(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Unionized Workers at the Elmwood Avenue Starbucks Store in Buffalo went on an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike today (Thursday, October 6th) to protest the Coffee Chain’s retaliatory discipline spree and management’s inconsistent and discriminatory enforcement of policies. Since the weekend, five Workers have been more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above in the collage - More than 500 high school students took part in the first day of Western New York Construction Career Days on Wednesday (October 5th) - a hands-on opportunity to consider a future career in the Unionized Building Trades. Students took advantage of a number of opportunities, from more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1168 President Cori Gambini and Jim Scordato, 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East’s Vice President for WNY Hospitals, hold a news conference on Monday (October 4th) just hours after putting the final touches on a more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1168 and 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East have reached a tentative agreement with Kaleida Health for a new three-year collective bargaining agreement that will cover more than 6,300 Health Care Workers employed at Buffalo General Medical more»

(LAKEVIEW, NEW YORK) – After a two-year break due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, more than 1,100 high school students from 34 schools across the region are expected to attend the Western New York Construction Career Days Event, which will be held on Wednesday, October 5th and Thursday, October 6th at the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – U.S. Congressman Brian Higgins (NY-26) has announced a Federal Grant totaling $127,454 for the Western New York Council on Occupational Safety and Health (WNYCOSH). Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the grant is dedicated to Workplace Safety Measures. more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, Members of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) turn their backs to display a message the Union is sending to D’Youville University Administrators as they attempt to bargain a new contract: one faculty united for ALL students. The Members strike a pose outside one of the more»

(NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK) – What a way to kick off the annual United Way of Greater Niagara’s (UWGN) 2022 Fundraising Campaign - with a big round of thanks to Labor. The UWGN’s breakfast awards event got things underway on Friday (September 23rd) morning at the Niagara Falls Riverside Resort where the Niagara-Orleans AFL-CIO Central Labor more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: In the WNYLaborToday.com photo collage above, more than 300 Buffalo Teachers Federation (BTF)-represented Buffalo Public School Teachers picketed before the Buffalo School Board’s meeting that was held on Wednesday (September 21st) at Buffalo’s School for the Performing Arts. Afterwards, BTF President Phil more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 3 President David Grosskopf, Jr. and Judy Kersten - Branch 3 Insurance Representative and U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP) Expert, hold up a 35-year Member’s pin that will be presented to more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: To watch Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1168 and 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East’s news conference that was held late Thursday (September 15th), Go To: https://www.facebook.com/1199UpstateNY/videos/757046662259134 and more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Nearly 350 Nursing Home Workers employed at four Western New York area for-profit facilities have overwhelmingly ratified new multi-year contracts, while Union Workers employed at two other area facilities have authorized five-day strikes in their continued fight for a fair contract, 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Buffalo Teachers Federation (BTF)-represented Public School Teachers participated in a city-wide picket held early Friday (September 9th) over the lack of a new contract. (Photos Courtesy of the BTF’s Melissa Kenney) (BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Buffalo Teachers Federation (BTF)-represented Educators more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – After Starbucks fired more than 10 area Union Leaders in alleged retaliation for their Union Organizing efforts, Starbucks Workers joined with their Labor and community allies on Tuesday (September 6th) to picket the National Coffee Chain’s 20 stores across the region in order to publicly denounce Starbucks’ more»

(LEWISTON, NEW YORK) - Three separate Bargaining Units represented by 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new four-year agreement with Mount St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston, Union Officials announced. The more than 350 Union-represented Health Care Workers at the more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - A string of annual warm and sunny Labor Days was broken Monday (September 5th), but that didn’t dampen the spirits of hundreds of area Unionists who made the best of the situation after heavy rain forced the cancellation of the 2022 Buffalo Labor Day Parade in South Buffalo. Instead, area Unions, their Leadership and Members more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Organized Labor in Western New York banded together over the weekend, just a couple of days before its annual Labor Day Parade, to give back to the Jefferson Avenue Community on Buffalo’s East Side, where on May 14th 10 people were murdered and three others wounded at a Tops Supermarket by a white supremacist. A more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - More than 600 Nursing Home Workers employed at four Buffalo area for-profit facilities have overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year contract, while Unionized Caregivers employed at five other facilities have overwhelmingly voted to authorize five-day strikes in the fight for a fair contract. The Unionized Caregivers are part of a more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, Highmark/Blue Cross Blue Shield of Western New York Representatives get ready to march in the annual Buffalo AFL-CIO Central Labor Council’s Labor Day Parade that was held in South Buffalo last year. Buffalo Labor Council President Denise Abbott recently heaped high praise on the more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above from left to right, Lorraine Baker, Latoya Harris, Carl Sepulveda and Rose Marie Wysocki - all United Food & Commercial Workers Union-represented Tops Supermarket Employees were named as this year’s Grand Marshals of the Buffalo AFL-CIO Central Labor Council’s Labor Day Parade, which will more»

(ACROSS THE BUFFALO AREA) - Wednesday (August 24th) was a busy Labor Day in the Buffalo area with three actions occurring within hours of each other: Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1168 rallied in the morning in support of recently-Unionized Veterinary Workers in Orchard Park; A Strike Authorization Vote announcement was made in early more»

(JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK) – International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 17 Business Manager Gary Swain has succeeded International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 106 Business Manager David Wilkinson as President of the Jamestown AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, and in the process offered him high praise, saying he’s more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: More than 2,000 Unionized Caregivers and Hospital Workers represented by 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) turned out in force late last week to participate in an informational picket that was held outside the Buffalo General Medical Center and Oishei more»

(ORCHARD PARK, NEW YORK) - On Saturday (August 20th), Starbucks workers from across Buffalo will join together for a demonstration and picket outside of the Orchard Park home of the Buffalo Bills – just before the Bills take on the Denver Broncos in an NFL Pre-season game. The Workers will be targeting Mellody Hobson - Chair of Starbucks’ Board more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – A variety of Workers employed at the largest Health Care Provider in Western New York - who are represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East, have delivered a 10-day notice to Kaleida Health that on August 18th an informational more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - On Friday (August 6th), two managers at Starbucks’ Tonawanda store fired Sam Amato, a well-respected, 13-year Employee, Starbucks Workers United Union said. Amato becomes the ninth Union Leader in the Buffalo area to be fired for their organizing activity, said Union Representatives, who have filed an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – In what’s become a familiar bone of contention in the health care field, Registered Nurses (RNs) employed at the Buffalo Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) on Tuesday (August 2nd) protested Veterans Administration (VA) management’s delays in supporting RNs who are committed to providing the country’s more»

(ORCHARD PARK, NEW YORK) - In a strong show of solidarity, 140 Veterinary Health Care Workers at the Orchard Park Veterinary Medical Center have voted to Unionize with Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1168. The group of Workers - including Vet Techs, Vet Assistants, Laboratory Assistants, Pharmacy Assistants & Technicians, Accounting more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Kaleida Health Care Workers represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East announced late Friday (July 29th) that they will not be extending their contract past the Sunday, July 31st deadline - following two previous extensions. Citing the more»

(AMHERST, NEW YORK) - Starbucks Workers employed at the Transit Commons Store in the Buffalo Suburb of Amherst went out on Strike over the weekend - beginning on Saturday (July 23rd), in response to increasing amounts of alleged bullying, harassment, hours cuts and threats from numerous corporate figures, including Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, to withhold more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: The New York Foundation For Fair Contracting (NYFFC) is dedicated to recovering stolen wages and holding cheating contractors accountable. Any tips, concerns or questions are greatly appreciated and can be sent to NYFFC Director Matt Kent at 716-261-7071 or via e-mail at mkent@nyfaircontracting.org. Ask almost more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – While it hasn’t been formally verified, one just might be hard-pressed to find a President of a major Health Care Provider across the entire United States that serves a vast number of Union-represented Workers who has such a unique perspective of actually being a Union Member in their life - and twice for that matter. But more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, new Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1133 President Carrie Dilbert strikes a pose outside her Union’s Elk Street Headquarters in Buffalo. Speaking with WNYLaborToday.com, Dilbert - who said she learned the lessons of the Labor Movement while growing up in a Union Family, credited her more»

(TROY, NEW YORK) – Paul Cole, who serves as the Executive Director of the American Labor Studies Center (ALSC) and is former Vice President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus of the New York State AFL-CIO, is always keeping himself busy - from championing the need for Labor History to be taught in our schools more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above and throughout this Labor News Report, 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East-represented Caregivers, who are employed at the Autumn View Health Care Facility in Hamburg, conduct a one-day Strike to call attention to the facility’s understaffing problems and low more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 3 Member Dwayne Jensen and his emotional support dog, Beau, deliver mail on one of his routes in the Cattaraugus County City of Olean. With the help of his Union, Jensen - a U.S. Army Gulf War Veteran who deals with PSTD (Post Traumatic Stress more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - On Monday (July 11th), the Federal Government will begin prosecuting Starbucks for more than 200 alleged violations of Federal Labor Law committed in Buffalo and Western New York as part of the company’s Anti-Union efforts since August 2021. After a six-month investigation, Region 3 of the NLRB issued a sweeping complaint more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has filed five Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), claiming the for-profit Nursing Home Operator McGuire Group violated Federal Labor Laws. 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the largest Health Care Workers Union in America, more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – All you have to do is read the ad the Buffalo Teachers Federation is running to see how far behind Public School Teachers are when it comes to pay and how long it takes them to reach their maximum salary, as well as how far behind those Educators are when it comes to comparing salaries with Teachers employed in Suburban School more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1168 and 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East, two Unions that are negotiating a new contract covering a combined 8,000 Employees of the Kaleida Health System in Buffalo, have agreed to a second contract extension. However, Union Representatives said more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - More than 1,200 Long-Term Caregivers at 12 for-profit nursing homes across Western New York whose Union contracts all expired will hold one-day strikes in demand for fair wages. This month, 98.6% of the Workers who are employed in the 12 facilities, who are represented by 1199 Service Employees International United (SEIU) Healthcare more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured below, Mary Nowicki (on the left) and Maria VanCuren (on the right) will be voting in a Union Election to be held in mid-July that will impact a group of 130 Veterinary Technicians and Assistants and Clerical Workers employed at the Orchard Park Veterinary Medical Center, located just outside Buffalo. The more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East-represented Workers employed at BryLin Hospital in Buffalo - an in-patient facility that provides treatment for mental health and substance abuse issues for adolescents and adults, have ratified a new three-year contract that includes wage increases more»

Buffalo’s Michigan Street Baptist Church was a sanctuary for fugitive slaves as they made their way to Canada - and freedom - on the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman, herself enslaved, became known as the Conductor of the Underground Railroad for leading fugitives from the church - built by African Americans in 1845 - across a suspension bridge more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, the Executive Board of the Niagara-Orleans AFL-CIO Central Labor Council poses with the 2022 recipients of the Council’s annual Harry S. Jordan Scholarships. Three chosen graduating high school seniors, whose parents work in Union-represented jobs, received their awards earlier this month inside more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Region 3-Buffalo Regional Director Linda M. Leslie has petitioned in United States District Court for injunctive relief for seven former Starbucks Employees in Buffalo who were unlawfully fired for exercising their right to form a Union. Section 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured below, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1342 President Jeff Richardson (on the right), Financial Secretary/Treasurer Ron Giza (in the middle) and Vice President Kevin Kline (on the left) sat down with WNYLaborToday.com to discuss a recently-negotiated and ratified contract with the Niagara Frontier more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – The Erie Unit of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Local 815 - which represents nearly 1,400 Members who are employed in a variety of positions at the Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) in Buffalo, have overwhelmingly ratified a new five-year contract that features 16% in raises over the life of the agreement, as well as more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-represented Caregivers held informational pickets today (Thursday, June 16th) at four individual Buffalo area nursing homes to bring attention to a lack of fair wages and poor staffing levels. “It’s not about me, it’s about the residents, it’s about the dignity more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1168 and 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East on Tuesday (June 14th) released a new joint survey of Nurses, Therapists, Technologists, Clerical Staff and other Professional and Service Workers employed at Buffalo’s Kaleida Health, which more»