Kelly Simak at KHON2 News at 10 reports Hawaiʻi’s shortage of Early Childhood Educators continues to impact families across the State, contributing to long waitlists and limited access to quality care. A new proposal aims to address the challenge by creating a clear, supported pathway into the profession. Officials said an Early Learning more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Even as a House rollcall produced Party-line passage of the Republicans’ version of Jim Crow 3.0 - the Save Act 2.0 - Progressives, the National AFL-CIO, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the Congressional Black Caucus were moving to kill it and save voting rights for millions nationwide before the GOP can trash those more»

(BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS) - The Teamsters have marched into U.S. District Court in Boston, suing their biggest employer- UPS, over planned massive job cuts the Union contends violate key provisions of its contract with one of the Nation’s top two Package Delivery Firms. The Union seeks a Federal injunction and Temporary Restraining Order to stop the more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Unionized Full-Time Faculty at New York University (NYU) will cast ballots through February 20th to decide if they Strike after 15 months of bargaining with management. Voting for Members of the Contract Faculty Union at NYU began on Monday (February 9th) - the latest step in an escalating first contract campaign for the largest Union of more»

Workers at the BelGioioso Cheese Facility in Campbell, New York - represented by Rochester’s Teamsters Local 118, have ratified a new contract. The agreement secures higher wages and strengthens job protections for 180 Workers who are responsible for the production, maintenance and distribution of Polly-O cheeses across the region. Local 118 President more»

Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas has become a 100% Union workplace after Front Desk Workers voted for Teamsters Local 986 representation. The 34 Workers join 100 Teamsters already employed by the property. The Front Desk Workers - who handle guest check-ins and check-outs, customer inquiries, and manage inventory - became Teamsters to secure higher more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – After 14 years as President and a lifetime of service to Working People and the Labor Movement, American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Lee Saunders has announced his decision to retire from his role as International President. Saunders, who has devoted his career to expanding the power more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - In a rousing speech made to 3,000 Union Activists meeting in Washington, D.C., United Auto Worker (UAW) President Shawn Fain set out a four-item agenda for their annual Legislative/Political Conference: Campaigning for adequate wages; Adequate and guaranteed pensions and retirement security, Medicare For All and the right of Workers to more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Members employed at Montefiore, Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Morningside and West have voted to ratify new three-year Hospital contracts by an overwhelming majority. Nurses began bargaining in September and went on the largest and longest Nurse Strike in New York City more»

Hundreds of Building Trades Union Members rallied at Gateway’s Hudson Tunnel Project jobsite earlier this week, calling on the Trump Administration to restore funding so they can return to work building the Nation's largest infrastructure project. Construction on the new train tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York began in November 2023, but more»

Allison Pohle and Te-Ping Chen at The Wall Street Journal report that Learn a Trade isn’t just a rallying cry for younger generations to skip college and pursue in-demand blue-collar work. For burned-out White-Collar Workers it has become a popular mid-career fantasy. Fears of an AI (Artificial Intelligence) Jobpocalypse have prompted more than a few more»

Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports on a Save the Post rally held in Washington, D.C. that was much more than a protest against layoffs. Speakers and participants emphasized whether it involves the freedom of the press, saving Democracy or saving jobs, the Billionaire Class is working hard on the wrong side of history. “These layoffs are more»

(TOLEDO, OHIO) – United Steelworkers (USW) Members employed at Libbey Glass in Toledo, Ohio, have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new contract, ending an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike that stretched more than five months. The 650 Workers at the Plant - including Members of USW Locals 59M, 700T and 65T, as well as Members of the International more»

(GLENDALE HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS) – More than 180 Workers employed at Grecian Delight Kronos in Glendale Heights, Illinois have voted to join Teamsters Local 710. The Production, Warehouse, Sanitation and Quality Assurance Workers are seeking better wages, stronger benefits and improved working conditions. “This company tried - but failed, to block more»

(WESTERN NEW YORK) – Buffalo-headquartered Carpenters Local 276 is collaborating with a number of community-based organizations across the Western New York Region and Rochester to provide career opportunities to those enrolled in Workforce Programs. Through these efforts, the Local 276 has trained and welcomed several new Members into the Local, who more»

Grant Schwab at The Detroit News reports The Ford Motor Company Employee who heckled President Donald Trump during a January visit to Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a United Auto Workers (UAW) Official has confirmed. "TJ, we got your back," UAW Vice President Laura Dickerson said during a more»

(CHATTANOOGA, TENNESEE) – Unionized Auto Workers employed at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tennessee Plant have won a historic tentative agreement with the company. After making history as the first Southern Auto Workers outside the Big Three to join the United Auto Workers (UAW), the Union’s 3,200 members who work at Volkswagen Chattanooga more»

Writers Guild of America East (WGAE)-represented Members employed at Hearst Magazines held a half-day walkout last week after management failed to reach a deal on a second contract with the 400-Member Bargaining Unit. Their first contract expired on Saturday, January 31st (2026). The Hearst Magazines Union held actions at Hearst Tower in Manhattan and at more»

More than 80% of ProPublica Guild Members have signed a Strike Pledge, agreeing to walk if management fails to agree to a fair contract. The ProPublica Guild represents Reporters, Editors, Designers, Videographers and Business and Communications Staff at the award-winning non-profit News Organization and is a Bargaining Unit of The NewsGuild of New York. more»

Reece Dower at The Capitol News Illinois/The Rockford (Illinois) Register Star reports that as the U.S. sheds manufacturing jobs, the State of Illinois is accepting applications for $24 million in grant funding to establish Training Facilities at Community Colleges aimed at bolstering its manufacturing labor pool. The funding is for six Manufacturing more»

Sarah Lazare at In These Times reports Federal Immigration Agents have abducted Eustaquio Orozco Verdusco, a Workers’ Rights Organizer well known in Minnesota for fighting wage theft and labor trafficking. He is currently held at the Cibola County Correctional Center in New Mexico, run by CoreCivic - one of the largest private prison companies in the more»

The Associated Press reports 6,000 Public School Teachers represented by the United Educators of San Francisco went on Strike today (Monday, February 9th) - the City’s first such walkout in nearly 50 years. The Strike comes after Teachers and the District failed to reach an agreement over higher wages, health benefits and more resources for students more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) announced today (Monday, February 9th) that 10,500 NYSNA Members employed at Montefiore, Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Morningside and West in New York City have reached tentative contract agreements with their Hospitals. NYSNA Nurses will vote on whether to ratify the contracts more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - United University Professions (UUP), representing 42,000 Faculty and Professional Staff at the State University of New York’s (SUNY) State-operated Campuses, the Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York (PSC/CUNY), representing 30,000 CUNY Members, and Rutgers American Association of University Professors-American more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Production Workers and Box Office Staff at four of Washington D.C.’s most renowned concert venues have voted decisively to join International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Locals 22 and 868. The victory for the 150 Workers employed at the venues that are operated by I.M.P. represents a significant step forward more»

Empire Report New York Editor’s Note: This Labor Perspective was authored by three New York State Labor Leaders: Joe Peluso, who serves as Vice President and Assistant Business Manager of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 97; Sam Capitano, who serves as Business Manager for the Upstate Laborers District Council; and Greg more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Trump Administration on Thursday (February 5th) finalized a rule that gives it the power to more easily fire an estimated 50,000 Federal Workers who focus on policy, striking many Civil Service safeguards while also gutting their whistleblower protections. The rule, dubbed Schedule Policy/Career, converts a wide swath of Federal more»

(SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA) - The Labor Movement is calling on State Governments in California and around the country to protect Workers’ jobs, rights and freedoms from being taken away by Artificial Intelligence (AI). National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler joined California Federation of Labor Unions President Lorena Gonzalez, Iowa Federation of Labor more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Nearly 15,000 New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses are continuing to hold the line on the largest and longest Nurses’ Strike in New York City History and are demanding their employers settle fair contracts with their Nurses. However, these Nurses are at a critical moment in their Strike. Hospital executives more»

(WATERTOWN, NEW YORK) - New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses employed at the Samaritan Medical Center, the Carthage Area Hospital and the Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center have voted overwhelmingly to ratify new four-year contracts. Highlights of the contracts include: Improved health and pension benefits; Improved safe staffing more»

Los Angeles International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 11 has plugged into a new way to recruit more Military Veterans: Hosting a program designed for Servicewomen. The Pre-Apprenticeship, which ran from October to December, was run by Local 11 alongside the Electrical Training Alliance and the Veterans Electrical Entry Program (VEEP). more»

One hundred years ago this month, a Black Scholar and the son of former slaves set out to change the way we celebrate our shared history. Carter Woodson was tired of seeing the role of African Americans overlooked and underappreciated, and in 1926 he declared the very first “Negro History Week” - a predecessor to today’s Black History more»

Just Cause just published an interesting read authored by a gentleman named Alec Monnie, who writes: I worked in a Walmart Deli for three years. It made me understand why Labor Unions in America are more popular now than they’ve been in generations. I’d heard horror stories about what it’d be like to work at Walmart. The customers would more»

Emily Swanson at The Bronx Times reports Union workers at the Grocery Delivery Company FreshDirect are preparing for a possible Strike over the company’s proposal to outsource more deliveries to a third-party company. Longtime workers say their main fight is not about increasing wages or benefits - but preserving job stability. FreshDirect’s more»

Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Mary Sullivan - whose Statewide Union represents 250,000 Members who work in the Public Sector, authored the following Labor Opinion that was just published on syracuse.com: Public Workers’ pensions are not a political piggy bank. The money belongs to the Workers and Retirees who contributed to it more»

(MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA) - Registered nurses (RNs) employed at Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP) in Monterey, California have voted – overwhelmingly, to join California Nurses Association (CNA), an affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU), the Nation’s largest and fastest-growing RN Union. Nearly 500 Nurses voted to join the CNA more»

Jessica James at Fox 5 News reports Kennedy Center Arts Workers United has responded to plans by President Trump to temporarily close the Preforming Arts Venue in Washington, D.C. Trump has announced the closure will start in July for renovations and last about two years. Kennedy Center Arts Workers United said it has not been given a "formal notice or more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - United University Professions (UUP), America’s largest Higher Education Union, HAS opened negotiations for a new contract with New York state. This is the first time in decades that both sides have agreed to begin contract talks so soon in the process and that prospect has UUP Negotiators hopeful a tentative agreement could be more»

Marcus Dieterle at The Baltimore Fishbowl reports the State of Maryland has launched a $5 million program to incentivize small businesses and other employers to hire and train Registered Apprentices. Through the Maryland Apprenticeship Incentive Program, Apprenticeship sponsors and employers can receive up to $3,000 per adult Registered Apprentice or $7,500 more»

United University Professions (UUP) President Fred Kowal has issued a statement after University at Buffalo (UB) Research Scientist Shovgi Huseynov was released from an ICE Detention Facility in Michigan: Huseynov, an Azerbaijani native who has a valid U.S. Work Authorization, was apprehended by ICE agents on January 7th after making a wrong turn onto the more»

The United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) announced over the weekend that its Members have overwhelmingly voted to approve a Strike Authorization after months of stalled bargaining. The 37,000-Member American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Affiliate has held meetings with the Los Angeles Unified School District more than a dozen times since negotiations began more»

James Ford at WPIX-TV reports that as the fourth week of the New York City Nurses’ Strike began on Monday (February 2nd), hundreds of Nurses marked that milestone by marching down the streets of Midtown to Governor Kathy Hochul’s Office for a protest in which they both criticized New York State’s Chief Executive and called on her to do more»

More than 80 Workers employed at eight Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams locations in Columbus, Ohio have voted to join United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1059. This organizing win marks the first Ice Cream Shop Unit to be organized by Local 1059. The Workers, who are employed as full- and part-time Team Leads and Ambassadors for the Ice Cream more»

(SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA) – The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and a broad coalition of Labor Organizations, Non-Profit Groups and Local Governments have filed a supplemental complaint challenging the more»

(FORT WORTH, TEXAS) - Democrat and International Association of Machinists (IAM) Union Leader Taylor Rehmet has secured a significant victory in a Texas State Senate Special Election, flipping a district that Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024. Rehmet, a Veteran and the President of the IAM Texas State Council comfortably defeated Republican Leigh more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - On December 31st (2025), the final day of his administration, former Mayor Eric Adams vetoed numerous Bills that passed the City Council late in the year. But late last week, the new, defiant City Council Speaker Julie Menin led the body in overriding 17 of those vetoes, clearing the way for a series of new Worker Protections affecting more»

Research Assistants (RAs) at the University at Albany-State University of New York (SUNY) have Unionized. The Research Foundation won their National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Election with more than 98% voting in favor of joining the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The Unit of 214 RAs will join the 4,700 Graduate Student Workers and more than more»

Christian Smith at The Chicago Tribune reports on a free training program aimed at preparing people for Union Apprenticeship is expanding into Kane County, Illinois with a location in Aurora. HIRE360, partnering with International Union of Painters & Allied Trades (IUPAT) District Council 30 and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic more»

(ROCHESTER, NEW YORK) – International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 86 Business Manager Ray Ryerse has been elected President of the Rochester Building & Construction Trades Council. The Rochester Trades Council represents 18 Affiliated Member Unions and a combined 10,000 Unionized Construction Workers who are highly skilled in a more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - There is an undeniable correlation between higher levels of Unionization and stronger economic, community and Democratic outcomes, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), as States with a larger share of Workers represented by a Union enjoy higher incomes, greater access to health insurance and fewer voting restrictions. When more»