(NEW YORK CITY) – The New York City District Council of Carpenters rallied at a high-profile construction site tied to Vanderbilt University in Manhattan’s Chelsea Neighborhood, calling on the project’s developer to ensure workers are paid standard wages. The Carpenters gathered at the site to protest what they described as sub-standard more»

(THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA) – The California State Association of Electrical Workers (CSAEW) - which represents 83,000 Unionized Electricians Statewide, has announced its strong opposition to SB 1065, which the organization warns would jeopardize Apprenticeship safety on construction sites, put untrained Workers in life-threatening situations, undermine more»

Daniel Donovan at Skillit reports that across the U.S., cranes are rising in some of the same states year after year and housing permits remain concentrated in high-growth regions, particularly across the South and Mountain West. But at the same time, the labor pipeline is not expanding at the same pace. A new 50-state comparison of housing permits and more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The White House is proposing to cut more than 9,400 Workers and ​just over $1.5 billion from the 60,000-Employee Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that handles airport security operations, according to budget documents, Reuters’ David Shepardson reports. The details are part of a budget ‌document for the more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The Teamsters National Negotiating Committee has reached a tentative contract agreement with DHL that averts a national Strike that would have involved thousands of Workers across 26 Locals across the country. “Our Members at DHL held management’s feet to the fire and demanded a contract that recognizes the hard more»

(NEW YORK CITY)— Writers Guild of America East (WGAE)-represented Members at CBS News 24/7 have reached a tentative agreement with CBS/Paramount management on a new three-year contract. The 60-Member CBS News 24/7 Union and the WGAE Council’s Broadcast/Cable/Streaming News Sector Representatives will vote to ratify the contract in the coming more»

(JAMAICA, QUEENS) - Sixty-two years ago, St. John’s University (SJU) in New York City became the site of the first major Faculty Strike in U.S. History - a year-long conflict that followed the firing of 33 Teachers, including three Priests, without due process. Now, the struggle over labor conditions has forced the Faculty to once again mobilize, a more»

María José Gutierrez Chavez at Fast Company reports Sage & Coombe Architects, a Women-led Firm based in New York City, unanimously approved a Collective Bargaining Agreement. It’s the second American practice to ratify a contract, after Bernheimer Architecture in 2024. “This contract, the second in the industry, sets a standard more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – In a historic decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled Amazon illegally refused to recognize the Staten Island-based Amazon Labor Union-International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 1 (ALU-IBT 1) and ordered it to begin negotiations with the Teamsters. “Four years ago, Amazon Workers at JFK8 won an NLRB more»

Jenny Cohen at FinanceBuzz Money asks the question: Are you considering a career change to find a job that can help you make more money? Then don’t rule out Blue-Collar work. Some Blue-Collar jobs might not require a four-year college degree and Apprenticeships or Trade schools can make switching to a Blue-Collar job even easier. Here are a few more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - United University Professions (UUP) President Fred Kowal is condemning President Donald Trump and his Administration for Trump’s unprovoked and ongoing war with Iran - which, in its first month, has claimed thousands of lives, including the lives of at least 13 U.S. Soldiers. Kowal, who leads America’s largest Higher more»

Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik at People’s World reports pundits are saying President Donald Trump is likely to lose his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in a case over his Executive Order taking away the right of automatic Birthright Citizenship that is spelled out in the U.S. Constitution. But the Department of Justice is pursuing the case anyway, more»

Dave Jamieson at The Huffington Post reports Amazon spent more than $26 million on Anti-Union Labor Consultants in 2025, according to new Federal disclosure forms, marking the largest such expenditure by a U.S. employer reported in a single year. The filings with the U.S. Labor Department show Amazon hired at least six firms that specialize in helping more»

(COMMACK, NEW YORK) – The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) has thousands of Members working in positions that require them to work in dangerous outdoor environments, leaving them vulnerable to reckless drivers. CSEA Department of Transportation (Babylon) Local Vice President Randy Acum and CSEA Nassau County Local Crossing Guard John Miro more»

Sam Woods at WUWM 89.7/NPR Milwaukee reports Employees at Discourse Coffee Workshop have voted to Unionize. The company has agreed to recognize the Union without a National Labor Relations Board Election after more than 70% of the Employees signed Union Authorization Cards and will soon begin negotiations. The 23 Employees at Discourse are Unionizing under more»

Leslie Josephs at CNBC reports United Airlines and its Flight Attendants’ Union have reached a tentative contract agreement that will include their first raises in roughly six years. If ratified by Flight Attendants, it would make United the last of the major Carriers to secure a contract with Cabin Crew Members since the COVID-19 Pandemic ended. more»

Union-represented Workers employed at Kaiser Permanente locations across Southern and Central California have ratified a new four-year contract that lasts through March 2030 and includes 21.5% wage increases over the next four years, as well as 6.5% raises in March and October of this year. Additional wage grid and market adjustments bring the total more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The Teamsters First Student National Negotiating Committee (TFSNNC) has reached a tentative contract agreement with First Student, averting a nationwide Strike that could have included thousands of School Bus Workers across 96 Locals. The National First Student Master Agreement protects more than 17,000 Bus Workers across the more»

On Thursday (March 26th), the National AFL-CIO and the AFL-CIO Tech Institute brought together Workers, Lawmakers and Policy Experts for the Workers First AI Summit. This landmark gathering comes after the National AFL-CIO released a first-of-its-kind set of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Principles last year. The Summit was dedicated to discussing how to more»

C.J. Atkins at People’s World reports that on the heels of the massive No Kings mobilizations that saw millions take to the streets over the weekend, the fight against the MAGA agenda and the spiraling economic crisis is entering a new phase. Standing before a crowd of thousands at the flagship rally in Minnesota, Indivisible Co-Founder Ezra Levin more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Workers, Union Leaders and politicians rallied on the steps of City Hall Monday (March 31st) to call for increased funding for New York City's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), which investigates exploitative labor practices and enforces Worker protections in the City. The rally comes after Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - A Franchisee operating Taco Bell and Dunkin’ locations in New York City will pay $1.5 million in restitution to more than 760 Workers under a settlement reached with the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) for violations of the City’s Fair Workweek Law. On a livestream filmed inside City Hall while lunching on more»

(CHICAGO, ILLINOIS) - Joining the wave of Union Organizing among Cultural Workers, Employees of the primarily Chicago-based American Library Association (ALA) have announced they are forming their Union with American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 31. The announcement came in an open letter to Co-Workers and was more»

Sydney Lake at Fortune reports that for decades, the standard formula for financial success was the same: Go to college, get a degree and land a prestigious white-collar job - probably a Lawyer, Consultant or Investment Banker. But Entrepreneur and Author Daniel Priestley is sounding the alarm on a major job-market shift - suggesting the traditional more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports sponsors of No Kings Day 3.0 that was held on Saturday (March 28th) had urged all to increase their activism and recruit even more people for what they hope will be the largest demonstration in U.S. History. Their objective with the protest, again, was to show the leader of the more»

Ned Rust at Jacobin reports in Maine, polls show Graham Platner - a Union-recruited Oysterman, trouncing both current State Governor Janet Mills, the establishment Democrat pick, and Susan Collins, the incumbent Republican Senator. It’s not just Blue States either. Down in deep-Red Alabama, dues-paying Plumber Andrew Sneed is outraising his GOP more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – The New York City AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, Workers United, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition hosted the 115th Anniversary Commemoration of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on Wednesday (March 25th) at Washington Place and Greene Street in Lower Manhattan. More than more»

Michelle Kaske at Bloomberg News reports New York City apartment residents are being put on notice of a potential Strike by Unionized Building Staff as soon as next month as the Union representing the Workers and an Advisory Board to building owners negotiate a new contract. Property owners are alerting occupants of 3,500 co-ops, condos and apartment more»

(MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT) - Workers employed at one of the Nation’s leading Maritime Museums - the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut, are seeking to form a Union through American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 4. On March 20th, Council 4 announced it had filed a Union Petition with the National Labor Relations more»

Sara Weissman and Colleen Flaherty at Inside Higher Ed report on Apprenticeship training efforts at Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC) where Tesla Employees are being trained in advanced manufacturing skills - year-round. And while Tesla itself may be polarizing, the growth of the program is undeniable: In 2023, TMCC trained 85 Tesla Apprentices; more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor's Note: Pictured above, Variety Club Telethon President and Labor Co-Chair Tony Vaccaro - who serves as a Business Agent at Teamsters Local 264 (on the left), and Labor Co-Chair William Mayer of International Union of Painters & Allied Trades (IUPAT) District Council 4 (on the right), finally take a breather after working hard more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) — In response to President Trump’s deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agents to Airports to help with long security lines caused by Congress’ refusal to pass a measure that would pay Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Employees, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) President more»

Marilyn Bechtel at People’s World reports out of Oakland, California that some 2,400 Mental Health Professionals employed at Kaiser Permanente took to the picket line in Northern California and the Central Valley to participate in a one-day Unfair Labor Practices (ULP) Strike aimed at upholding and strengthening patient care safeguards they won in a more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) has announced Workers employed at the Patagonia Store in SoHo have voted unanimously to join the Union. The vote marks a historic milestone for employees of the Outdoor Apparel Giant, as they become the first Unionized Patagonia location in the Eastern United States. The more»

George Weykamp at Bloomberg Law reports more than 900 Non-Tenure Track Professors have reached a tentative contract with New York University (NYU), ending a brief work-stoppage that affected roughly half of NYU’s Full-Time Faculty. The Contract Faculty United-United Auto Workers (CFU-UAW), which represents about 930 Faculty Members who aren’t more»

(FORT WORTH, TEXAS) – Journalists and Staff employed at The Fort Worth (Texas) Report have overwhelmingly voted to form a union, according to election results from the National Relations Labor Board (NLRB). The Workers voted 11-to-1 in favor of Union Representation as part of the Media Guild of the West and The NewsGuild-Communications Workers of more»

Karen Richards at KLCC News reports the Lane Transit District (LTD) has been planning this first-of-its-kind Apprenticeship Program for well over a year. The Agency worked with Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries to certify the program, then trained Peer Mentors who will advise Trainees for their first 18 months. LTD Spokesperson Anni Katz said more»

People’s World Editor’s Note: On March 18th (2026), The New York Times published an extensive article - the result of years of investigative journalism, detailing accusations of sexual abuse by the famed and the late United Farm Workers (UFW) Leader Cesar Chavez. In the course of The Times Reporters’ interviews, Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder more»

(LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA) - More than 68,000 Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Educators and Staff Members - represented by United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 99, respectively - are ready to Strike if School Administrators refuse to settle a fair deal by April 14th. In the past decade, Los more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Two Pilots aboard Air Canada Regional Express Flight 8646 were killed after their plane collided with a Port Authority rescue and firefighting vehicle on Runway 4 at New York's LaGuardia Airport late Sunday (March 22nd), prompting a shutdown of the Airport as investigators began piecing together what happened. LaGuardia remained closed more»

A student in Ilion missed school for a week. When he finally returned to class, he explained he hadn’t had access to a washing machine and he couldn’t come to school in dirty clothes. Another student - a 9-year-old in Rochester - missed school because he felt the need to stay home to protect his Mother in a house with no locks. These are just more»

Health Care Workers employed at New Jersey’s Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice and Inspira Health have both voted to join the Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE), an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). In two separate National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Elections, Registered Nurse Case Managers at Inspira Health more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Workers employed at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn have filed for a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Election to form a Union with American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) District Council 37. Following a successful Organizing Drive by their Co-Workers in the museum gift shop to join Transport more»

Paul Kaczocha at People’s World reports Energy Giant BP - once known as British Petroleum, has locked out 900 United Steelworkers (USW)-represented Employees at its Whiting, Indiana Oil Refinery, the largest in the Midwest. Negotiations have been underway between the Workers and management since the Union’s contract ended on February 1st. USW more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Hilal Bahctepe at The Chief reports that since Unionizing in 2024, Employees at the Nitehawk Cinema’s Prospect Park Branch have been bargaining for a first contract that would increase Worker safety conditions, hourly pay and health care benefits - concerns which have yet to be met by management. Last week, Nitehawk Workers gathered more»

Parker Purifoy & Chris Marr at Bloomberg Law report the U.S. Department of Labor’s (USDOL) newest guidance aimed at easing administrative burdens for employers launching Registered Apprentice Programs may not go far enough to achieve the Trump administration’s lofty job creation goals. The three guidance documents told businesses they more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler has released the following statement: For the past couple of years, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has exploded - in our workplaces and our everyday lives. Economists, Politicians, Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists, Higher Education Leaders and Public Health Experts alike all have more»

(DETROIT, MICHIGAN) - Cameron Harrison at People’s World reports that after 16 months of contract negotiations and what Workers describe as continued bad-faith tactics by Corewell Health, nearly 10,000 Registered Nurses (RN) have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a Strike. The Nurses, who are Members of Teamsters Local 2024, announced nearly 90% of more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) – After more than 45 days, New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses at the Brooklyn Hospital Center have won back their health care benefits. This comes after Nurses took their demands directly to the luxury condo of CEO Gary Terrinoni last week. Nurses marched alongside their Labor Allies and Elected Officials more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - On International Women’s Day, Homecare Workers took to New York City Hall to pressure Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York City Council to pass the No More 24 Bill, which would abolish the 24-hour workday and force employers to repay $90 million in stolen wages. The proposal was introduced to the Council in 2024, though it has more»