(RIVER DELL, NEW JERSEY) - Trade skills training was once a fixture of the American High School experience but faded from most schools over the decades. Now, at River Dell Regional High School, it's back, and it comes with some perks: High School credit, college credit and a path toward a licensed trade, all before graduation. River Dell has partnered more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Trump Administration is withdrawing its authorization of widespread layoffs across the Federal Workforce during a Government shutdown as a result of Federal Employee Unions reaching a settlement with the Administration - which puts a pause on a lawsuit challenging widespread layoffs carried out during a 43-day Government shutdown more»

Eight hundred Canadian Workers employed at a Walmart Distribution Center in Mississauga, Ontario have succeeded where others have not: They are now working under a two-year contract with North America’s largest Logistics Giant. The landmark Collective Bargaining Agreement went into effect on July 1st, nearly two years after Workers won Union more»

Workers employed at an AutoZone location in White Plains (New York) have made history by voting to join United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 259, making them the first store at the country’s largest Auto Parts Retailer to organize for a fair contract. Staff cited concerns around low pay and unfair working conditions as core motivators for joining together more»

(HEMLOCK, MICHIGAN) - Workers employed at a Corning Solar Manufacturing Plant in the State of Michigan have voted to join the United Steelworkers (USW). The vote was close - 560-to-512, following an intense Anti-Union Campaign by the company. Nakisha West, a Wirecutter, voted yes for “fairness and accountability.” She and her Co-Workers use more»

The U.S. Auto Repair Sector is experiencing a persistent annual shortage of 20,000 to 70,000 technicians. This gap affects the industry's ability to meet repair demand and maintain service capacity across both franchised dealerships and independent shops. That’s why General Motors has launched its 30 Under 30 to spotlight the need for young talent, more»

(LAKEVIEW, NEW YORK) – Over the course of two days this week - on Tuesday (September 29th) and Wednesday (September 30th), more than 1,000 High School Students from across the region will make the trek to Lakeview (just south of Buffalo) to experience Western New York Construction Career Days, which is being held for the 18th time at International more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - If you are an ICE Agent or a billionaire, the latest Trump budget is chock-full of money for you, but if you are a Federal Worker who keeps the country running, there is not even a single dime - the proposed wage increase for you next year is $0.00. Immigration services, as late as 10 years ago, operated on a $9 billion annual budget. more»

Rebecca Davis O’Brien at The New York Times reports Tim Suitter knows change is coming to Bath Iron Works, creeping up the adjacent Kennebec River in Maine like a foreboding fog. Suitter, the President of the Union that represents more than 4,400 Workers who build ships for the U.S. Navy at the shipyard, knows Workers must be prepared for the arrival more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Staff at the South Street Seaport Museum in Lower Manhattan, who are negotiating their first contract, have voted unanimously to authorize a Strike action if they are unable to reach an agreement. Esme Levitch, a Public Programs Associate who’s worked at the Museum since 2022, says: “We’ve been bargaining with the Museum more»

WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Larry Wittner, who serves as Executive Secretary of the Albany County AFL-CIO Central Labor Federation of Labor recently penned the following Labor Perspective that was published on the ZNetwork: On June 6th, 2025, Donald Trump’s White House Staff issued an upbeat statement proclaiming that what it called the more»

(LEWISTON, MAINE) - Registered Nurses (RNs) employed at the Central Maine Medical Center (CMMC) in Lewiston have voted overwhelmingly to join the Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (MSNA/NNOC), an Affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU), the largest and fastest-growing RN Union in the Nation. Nurses voted 91% yes more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The National AFL-CIO and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have released a new report - Citizenship and the Affordability Agenda: A Path to Better Jobs, Higher Wages, and Prosperity for All - detailing how the mass deportation agenda is worsening the affordability crisis - as well as disrupting critical industries, eliminating more»

UNITE HERE Local 1 says Hotel Workers in Downtown Chicago properties could go on Strike any day now. Contracts at 46 Hotels, which cover some 7,000 Workers, expired on August 31st, according to The Chicago Tribune. Earlier this week, the Hotel Workers voted to Strike by an 85% margin and an “overwhelming majority” of the 46 Hotels were more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – The Healthcare Needs All of Us Coalition held a day of action on Thursday (September 24th) in New York City to highlight the importance of supporting Immigrant Health Care Workers. The day began with a morning news conference at City Hall and continued with afternoon actions, including lunchtime rallies at Maimonides and Interfaith more»

(ROCHESTER, NEW YORK) – Health Care Workers, Bedside Caregivers, Union Members and Immigrant Rights Activists rallied in Rochester on Thursday (September 24th) as part of Healthcare Needs Us All, a coordinated national day of action taking place in hundreds of Cities across the U.S. that called on Congress to protect Immigrant Health Care Workers and more»

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) Office of Apprenticeship has announced the availability of $2 million through its first round of Fiscal Year 2027 New Jersey Builder’s Utilization Initiative for Labor Diversity (NJBUILD) Women and Minorities in Construction Trades Grant funding to support the training of Minority more»

Kevin Hardy at Stateline reports Labor Union Membership continues to climb in the U.S., though the increase remains sharply divided by the politics of individual States. Last year, the Nation added more than 411,000 Union Members - the largest annual growth since 2008, according to a study published by the Illinois Economic Policy Institute and the Project more»

(HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA) - The strength and dogged advocacy of American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Retirees was recently showcased during an event with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, who signed an (AFSCME)-endorsed Bill giving 60,000 Retirees across the Commonwealth a double-digit Cost-Of-Living Adjustment (COLA) more»

Sanitization Staff employed at Butterball in Raeford, North Carolina have joined United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1208. The 58 new Union Members are responsible for cleaning and preparing the Poultry Plant for its daily production of ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook turkey products. The key issues that led Workers to want Union representation more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Beginning in 2018, UNITE HERE - under the leadership of then-President D. Taylor, made a substantial commitment to facing the challenges that technology poses for the Hospitality Industry. This commitment continues under Taylor’s successor, Gwen Mills. The Union made that commitment because they understand technology - not as a more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Faced with rising costs and struggling to make ends meet, nearly 70,000 Caregivers in New York’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) - most of whom care for relatives, have filed for a Union Election with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), seeking representation with 1199 Service Employees International more»

Dave Jamieson at The Huffington Post reports New York City has reached a settlement with the Gig Delivery Platform DoorDash that will bring $115 million to the City’s Drivers and create a new monitoring system of the company’s pay practices. The deal resolves allegations DoorDash underpaid more than 260,000 Drivers. The City said it was the more»

Matthew Sellers at Insurance Business reports documents unsealed in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI show Employees at both companies privately worried, years before it became public, that they were carrying out what one Microsoft Researcher called the "largest theft of labor in human history." The filings landed the same more»

Doreen Hemlock a Refresh Miami reports Apprenticeships are among the oldest forms of job training in the world, but the practice has often been limited in the U.S. because of burdensome paperwork. That’s where GoSprout comes in. The software startup from Miami has developed a platform that simplifies documentation for employers, Apprentices and more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – After the Niagara-Orleans AFL-CIO Central Labor Council held its annual Workers’ Memorial event back in 2025, its Executive Board met and made a decision that it had to go deeper than just address the yearly number of Workers who’d lost their lives - and instead focus on the pain their families were left to deal with more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler has released the following statement on Artificial Intelligence (AI): Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic in the news recently. Here’s what I hear from Workers about AI - and what I see as the best path forward. First, we need to broaden the conversation about what more»

Young Men - especially Working-Class young Men - worry about reaching financial stability and being able to afford major life goals such as getting married, having kids or owning a home, but Union Membership makes all of these achievements more likely, according to new analysis from the Center for American Progress. Data shows for Men under age 35 without more»

Workers employed at the National Braille Press (NBP) have received confirmation from management that they will voluntarily recognize the Workers’ Union with the Industrial Division of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) - (International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers (IUE)-CWA) Local 8120. Members are more»

Michael Sainato at The Guardian reports the U.S. Labor Movement is having a banner election year. More than three dozen nominees for open House and Senate races across the country have backgrounds as Labor Union Representatives or Members. Several nominees are running in heavily Blue Districts, making it almost certain they will win the seat in more»

(BALTIMORE, MARYLAND) - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ordered both the Alaska Tanker Company (ATC) and the Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Saltchuk Resources subsidiaries, to immediately recognize the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots (MM&P) and bargain in good faith with more than 125 Licensed Deck Officers. more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Around 20 Editorial Staffers at The New York Times rallied last week to highlight their push for a new contract outside a gala celebrating the Newspaper's 175th anniversary in Tribeca. “This is a show of unity,” said Senior Editor and Times Guild Unit Chair Jim Luttrell. “It’s a message to the management: more»

Michael Sainato at The Guardian reports Workers employed at an AutoZone in White Plains are seeking to become the first store at the U.S.’s largest Auto Parts Retailer to win a Union Election, which is set to begin on Friday (September 25th) despite a heavy-handed Union opposition campaign from the company. LaborLab, a Non-Profit Workers’-Rights more»

Chris Walls at Harrisonburg WHSV reports West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey has announced a record-setting $15 million Federal Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC) grant to expand college access and Workforce training for adult learners across the State. The funding, awarded to the West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education, more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – New York State Assemblyman Pat Burke, the Sportsmen’s Americana Music Foundation and members of Western New York’s Labor and Arts Communities have announced the launch of 9 to 5: Songs for Working People of Buffalo, an original song contest that will bring together Western New York Musicians to create a new album more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - CEOs of major U.S. companies were paid 21 times as much as the typical Worker in 1965, using the realized measure of CEO compensation, which captures what CEOs took home in pay after any stock-based compensation were sold, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). This ratio grew to 31-to-1 in 1978 and 60-to-1 by 1989. It more»

(GRAND BLANC, MICHIGAN) – Unionized Nurses employed at Henry Ford Health in Michigan - one of the State’s largest Health Care Systems - have been on Strike for more than a year, but their spirit remains solid both on the picket line and at the bargaining table. Represented by Teamsters Local 332, they met with management for a negotiation more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Comptroller Mark Levine and the Trustees of four of New York City’s Public Pension Funds have announced a historic $300 million investment with the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT), marking its largest-ever allocation to the Fund as it supports effort to build and preserve homes. This new investment is the latest step in the more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Unionized Staff employed at three major New York City Museums have voted to authorize a Strike action if they do not receive fair offers on their contract. Workers at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) have each voted overwhelmingly to authorize their Bargaining Committee to set more»

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The State of Maryland Apprenticeship and Training Council has registered the first Registered Apprenticeship in the United States dedicated to Artificial Intelligence (AI) Project Management - a two-year paid pathway into leading AI deployment inside organizations. The sponsor is Master of Project Academy, a Project Management Training Provider founded in more»

Four Labor Unions representing U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Employees - joined by Non-Profit Organizations and Cities and Counties from across the country, have filed a new lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to stop the Trump administration from implementing an unlawful reorganization of the USDA. The more»

(LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY) – GE Appliances and the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers-Communications Workers of America (IUE-CWA) have jointly announced a major transformation of Appliance Park with a $1 billion investment by the company to expand high-output production of laundry products and reinforce more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Unionized City Council Employees rallied on the steps of New York City Hall earlier this week to call on Council Leadership to finalize a contract agreement covering 96 employees whose wage rates have yet to be settled. Dozens of City Council Employees in the Body's Central Staff accreted into the Association of Legislative Employees more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Hundreds of New Yorkers from dozens of Organized Labor, parent, Education and Civil Rights groups stood shoulder to shoulder in Manhattan earlier this week to urge Governor Kathy Hochul to reject President Donald Trump's taxpayer-funded Private School Voucher Program. Together the groups called on the Governor to opt out of the program, more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) – 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East-represented Catholic Health Employees at two nursing homes in Buffalo and Kenmore held informational pickets this week to draw attention to their labor dispute. The Caregivers picketed in front of Catholic Health’s St. Catherine’s Laboure on more»

A Federal Judge has blocked the Trump Administration from requiring Federal Agency job applicants to write an essay about their favorite Trump administration initiative, siding with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the National Association of Government more»

(SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA) - Members of American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 6 have gone out on Strike right as the San Francisco Opera was set to begin its 2026-2027 season, escalating their fight for a fair contract. These World-Class Musicians have been working under an expired agreement since the end of July. Before the Strike, Members firmly more»

(SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA)– Registrars at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (SDZWA) have voted to join Teamsters Local 481, becoming the second group of Workers at SDZWA to organize with the Union this year. Local 481 represents 1,800 Workers who are employed at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, from Retail and Concessions to Wildlife Care more»

Business Monthly Senior Writer Mark Smith reports that not long ago, the number of applicants for Apprenticeships in the Skilled Trades was somewhat stagnant. Consider the observations of Ryan Ambrose, Business Agent for Rosedale, Maryland’s Plumbers & Steamfitters UA Local 486. He points out: “Five years ago, we accepted (70) Apprentices in more»