Eric Lawrence at The Detroit Free Press reports United Auto Workers (UAW) Member Daniel Vicente - out of Local 644 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, bested Lauren Farrell by a vote of 4,347-to-4,025, making him the latest dissident to claim a seat on the UAW’s International Executive Board as part of the UAW’s first direct election of top leaders. more»

(LOCKPORT, NEW YORK) - We all know what Unions do that benefits their Memberships, both Active and Retired - from bargaining fair contracts that offer living wages and health benefits, as well as retirement packages, to filing grievances that solve on-the-job disagreements with management to making sure the workplace is safe so Workers are protected and more»

(LANCASTER, NEW YORK) – Organized Labor from across Western New York stepped up its generosity this year by donating $72,000 toward an overall $1 million-plus that was raised over the weekend during the locally-televised 61st annual Variety Club Kids Telethon. As of Sunday evening (March 5th) when the telethon ended, this year’s effort raised more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Health Care Workers and Representatives from 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East, Members of the New York State Senate and Assembly, as well as Officials from several Buffalo-area Health Care Providers - including Catholic Health, the McGuire Group, the Loretto Corporation and the Weinberg more»

(ORCHARD PARK, NEW YORK) – The firing of a Union Advocate at the recently-Unionized Orchard Park Veterinary Medical Center has drawn the ire of the Western New York AFL-CIO Area Labor Federation (WNYALF), which has put out a call to its affiliated Member Unions to participate in a rally later this week in support of the Communications Workers of more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - The future of the Labor Movement may depend on gathering the next generation of Young Activists of Color as Unionists, but the move toward Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in everyday life is also one in keeping with the goals and ethics of United University Professions (UUP). Those two themes - the practical, broad approach to more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: After 40 years of service to Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1122, President John Mudie (on the left) has retired and handed off the reins of running the 1,500-Member Local to Tom Antonio, who’s been a Member for more than 25 years. WNYLaborToday.com recently sat down with Mudie, a former President more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, Variety Club Kids Telethon Labor Chair Tony Vaccaro of Teamsters Local 264 (on the left) welcomes International Union of Painters & Allied Trades (IUPAT) District Council 4 Representative Bill Mayer as the 2023 Labor Co-Chair of the 61st Annual Variety Club Kids Telethon that traditionally raises $1 more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – As a guest of U.S. Congressman Brian Higgins, Western New York AFL-CIO (WNYALF) President Peter DeJesus attended President Biden’s State of the Union Address in Washington, D.C. last week – which was believed to be the first time an area Labor Leader has ever been afforded that honor. “I was ‘blown more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Earlier this week, Workers at the Remedy House in Buffalo presented a list of demands to management and announced their intention to Unionize with Workers United Rochester Regional Joint Board (RRJB). Management at the Remedy House – a coffee bar located in Buffalo's Five Points neighborhood, then immediately fired Meghan more»

(WESTERN NEW YORK) – More than 200 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East-represented Nursing Home Workers who are employed at four rural facilities across Western New York - the Salamanca Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, the Dunkirk Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, the Eden Rehabilitation and the Nursing Center more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Contract talks are set to resume between the Buffalo Teachers Federation (BTF) and the Buffalo School District after a just-released Fact Finder’s Report drew the ire of the Union, whose President, Phil Rumore, said: “It ‘wasn’t balanced.’” “We were ‘disappointed because - usually, more»

(JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK) – Workers employed at the New Flyer Bus Manufacturing Facility in Jamestown, N.Y., have Gone Union with International Union of Electricians (IUE)-Communications Workers of America (CWA), the CWA’s Manufacturing Division. The IUE-CWA now represents more than 50 Workers who make components for New Flyer buses, including more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Looking back, Western New York was devastated by a crippling blizzard in late December, paralyzing the community and taking the lives of more than 40 residents. The blizzard, deemed by New York State and local officials as a once-in-a-lifetime storm, included days of heavy snow, hurricane-force winds and freezing temperatures more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Western New York AFL-CIO Area Labor Federation (WNYALF) President Peter DeJesus has released the following statement regarding the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee and the video footage of his arrest released by the Memphis Police Department: The inhumanity and injustice our Nation saw perpetrated against Tyre Nichols is more»

An interesting Labor Perspective authored by Marilyn Sneiderman and Stephen Lerner. Sneiderman directs the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization and is a distinguished Professor at Rutgers’ School of Management and Labor Relations. She led the National AFL-CIO’s Department of Field Mobilization, where she launched the national Union more»

Max Nesterak at The Minnesota Reformer reports on International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) District Council 82 - which represents 3,500 Painters, Drywall Finishers and Glaziers across the Upper Midwest and Montana0 recently hired two full-time Mental Health Professionals to work at the Union’s Training Center in Little Canada, more»

Catherine Thorbecke at CNN reports Workers at Apple’s first Unionized Retail Store has begun collectively bargaining with management - a milestone moment not only for the iPhone Company but for all of Big Tech. Apple Store Workers in Towson, Maryland, who made history in June by voting to form the first Union at one of the Tech Giant’s U.S. more»

Press Associates Union News Service reports Starbucks Workers United will increase its efforts to enlist the Coffee Chain’s customers as allies in its nationwide Unionization Drive. It already did so with a Red Cup Rebellion in November. When the company rolled out its annual special holiday red cup, Workers at 117 Unionized or to-be-Unionized more»

(ORCHARD PARK, NEW YORK) - When a member of the Buffalo Community who gives back by helping the homeless and providing inner-city kids with a chance to go to their first Buffalo Bills game needed help, the SMART Army quickly mobilized. SMART, which stands for Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, and some of its Members from Local 71 were made more»

(LEWISTON, NEW YORK) – A new 64-month contract involving two International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Locals in Lewiston and Massena, which combine to represent 560 Workers employed by the New York Power Authority (NYPA), has been ratified, Union Leaders tell WNYLaborToday.com. The contract, which is retroactive and runs until August more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Cindy Marlow simply never fails to amaze. Over the years, her efforts guiding the 50-Member United Steelworkers’ (USW) Women of Steel group here in Western New York has led to countless donation and fundraising campaigns that have helped those who are less fortunate - from distributing knitted scarves, hats and gloves on more»

(BUFFFALO, NEW YORK) – Sunday night (January 1st) a street-side memorial was held at the spot where Anndel Taylor, a 22-year-old Union Member represented by 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU), lost her life when the car she was driving became stuck in Buffalo’s deadly and blinding blizzard that occurred on Christmas Weekend. more»

Looking out one’s window in Buffalo today, you would have no idea that an historic and deadly blizzard that wreaked havoc on Western New York just a week or so ago was ever here at all. The 80 mph winds that whipped up a blinding snowstorm and created drifts of eight feet of more in some places, left hundreds stranded, left another 100,000 without more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-Represented Caregivers at Buffalo Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) were frustrated, so frustrated over a Nurse-to-Patient Ratio of 1-to-20 that they took their complaints directly to management - but this time they did something different, they videotaped their journey as they trekked to more»

(NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK) – Organized Labor doesn’t do it for the accolades - Unions and their Members do it because it’s a way to not only give back to the communities where they live, work and raise their families, but at this time of the year, as a way to provide a Christmas for a number of less fortunate area families and children who more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Lexington Co-Op Workers United have won their Union in a landslide election - 56-to-20, successfully Unionizing both the Elmwood and Hertel locations in Buffalo with the Workers United Rochester Regional Joint Board. The Workers joined the same Union as Starbucks Workers United and Spot Coffee in Buffalo. The Lexington Co-Op Workers more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – A lot can happen in just 12 short months - and that’s entirety true when it comes to the young Workers who’ve taken on the Coffee Giant Starbucks, brewing a single and successful effort to Unionize one store in Buffalo that has percolated to Unionizing 270-plus stores and more than 7,000 Employees across the United more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - United University Professions (UUP), the Nation’s largest Higher Education Union, rallied Tuesday (December 6th) to highlight massive projected operating deficits at the State University of New York’s (SUNY) Buffalo State College and at SUNY Fredonia, which threaten the viability of Public Higher Education and the economic more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians-Communications Workers of America (NABET-CWA) Local 25 has announced its 50 Members employed at WKBW-TV/Channel 7 in Buffalo have reached a tentative, four-year agreement on a new contract that calls for an overall wage increase of 9.5%. The announcement comes on the more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Forty Home Care Workers employed at Schofield Home Health Care have voted to join 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East, making it one of the first licensed Home Health Care Agencies in Buffalo to Unionize in Western New York. The Home Care Workers at Schofield are among a growing number more»

(ALBION, NEW YORK) – New York Attorney General Letitia James HAS filed a lawsuit against Comprehensive at Orleans LLC - doing business as The Villages of Orleans Health and Rehabilitation Center (The Villages), a nursing home in Albion, for years of financial fraud that resulted in significant resident neglect and harm. Following an extensive more»

Retired Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1122 President Jan Borman, long-time friend of retired United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 774 President John Kaczorowski - who served as President of the Buffalo AFL-CIO Council for nine years in the late 90s and into the 2000s, recently called to let me know that John had passed away. As I listened to more»

(ROCHESTER, NEW YORK) - National Labor Leader and Retired 1199 Service Employees International Union Vice-President Bruce Popper has passed away at the age of 71. A native of Buffalo, Bruce began his 45-year career in Organized Labor as a Rank-And-File Member of 1199 SEIU. As a Delegate, Bruce processed grievances and helped to negotiate contracts at more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Thousands of dollars in food and gift certificates that have been donated by Buffalo Teachers Federation (BTF) Members, will be distributed on Tuesday (November 22nd) to more than 200 needy families throughout the Buffalo area through several charitable and non-profit groups in an effort to “make sure those families enjoy a more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has approved the application submitted to the Special Financial Assistance (SFA) Program by the New York State Teamsters Conference Pension and Retirement Plan (NYS Teamsters Conference Plan). The application was submitted and approved under provisions of PBGC’s SFA Interim Final more»

The Holiday Season is supposed to be one of cheer, goodwill towards others and kindness, but for Starbucks Workers it's just another day of withstanding the corporation's attempt to bully a Union effort out of existence. That’s why today - Thursday, November 17th, thousands of Starbucks locations across the country offered their customers a branded more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Workers employed at the Lexington Co-Op have announced they are organizing a Union at both of the Grocer’s Buffalo locations. Lexington Co-Op Workers United had sent a letter to the Co-Op’s Board of Directors announcing the formation of their Organizing Committee and called on management to sign the Fair Election more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - One person was taken in custody following what Buffalo Police now believe were two attempted robberies on Thursday (November 10th) at a residence on Pennsylvania Street and at a nearby Methadone Clinic on Virginia Street in the City of Buffalo. Two Security Guards working at the Clinic with "heroically" stopping that individual, more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – While there are certainly a number of different fundraising events that Organized Labor and its Member Unions hold throughout the year to raise money for a plethora of worthy causes, it would appear the use of a meat raffle might just do the job. “‘It’s so Buffalo,’” jokingly answered Julie Cosenza, more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – It took 12 years before more than 200 extremely low-paid Buffalo Public School Custodians finally got a new contract, but according to the Union that represents those Workers - International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 17, the new deal calls for major wage increases, and even more importantly - no cost for their more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Your On-Line Labor Newspaper is republishing this Labor News Story that it originally published back on October 29th, 2015. In celebrating Halloween 2022, WNYLaborToday.com thought it was important to underscore and recognize - once again - what Actors Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi did to organize their fellow Actors more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, Joe Cantafio has been named New York State United Teachers’ (NYSUT) Regional Staff Director here in Western New York. Cantafio, who is well-known across the area’s Labor Movement, previously served as President of the West Seneca Teachers Association. He is also only a handful of Labor more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Nearly 100 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East-represented Workers at Sodexo in Buffalo have unanimously ratified a new three-year contract that features significant wages increases, a new 30-Year Wage Scale and additional vacation time, as well as a Paid Holiday, Union Officials announced. The more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: On Wednesday (October 19th), United University Professions (UUP) hosted a National Health Roundtable on the Buffalo State College Campus, a member of the State University of New York (SUNY) System. UUP President Frederick Kowal, who was joined by Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and a distinguished panel of experts, told more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – The exhaustion showed in the faces of Cori Gambini and Jim Scordato as they presided over a news conference to discuss specifics of a newly-ratified three-year agreement between the Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1168 and 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Kaleida Health System in Buffalo, more»

(WESTERN NEW YORK) - More than 1,200 Unionized long-term Caregivers employed at a dozen nursing homes across two Western New York Counties whose contracts had expired joined together to win $15 an hour for Service Workers, higher starting rates for new Employees and standard wage scales for experience following months of unrest and Strike action, 1199 more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Nurses, Clinical, Professional, Technical, Service, Dietary and Clerical Staff represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East have voted to ratify a new three-year contract at Kaleida Health, Western New York’s largest hospital more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - In August 2021, Michelle Eisen, a veteran Barista at the Starbucks on Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, was asked by one of her Co-Workers to grab coffee. “(That) is obviously weird because we serve coffee all day,” she said. Eisen agreed to meet with the Co-Worker and wondered whether they wanted advice on how to move up in the more»

(NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK) - 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East and the Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center (NFMMC) have once again collaboratively approved a three-year agreement that covers more than 680 Unionized Health Care Workers, roughly 70% of the Medical Center’s workforce. The new agreement includes more»