(GOSHEN, NEW YORK) - Orange County Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Unit Members recently approved a new contract that levels the playing field for wages across the Bargaining Unit, a win that will aid in the recruitment and retention of Workers and restore wage parity, Union Officials said. The agreement establishes all CSEA-represented County more»

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled Apple illegally interrogated Staff at its World Trade Center store location in New York City. The NLRB ruled Apple violated Labor Law by badgering a Worker about whether he supported a campaign to form a Union with Apple Retail Union-Communications Workers of America (CWA). The NLRB also affirmed a more»

Ron Zeitlinger at The Jersey Journal reports the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) that has protested Unfair Labor Practices (ULPs) in Hudson County, New Jersey scored a major victory when 181 Workers employed on a Jersey City job site were awarded more than $402,000 in a settlement between the New Jersey State Department of Labor more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - United University Professions (UUP) President Frederick Kowal is disappointed by the State University of New York (SUNY) Board of Trustees’ decision to underfund 19 financially distressed campuses in its State aid allocation to the System’s State-operated Colleges and Universities. For the second year in a row, the Trustees more»

(MANHATTAN) – Organized by Unionized Faculty and Staff of the City University of New York (CUNY), the Presidents of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), New York State AFL-CIO, New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) and United University Professions (UUP) joined with New York State Senate Labor Chair Jessica Ramos to call out CUNY management for more»

(TROY, NEW YORK) – An Upstate New York Court has accepted a Mine Manager’s guilty plea to manslaughter in the second degree, a Class C Felony. Anthony Valente, a Mine Manager employed at a Grafton Limestone Quarry, admitted to causing Darren Miller’s death in October 2022 by recklessly disregarding and overriding safety features of a more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Actors’ Equity, the Union representing more than 51,000 Professional Actors and Stage Managers in live theatre, has advised The Broadway League of its intention to cease issuing contracts for work on the Development Agreement starting June 17th if meaningful progress is not made in negotiations by that date. The Development more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - Laborers Local 66 on Long Island just made history when the New York State Legislature, along with Governor Kathy Hochul, signed into law the Laborer's landmark legislation to require a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) on construction projects at every State University of New York (SUNY) Campus across New York State. The exploitation of more»

Brier Dudley, who is Editor of The Seattle Times Save the Free Press Initiative, has authored a piece entitled: New York Saving Newsroom Jobs. He writes: Tax credits for preserving and adding newsroom jobs are the most direct way for policymakers to help save local journalism. Four years after these credits were proposed in Congress, New York State has more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - United University Professions’ (UUP) dogged advocacy for State University of New York (SUNY) Campuses and its embattled Public Teaching Hospital in Brooklyn was rewarded in the 2024-2025 enacted New York State budget. From fighting for more than $150 million more in State aid for campuses and expanded Tuition Assistance Program more»

New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) President Melinda Person released the following statement in response to this year’s final budget agreement: NYSUT and nearly 700,000 Members across the State this year made their voices heard to win a budget that supports public schools, colleges and the Labor Movement. We thank the Legislature and Governor more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - New York State AFL-CIO President Mario Cilento, who heads the Statewide Labor Federation of 3,000 Affiliated Public Sector, Private Sector and Building Trades Unions that combine to represent 2.5 million Members, has released the following state on the passage of vital Tier 6 Pension Reforms in the New York State Budget: The passage more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) - Workers at Partners Coffee in Brooklyn have voted to join United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1500 for fair wages and other benefits that come with a Union contract. The 27 Workers employed at Partners Coffee include those who work in production, warehouse, the café and Kitchen Staff. They joined Local more»

(SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK) - Hundreds of New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses and allies held an informational picket on Tuesday (April 16th) to sound the alarm on patient care at Ellis Medicine. Ellis Nurses were joined on the Schenectady picket line by NYSNA President Nancy Hagans and fellow capital region NYSNA Nurses from Albany more»

Duncan Freeman at LaborPress reports high-ranking Fire Protection Inspectors at the FDNY are conducting after-hours inspections without being properly compensated because of cuts to the Department’s overtime budget, leaders of the Union representing the Inspectors said. The Inspectors typically conduct their checks of subway tunnels, the City’s more»

Megan Hatch at WWTI-TV In Watertown reports a new amendment to New York Labor Law has now gone into effect that will prohibit employers from requesting or requiring the log-in credentials of Employees’ Social Media accounts. More than 20 States have adopted this legislation, including California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey. more»

(STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK) - New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses employed at Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH)/Northwell have voted by more than 93% in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract that includes significant improvements to wages, safe staffing and Retiree health benefits. The 1,300 Nurses at SIUH/Northwell more»

WXXI News reports Unionized Reporters represented by the Newspaper Guild of Rochester and who are employed at the Democrat & Chronicle have gone on Strike after being unable to reach an agreement on a new contract with the newspaper’s owner, Gannett. Reporters have been without a contract since 2019. A statement released by the Union on Saturday more»

Roxanne Boychuk at The Daily Orange reports Graduate Student Workers at Syracuse University have voted 92% in favor of ratifying their first contract with the University after seven months of negotiations. Under the agreement, along with a median 24% stipend increase next year, the University will subsidize 80% of Graduate Workers’ health insurance more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Members are urging New York State Legislators to Fix Tier 6. As New York State budget negotiations got underway, CSEA and other Public Unions called for positive reforms to the Pension System in the final budget. CSEA Members participated in rallies and sent thousands of e-mails to urge more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - With the State Budget deadline on Monday (April 1st), United University Professions (UUP) and other advocates of Public Higher Education seized on the sense of last-minute urgency last week during a rally held in Albany to urge Lawmakers to support State University of New York (SUNY), the City University of New York (CUNY) and its more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – The Building & Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and Equinor, the developer of the Empire Wind Offshore Wind Project, have signed a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) for the construction of the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal - which will be used as a staging and assembly location for Empire Wind and potentially more more»

In this Labor Perspective that appeared in Teen Vogue, acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Julie Su reflected on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the Labor Laws that were fought for and won after it, and how far we still need to go to protect Workers. She opined, in part: While our country has come a long way since that horrific fire 113 years ago, we more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) - United University Professions, (UUP) the nation’s largest Higher Education Union, is calling a State University of New York (SUNY) report gauging community interest in its plan to close SUNY Downstate University Hospital a total sham that was compiled behind closed doors and no doubt is contrived to back its ill-conceived vision more»

Spectrum News NY1 reports New York City is teaming up with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York across the five Boroughs to address the ongoing challenge of bolstering affordable workforce housing. Building and Construction Trades President Gary LaBarbera joined Mayor Eric Adams to announce the partnership, which seeks to create more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – The New York State Educational Conference Board and New York State Education Department (NYSED) has announced an extraordinary agreement on legislation to rewrite the State’s poorly designed Teacher Evaluation System that was imposed in 2010. A result of collaborative communication among organizations and State Leaders who more»

Matt Tracy at AMNY reports on Rochester-based New York State Assemblyman Harry Bronson, who is now the Chair of the State Assembly’s Labor Committee for the first time in his decade-plus tenure in the State Legislature. The gay 64-year-old State Lawmaker - born and raised in the Binghamton Region, had spent years as counsel to the Assembly’s more»

(ROCHESTER, NEW YORK) - Workers at the Empire Justice Center (EJC), who provide Civil Legal Services to New Yorkers in need across New York State, have won a decisive victory to Unionize. In the final Union Election tally, 72% of EJC’s 40 Staff Members voted to join the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys-United Auto Workers (ALAA-UAW) Local 2325). more»

The threatened closure of Downstate University Hospital by the State University of New York (SUNY) and Governor Kathy Hochul has sparked anger and indignation among Brooklyn residents and the Medical Staff who treat them. Three of those Staff Members passionately defended the hospital during a virtual panel discussion led by United University Professions more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – Non-profit organizations and Elected Officials rallied in Albany earlier this week to push for legislation that would enact a higher Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) for Human Services Workers - and also establish a Wage Board to address pay disparities between the Non-Profit and Public Sectors. The Human Services Council, more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) - United University Professions (UUP), the Nation’s largest Higher Education Union, is supporting one-House budget proposals issued by the New York State Senate and Assembly, which provide funding and include language to keep State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate University Hospital open and serving patients in Brooklyn. more»

Unions play a key role in helping Women sustain themselves and their families. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Unionized Women make about $203 more per week than Non-Union Women in similar jobs, about a 21% increase. And Union Women are far more likely to also have employed provided health insurance and an employer-sponsored more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - Hundreds of New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses and Health Care Professionals held their annual lobby day at the State Capitol in Albany on Tuesday (March 5th), visiting Elected Leaders before holding a press conference to call on the State to invest in quality health care for all New Yorkers and to address the more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) – Workers at She Wolf Bakery have filed for their Union Election with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) seeking representation with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). When successful, the RWDSU will represent 23 Workers at the Greenpoint, Brooklyn Bakery. The Workers in the proposed Bargaining Unit more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Full-Time, Non-Tenure Track Faculty at New York University (NYU) have voted by an overwhelming margin (553-to-72, or 89.5%) in favor of joining Contract Faculty United-United Auto Workers (CFU-UAW), which will represent nearly 1,000 Contract Faculty across NYU. NYU Contract Faculty join more than 100,000 Academic Workers across the more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) - A crowd of more than 1,200 Doctors, Nurses, Hospital Workers and Community Members joined Union Members and Elected Officials to shut down a section of Clarkson Avenue across from State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate University Hospital this week to loudly express their support for keeping Downstate open and condemn the more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)-represented Workers employed by New York State Canal Corporation have overwhelmingly ratified a new, five-year agreement with their employer. Nearly 400 CSEA-represented Canal Corporation Employees maintain and operate New York’s 524-mile canal system that links the Hudson River with more»

(EAST DURHAM, NEW YORK) - An investigation conducted by the Albany District Office of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (USDOL) Wage and Hour Division found the Zoom Flume Water Park in East Durham employed 35 15-year-old lifeguards at the top of elevated, power-driven water slides between July 2021 and July 2022, which is in violation of Federal Labor more»

(ACROSS NEW YORK STATE) - Thousands of Hospital and Nursing Home Workers - stretching from Buffalo to Long Island to the North County - rallied near their institutions on Thursday (February 22nd), calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to reverse $1 billion in proposed budget cuts and to properly fund Medicaid reimbursements to hospitals and nursing homes - a more»

(RIVERHEAD & VALLEY STREAM, NEW YORK) - New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses and Health Care Professionals employed at Northwell Health/Peconic Bay Medical Center (Peconic) and Long Island Jewish Valley Stream (LIJ Valley Stream) ratified new contracts Wednesday (February 21st) with more than 85% voting in favor of ratification. more»

Max Siegelbaum at Documented reports that every year, thousands of New Yorkers fall victim to wage theft and other workplace violations, with child labor - in particular, on the rise. Despite how widespread those problems are, the New York State Department of Labor is leaving labor violation cases to languish, in some cases for up to a year, according to more»

John Heinis at The Hudson County View reports the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) held a rally in Jersey City after a Construction Worker died from a fall earlier this month. Juan Jose Coc, 40, fell four stories to his death at a construction site where he was employed. “While much media attention is given to what is more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) – The State University of New York’s (SUNY) so-called “community-driven engagement and visioning process” to get input about the future of SUNY Downstate University Hospital weeks after announcing its intent to close the facility is a shoddy public relations stunt staged to answer the Brooklyn Community’s more»

(SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW YORK) - A group of Security Guards employed at the Patchogue Medford Union Free School District in Suffolk County on Long Island worked with New York State United Teachers’ (NYSUT) Organizers and Labor Relations Staff to Unionize. NYSUT is chalking up big organizing wins across New York State, thanks to the hard work of its more»

Emily Russell at The Adirondack Reporter reports State University of New York (SUNY) Potsdam is continuing to downsize due to its $9 million deficit by cutting seven Staff positions, which has United University Professions (UUP) responding: "We have worked hard to pressure both campus and system administration to avoid this outcome and we maintain that this more»

A bipartisan coalition of New York Congressional Representatives is joining the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) in opposing an effort to purchase two foreign train sets for the Brightline West High-Speed Rail Project. The IAM submitted public comments opposing a Buy America waiver request by the Nevada Department of more»

(LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK) - More than 700 Nurses and Health Care Professionals represented by the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) who are employed at Northwell Health LIJ Valley Stream and Peconic Bay have voted - overwhelmingly, 99.5% - to authorize a Strike if Northwell Health management refuses to agree to safe staffing and fair wages. more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - The New York State AFL-CIO, which is joining with its Union affiliates to end State policies that perpetuate and institutionalize poverty, has released its 2024 Legislative Agenda. The State Labor Federation says that for decades, New York’s decision-making process and resulting policies in health care, education, housing, more»

Thomas Turgeon at WICZ reports the New York State Department of Labor has partnered with the New York City-based Careers Through Culinary Arts Program to train eligible Asylum Seekers for roles in the Hospitality and Food Service Industries. State Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon says the partnership will help extend employment to new Workers within the more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – With several Elected Officials standing by their side, Representatives of the Retail Worker Members of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) introduced the Retail Worker Safety Act in Herald Square. For Retail Workers toiling on the front lines, retail violence is a growing workplace issue, Union Officials said, more»