(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The National Association of Letter Carriers’ (NLAC) 2019 Heroes of the Year were honored for more than just delivering the mail. The Union-represented Letter Carriers who were recognized on Wednesday (October 30th) by NALC President Fredric Rolando at a special luncheon in Washington, D.C. saved people from car accidents or home more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – The Western New York Council On Occupational Safety and Health (WNYCOSH) celebrated its 40th Anniversary Wednesday (October 30th) during an event held in Buffalo where it honored several locals for their tireless work in fighting toxic exposures and illnesses to Workers and residents alike - including Niagara-Orleans AFL-CIO more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Once again this year, the Buffalo Teachers Federation (BTF) has handed out tens of thousands of orange bookmarks in public school classrooms across the City this week in an effort to make sure schoolchildren have a happy and safe Halloween as they travel through city neighborhoods trick or treating Thursday night. 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 2019, 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»

Bloomberg Editor’s Note: Conor Sen, a Bloomberg Opinion Columnist, is a Portfolio Manager for New River Investments in Atlanta and has been a contributor to The Atlantic and Business Insider. The tight Labor Market in the U.S. is leading to a shift in the balance of power between Labor and capital, giving more leverage to Workers. This manifests more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Nurses rallied in Manhattan on Tuesday (October 22nd) for the New York State Health Care System to establish higher Patient-To-Staff Ratios. The Nurses and Health Care Workers pointed out that studies show adequate staffing decreases patient complications and death - and they want a legislative or regulatory solution. “Not just for more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – The Buffalo Building & Construction Trades Council is supporting a Los Angeles-based company’s Offshore Wind Energy Initiative and plans to meet with the organization’s representatives here in Buffalo in December as the project looks to gain momentum, a representative of the Building Trades told WNYLaborToday.com more»

(DETROIT, MICHIGAN) - the United Auto Workers (UAW) will continue to picket General Motors (GM) Company’s U.S. factories until Workers have approved a new contract, prolonging a costly Nationwide Strike that is already the company’s longest in decades. In a rare step, a Council of Union-Hall Leaders meeting in Detroit voted to extend the more»

(DETROIT, MICHIGAN) - The proposed deal between General Motors and the United Auto Workers (UAW) includes promised investments in U.S. manufacturing that would result in 9,000 jobs retained and created, people familiar with provisions of the proposal said. GM and UAW announced Wednesday (October 16th) they had reached a proposed Tentative Agreement on day more»

(NIAGARA COUNTY, NEW YORK) – As many as 350 Bus Drivers, Monitors and Aides who are employed by Student Transportation of America (STA) in Niagara County have Gone Union, voting for Union Representation with Teamsters Local 449. The STA Employees recently Unionized in the Niagara County Roy-Hart School District, which serves Lockport, Newfane and more»

(TONAWANDA, NEW YORK) – Anton Bassham isn’t a young guy, having worked at two General Motors (GM) Auto Plants in Western New York for a total of 31 years. But that’s not keeping him from walking the line outside GM’s Tonawanda Engine Plant five to six days a week in support of his fellow United Auto Workers (UAW) Brothers and more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1168 Union Representative Denise Abbott (pictured above between Western New York AFL-CIO Area Labor President Richard Lipsitz, on the left, and outgoing Buffalo AFL-CIO President John Mudie, on the right) was sworn in Tuesday (October 8th) evening as the interim President more»

(WILLIAMSVILLE, NEW YORK) - Since abruptly announcing plans to pursue a sale of Blocher Homes to People, Incorporated in July, 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East says Beechwood Corporation management has provided very little information about what comes next for the Staff and residents of the 57-room Assisted Living more»

(LAKEVIEW, NEW YORK) – The Buffalo Building and Construction Trades Council had another successful and annual Western New York Construction Career Days Event last week that saw more than 1,000 High School Students from across the region travel to International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 17’s Training Center where they were more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Robert “Bob” Pyjas has been appointed as Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Western Region President after the retirement of long-time activist Kathy Button, who served in that role since July 2018, the Statewide Union has announced. Pyjas, a Town of Lancaster resident, has been an Employee of Erie County and a more»

(LAKEVIEW, NEW YORK) – While 1,200 High School Juniors and Seniors are slated to visit the 2019 Western New York Western New York Construction Career Days Event over two days later this week at International Union of Operating Engineers’ (IUOE) Local 17’s sprawling 400-acre Training Center just south of Buffalo, Organizers who are seeking more»

(NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK) – An informational picket that was held Friday (September 27th) outside the Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center may lead to eventual Strike by the medical center’s 700 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East-represented Employees if new contract is not reached in the short term, Union more»

(LOCKPORT, NEW YORK) - Niagara County Lawmakers are considering the approval of a local law that would allow them to disqualify the lowest bidder for public contracts - if the respondent is deemed an irresponsible company. The legal language was introduced by the Democratic Minority Caucus after some of its members took issue in May with a contract award more»

(TONAWANDA, NEW YORK) – As the United Auto Workers (UAW) continued its Strike against General Motors (GM), the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Buffalo native Tom Perez came to Buffalo last week to walk the line with the Auto Workers, telling them he stood with them. GM Employees have been on Strike for seven days now, standing more»

(CHICAGO, ILLINOIS) - Anyone driving on Ashland Avenue near Monroe Street in the City of Chicago has likely seen the colorful mural on the side of the United Electrical (UE) Workers union hall. Completed in 1999 by Mexican artist Daniel Manrique, it shows people joining hands in solidarity and celebrates international unity among Workers. Less well-known more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Teacher representatives from Buffalo’s Public Schools are holding a rally today (Wednesday, September 18th) to protest the Superintendent’s and School Board’s refusal to negotiate a new contract. After the late afternoon rally, some Buffalo Teachers Federation (BTF)-represented Teachers will then go into a Board more»

(AUSTIN, TEXAS) - Whole Foods is cutting medical benefits for hundreds of Part-Time Workers, the company has confirmed to Business Insider. The changes will take effect on January 1st and affect just under 2% of Whole Foods' total workforce, a Whole Foods spokesperson told Business Insider. Whole Foods has about 95,000 Employees, so it means about 1,900 more»

(NORTH COLLINS, NEW YORK) – When Jim Lint walked into Bricklayers Local 3’s Buffalo Union Hall back in the Fall of 2017 to ask for a small monetary donation to help fund a five-starred Veterans Tribute that he was working to get built in the Town of North Collins, he never thought the Union and its Leadership would instead make an on-the-spot more»

If you are looking for the best states for Workers, steer clear of Right-To-Work (for less) states, says a new study. The Oxfam America report reveals that the 10 worst states to work in America are the following, which are all Right-To-Work: Louisiana, Tennessee, North Dakota, Idaho, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – In a joint statement, the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) and Erie County Medical Center (ECMCC) have announced the ratification of a new four-year contract that calls for continued quality health care services for patients and fair wages for Nurses. The ratification vote took place at the end of August and more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – They came from all across the area, Public and Private Sector, Building Trades, Health Care Workers, Manufacturing Workers, Teachers - the list went on and on. On Labor Day 2019, Buffalo’s Labor Unions, their Representatives and Membership came together to celebrate and remember the gains achieved by Organized Labor for more»

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Janus v. AFSCME seeks to turn back the clock on almost a half century of progress for Working People. I wish that the decision came as a surprise, but those of us in Teachers’ Unions have been anticipating this radical retrenchment by the Supreme Court on this key Labor issue for years. Its 5-4 ruling, at the time, more»

(SOUTH BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – From local SPoT Coffee Workers’ amazingly short organizing victory to achieving a major contract that covers 7,200 Health Care Workers employed by the Kaleida Health System, there is so much for the Western New York Labor Movement to celebrate on Labor Day when their annual parade takes place in South Buffalo. But more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - In addition to having filed a Declaration of Impasse between the City’s Teachers Union and the Buffalo School District, the Buffalo Teachers Federation (BTF) has filed an Improper Practice Charge with the New York State Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) for the District’s alleged failure to bargain in good faith. more»

(RANSOMVILLE, NEW YORK) – No record set seems to be safe when it comes to the outstanding job the Niagara-Orleans AFL-CIO Central Labor Council does regarding its Labor’s Night at the Races Fundraiser that’s held yearly at Ransomville Speedway. And it shouldn’t be a surprise to all that the Labor Council sets a new fundraising more»

David Koch passed away last week at the age 79. He was one of the richest men in the world and - along with his brother, Charles, used much of his wealth and influence to try to destroy Labor Unions. The Koch Brothers’ tactics were relentless and heartless, to say the least - and millions of working Americans have suffered real financial loss more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – It was two days before the Fourth of July that Workers employed by the SPoT Coffee Chain in Buffalo first went public with their desire to form a Union in their workplace. Now, just a little more than a month and half later - on Tuesday (August 20th), those Workers hugged in celebration after their overwhelming vote to Go Union more»

On November 17th, 2017, right after the Vox Media Editorial Staff started a push to Unionize, I sent out my worst tweets of all time: “I am against #VoxUnion.” I wrote in another: “Vox Media is a generous company (unusually so for digital media), and some people want to take advantage of that.” “I am generally fine with and more»

One of the Nation’s largest Labor Groups embraced Republican Donald Trump at the start of his Presidency, in hopes he would create construction jobs and retreat from proposals that might reduce Workers’ wages, but now the two sides are on the brink of war, endangering a key bloc of Trump’s support in Midwestern Swing States in 2020. At more»

Mickey Ray Williams (pictured above) keeps a Goodyear tire in his Gadsden, Alabama conference room. Made in Mexico and imported to Gadsden, that tire induces fear. It’s an Assurance All-Season tire. Those were developed at Goodyear’s Gadsden factory in 2014. Now some, or possibly all, are built in a brand-new, half-billion-dollar plant in more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: WNYLaborToday.com is sad to report that Russ Quarantello (Pictured above/WNYLaborToday.com Photos) - a Member of IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) Local 237 in Niagara Falls from the early 80s to 2019 and who served in a number of Union positions, including as its Business Manager for 12 years, more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – A majority of SPoT Coffee Workers at four locations in Buffalo have signed Union Cards and petitioned the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to conduct a Union Election, Workers United Union Officials announced today (Friday, August 9th). The NLRB’s Regional Director will set a date and time for the vote. If more»

(ROCHESTER, NEW YORK) – Following a week-long contract review period, Teamsters Local 118 members employed at Wegmans Food Market Distribution Centers in Rochester have voted to ratify a new agreement by an overwhelming 80% margin, the Union announced. Last month, Wegmans and Local 118 came to a tentative agreement that covered nearly 1,000 Workers, more»

New York Times Editor’s Note: Steven Greenhouse, who was the Labor and Workplace Reporter for The New York Times for 19 years, is the author of the forthcoming book: “Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor,” from which this essay is adapted. The United States is the only advanced Industrial Nation that more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Two Labor Unions have newly-affiliated with the Western New York AFL-CIO Area Labor Federation (WNYALF): American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME)-represented Workers employed at Erie 1 BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services) and the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - In response to the company’s Union-Busting Campaign that has included the firings of three Workers involved in the organizing effort, a consumer boycott was called for SPoT Coffee’s Buffalo area locations during a Monday (July 29th) rally that brought together a number of area Unions who boisterously displayed their more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - The message on the sign was clear: Te Vemos - We See You. Led by a number of Buffalo Labor Unions, more than 150 Labor Leaders and Representatives, Community and Immigrant Rights Advocates and Elected Officials gathered in Columbus Park on Buffalo’s West Side late Friday afternoon (July 26th) to decry the Trump more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Throughout this week, 7,200 Union Health Care Workers - represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) 1168, 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East and International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 17 - voted to accept a new three-year contract with Buffalo’s Kaleida more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – The Buffalo Teachers Federation (BTF) is calling a ruling rendered by the Public Employees Relations Board (PERB) regarding an alleged and illegal Strike by more than 16 Teachers employed at the Charles R. Drew Science Magnet School “a callous and wrong determination.” BTF President Phil Rumore is also vowing to more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – The United Steelworkers (USW) have announced changes to its District 4 Staff, which impact Western New York and New York State. Del Vitale (pictured above, on the left) has been named to succeed John Shinn as District 4 Director and Staff Member David Wasiura (pictured above, on the right) has been elevated to the position of more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: This is a breaking Labor News Story. More details will be reported once they are made available to Your On-Line Labor Newspaper. (CHEEKTOWAGA, NEW YORK) - Despite an aggressive company-funded Anti-Union Campaign, Workers employed at the Suburban Buffalo Wendt Corporation - a Cheektowaga-based auto shredding more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – “Pleased” with a new three-year contract that impacts 7,200 Union-represented Kaleida Health System Workers in the Buffalo area, Communications Workers of America (CWA) District One Area Director Deb Hayes tells WNYLaborToday.com Labor Leaders are unanimously recommending their Members ratify the agreement. more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - So, how can a Labor Union engage its Members, and their families, in an event that produces camaraderie and solidarity, while mixing in a bit of Union Education at the same time? Well, Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1122 here in Buffalo, New York has an answer. The Local’s Human Rights and Social Committee has more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Congressman Brian Higgins (Western New York/Pictured Above) announced that H.R. 397, the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act, has passed the House Ways & Means Committee and will now be considered by the full House of Representatives. Also known as the Butch-Lewis Act, H.R. 397 would address the Nation’s more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - After months of negotiations and more than 50 individual bargaining sessions with Kaleida Health System Management, three Unions representing a combined 7,200 Kaleida Workers who are employed across the Buffalo area announced late Tuesday (July 9th) that they had reached a new three-year tentative contract. The Workers are represented more»