(NEW YORK CITY) - A group of Union-represented Service Workers employed at a Financial District condo walked off the job on Wednesday (February 28th) on a short-term Strike after the building owner reduced the size of the Staff in the Bargaining Unit to the point where the understaffing allegedly hurt their ability to take meal breaks. The decreases in more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Six Crew Members covering carpentry, electric, props, audio, wardrobe, hair and makeup for the off-Broadway musical Titanique are set to join The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) after voting unanimously in favor of Unionization in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Election held earlier this month. This more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - The New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) has released its 2024 Construction Fatality Report: “Deadly Skyline: An Annual Report on Construction Fatalities in New York State.” The report analyzed data from 2022, the most recent data year available, and found an increase in Construction Worker Death more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Barnes & Noble Workers employed at the West 82nd Street Store in New York City have filed for their Union Election with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), seeking representation with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). Workers at the store have concerns over job security, a lack of structure when it more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - The National Council of Actors’ Equity Association, the Labor Union representing more than 51,000 Professional Actors and Stage Managers in live theatre, has voted unanimously to authorize a Strike against The Broadway League for work on the Development Agreement. This step does not begin a Strike, Actors’ Equity said, but more»

Union Members got out the vote in Queens to elect Labor’s Candidate Tom Suozzi in a special Congressional Election. New York City Union Members made more than 50,000 calls and knocked on nearly 10,000 doors in Queens alone, in a Member-to-Member Campaign that saw action by 86 different New York City AFL-CIO Central Labor Council Local Union more»

Claudia Irizarry Aponte at The City reports that according to a newly-released report, 24 Construction Workers died on the job in New York City in 2022 - up from 20 the previous year. The 10th annual analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data by the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, a Worker Safety Watchdog Group, makes more»

Kirstyn Brendlen at The Brooklyn Paper reports more than 100 Workers - including full and part-time Waitstaff, Bartenders, Line Staff and Servers, who are employed at Brooklyn’s Nitehawk Cinema are Unionizing. The Workers are said to be concerned about unfair labor practices, health and safety and harassment. The Employees plan to Unionize with more»

(LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK) - The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) has launched an advertising campaign that focuses on Northwell’s high executive pay, while its Health Care Workers employed at Peconic are some of the lowest paid on Long Island. A new public website reveals “Northwell Health CEO Michael Dowling made $7.7 million dollars more»

Duncan Freeman at The Chief Leader reports the Union representing City Council Staff is closing in on a tentative agreement with Council management that would enshrine just-cause protections, create a standardized grievance procedure, provide Staff with some overtime pay and raise Council Staffers’ wages by more than 16% over the course of a 5.5-year more»

Crystal Lewis at The Chief Leader reports 10,000 New York City Managers will receive long-sought salary increases, including retro-active pay bumps, a $3,000 bonus, new Paid Family Leave and expanded Paid Parental Leave Benefits. A memo to municipal agencies said City Managers, who are not Unionized, will receive three retro-active 3% raises, another 3% more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) Members employed at the Onion, Incorporated have reached a tentative agreement with G/O Media on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The Onion Union, the 36-member Bargaining Unit representing the Creative Staff at The Onion, The A.V. Club, Deadspin, and The Takeout, made important gains in more»

Crystal Lewis at The Chief Leader reports nearly 2,300 New York City Health + Hospitals Residents are seeking a contract that will provide them with salaries comparable to those earned by Physicians at Safety Net Hospitals in the Private Sector. The public hospital system’s residents, represented by Service Employees International Union's Committee more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - The New York City Comptroller’s Bureau of Labor Law has filed a lawsuit against BLDG 44 Developers LLC (BLDG 44), a leading residential developer, for violating the Minimum Average Hourly Wage that should have been paid to its Construction Workers pursuant to New York State’s 421-a. The lawsuit, filed at the New York City more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) – United University Professions (UUP) is responding swiftly and sharply to the shocking news that the State University of New York’s (SUNY) so-called “transformation” of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Hospital is in reality a plan to shut down the 168-year-old hospital. UUP President Fred Kowal said more»

Katie Kilkenny at The Hollywood Reporter reports on Union Members who work at Condé Nast brands - including Vanity Fair, Vogue and GQ, who walked off the job earlier this week to protest negotiations conduct that they claim violates Labor Law. More than 400 Workers employed by those publicans struck for 24 hours while holding a rally in front of the more»

Duncan Freeman at The Chief Leader reports New York Daily News Journalists struck for 24 hours on Thursday (January 25th) in protest of “chronic cuts” at the paper by its owner, Alden Global Capital - the New York-based hedge fund that owns around 200 publications across the country. The Daily News Editorial Staff is affiliated with The more»

Bill Wilson at The Supermarket News reports the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) wants answers after a Trader Joe’s in New York City’s Union Square closed a wine shop allegedly because of Unionization efforts by Employees. Workers at the store filed an Unfair Labor Practice Charge that outlines several incidents that happened in July and more»

Sharon Knolle at The Wrap Via MSN.com reports an overwhelming majority of Writers at The Onion are prepared to go on Strike with parent company G/O Media when their current contract expires on January 31st if their requests for better pay and protections against Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated content are not met. The Writers Guild of America East more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2325 has announced a super-majority of Staff from the New York-based Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has declared their intent to Unionize. AALDEF was the first non-profit on the East Coast to address Civil Rights issues impacting Asian Americans locally and nationwide. more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) – Workers employed at the She Wolf Bakery in Brooklyn have filed for their Union Election with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), seeking representation with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). The filing came just after a delegation of Workers at the Bakery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn marched on their more»

Crystal Lewis at The Chief Leader reports the City University of New York (CUNY) has reached tentative contract agreements with three Unions representing more than 10,000 Non-Pedagogical Staff in the Public University System. The tentative pacts with American Federation of State, County & Municipal District Council 37, Teamsters Local 237 and Service more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Nurses represented by the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) stood with community allies and elected officials - including Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, New York State Senator Robert Jackson and City Council Member Carmen De La Rosa, outside NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) Allen Hospital to voice their opposition to the more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Condé Nast executives - who’ve sought to intimidate and surveil the company’s Unionized Workers since management announced layoff plans in November - are now facing further legal action from The NewsGuild of New York over unlawful bargaining tactics during Condé Union’s layoff negotiations. Condé more»

(THE BRONX) - Workers represented by United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 259 have gone out on Strike at City World Ford in the Bronx. The Workers, who voted unanimously to unionize with Local 259 in July (2023), charge dealership management has repeatedly ignored the Union’s requests for information and dates to bargain. Fed up with the response, the more»

Duncan Freeman at The Chief Leader reports nearly 1,000 Full-Time Non-Tenure track New York University (NYU) Faculty Members will vote in a Union Election later this year - free from interference by university management, according to an agreement between the United Auto Workers and NYU Officials that was signed last week. If the Professors succeed, their more»

Sahalie Donaldson and Annie McDonough at CityAndStateNY.com report New York City’s largest Teachers’ Union is joining forces with the Staten Island Borough President to file a Federal lawsuit seeking to block the upcoming implementation of congestion pricing in Manhattan, arguing that rerouted traffic - a possible side effect of the plan - could more»

(BETHPAGE, NEW YORK) - In late December (2023), 49 Workers at EmPower-Solar in Bethpage voted overwhelmingly to join United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 259. The organizing victory was achieved despite the company hiring Union Busting lawyers and lobbyists in attempt to thwart their Employees’ efforts to Unionize. Then on December 29th, the company more»

Crystal Lewis at The Chief Leader reports more than 380 Starbucks locations and 9,000 Employees across the country have Unionized since a store in Buffalo became the Coffee Giant’s first Branch to join Starbucks Workers United in December 2021. However, none of them have gotten a contract so far. Despite successful Union Campaigns at national more»

This year, the whole world watched as Workers across New York City and across the country came together in an unprecedented wave of activism and solidarity. In New York City, we saw more than 70,000 Striking Workers hit the streets demanding fair contracts, improved working conditions, protections against unregulated technology and a voice at work. Health more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – During the final days of holiday shopping rush, Unionized Workers at Barnes & Noble - who are represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), stopped work and walked off the job to protest the company’s failure to return on economic portions of the contract amid their highest sales season. The more»

Isabel Song Beer at The Brooklyn Paper reports 32BJ Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Realty Advisory Board reached a tentative contract agreement today (Thursday, December 28th) - ahead of the current contract’s December 31st expiration date. 32BJ SEIU represents 17,000 of New York City’s Commercial Building Cleaners. The more»

Max Parrott at LaborPress recently took its readers behind the curtain and the spotlight at Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular, which has become a Holiday tradition for the more than 90 years that the show has been running. And it has been its International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 1-represented Backstage more»

Center Square Contributor Christian Wade (Via The Washington Examiner and MSN.com) reports that more than 2,100 New York public workers will be getting bonus checks for overtime during the COVID-19 Pandemic, under a new Labor Agreement. The Public Employees Federation and the Civil Service Employees Association have reached an agreement with the Hochul more»

Crystal Lewis at The Chief Leader takes a look at a recent report by the Center for American Progress (CAP) that shows Union Workers - on average, earn more than their Non-Union counterparts, according to government data. But the benefits of being in a Union are felt even more greatly by Workers with disabilities, the study shows. Unionized Workers with more»

Duncan Freeman at The Chief Leader reports that following a 12-day Strike and a year-long fight for a first contract, more than 500 Post-Doctoral Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai represented by the United Auto Workers have reached a tentative contract agreement with the hospital. The deal, announced by the Sinai Postdoctoral more»

The Binghamton News reports on United University Professions Member/Binghamton University Assistant Professor Jackie McGinley, whose family donated a 80-foot tall, 43-foot wide, 12-ton Norway Spruce that was in her side yard to be the official Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. “It was one of the easiest decisions that we’ve ever made. As a more»

Chris Roush at TalkingBusinessNews.com reports Unionized Editorial Workers employed at Law360 held a one-day Strike on Wednesday (December 13th), highlighted by a mid-afternoon rally and a day-long picket line outside corporate headquarters in New York City. The work stoppage comes after The NewsGuild of New York filed an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Charge more»

New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga has penned a Labor Perspective that was published in LaborPress, where she addressed a victory for Restaurant Delivery Workers: New York City is a Working People’s City and (Mayor Eric) Adams Administration is committed to advancing solutions to provide more»

Silver Krieger at LaborPress reports on the huge, stunning Christmas Tree that appears each year at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, which is seen by millions each year, some in person (that amount is estimated to be at 125 million) and others through live television broadcasts when the tree is lit at the end of November, after more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Netflix Production Accountants working in New York and New Jersey have reached an agreement with Netflix to be recognized as Members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 161. The studio agreed to a card count by a neutral third party in November, which just revealed an overwhelming majority of the more»

Karen Juanita Carrillo at The New York Amsterdam News reports Union-represented Maintenance Workers, Porters and Handypersons who keep New York City’s offices operating are trying to negotiate a new contract. The current pact is set to expire on December 31st. 32BJ SEIU (the Service Employees International Union) represents 20,000 Workers who labor more»

WABC-TV reports there was a sea of red outside Governor Kathy Hochul's office in Midtown, Manhattan - a show of solidarity as hundreds of City University of New York (CUNY) supporters demanded more financial help. "For the last two years, the governor and legislature has managed to - but we need to do better going forward," Professional Staff Congress more»

Joanna Fantozzi at The Nation’s Restaurant News reports the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court has upheld legislation passed over the Summer that will gradually increase the minimum wage for App-based Delivery Workers in New York City to $19.96, denying an appeal from the three major third-party Delivery Apps - DoorDash, Uber and more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 802 and the New York City Ballet (NYCB) have jointly announced a successful resolution to negotiations, resulting in a three-year contract for its Unionized Orchestra Members. Local 802 and Ballet Management issued the following joint statement: "Local 802 and New York City Ballet are happy to more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Whether it’s the flooding of basement apartments in the outer Boroughs of New York City, deadly blizzards in Buffalo, heat waves on Long Island or wildfire smoke blanketing skies across the State, New Yorkers have increasingly felt the effects of a changing climate over the last two years. And the effects are pushing Environmental more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - When the day is done for the tens of thousands working in offices in the Empire State Building, at One World Trade Center, Hudson Yards and hundreds of other buildings in New York City, Cleaning Crews move in, carry out their tasks in relative quiet and anonymity and, after a few hours, also leave. But the Commercial Cleaners, along with more»

Anusuya Lahiri at Benzinga reports Bloomberg is reporting Apple is under scrutiny from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for not extending a benefits increase to Unionized Retail Employees last year. Earlier this week, an NLRB Regional Director filed a complaint, alleging the Technology Company breached Federal Labor Regulations. This action more»

Richard Khavkine at The Chief Leader reports the Transport Workers Union (TWU) and Metro-North Railroad have reached a tentative contract agreement that impacts 600 Train Mechanics, Inspectors, Cleaners and Cabinet Makers - and they will have to do it all again soon. The retroactive deal, covering Workers represented by TWU Local 2001 and TWU Local 2055, more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Unionized REI Workers with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU)/United Food & Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) have filed coordinated, nationwide Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Charges against their employer, Recreational Equipment, Incorporated (REI), over the company’s bad faith bargaining more»