(NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK) - U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer has announced that after years of advocacy to secure relief for ailing multi-employer pension plans for Union Workers, Laborers’ Local 91’s Pension Plan covering Construction Workers in Niagara County will receive a $67 million pension fix from the Schumer-led American Rescue Plan. The plan more»

Ryan Quinn at Inside Higher Ed reports that for a month this Spring, the University of Rochester Graduate Labor Union (GLU), a group of Ph.D. Student Workers, staged a Strike. The Workers walked off the job, demanding the University host a private Unionization Election so they could vote and win recognition of the Union - all without having to go through more»

Joined by a number of Elected Officials, representatives of Buffalo Hyatt Workers United held a press conference outside the Downtown Hotel last week to condemn and denounce the firing of a key Union Leader. Luke Sills, who worked at the Hyatt for over two years and was named Employee of the Year, was a key leader of the Union Campaign and was leading the more»

(NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK) – Following five months of contract talks, 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-Represented Workers who are employed at the Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center (NFMMC) and Health Home Services have overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year agreement that features significant wage and pension increases. Union more»

(CHEEKTOWAGA, NEW YORK) - About two dozen 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East-represented Caregivers who are employed at Catholic Health’s St. Joseph’s Campus in the Buffalo Suburb of Cheektowaga have unanimously ratified a new four-year contract that runs until May 31st, 2029. The Union Members more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Nearly 8,000 Hospital Workers - represented by Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1168 and 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East, at Kaleida Health have ratified a new three-year contract with the largest private employer in Western New York. Voting over the past three days at multiple more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Denise Abbott, who has served as President of the Buffalo AFL-CIO Central Labor Council and is Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1168’s Health and Safety Officer, is the new President of the Western New York AFL-CIO Labor Federation (WNYALF) - the first Woman to ever hold that position. Abbott has been more»

(KENMORE, NEW YORK) – More than 100 Residual Service and Clerical Workers employed at Kenmore Mercy Hospital in Suburban Buffalo have voted to Unionize with Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1133. The 113 Health Care Workers hold positions as: Unit Clerks; in the Sterile Processing Department; in Patient Access; as Switchboard Operators; more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Just two hours before a Strike Authorization Vote was set to begin, Unionized Hospital Workers who are employed at Western New York’s largest Private Sector employer reached a tentative, three-year contract agreement. Nearly 8,000 Workers were demanding improvements in benefits and wages that would recruit and retain more more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Workers employed by Dash’s Markets at four locations throughout the Buffalo area have officially announced their intention to Unionize as they begin their fight to attain fair pay and better benefits and working conditions. The Workers, who made their announcement on the Social Network Instagram, are also seeking a voice more»

(RANSOMVILLE, NEW YORK) – The Niagara-Orleans AFL-CIO Central Labor Council’s 2025 Labor’s Night at the Races fundraiser that’s held to support the United Way of Greater Niagara at Ransomville Speedway raised $22,000 - bringing the fundraising total of the 16-year event to $247,000. Labor Representatives said 945 tickets were sold more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Union-represented Health Care Workers at Western New York’s largest employer, Kaleida Health, have agreed to a third contract extension through today (Friday, June 27th) at 11:59 p.m. The third extension of their current third-year contract comes as Workers demand improvements in benefits and wages that would recruit and more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – After a two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic and changes in the Health Plan’s local leadership, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield - the only Buffalo-based Health Insurer with Union Members in its workforce, is resuming its annual Labor Seminar on Tuesday (July 1st), which will be held at its new offices located in more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - New leadership is headed for the Western New York AFL-CIO Area Labor Federation (WNYALF) as President Peter DeJesus, Jr. has stepped down to take a position with the New York State Workers Compensation Board. The choice of WNYALF’s next President - who will guide the nearly 145,000-Member Area Labor Federation, is expected to more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Led by Organized Labor, in concert with nearly three dozen Activist Constituency Groups and the local community, a couple of thousand people gathered in Buffalo’s Niagara Square in front of City Hall on Saturday (June 22nd) to stand up against President Donald Trump’s authoritarian and fascists stands, and recent more»

(NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK) – As Niagara-Orleans AFL-CIO Central Labor Council President Jim Briggs so aptly put it, it is Organized Labor’s “way to continue standing up for the next generation” as the Labor Council recently handed out $1,000 individual scholarship awards to three local students, each coming from a Union Family. At more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 153 Members employed at Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Western New York - the only Buffalo-based Health Insurer with Union Members in its workforce, has overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year contract. The agreement is in effect through May 22nd, 2028. more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above (from left to right): Local 46 Business Agent Jonathan Perna; Business Manager Anthony Valenti, Jr.; and Training Director Tim Ventress show off the Rochester Building Trades Local’s newest training tool - a heat pump trainer that features an inverter compressor and refrigerant. Local 46 has not more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Health Care Workers represented by Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1168 and 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East who are employed at Western New York’s largest employer - Kaleida Health, have agreed to a second contract extension through June 24th. The second extension of more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, John Batson - the Western New York Regional Director for the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), attended the commemoration events marking the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Alabama and marched over the famed Edmund Pettis Bridge that connects Montgomery to Selma, which is steeped in Civil more»

(CASSADAGA, NEW YORK) – Unionized Job Corps Center Instructors represented by the Cassadaga Guardians Of The Hill - a Local of the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), and former students came together Monday (June 9th) to call on Elected Officials - including U.S. Congressman Nick Langworthy, to save the Cassadaga Job Corps Center and the Job more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Tom Tucker, who’s Union Activism started in college and led him to leadership positions with United University Professions (UUP) and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), has received the Western New York AFL-CIO Area Labor Federation’s (WNYALF) Lifetime Achievement Award. Tucker recently more»

(WESTERN NEW YORK) – Hundreds of 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-represented Nursing Home Workers employed at four more area Nursing Homes have ratified three-year contracts over the last week. Workers at the Schofield Residence, Safire Rehabilitations of Northtowns, Williamsville Suburban Care Center and at the Comprehensive more»

(TONAWANDA, NEW YORK) - General Motors has announced an additional $888 million investment in its Tonawanda Propulsion Plant just outside Buffalo to make V-8 engines used in full-size SUVs and trucks. According to The Detroit News, the capital infusion into the Tonawanda Plant will pay for new machinery, equipment, tools and renovations as the facility more»

Emmet Fraizer at The Nation reports: Ricardo Levario spent almost a decade working in Elementary Schools, but by 2023, he’d finally had enough. He quit his job without a backup option and he was a month into the job search when he received a cryptic message from a Linkedin Recruiter looking for Teachers. Levario started at GlobalLogic as one of the more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1168 and 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East-represented Caregivers who work at Western New York’s largest employer, Kaleida Health, have agreed to extend the current contract through June 14th at 11:59 p.m. The Health Care Workers, who are more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above: Beth Pyskaty is the new United Way of Greater Niagara’s (UWGN) Labor Liaison to the Niagara-Orleans AFL-CIO Central Labor Council. The long-time New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) Member and Niagara-Wheatfield High School Teacher is looking to carry on the rich tradition of Organized more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Western New York AFL-CIO Area Labor Federation (WNYALF) President Peter De Jesús, Jr. – whose Regional Labor Organization’s Affiliated Member Unions combine to represent more than 100,000 Workers, has released the following statement on the passage of President Donald Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill in the more»

(WESTERN NEW YORK) – 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East has announced two more contract settlements at Western New York Nursing Homes, just hours before a seven-day Unfair Labor Practices (ULP) was set to start. However, Unionized Caregivers employed at five other major, for-profit, long-term care facilities more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Nursing Home Workers represented by 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East at Safire Care of Northtowns and Williamsville Suburban Care Center have reached three-year tentative contract agreements with their employer, Union Officials announced Friday (May 16th). The two new deals came as Union more»

(LEWISTON, NEW YORK) – Nursing Home Workers represented by 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East who are employed at Lewiston’s Ascension Living/Our Lady of Peace have reached a tentative three-year contract with their St. Louis-based employer, whose representatives traveled from Missouri to bargain the more»

(DUNKIRK, NEW YORK) – Caregivers represented by 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) joined with Chautauqua County Faith and Community Leaders in Dunkirk Monday (May 13th) to call on U.S. Congressman Nick Langworthy to more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Representatives of 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East were joined by several Federal, State, County, City and Locally- Elected Officials on Monday (May 13th) after 2,500 1199 SEIU-represented Caregivers employed at 15 Upstate Western New York Nursing Homes overwhelmingly authorized a more»

Derek Seidman at Truthout reports that over the past several months, a battle has been unfolding at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Buffalo that pits two sides of the City against each other: Its love affair with developers, who City Leaders have turned to as post-industrial saviors, and its identity as a Union Town, filling up with Non-Union jobs in low-wage more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, a collage of photos taken earlier this week at the Buffalo AFL-CIO Central Labor Council/Western New York AFL-CIO Area Labor Federation’s 2025 Workers Memorial Ceremony that was held at Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park, just south of Buffalo. Unionists, Elected Officials and Friends of Labor more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: This Saturday (May 10th) National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 3 Members will be participating in the annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive and will be picking up non-perishable food placed near mailboxes across Western New York. Pictured above, NALC Branch 3 Buffalo/Western New York Food Drive Co-Chairman more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: The 34th Annual Niagara-Orleans AFL-CIO Central Labor Council’s Workers’ Memorial Ceremony was held over the weekend at Reservoir Park in the Niagara County Town of Lewiston, where dozens of Unionists, Elected Officials and Friends of Labor gathered to honor those who’ve gone to work in the morning - more»

(NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK) – 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-represented Nursing Home Workers employed at the Schoellkopf Health Center in Niagara Falls have overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year contract today in a near unanimous vote, averting a planned informational picket. Both Union Members and management came to a tentative more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 2104’s Trevor Ganshaw and United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 686’s Nicole Printup were recently recognized and publicly honored during the United Way of Greater Niagara’s Annual Awards Breakfast for their and their Unions’ more»

Haley Daugherty at The Trib Live in Tarentum, Pennsylvania reports the United Steelworkers (USW) and ATI have reached a tentative contract agreement, which the Union texted to its Membership Tuesday (April 15th) evening. ATI confirmed it was a six-year agreement. The former contract, which the USW and ATI continued to operate under, had expired on February more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured above, United Steelworkers (USW) Local 135 President Josh Hall (on the left) and USW District 4 Staff Representative Jim Briggs stand outside the Union Hall - located down the road from the Sumitomo Tire Plant in Tonawanda, just outside Buffalo. The two USW Officials sat down with WNYLaborToday.com to discuss more»

(MOUNT MORRIS, NEW YORK) – As we turn the page to Spring, the Winter is nothing but a memory as New Yorkers welcome the warm change in weather for several months to come. But at American Rock Salt (ARS) in Livingston County where the United Steelworkers (USW) represent 250 Workers at the largest Rock Salt Mine in the country, the coming months will more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – It seems these days that the only time you hear about Registered Nurses in the news is when they are standing up for themselves during a contract fight at a local hospital or battling for measures that make their workplaces safer so they can take care of the needs of the patients that they are also standing up for. That’s more»

(WESTERN NEW YORK) – Hundreds of Union-represented Nursing Home Workers employed at six long-term care facilities in Erie and Niagara Counties are picketing today (Monday, April 7th) and will again on Tuesday (April 8th) over unsafe staffing levels and a lack of progress in contract talks, 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) more»

(NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK) – After management at Niagara Reworld - a Niagara Falls waste treatment company, reneged on their bonuses, Workers employed there decided it was time to Unionize. And they have - overcoming management’s individual Captive Audience Meetings that employed a Union-Busting mentality - and a snafu by a National Labor more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Area Union Leaders, Representatives, Elected Officials and Friends of Labor gathered at United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 774’s Headquarters just outside Tonawanda’s General Motors Powertrain Plant over the weekend to attend the Western New York AFL-CIO Area Labor Federation’s (WNYALF) annual meeting. more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Pictured Above, National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 3 Executive Vice President Michael Levering (on the left) is joined by American Postal Workers (APWU) Buffalo President Frank Resetarits (in the middle) and NALC Branch 3 President David Grosskopf, Junior (on the right) during the APWU’s public more»

Justice Marbury at The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reports Workers employed at the Abundance Co-op, a community-owned grocery store located in Rochester’s South Wedge Neighborhood, have announced they are Unionizing - marking the first Union effort in the co-op’s history. Workers filed for a Union Election on March 11th. Bailey Stevens, a more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: United University Professions (UUP), the Nation’s largest Higher Education Union, held a news conference in Buffalo’s Medical Corridor this week as a means to further educate the general public to the Trump Administration’s decision to freeze Federal Research Grants, which several speakers said will more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Organized Labor came out in force over the weekend and donated more than $73,000 to the annual Variety Club Telethon, which raised more than $1 million that directly supports Buffalo’s Oishei Children's Hospital and other Children's charities. Variety Club President Tony Vaccaro, who serves as a Business Agent at Teamsters more»