers Federation. Rumore discussed and reminisced on his long and storied career as head of the Teachers’ Union, more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses employed at the Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) and Terrace View Long-Term Care have ratified a new contract after months of negotiations with an overwhelming majority of Nurses voting in favor of the deal, it was announced today (Tuesday, July 18th). The five-year more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Former Communications Workers of America (CWA) District 1 Area Director Dave Palmer’s passing caused several Labor Leaders whom WNYLaborToday.com spoke with over the weekend to recall a long list of accomplishments Palmer helped bring about - not only for his Union’s Membership, but for Union Members across Western more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Workers employed at Comprehensive Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Williamsville in Suburban Buffalo have ratified a new multi-year agreement with their employer after months of negotiations and several job actions, including a one-day Strike. The 34 Workers, who are represented by 1199 Service Employees International more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, a new street sign was unveiled during a ceremony held on Thursday (June 6th) at the former Bethlehem Steel Plant in Lackawanna, located just outside Buffalo. Steelworkers Way was formally dedicated during the event that was held by the United Steelworkers (USW) Union, which also formerly endorsed Erie more»

(DUNKIRK, NEW YORK) - More than 150 Hospital Workers who are represented by 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East at Brooks-TLC Hospital System in the Southern Tier are celebrating a new three-year contract. Union Health Care Workers covered by the agreement at Brooks TLC Hospital System in Dunkirk work as Service more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - More than 25 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare East-represented Professional and Technical Nursing Home Workers employed at Absolut Care of Aurora Park and Absolut Care of Allegany will postpone a planned week-long Strike after reaching a two-year tentative agreement. The Rehabilitation Unit Workers more»

(ACROSS NEW YORK STATE) - 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East is responding to New York State Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against the owners, operators and landlords of four nursing homes across the State for years of repeated and persistent fraud and illegally misusing more than $83 million in more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, the three recipients of this year’s Harry S. Jordan Scholarships appear with some of the Members of the Niagara-Orleans AFL-CIO Central Labor Council after receiving their awards during a recently held ceremony at International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 463’s former offices more»

(NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK) – Water rate increases of 17% in 2022 and 8.9% in 2023 in the City of Niagara Falls has not sat well with property taxpayers, so much so that the United Steelworkers (USW) recently initiated a public campaign that included an on-line petition and its Members going door-to-door to talk to residents about how they felt about more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - More than 25 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East Professional and Technical Nursing Home Workers employed at Absolut Care of Aurora Park and Absolut Care of Allegany have voted to authorize a week-long Strike should an agreement not be reached with their employer. The Unionized Caregivers more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, the Western New York AFL-CIO Area Labor Federation (WNYALF) held its 2023 Annual Awards Dinner last week inside the Downtown Buffalo Convention Center where hundreds of area Labor Leaders, Union Representatives, Elected Officials and Friends of Labor were in attendance. The WNYALF recognized several in more»

Greg Jaffe at The Washington Post has an amazing story on 25-year-old Lexi Rizzo, a Starbucks Barista in Buffalo who fought to Unionize her Starbucks Store near the Greater Buffalo Niagara International Airport. Right now, she’s out of a job, Jaffe reports, and that her struggle is just beginning. It’s a story worth reading. To Directly more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, Leaders of Buffalo’s two International Alliance of Theatrical Employees (IATSE) Unions - Local 10 and Local 783, line up in front of Downtown’s Shea’s Performing Arts Center where they’ve been attempting to bargain new contracts for the past 12 months. Frustrated Union Leaders more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, local Members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), whose Union is currently on Strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), brought their national work action to Buffalo over the weekend. While much of the media attention on their Strike has been focused on the more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo visited Buffalo last week to participate in a Town Hall On The Status Of Labor With The National Labor Relations Board. Held at 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East’s Main Street Union more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9434 President Glenn Choolokian is running for Mayor of Niagara Falls. The USW Labor Leader tells WNYLaborToday.com: “(I’m running) ‘because I love Niagara Falls and I believe in its people.’ It is ‘very important people get involved’ more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 10 recently held a rigging class at the Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, located just outside Buffalo in Genesee County, to which WNYLaborToday.com was invited to observe. Nearly 10 Members of the Buffalo-headquartered Local more»

(EAST AURORA, NEW YORK) - More than 25 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-represented Professional and Technical Nursing Home Workers employed at Absolut Care of Aurora Park and Absolut Care of Allegany will hold an informational picket on Wednesday (June 7th) in East Aurora if Workers cannot reach a fair contract agreement. The Caregivers, more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – The news crews covering a New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) press conference held outside the Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) on Wednesday (May 31st) went silent for several moments as they listened to Registered Nurse (RN) John Batson talk about the more than 200 incidents of violence that the Union says has occurred more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, recently retired International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 106 Business Manager David Wilkinson (on the left) credits Buffalo-headquartered Walsh Duffield Companies for a tremendous job in helping guide the Jamestown-based Building Trades Union’s pension/retirement needs over more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1342 is remembering its Union Sister Chequita Smith, who will be laid to rest this weekend after losing her life in a crash of a Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) Para-Transit bus earlier this month, as a person “with a ‘contagious smile who would help any Union Member more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) Executive Direct Pat Kane (on the left) and President Nancy Hagans (on the right) have helped guide the 42,000-Member Statewide Nurses Union since mid-2022 - and over the course of time have registered a number of very impressive victories for Union Caregivers more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Surrounded by Members of Laborers Local 210 at the Building Trades Union’s Buffalo Training Facility, Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday (May 19th) highlighted New York State’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget investments that will work to support Workers in Western New York and make the State more affordable. The State Budget more»

(WILLIAMSVILLE, NEW YORK) – Union-represented Caregivers employed at the Comprehensive Nursing & Rehabilitation at Williamsville Nursing Home in Suburban Buffalo participated in a one-day Strike on Wednesday (May 17th) as 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East Representatives requested a Federal Mediator join more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1168 Representatives Mary Nowocien (on the left) and Ann Converso (on the right) play tug-of-war with a CWA lawn sign that says, Let’s Take Care Of The People Taking Care Of Our Pets! outside the Orchard Park Veterinary Medical Center after making the more»

(CHEEKTOWAGA, NEW YORK) - The Teachers’ Association of Cheektowaga-Sloan (TAC) and Teamsters Local 449 are joining forces to open a new Community Food Pantry to address food insecurity and ensure that Cheektowaga-Sloan’s students - and local families - do not go hungry. The pantry - which is located at Teamster Local 449’s Headquarters at more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Thirty-four Workers - Licensed Practical Nurses, Certified Nurse Assistants, Housekeeping Aides, Laundry Aides, Dietary Cooks and Dietary Aides, who are employed at the 142-bed Comprehensive of Williamsville Nursing Home in Suburban Buffalo have unanimously voted to authorize a one-day Strike, 1199 Service Employees International more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – United Steelworkers (USW) Local Union 135L President Thomas O'Shei from Buffalo, New York testified today (Tuesday, May 9th) on behalf of his Union at the Congressional Committee on Ways and Means Field Hearing on Trade in America: Securing Supply Chains and Protecting the American Worker. The following is O’Shei’s more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, the Niagara-Orleans AFL-CIO Central Labor Council held its annual Workers Memorial observance on Saturday (May 6th) at Reservoir Park in Niagara Falls, during which two United Steelworkers (USW) District 4 Officials delivered powerful messages to Elected Leaders “to stand with Labor,” pass more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union (BCTGM) Local 36G President Anthony Barker holds a listing of the names of eight area Workers who were killed on the job during the past 12 months. The eight were honored during the Buffalo AFL-CIO Central Labor more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Despite some Buffalo Teachers calling for a vote on a contract several weeks before it was tentatively agreed-to, Buffalo Teachers Federation (BTF) President Phil Rumore tells WNYLaborToday.com that Teachers would not have been the beneficiaries of retroactive pay and a reduction of wage steps had the Union done so. “We more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Budget negotiations are entering their fourth week past the April 1st deadline (which has once again been extended) and Health Care Workers across New York are continuing an unprecedented string of actions to focus attention to the State’s health care crisis that would further deteriorate if Medicaid isn’t funded adequately more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: A collage of photos taken by WNYLaborToday.com at SMART Local 71’s new Training Facility in the City of Buffalo where the International Union’s Region 1 Apprenticeship Competition was held late last week and into the weekend, drawing 40 participants from SMART Locals across New York State, Eastern more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, WKBW-TV/Channel 7 Senior Reporter Eileen Buckley (on the left), WNYLaborToday.com Editor-Publisher Tom Campbell (in the middle) and Buffalo Teachers Federation President Phil Rumore (on the right) share memories of Rumore’s 41-year tenure as head of Buffalo’s Public School Teachers Union. more»

(TROY, NEW YORK) - After 35 years of hard work, the Kate Mullany National Historic Site in Troy will officially open to the public this Summer. The grand opening ceremony will take place on Saturday, June 10th from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the historic brick rowhouse where Mullany and her family lived, at 350 8th Street in Troy. “It will be a big day in more»

(THE SOUTHERN TIER OF WESTERN NEW YORK) - More than 200 Union-represented Nursing Home Workers employed at four rural facilities in the Southern Tier of Western New York have avoided a week-long Strike after reaching a new contract agreement, 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East announced. In a near unanimous more»

Anthony Abrantes serves as the Assistant Executive Secretary-Treasurer for the Eastern Atlantic State Regional Council of Carpenters, which represents nearly 41,000 Union Carpenters from the States of New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia and Washington, D.C. Abrantes recently authored a Labor Perspective that was more»

(NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK) - Every year in late November or early December, media outlets in Western New York report on the installation of a huge ice boom at the head of the Niagara River. It’s for good reason - without the arch and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ (IBEW) Members who install it, the entire region could be in more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Around 300 Members of the Unionized Building Trades are in the midst of constructing the massive 500,000-square-foot, $518 million Great Lakes Cheese manufacturing and packaging plant in the Cattaraugus County Town of Franklinville, including 20 Members of International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 17. more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – It didn’t matter that Evelyn Harris, who does not drive, had to take a 45-minute bus ride from Niagara Falls to Buffalo on Wednesday (April 5th) to personally speak at a news conference that was held at Oishei Children’s Hospital with a number of area Labor Leaders, Union Members, Hospital and Nursing Home more»

Tim Martin and Mike Wilson have something else in common besides being Members of a Labor Union - both recently and literally sprang into action to help their fellow Western New Yorkers in yet another example of Union Workers doing the right thing when the need arises. WNYLaborToday.com recently learned what Martin, a Member of National Association of more»

Ashley Capoot at CNBC reports Starbucks has fired Alexis Rizzo, their Employee responsible for igniting the Starbucks Workers United Unionizing Campaign, just days after the company’s former CEO Howard Schultz testified on Capitol Hill about the Coffee Chain’s alleged Union-Busting. Rizzo worked as a Shift Supervisor at Starbucks for seven more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Workers employed at WKBW-TV/Channel 7 in Buffalo who are represented by the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET), a sector of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), voted this week to ratify a new four-year contract with the ABC-TV Network Affiliate, which is owned by E.W. Scripps Company. more»

(WILLIAMSVILLE, NEW YORK) – Nursing Home Workers represented by 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East held an informational picket Friday (March 31) outside the Comprehensive Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in the Buffalo Suburb of Williamsville, who did so to call public attention to chronic short staffing at more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: The Western New York AFL-CIO Area Labor Federation (WNYALF) held its 2023 Annual Meeting at United Auto Workers Region 9 Headquarters in the Buffalo Suburb of Williamsville over the weekend in a well-attended event that drew Labor Representatives from across the eight-county area. Those in attendance intently listened more»

(AMHERST, NEW YORK) – Unionized Buffalo Starbucks Workers employed at the Suburban Buffalo Sheridan and Bailey store went on Strike today (Wednesday, March 22nd), joining more than 100 stores nationwide to demand basic rights like livable wages with consistent scheduling, safe and respectful workplaces, and the right to organize free from fear and more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Earlier this morning (Tuesday, March 21st), 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East Members - still reeling from three years of the Coronavirus Pandemic, boarded buses in Buffalo, which will take them to Albany where as many as 15,000 Health Care Workers from across New York State will more»