Rowan Zeoli at Rascal reports that on the first day of Labor Day weekend (Saturday, August 31st) in the U.S. - Workers at all three Hex&Co locations held a walk out and picket in response to management’s alleged Union Busting activities. “Ownership has consistently retaliated against Workers for exercising their rights,” Tabletop more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - To celebrate the New York City Labor Day Parade, Governor Kathy Hochul signed eight pieces of legislation aimed at protecting New York State’s Workforce, as well as improving their ability to grow and prosper in New York State. “Coming from a Union Family, I know how critical Organized Labor is to building a strong Middle more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - More than 150 community allies and Front Line Residents and Fellows at Montefiore Medical Center, represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR/SEIU), rallied recently to demand a first contract. Frustrated by continued delays, residents asked Hospital leadership to seriously come to the negotiating table and finalize a fair more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) Members at The Dodo and Thrillist engaged in a one-day Strike earlier this week after demanding raises, promotions and fair and equal status as Employees of Vox Media. Management at the popular sites under the Vox Media umbrella has thus far refused to voluntarily recognize Members at Thrillist more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Amazon, Panda Express, Chipotle, Uber and Lyft are among businesses with the worst record of Labor Law violations in New York City, according to an Employer Wall of Shame unveiled by City Comptroller Brad Lander’s Office. The dashboard, which includes data from 2020 through 2023, tracks Private Sector businesses that have been more»

(SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YROK) – Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)-represented Village of Southampton Members recently held a rally in front of Village Hall to ask that they be treated with the dignity and respect they deserve. The hard work of these CSEA Members - who keep the village in pristine condition, is why Southampton has become one of the more»

As we celebrate another well-deserved Labor Day Weekend, I want to take the opportunity to extend our gratitude to all of you for your activism and solidarity throughout the year. Labor Day is a testament to the strength and unity of our Labor Movement and it’s through all of our collective efforts that we continue to make strides toward a fairer and more»

When it comes to achieving raises and improving working conditions in the classroom, Teacher Strikes get a passing grade, a recent study found. Researchers analyzed 772 Teacher Strikes between 2007 and 2023 and found Strikes increased Teachers’ compensation by 8%, or $10,000, five years after the labor action, and that Student-Teacher ratios declined more»

National Audubon Society Workers with The Bird Union have announced a three-day Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike to start on Tuesday, September 10th in response to the non-profit’s continued violation of Workers’ Rights under Federal Labor Laws. The Strike comes as Members of The Bird Union, represented by Communications Workers of America more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Dozens of Contracted Cleaners and 32BJ Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Union Members recently rallied outside Con Edison’s Union Square Headquarters to demand the company nix ties with Nelson Services Systems, a contractor that workers say pays sub-par wages. Nelson employs all 55 of the Workers who rallied. The more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Unionized Editorial Workers employed at LexisNexis-owned Law360 have put management on notice that they will walk off the job on an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike in September unless there’s real progress in rectifying the harm caused by the company’s unlawful tactics and at the bargaining table. Law360 Union - which is more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Hotel Workers’ Union UNITE HERE has published a guide of travel tips to help hotel guests plan for possible Strikes across the United States. Thousands of Hotel Workers in nine cities have now authorized Strikes at Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott and Omni hotels, but hotels rarely notify guests of a Strike and travelers sometimes learn of a more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – New York City Labor Officials and the Union representing the City’s roughly 600 Probation Officers (Pos) and their Supervisors have arrived at a tentative contract agreement that both sides hope will help replenish the titles' ranks. If approved by the Rank-and-File, the five-and-a-half-year deal, retroactive to November 2020, more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a complaint against the National Audubon Society for violating Federal Labor Laws and unlawfully discriminating against its own Employees for Union Membership. The complaint consolidates 11 instances when Audubon broke the law and violated the rights of its Union Workforce, more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – The New York City District Council of Carpenters recently hosted its ninth annual charity golf tournament and raised more than $305,000 for Jared Allen’s Homes for Wounded Warriors (JAH4WW) - funds that will go to build and remodel universally accessible homes for injured or differently-abled U.S. Veterans. New York City Union more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 259 Members and supporters gathered to rally in the Bronx last week, standing with Worker Alex Patterson, who was wrongfully terminated from his job at Construction Materials Fabricator Baco Enterprises for organizing his Co-Workers to form a Union. “I was illegally and immorally fired for more»

Sean Teehan at Syracuse.com reports that after over a year of work, the New York State Cannabis Workforce Initiative (CWI) has launched a Jobs Board to help employers in the State’s Legal Weed Industry staff up and assist job seekers. CWI launched the beta version of its jobs board - CannaJobsLink, in mid-July and will be optimizing it over the next more»

Cheryl Winokur Munk at CNBC reports Uber, Lyft, Grubhub and DoorDash scored a major victory in a recent ruling from California's top State Court upholding Proposition 22 and the classification of Drivers as Independent Contractors rather than Employees. Gig Economy companies, as well as Drivers who prefer contractor status, think they now have nationwide more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) – Several Union Laborers were arrested during a rally held by Locals 78 and 79 late last week that called attention to the use of a notorious demolition firm used by a luxury residential developer. The Chief Leader reported hundreds of Union Laborers held a boisterous afternoon rally on Thursday (August 1st) in the Flatiron more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Members of The Bronx Defenders Union-United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2325 (BxD Union) have voted to ratify a historic two-year contract with their Public Defender Non-Profit employer - one month and a day after Workers voted for Strike Authorization. There were 92% of BxD Union Members who participated in the ratification vote, with a more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1180-represented Bird Union Members have been negotiating with Audubon for more than two years for their first Union contract, while Audubon has dragged their feet and made attempts to weaken the Union, including denying discretionary raises to Bird Union Members that were given to other more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Actors’ Equity Association, the National Union representing more than 51,000 Professional Actors and Stage Managers working in live theatre, is applauding the reintroduction of the bipartisan Performing Artist Tax Parity Act (PATPA), introduced by Senators Mark Warner (Democrat-Virginia) and Thom Tillis (Republican-North Carolina). more»

Janet Shamlian and Samantha Wender at CBS News look at the growing support for Unions among young Workers. Twenty percent of Workers belonged to a Union back in 1983, but by 2020, that number had fallen by half, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics - but attitudes now seem to be changing. Current support for Organized Labor is at a high not seen more»

(LONG ISLAND CITY) – Unionized New York City School Architects, Engineers and Technical Professionals rallied with community leaders in front of School Construction Authority (SCA) Headquarters in Long Island City late last week in an attempt to bring SCA back to the bargaining table as wages and benefits for 300-plus Workers hang in the balance. SCA more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - For a few weeks earlier this year, Maria Reyes - a recent arrival from Ecuador, installed, repaired and finished drywall at a 23-story residential project under construction on West 96th Street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Reyes, 28, worked 56-hour weeks in her first three weeks on the job before dropping to 40 hours for the next more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - The Bronx Defenders Union Collective Bargaining Committee (BxD CBC) and Bronx Defenders management have reached a tentative contract agreement, averting a planned Strike that had been scheduled to start on Monday (July 22nd). Among other provisions, the Union secured 8%-to-10% salary increases, a two-year contract term with the right to more»

TAPInto reports Jersey City and Hudson County, New Jersey Officials joined Leaders from the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) in the shadow of Kushner Companies’ One Journal Square project earlier this week to call for immediate action in reforming what they called an under-regulated Construction Industry in Jersey City and more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - American Federation of Musicians (AFM) President International President Tino Gagliardi has released the following statement after the Union’s application for Special Financial Assistance through the American Rescue Plan Act was officially approved: I am happy to announce a significant victory for all of us: The successful more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Journalists represented by The NewsGuild of New York - an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) - at Lifehacker, Mashable and PCMag are prepared to walk out during Amazon’s July Prime Day event unless Parent Company Ziff Davis agrees to a fair contract. Members of the Ziff Davis Creators’ Guild produce more more»

LaborNotes reports 600 Amazon Workers employed at five warehouses around New York City have signed a petition demanding starting wages of $25 an hour, time-and-a-half pay for Prime Day (on July 16th and 17th), Seasonal Workers converted to permanent status within 30 days of employment, and Juneteenth as a paid holiday. The June 19th holiday celebrates the more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Unionized Building Cleaners in Midtown on Wednesday (June 10th) exchanged their brooms and bleach for picket signs as they went on Strike to protest wage cuts, health insurance cancellations and job losses. Dozens of Workers and supporters gathered in front of an office building at 529 Fifth Avene to support six Workers - five more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - CGI Federal Workers employed in New York City have voted overwhelmingly to join the International Association of Machinists (IAM), becoming the first Union-represented CGI Facility in the U.S. as CGI Employees made a bold historical decision to change the culture within the company. The Workers are employed under The Service Contract Act more»

Suhauna Hussain at The Los Angeles Times reports on Jane McAlevey - the prominent Labor Organizer, Author and Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley Labor Center, who has passed of multiple myeloma cancer. McAlevey’s advice to Unions around the world was as simple as it was transformative: Workers should lead the way. more»

(THE BRONX, NEW YORK) - One day after the contract between The Bronx Defenders (BxD) and its wall-to-wall Union, The Bronx Defenders Union-United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2325 (BxD Union), expired, BxD Union’s Bargaining Committee voted to authorize an unlimited Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike beginning the week of July 22nd. The decision comes more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - Governor Kathy Hochul has announced that in the two years since she announced a major crackdown on wage theft, the New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) has investigated and recovered more than $63 million in stolen wages for nearly 65,000 Workers across New York State. As part of the announcement, the Governor also celebrated more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Hundreds of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 32BJ-represented Cleaners and Security Officers recently took to the streets in New York City in front of a Diamond District commercial building where four Security Officers were fired and six Cleaners had their wages and benefits suddenly slashed. After a new building owner Fifth more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Teachers and Staff employed at the New York Film Academy have voted 149-to-3 to Unionize with the United Auto Workers (UAW), a resounding 98% victory that makes them the latest Higher Education Institution to Unionize in New York City. The new, wall-to-wall Unit will include Full-Time Faculty, Part-Time Faculty, Support Staff, Technical more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Among the various retail and service workplaces where Employees have formed Unions since 2021, Blank Street Coffee - the private equity-backed coffee chain that first opened in Brooklyn in 2020, is one of the only ones where Workers have secured a Union contract. Workers at more than a dozen Blank Street locations in Brooklyn and Lower more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Utility Workers Union Of America (UWUA) Local 1-2 has tentatively agreed to the terms of a new four-year contract agreement with Con Edison, averting a Strike. The Union released the following statement: We are pleased to announce that after extensive negotiations, UWUA Local 1-2 has tentatively agreed to the terms of a new four-year more»

Richard Khavkine at The Chief Leader reports the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) has withdrawn its support for Mayor Eric Adams’ effort to switch Municipal Retirees to a cost-saving private health plan, dealing it and the administration a significant setback. UFT Representatives say City Officials have been unwilling to address the Union's more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Actors’ Equity Association, the Labor Union representing more than 51,000 Professional Actors and Stage Managers in live theatre, has followed through on its notice that it will cease issuing contracts for work on the Development Agreement, effective immediately. Equity Negotiating Team Chair Stephen Bogardus said: “We never more»

Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees (IAPE) Local 1096 of The NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America (TNG-CWA) have reached a tentative contract agreement with Dow Jones on a new four-year agreement. The IAPE is composed of 1,400 Journalists, Technology Staff, Sales Professionals and Administrative, Production and Support Staffers more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - A Union representing Transit Workers has approved a new amendment to their constitution that would bar the Union from bargaining away Retirees’ traditional Medicare coverage. Members of the Transit Supervisors Organization/Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 106 have voted to approve revisions to the Union’s Constitution and more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - An overwhelming majority of Staff employed at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City have announced their intent to form a Union with United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2325. "We share this news the same day that Vera Institute of Justice management laid off 16 Employees," Organizers said on their X (Twitter) account. "We condemn the more»

BroadwayWorld.com reports 17 Ushers at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust venue have Unionized with International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 306. The National Labor Relations Board Election showed more than 90% of the Workers voted to join IATSE. National Sawdust is a Williamsburg, Brooklyn based non-profit cultural institution more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) Nurses recently held an informational picket outside of Mount Sinai’s New York Eye and Ear Infirmary in lower Manhattan to call on Mount Sinai to settle a fair contract with safe staffing, pay parity and a plan to keep the facility open for care. Nurses were joined by elected leaders more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - The Employees of Harper's Magazine have announced they are forming a Union with United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2110. In a statement, Workers said they believe Organized Labor is a necessary next step for the 174-year-old publication - the oldest general-interest monthly in the country - and in that spirit have presented management with a more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Management at Lemonada Media, the award-winning Podcast Network, has voluntarily recognized the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) as the Collective Bargaining Representatives of the Staff’s Producers and engineers. A card-check conducted by an independent third-party confirmed a majority of the Bargaining Unit signed cards in more»

Katie Houlis at CBS News reports the Committee of Interns and Residents Service Employees International (CIR-SEIU) Union has reached a tentative deal with New York City to provide better pay for 2,300 Essential Workers. The 5.5-year contract agreement covers those Medical Interns and Residents employed at NYC Health+Hospitals. Wage increases in the more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Nurses represented by the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai are calling on the Health Care System to settle a contract that provides them with pay equal to what Nurses earn at other Sinai Facilities - and to keep the infirmary open. Last Fall, Mount Sinai officials announced more»