(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – A new four-year contract covering more than 2,800 Members of Communications Workers of America (CWA) Locals 1133 and 1168 at area Catholic Health Facilities has been ratified, Local 1133 President Brian Magner tells WNYLaborToday.com. The contract came not too soon after the Locals announced during the first week of September more»

The National AFL-CIO has launched the Workers First Initiative on AI - the first comprehensive Labor Movement agenda establishing principles on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology. The initiative provides a blueprint for how employers and Elected Officials should advance AI implementation in the workplace to the benefit of America’s Working People more»

(LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA) - An overwhelming majority of Los Angeles Times Journalists have voted to authorize their Union’s Leaders to call a Strike if such a step is necessary to reach a new contract. The Union announced 85% of the Los Angeles Times Guild, which represents Reporters, Editors, Designers, Photographers and other Journalists at the more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Hundreds of New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses who are employed at 12 Private Sector Facilities across New York City - which combine to represent 20,000 Members, recently came together to announce a coordinated campaign to care for New York through winning a fair contract. They took part in a full-day strategy more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - United University Professions (UUP) President Fred Kowal is standing with New York State Attorney General Letitia James, who was recently indicted on a Federal bank fraud charge - less than a month after the sitting U.S. President publicly pressured U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute his political enemies. UUP President Fred more»

Julia Burdelski at Trib Total Media reports a dozen Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Police Commanders are Unionizing. Commanders are among the Police Bureau’s most powerful Supervisors, just under the rank of Assistant Chief. The Commanders unanimously voted to form a Union with the Teamsters, separate from the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 1 more»

Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports the National Education Association (NEA), the Nation’s largest Union, is lobbying lawmakers against big looming cuts in Federal education aid - and a massive health insurance premium hike that would hit more than 21 million people directly, but many more who have any form of health insurance on January more»

(LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA) – Tens of thousands of Front-Line Kaiser Permanente Registered Nurses (RNs) and Health Care Professionals represented by the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP) are on Strike across California and Hawaii to protect the future of patient care. Kaiser Employees launched a more»

Jake Kroesen at The Missouri Times reports on the Laborers and Contractors Training Center, a 225-acre campus where Missouri’s next generation of Builders learn their craft - and their calling. The facility is one of three facilities that serve as the cornerstone of skills development for Union Laborers across the States of Missouri and Kansas more»

United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain recently laid out four priorities he says should form the nucleus of a Workers’ Political Program - and he said that a broad Strike in May 2028 is one way to fight for those priorities. Fain spoke at the release of a new report by the Center for Working-Class Politics, Jacobin, and allied groups. The more»

(JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN) – United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 95 Unit 14 Members employed at Mercyhealth’s East Clinic have reached a major milestone - 100 days on strike. Since July 2nd, the Health Care Workers have been standing up not just for themselves, but for their patients. They’re fighting to restore quality care and fair jobs at more»

Ari Paul at Jacobin reports the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the Union that represents 30,000 Faculty and Staff at the City University of New York (CUNY), spent much of the Summer battling against the rise of Right-Wing McCarthyist assaults on American Universities, including specific attacks against Members and academic freedom at CUNY. In July, more»

(EAST MEADOW, NEW YORK) - Under the leadership of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Mary E. Sullivan, CSEA’s Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC) Unit recently became its own Union Local. The decision to transform the Unit into a Local was viewed as a logical move because the hospital became a Public Benefit Corporation in more»

Forbes Senior Contributor Janice Gassam Asare, Ph.D. reports California just became the second State, after Massachusetts, to allow Drivers at ride-hailing companies to Unionize. Governor Gavin Newsom just signed new legislation that will allow Drivers at companies like Uber and Lyft to join a Union and bargain for better wages and benefits. California has more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), whose Members are prime victims of President Donald Trump’s shutdown, furloughs and looming firings, are striking back: They’re asking Members and supporters to join the next round of No Kings Day protests, which are scheduled for Saturday (October 18th). Since AFGE more»

Cameron Harrison at People’s World reports the chants from thrilled Home Care Workers, in a sea of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) purple, echoed through the streets of Downtown Detroit, culminating in a victory rally outside SEIU Healthcare’s Michigan offices. The rally’s message was simple - but powerful: “We got our more»

Paul Sisson at The San Diego Union-Tribune says a 2022 report concluded San Diego County faces a mental health care staffing crisis and needs 18,500 more Mental Health Care Workers by 2027 to catch up with chronic understaffing. While it will not cover the whole gap, a new program is making a $75 million investment that’s intended to grow local more»

(CHEEKTOWAGA, NEW YORK) - International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) District Council 4 will host the seventh annual Western & Central New York Glass and Glazing Forum on Thursday (October 17th) at the Building Trades Union’s Training Center, located on Aero Drive in the Buffalo Suburb of Cheektowaga. This free, community and more»

Colin Kalmbacher at Law & Crime reports the Union representing NASA Workers has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy in a Washington, D.C. Federal Court over an Executive Order stripping Collective Bargaining Rights from Federal Employees. On August 28th, Trump issued Executive Order 14343, entitled: more»

(HOUSTON, TEXAS) - The first Hotel Strike in Texas History has come to an end after Strikers voted to ratify a new contract with Hilton Americas-Houston on Friday (October 10th). The 40-day strike, which was the first Hotel Strike led by Union Members in the State of Texas, has brought significant gains raising the standard for Hotel Workers in the City. more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - A coalition of Council Members, Labor Unions and advocates are warning New Yorkers about the misleading language and negative impacts of Mayor Eric Adams’ Ballot Proposals 2, 3 and 4 in the upcoming election. The proposals would change who has the power to make decisions about development in New York City, shifting voting power from more»

Ryan Zunner at Buffalo Toronto Public Media reports the 2021 Starbucks Unionization effort in Buffalo that led to a nationwide effort at more than 650 stores is getting the Silver Screen treatment. Baristas vs. Billionaires premiered at the Buffalo International Film Festival on Friday (October 10th). The successful Union vote in December of 2021 was a more»

(PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA) - Temple University’s Resident Assistants (RAs) and Peer Mentors (PMs) have voted by 100% to Unionize with Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 153, following in the footsteps of RAs at 12 other Universities and Colleges, including Penn, Drexel, Swarthmore, Bucknell and more. Local 153 Lead more»

Josh Bivens at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) reports it is often under-recognized how much population aging is currently reducing the growth rate of the U.S. Labor Force - and will continue to pull it down in coming decades. The share of the population that is over the age of 65 (when Labor Force participation tends to take a steep fall on average) is more»

Rebecca Gvozden, Brianna Leonard & Blake Sammann at KKTV 11 in Colorado report hundreds of Union-represented Teachers from Colorado Springs’ largest School District are on Strike and are picketing outside District 11 Schools. Teachers, students, parents and grandparents gathered outside Palmer High School at 7 a.m. on Wednesday (October 8th) with more»

California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced $30 million in awards benefiting 70 Apprenticeship Programs and more than 11,000 Apprentices, earning an average of $50.29 per hour, in Non-Traditional Sectors, including health care, education and advanced manufacturing. This is the third round of Apprenticeship Innovation Funding (AIF) through more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1168-represented Health Care Workers joined with members of the Buffalo Community today (Thursday, October 9th) outside the Kaleida Health Family Planning Clinic on Main Street to demand an immediate halt to the planned closure of what they described as this vital Clinic, as well as more»

The Chicago News Guild-Communications Workers of America (TNG-CWA) Local 34017 and National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET-CWA) Local 41 have joined a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over excessive violence targeting reporters covering protests at an ICE more»

David Wright at Ocean State Media reports the Rhode Island AFL-CIO and a coalition of homeowners, solar energy companies and non-profits are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its termination of $7 billion in grants meant to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels. The suit concerns the Solar for All Program, which more»

Suzanne Blake at Newsweek reports New Yorkers facing unemployment will now be able to receive up to $365 more in benefits per week, as Governor Kathy Hochul announced the new rules in which the maximum weekly figure will increase from $504 to $869. In addition to general economic uncertainty throughout the U.S., the Federal Government shutdown has impacted more»

(WAYNE COUNTY, NEW YORK) - Despite an arbitrator’s sanction of a Collective Bargaining Agreement covering Workers employed at an Upstate Apple Farm, the company has refused to institute its provisions. The deadlock led Workers at Wafler Farms in Wayne County to publicize their frustrations at having to work according to the company’s terms more»

At Kraton’s Belpre, Ohio Facility, long-time Worker Brandon Burnfield reached out to the United Steelworkers (USW) Union after enduring a decade of mounting challenges at the Polymer Supplier. The final blow came when the company froze pensions and eliminated Sunday premiums and double-time pay. “That was the straw that broke the camel’s more»

Cory Sharber at WHYY Philadelphia 250 reports Strikes have begun at two Center City Philadelphia Hotels as Workers demand better workplace protections and fair wages ahead of next year’s celebrations for America’s 250th anniversary. Union contracts at nine hotels in the City have expired, according to UNITE HERE Local 274, which represents more more»

Vermont Business Magazine reports the Vermont Community Broadband Board (VCBB) has announced the graduation of a new class of Broadband Technicians who were trained at the latest session of the Broadband Technician Apprenticeship/Pre-Apprenticeship Training Program. This training was for an entry-level Broadband Network Technicians. The three-week course more»

(RANSOMVILLE, NEW YORK) – The tradition continued in 2025. In one of the most unique Labor-sponsored fundraisers in Western New York Union History, the Niagara-Orleans AFL-CIO Central Labor Council’s 2025 Labor’s Night At The Races to benefit the United Way of Greater Niagara raised more than $23,000 - bringing the 16-year total of this more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The largest Federal Worker Union in the Nation has sued the Trump-Vance Administration for forcing Civil Servants at the U.S. Department of Education to engage in partisan political rhetoric during the current Federal shutdown. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) - the largest Federal Employee Union that more»

For several decades, both major parties - bankrolled by Big Business, watched as deindustrialization, mass layoffs and a changing tech-driven economy hollowed out the former Industrial Heartland. Working-Class Communities, feeling betrayed by a Democratic Party that embraced neo-liberalism and a Republican Party that offers only false populism and a more»

Katie Campione at Deadline reports many of the major talent agencies across New York and Los Angeles have been sent a letter asking agents and their clients to boycott the Surrey Hotel in New York City, at least for now. The Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, the Union that represents about 40,000 Hotel and Gaming Workers across New York and New Jersey, sent more»

(HAVERSTRAW, NEW YORK) – Workers employed at the Haverstraw King’s Daughters Public Library in Rockland County are now the most recent addition of Cultural Workers who have joined Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA). The workers previously had an independent Staff Association but opted to strengthen their voice by joining CSEA, the Union more»

Gabriel San Román at The Los Angeles Times reports Lego Store Brick Specialists at Downtown Disney are looking to assemble a Union after taking their organizing efforts public. About two dozen Union Organizers and Lego Store Employees recently gathered at the flagship location in Anaheim to present management with a Union petition. It marked the more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) is publicly recognizing and thanking a host of NYSNA-represented Nurses at the Erie County Medical Center (ECMC), who saved lives following a tour bus crash that took place on the New York State Thruway in late August that killed five and injured more than four dozen people. While more»

Federal Workers will start looking at their financial budgets as critical Employees like Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Agents continue to work for the public without pay. Joe Shuker - Vice President of America Federal Government Employees (AFGE) Council 100/TSA Region 7, talks to MSNBC’s Alex Witt to share his insight on the effects of more»

Dominic Anthony Walsh at Houston Public Media reports striking Hotel Workers at the Downtown Hilton Americas-Houston plan to remain on the picket line through October 12th, marking the second significant extension of a historic labor action that was initially slated to end on September 9th. UNITE HERE Local 23 Lead Negotiator Willy Gonzalez is calling the more»

The Baltimore Times reviews Maryland State Senator Cory McCray’s new book: The Apprenticeship That Saved My Life: Guidebook to Navigating the Earn-While-You-Learn Opportunity of a Lifetime, calling it both a deeply personal reflection and a practical guide to opportunity. McCray grew up in East Baltimore and found his path through an Apprenticeship more»

From the National AFL-CIO: Last week, we saw yet another disgusting example of how little the Trump Administration cares about Working People. The dedicated Americans who show up every day to keep our essential services running have been villainized over and over by corrupt billionaires since Inauguration Day. Union Members who help our seniors get their more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - An increasingly unhinged President of the United States, Donald Trump, formally notified Congress of his “declaration of war” against drug cartels this week to lay the groundwork for even more unconstitutional power grabs he is piling up by the day. Trump says that his Director of Budget and Management - Russell Voight, more»

Designers, Support Specialists, Product Managers and Engineers employed at Kickstarter - the popular crowdfunding platform, are on Strike in New York City. Khee Hoon Chan at Rascal News reports a majority of Members at Kickstarter United voted to authorize the Strike, which began on Thursday (October 2nd). Represented by the Office and Professional more»

After 10 weeks on Strike, United Auto Workers-Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys (UAW-ALAA) Local 2325-represented Members employed at the Goddard Riverside Law Project in New York City have won a tentative contract agreement that will last through June 30th, 2026 - if ratified by Union Membership. More than 400 Legal Aid Workers went out on more»

Nearly 50 Workers employed at the Maine Trust for Local News have won their National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Election to join the News Guild of Maine - NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America (TNG-CWA) Local 31128, which brings the total number of Workers in the Union to more than 200. The number of eligible voters was 49. The vote count was more»

Even as talks drag on between Anti-Union Starbucks management and Workers at 640 of its stores nationwide, the monster Coffee Chain can’t resist antagonizing its Workers and continuing to break Labor Law. And the saga of what happened more than three years ago at the Starbucks store in Sylmar, California not only illustrates the Coffee Giant’s more»