The ballots have been counted and the United Auto Workers (UAW) have announced Weill Cornell Medicine Post-Docs have voted by an overwhelming 98.8% to form their Union - Weill Cornell Medicine Post-Docs United-UAW. The Post-Docs had filed paperwork with the National Labor Relations Board to form their Union in early October, with support cards from more more»

(MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK) – New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses from three Montefiore facilities - Mount Vernon, New Rochelle and Nyack -gathered alongside Community Allies and Elected Officials today (Tuesday, November 14th) to sound the alarm about the staffing crisis facing all three hospitals that threatens to impact more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) - Workers at the Brooklyn Museum, Members of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2110 have voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first Union contract, one day before the union had been set to Strike on Wednesday (November 8th). “We’re thrilled to have finally reached this agreement with the Museum,” Elizabeth St. George, more»

The Chief Leader and The Real Deal are both reporting on New York City Lawmakers who want to raise wages for Non-Union Construction Workers, as well as increase home building projects. The extremely low wages of such Workers, some who make only $15-and-hour, are pushing Construction Workers out of New York City because they can no longer afford to live more»

Crystal Lewis at The Chief Leader reports Post-Doctoral Workers at Columbia University have ratified a contract that provides 24% raises over the course of a three-year pact and establishes a $500,000 Hardship Fund. Columbia Postdoctoral Workers-United Auto Workers Local 4100, which reached a tentative agreement with the University in late October, says more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Unionized Workers employed at Scholastic - the children’s publishing powerhouse - walked out in protest of the billion-dollar company’s refusal to pay its Employees fair wages, specifically its rejection of the Scholastic Union’s proposal for annual raises. Members of Scholastic Union did not report to work on more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) - Unionized Staff at the Brooklyn Museum, who are Members of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2110, have set a Strike deadline and will begin picketing the Museum on November 8th if no agreement on a contract is reached before that date. “We have been trying to negotiate a fair contract with the Museum for two years and at this more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - The Times Tech Guild - the largest Union of Tech Workers with Collective Bargaining Rights in the country - walked out Monday afternoon (October 30th) in protest of The New York Times’ flagrant disregard for their rights as Union Members. Times management has continually attempted to coerce Members to comply with its unlawful more»

Richard Khavkine at The Chief Leader reports New York City’s Sanitation Workers Union and the Adams Administration have reached agreement on a five-year, two-month contract that, pending ratification by the Rank-and-File, will bring Sanitation Workers compounded pay increases of nearly 19% over the life of the deal. It also consolidates the more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - The Musicians of the Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) Orchestra have won their first Union Contract, the New York City Musicians’ Union - the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 802, has announced. Their victory comes after four years of negotiations. The Musicians’ Negotiating Committee, in a more»

Paul Liotta at The Staten Island Advance reports employers across New York can no longer access private Social Media accounts of their Workers or job applicants, thanks to a new law Governor Kathy Hochul signed last month. The legislation, brought by State Senator Jessica Ramos (Democrat-Queens) and Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (Democrat-The Bronx) in more»

Multiple Media Outlets are reporting on a tentative contract for 6,400 New York City Public School Supervisors and Administrators, who are represented by the Council of School Administrators and Supervisors Union. The five-year deal would provide School Principals, Assistant Principals and other Administrators with 16.77% raises and annual retention more»

Crystal Lewis at The Chief Leader reports the Union representing Workers at FDR Services Corporation, which provides laundry cleaning services for NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, has called on the hospital to end its financial relationship with the company, which they say has endangered Workers by exposing them to unsafe and unsanitary working conditions. more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Two Employees of a Bronx Water and Sewer Line Construction Contractor were fatally injured in a trench at a construction site at John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in Queens on April 3rd (2023). These fatalities could have been prevented if their employer, Triumph Construction Corporation, had ensured proper safeguards, a more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - The Orchestra of New York City Music Producer Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) - Members of American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 802, has reached a tentative five-year contract agreement after eight months on Strike and four years of bargaining. Workers were fighting for the very essential rights that every more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Julie Su recently joined the Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United in New York City for a roundtable discussion highlighting issues faced by Restaurant Workers. The roundtable centered on the ways the organization employs grants from the U.S. Department of Labor, including the Occupational Safety more»

Duncan Freeman at The Chief Leader reports New York’s Labor Movement joined together in remembrance at the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place in Greenwich Village last week for the dedication of a permanent memorial to the 146 Garment Workers who were killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory more than 112 years ago. Many spoke about the more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Unionized Jewish Museum Staff have voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first Union Contract after more than a year of organizing and negotiations. “The whole process of Unionizing our workplace has been transformative for us as Museum Staff and it’s empowering to know we have legally enforceable rights supporting us and our more»

Crystal Lewis at The Chief Leader reports Real Estate Developers in New York City would be required to pay Prevailing Wages to Construction Workers employed on City projects that have large public subsidies, according to legislation being pushed by Members of the City Council. The Fair Share Act would establish a Prevailing Wage requirement - salary and more»

Max Parrott at LaborPress reports on 32BJ Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-represented Cleaning Workers who rallied outside the headquarters of a Real Estate Group last week where they were fired as soon as the new owner took over the lease of a Midtown Office Building. The Sioni Group left the six-Member Cleaning Crew suddenly without health more»

Hamilton Nolan at The Guardian reports now that the 148-day-long Writers Guild of America (WGA) Strike is over. But now, Nolan says, the hard part begins. The contract itself is, above all, a wonderful validation of the value of Strikes. According to the WGA, the studios ended up nearly tripling the value of their initial offers, from $86 million a year more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Actors’ Equity Association, the National Labor Union representing more than 51,000 Professional Actors and Stage Managers in live theatre, has organized the Production Assistants (PAs) who work as part of Stage Management Teams on Broadway and sit-down productions produced by members of The Broadway League. The Bargaining Unit more»

Richard Khavkine at The Chief Leader reports Workers employed throughout Audubon’s Chapters say management has been dismissive of their contributions and insensitive to complaints of harassment and worse. Now, a year and half after overwhelmingly voting to Unionize, roughly 250 Audubon Workers await a first contract, increasingly frustrated with the more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) - Nurses, Doctors and other Caregivers recently joined with Community Members, Faith Leaders and Elected Officials to demand an independent review of One Brooklyn Health System (OBH) governance and New York State’s progress toward Vital Brooklyn goals to improve health care after the sudden ouster of OBH CEO LaRay Brown. more»

Kimmy Yam at NBC News reports the popular Delivery Apps Uber, DoorDash and GrubHub have lost their bid to block New York City’s Minimum Wage Mandate for App-Based Delivery Workers. An Acting New York State Supreme Court Justice ruled against the companies after they sued the City in July, when the rule was to go into effect. The decision will now more»

At public high schools across New York City, students are getting the chance to Apprentice and gain career-ready work experience thanks to an educational program. Imagine going to high school, then spending afternoons making money in an Apprenticeship at a place like JP Morgan Chase. "They are leaving high school at (1 p.m.) Monday through Friday and more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) President Melinda Person has issued the following statement in response to Thursday's (September 21st) Orange County bus crash that was carrying students and Educators from the Farmingdale School District. Two people were killed and at least five students were critically injured involving the bus more»

Ramsey Khalifeh at The Gothamist reports Union-represented School bus drivers in New York City have reached a tentative contract agreement with the city’s major school bus companies, seemingly averting a strike that could have disrupted pickups and drop-offs for some 80,000 students. Around 4,400 bus routes serving 25,000 special education students more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Communication Workers of America (CWA) Local 1180 and the Adams Administration have reached a tentative contract agreement that, in addition to providing raises, would establish a flexible Work Committee much like the one enacted by American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) District Council (DC) 37 earlier more»

Stephanie West at LaborPress reports the New York City & Vicinity District Council of Carpenters provided students across New York City with backpacks full of school supplies to help equip those students with the tools they need for success in the classroom. “Union Carpenters know that our craft is about more than just constructing buildings. We more»

Max Parrott at LaborPress reports on Unionized Musicians employed at the New York City Ballet Orchestra, who are ramping up their contract fight ahead of the opening of their Fall Season on Tuesday, September 19th. The Ballet’s Musicians, represented by American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 802, have voted to authorize a Strike after their more»

New York City AFL-CIO Central Labor Council President Vincent Alvarez penned a Labor Perspective that appeared in The New York Daily News that focuses in on New Yorkers, who stand with Unions and their fight for all Working People. Alvarez wrote, in part: “Today, Workers are taking matters into their own hands. You don’t have to be part of a more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Nurses represented by the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) at Gracie Square Hospital, which is part of the NewYork-Presbyterian Health System and one of the few dedicated Psychiatric Hospitals in New York City, reached a tentative agreement earlier this week after spending five months at the bargaining table. The tentative more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – With this year's theme - "We Organize, We Rise," the New York City AFL-CIO Central Labor Council held its annual Labor Day Parade over the weekend, with New York Nurses Association President Nancy Hagans serving at the parade’s Grand Marshal. The parade kicked off at 44th Street and continued along Fifth Avenue on Saturday more»

Crystal Lewis at The Chief Leader reports on New York State needing an additional 180,000 Teachers over the next decade. In the New York City Public School System, the number of Teachers has declined over the past few years, from 78,761 during the 2018-2019 school year to 75,936 during the last academic year, according to data from the City’s more»

Duncan Freeman at The Chief Leader reports New York City Workers employed at the Trader Joe’s on the Lower East Side - who lost their bid to Unionize following a tie vote in April, are vying for a second chance to bargain collectively under a new standard handed down by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). According to the new Union-friendly more»

Claudia Irizarry Aponte at The City reports more than 100 Staten Island Ferry Workers who’ve gone without a pay raise since 2009 have announced a tentative contract agreement with City Hall that guarantees them a hefty salary bump and six-figure sums in back pay. The 16-year agreement between the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association and more»

As this "Summer Of Strikes" gives way to Autumn, we’re all by now familiar with the existential fight that our City’s Striking Writers and Actors are facing. They want what every Worker wants: stability for their families and a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. Their bosses have responded by stripping them of the residuals that more»

Seth Harris at Power At Work reports on how the Federal Government’s new Prevailing Wage Regulations will build Worker Power. The regulations likely will increase the number of Construction Workers represented by Unions, writes Harris. Therefore, the payment of Prevailing Wages will play a central role in Worker organizing in this industry for some more»

(NEW YORK CIY) - The Actors, Stage Managers, Bartenders and Servers of Drunk Shakespeare in New York City, the longest-running of the productions nationwide, are now the fourth company of the Theatrical Franchise to Unionize as Drunk Shakespeare United. Alongside their fellow Workers in Chicago, Phoenix and Washington, D.C., they have designated more»

With it being day 113 of the Writers Guild of America Strike and Day 40 of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Strike, Sean Piccoli at Deadline reports on National Union Solidarity Day, which kicked off on Tuesday (August 23rd) in New York City with several hundred marchers forming a picket line that stretched two more»

Documented and ProPublica report on an analysis of Federal and New York State databases that sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen in one five-year period at more than $203 million. In all, Federal and State Investigators determined those wages were stolen from more»

The New York City District Council of Carpenters (NYCDCC) has been a staunch supporter of Homes for Wounded Warriors for eight years. In that time, the Building Trades’ Union has raised more than $1.9 million for the organization, whose mission it is to build universally accessible homes for Veterans who’ve returned from Military Service more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Dozens of Scholastic Union Members rallied at the company’s headquarters to protest Scholastic’s slow-walking of contract negotiations and refusing to offer a fair deal, including retroactive pay and remote work rights, to Workers. The 82 Members of the Scholastic Union are represented by The NewsGuild of New York. The more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - School Bus Employees have voted to authorize a Strike, which could potentially cause massive disruptions for tens of thousands of New York City Public School students and their families at the start of the school year. Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1181 is negotiating contracts with several private companies contracted with the more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Between the Hollywood strikes, the Teamsters’ successful UPS contract negotiation and the United Auto Workers (UAW ) current contract negotiations with The Big Three, Labor Organizers are calling this season the “Hot Labor Summer” - and the New York City AFL-CIO Central Labor Council is organizing a Labor Day Parade to more»

Nearly nine months after the conclusion of a hearing into the question of their Union eligibility, Photo Editors and Lead Photo Editors at The Wall Street Journal have learned the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has directed an election to be held so they may be represented by the Independent Association of Publishers' Employees (IAPE) – which more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – After a nationwide organizing effort involving two separate Unions, Workers have won Union recognition at the Brooklyn-based Documentary Powerhouse Story Syndicate. Story Syndicate, founded in 2019 and led by Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan, produces high-profile, award-winning non-fiction features and series, including projects such as more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses have voted to endorse their new contract with NYC Health+Hospitals (H+H)/Mayoral Agencies and the City of New York. The contract package includes a Binding Arbitration Award for pay parity and safe staffing, several agreements to improve Nurse retention and work life, and the more»

Rebecca Baird-Remba at The Commercial Observer reports the Joint Industry Board of the Electrical Industry (JIBEI) is planning a new Union Electrician Training Center at Herald Center, located at the corner of Broadway and West 34th Street. The JIBEI is a Labor-Management Organization run by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 3 more»