(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) President Melinda Person has released the following statement in response to Governor Kathy Hochul signing into law S9054/A9849, which will fix the onerous Annual Professional Performance Review System 14 years after its enactment: 700,000 NYSUT Members are celebrating a victory that will more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) Members employed at the iHeart Podcast Network have ratified their first Collective Bargaining Agreement. The 100-Member Bargaining Unit overwhelmingly ratified a three-year contract that came after more than two years of negotiations and an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Charge against management more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - Twenty-three of New York State United Teachers’ (NYSUT) endorsed candidates triumphed in primary races across the State on Tuesday (June 25th), showing once again voters value public education, Working Families and the Labor Movement. “These victories tell us that genuine support for students, Educators and public schools more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Nearly 2,800 New York City Health + Hospitals Doctors are seeking a contract that will provide salaries that allow the Public Hospital System to retain Physicians. Doctors, their Union - the Service Employees International Union's (SEIU) Doctors Council, and Elected Officials rallied in the heat outside of South Brooklyn Health to demand more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses employed at Mount Sinai’s New York Eye and Ear Infirmary have ratified a new contract that improves staffing enforcement in the event of critical staffing adjustments and staffing violations, which had been a growing concern at Sinai Eye and Ear because of increasing Nurse more»

In recent years, the Labor Movement has seen strong public support with about 67% of Americans approving of Unions, according to a 2023 Gallup poll – and the strongest levels of Union support are coming from the youngest Members of the workforce, with 77% of people between the ages the 18 and 34 noting their support. Workers across the country are more»

(ROCHESTER, NEW YORK) – Unionized Journalists employed at The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and The Canandaigua Daily Messenger have unanimously ratified a tentative agreement on a two-year contract - after two and a half years of bargaining and a 19-day Strike that forced Gannett to scramble to find coverage for a series of major news events, more»

(ROCHESTER, NEW YORK) – When WNYLaborToday.com last interviewed Grant Malone, who serves as District Manager of International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 158/District 832 and as President of the Rochester Building & Construction Trades Council, he was running for a seat on the Irondequoit Town Board on a promise of “trying to more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Labor leaders were nearly unanimous in lauding Governor Kathy Hochul’s directive to “indefinitely pause” the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) Congestion Pricing Plan, which was designed to alleviate traffic bottlenecks south of 60th Street in Manhattan. However, the plan, which was set to go into more»

Alex Gault at The Watertown Daily Times reports the New York State Senate has passed a raft of legislation aimed at cutting costs and encouraging more volunteers for the State’s Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Providers and ambulance companies. The legislation would address some, but not all, of the issues that EMS Staffers, Advocates and Experts more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) -– The New York State Legislature has passed new legislation, championed by the New York State Conference of Teamsters, requiring Amazon and other major Warehouse Operators to design their facilities to put worker safety first. The Teamsters and allies in the New Yorkers for a Fair Economy Coalition are calling on Governor Kathy more»

(NEW YORK, NEW YORK) - The New York Assembly has passed the Retail Worker Safety Act A. 8947C, which requires Corporate Retail Employers to adopt a Violence Prevention Plan, train Workers in de-escalation and active shooters. The Act also calls for large employers to install panic buttons throughout the workplace. For Retail Workers toiling on the front more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – Leaders from United University Professions (UUP), New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), and State Legislators are calling State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor John King, Jr. to fairly and equitably distribute funds from the SUNY Budget to 19 SUNY Campuses facing multi-million-dollar structural deficits. The press more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - Governor Kathy Hochul has unveiled New York’s first-ever Youth Workers Bill of Rights, first announced in her 2024 State of the State address as part of an effort to bolster protections for New York’s youngest Workers. Governor Hochul tasked the New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) with developing and distributing more»

(SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK) - New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Members who are employed at Ellis Hospital and Bellevue Women’s Center in Schenectady have voted to authorize a three-day Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike by 94% margin. The Strike Vote took place over five days in late May. It gives elected Nurse Leaders at Ellis the more»

Matt Dougherty at Ithaca.com reports the Glaziers Union has launched a campaign to bring public attention to what it describes as discriminatory practices by Cornell University against Union Glaziers. The Union, representing Architectural Glass and Metal Technicians, outlined the details of its grievances in a press release that sharply criticized Cornell more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - Assemblyman Chris Eachus knows how it feels to be hot. As a retired High School Teacher, the Hudson Valley Representative remembers sweltering classrooms that pushed he and his students into hallways, cafeterias or outside under trees to escape the heat. He was one of several Lawmakers who experienced New York State United more»

(SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK) – More than 600 New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Caregivers employed at Ellis Hospital and Bellevue Women’s Center have begun voting on whether to authorize a three-day Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike. NYSNA Nurses have been fighting for a fair Union contract for more than a year and say more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - The New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) Union issued the following statement after voters across New York turned out Tuesday (May 21st) to approve School Budgets and elect School Board Members. According to NYSUT’s initial analysis of the results, 97% of Public School Budgets passed and 84% of Union-endorsed candidates were more»

Ann Morrow at American Heritage reports on the Kate Mullany House, a National Historic Site located in Troy where there is a display of the various flatirons that Laundresses in the 19th Century used in service to the City’s “Collar And Cuffs” Industry. Nearly half of Troy’s female workforce, about 3,700 Women, worked in the more»

Max Parrott at LaborPress reports a group of Union-represented Service Workers at a Hell’s Kitchen Apartment Building walked off the job earlier this month during a short-term Strike after the building owner made Workers’ jobs more difficult in the wake of a successful Union Drive in September 2022. It’s the third building where more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – United University Professions as joined the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the National Education Association (NEA), the United Auto Workers (UAW) and more than 220 other National, State and Local Civil Rights, Community and Labor Organizations in a nationwide push to support President Joe Biden’s “Plan more»

Thanks to recent legislation in New York State, Prevailing Wage requirements are applicable on certain construction projects performed under private contracts. The goal was to expand Prevailing Wage to private projects receiving public subsidies and grow the Middle Class in our State. However, the Public Subsidy Board is holding a hearing on Monday (May more»

Ellen Abbott at WRVO 89.9 - NPR News For Central New York, tells us about a new report on Solar Construction Workers from the Climate Jobs Institute at Cornell University. Solar installations have increased by more than 2,000% in the last decade, but it’s only 1/10 of its projected need by 2050. According to the report, many of these Workers are more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – New York’s Health Care Workers are calling on the New York State Department of Health (DOH) to aggressively enforce the State’s historic 2021 Clinical Staffing Committee Law. Health Care Workers from hospitals across New York, represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) District 1, the New York State more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – Hundreds of Health Care Workers represented by Communications Workers of America District 1 (CWA D1), the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East (1199SEIU), the Public Employees Federation (PEF), American Federation of State, County & more»

(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»