(SEATTLE, WASHINGTON) - A recent national study ranked Washington No. 1 in its 2019 edition of its States With the Strongest Unions. The latest Federal Data on Union Membership shows why our state remains “Union Strong!” The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released its 2019 Union Membership Report and more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Low-wage Workers who help move multitudes in and out of New York and New Jersey Airports daily, but still can’t afford the prohibitively high cost of private health insurance, are hoping this is the year legislators on both sides of the Hudson confront tight-fisted employers. Earlier this week, hundreds of Workers at JFK more»

(LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA) - Times are good for Garrett Camp. Even though Uber, the company he co-founded, has yet to turn a profit, he bought a Beverly Hills mansion for over $70 million last July, beating the previous home sales record in Los Angeles’s wealthiest neighborhood. But for thousands of Uber Drivers, things are not going so well. One of more»

(LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA) – Legendary Actor Robert De Niro reserves his right to speak up, so that's exactly what he did in his Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards speech on Sunday night (January 19th). While accepting his Lifetime Achievement Award, De Niro voiced his support for his Union and called on voters to look for candidates who support Unions more»

The Gadsden (Alabama) Times Editor’s Note: Mickey Williams is president of United Steelworkers Local 12, which represents Union Employees at Gadsden’s Goodyear plant. I felt it important to write in response to the recent letter, “Unions Are Elephant In The Room,” that appeared in The Gadsden Times. While I will ignore the more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – New York City Representative Gregory Meeks (Democrat-Queens) introduced a Bill last week to exempt debt relief for Taxi Drivers from Federal Taxes. The measure, co-sponsored by all of the city’s House Members - plus Long Island Republican Peter King, is a second front in the struggle to win relief for Yellow Cab Owner Drivers more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - This Spring, hundreds of striking Unionized Charter Spectrum Technicians will hit the three-year mark just as New York City Lawmakers consider 10 more years of Spectrum, a subsidiary of telecom giant Charter Communications, which got its current franchise agreements by acquiring Time Warner Cable in 2016. When Spectrum and other more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Building Service Workers who had earned family sustaining wages and benefits helping to run 30 Wall Street are beginning the new year wondering what the heck just happened to their little piece of the American Dream after Colonnade Management introduced a new contractor and torpedoed their jobs. Workers, some with a decade or more on the more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - The last time Trade Unionists and Non-Union Workers teamed up in November to demand one of the largest construction management companies in the city cough up $70,000 in unpaid wages - the company coolly thumbed its nose at protesters and barred elected officials from entering its Seventh Avenue offices, but that wasn’t the end of it. more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - New York City’s Transit Workers on Thursday (January 9th) overwhelmingly approved a contract deal between their Union and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), ending a bitter negotiation between the two sides that dragged on for more than six months. Roughly 15,300 of the 35,650 Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - With the Presidential Campaign of Mayor Bill de Blasio foundering from the start, desperation mode hit early. He needed money, support - anything that might prolong his chances. The mayor’s crisis became one Union’s opportunity. The Hotel Trades Council endorsed Mayor de Blasio for the Democratic nomination and then spent more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Scores of members from American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) District Council 37 and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ, two of New York City’s largest Unions, were there for a packed City Council hearing that took place in December where Union Members testified about runaway more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Communication Workers of America (CWA) District 1 is applauding Governor Andrew Cuomo for signing the New York State Call Center Jobs Act (S1826/A567) into law - which will protect New York call center jobs by denying grants, loans and tax breaks to companies that move jobs out of the country. Following years of being stalled in Albany, more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) has announced Workers employed at McNally Jackson Bookstores have voted to join the Union. “We’re proud to welcome the Workers of McNally Jackson into our Union,” RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum said. “They showed that the best way for Working People to more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – More than 300 New York City & Vicinity District Council of Carpenters showed up at the Javits Center in Midtown Manhattan earlier this month with one mission: Construct a hockey rink for the qualifying rounds of the 2020 Special Olympics, being held at the venue the following day. “We are so proud to lend a hand to the New more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - The metal crossbars shimmer as the solar-powered lights below them cut through the evening’s cold rain and fog. Those crossbars, galvanized electrical conduit and aluminum tubing, twist upward in a double-helix pattern around a spine whose vertebrae are the conduit holders Electricians call “Mae Wests.” The undulating more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - “It’s been ‘three years with no’ money. ‘It’s tough,’” says Jason, one of the 1,800 Workers at the Spectrum Cable TV Company who’ve now been on Strike for more than 1,000 days with no sign of management offering a palatable deal. He’s gotten some electrical and data work through more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - More than 20,000 Building Service Workers across New York City will remain on the job throughout the Holiday Season, after their Union and the organization representing property owners and contractors reached a Tentative Agreement on a new four-year deal. According to 32BJ SEIU, the agreement preserves Workers’ all-important Health more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), which represents more than 8,500 Nurses across the NYC Health + Hospitals system (H+H) and City Agencies, has announced the Union has reached a new contract agreement with New York City. “Nurses ‘are vital to the health and well-being of our city,’” Mayor Bill de more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Fired JFK Airport Workers are demanding access to their personal records after being terminated by Eulen America - an Aviation Contractor that has been providing Support Staff for airports throughout the Nation since 1994. Eulen America is, in fact, a principal passenger contractor for American Airlines. The Airport Workers charge they more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Health care is such a core, fundamental issue for Working Men and Women that in the next two weeks, more than 20,000 Commercial Cleaners throughout New York City could walk off the job and Strike to protect what they have - which begs the question: Why isn’t Organized Labor demanding a plan that finally takes health care off more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - The City of New York has reached a Tentative Contract Agreement with Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1180, which represents more than 8,100 Administrative Employees and Supervisors throughout City Government. “Our Workers ‘are the everyday heroes of our City and their work deserves fair more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - The Association of Contracting Plumbers (ACP) and the U.A. (United Association) Plumbers & Steamfitters Local 1 are working hard to ensure that a high standard is met for Skilled Union Labor and efficiency when it comes to New York City projects - and for more than 125 years the ACP and Local 1 have been the backbone of New York more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Two of the most powerful Labor Unions in New York City and their allies are mad as hell at the skyrocketing cost of health care in this town and the “irrational” hospital billing that’s become the financial equivalent of “Russian roulette.” City Council Members Mark Levine (Democrat-7th District) and Fernando more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - More than three years after Workers at a small Bronx Nursing Home voted to join 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU), they’re still trying to win their first contract agreement with the chain that owns it. “We ‘just feel like we’ve been getting the runaround,’” Constance Allen, a Certified more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Sam Chang, the Hotel Mogul who’s come under fire for getting tax rebates while receiving city subsidies to house the homeless, has also attracted the ire of Organized Labor. After workers who cleaned the rooms at his Club Quarters Wall Street voted to unionize, Chang fired them with no notice in one fell swoop in August. Adisa more»

The most recent jobs report must have been adapted from a comic book - because everyone’s calling it a “blockbuster” (and Director Martin Scorsese hasn’t shown any interest in it). In November, America’s Unemployment Rate hit a half-century low, as U.S. employers added 266,000 positions to their payrolls, nearly 100,000 more more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – New York City’s largest Transit Worker Union scored a decent set of pay bumps in a tentative deal that has been reached with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The contract reached between the agency and Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 is a four-year deal that will last into 2023, and comes with a 2% more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - While Amazon watched “Cyber Monday” 2019 become the single biggest shopping day in the company’s history - an international gathering of Unions, policy makers, activists and academics met in Brussels for an inaugural symposium aimed at confronting Amazon’s rapacious worldwide business model. “Amazon is one more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - A man standing at the edge of the Brooklyn Bridge was helped down by a total stranger. It’s the Monday after Thanksgiving, there’s a snow storm in New York City, and it feels like everyone’s just trying to get through the day. Joey Hansen, a New York City U.A. Plumbers Local 1 Apprentice, got to leave his job in more»

Union Membership in the U.S. has fallen dramatically over the last generation. In 1980, one in five Workers were in a union, but today it’s just one in 10. Despite that, data shows being in a Union is still very effective in protecting the rights of Workers and their earnings. Data on Full-Time Wage and Salary Workers comes from the Bureau of Labor more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Did you know that the Empire State Building, the George Washington Bridge, the United Nations, the Woolworth Building, 30 Rock, the Seagram Building, the Lincoln Center and the Waldorf Astoria - virtually all of New York’s most iconic structures, were raised in part by Mohawk Native American Ironworkers? Since 1916, when more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Public Defenders, Civil Legal Service Attorneys, Social Workers, Paralegals and core Staff of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (UAW Local 2325), the Legal Services Staff Association (UAW Local 2320), and 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) rallied on the steps of New York City Hall earlier this month to call on the City more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - A handful of New York City Council Members railed against Staffers’ efforts to Unionize during a heated closed-door meeting last week of the chamber’s Democrats. Councilman Kalman Yeger (Democrat-Brooklyn) was among several electeds who decried the Unionization effort, according to sources present at the meeting, The New York more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Solar is one of the fastest-growing electrical industries in the country and as the effects of climate change become clear, consumers have made the decision to add solar panels to their homes. Cities and local governments have also hoped to reduce their electricity costs by adding these panels to parking lots and putting them on top of more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Chanting “No Mas Robo De Salarios,” more than 200 people rallied outside Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Manhattan office earlier this week to protest his failure to sign a Bill that would allow Workers suing to recover stolen wages to take out “Employee’s liens” on their employer’s property. The Securing more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - YogaWorks New York City Teachers have voted “yes” by an overwhelming majority to join the International Association of Machinists (IAM) - becoming the first-ever Union for Yoga Teachers and Movement Educators across the United States. The IAM filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of 124 YogaWorks more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Hundreds of Union and Non-Union Construction Workers and their supporters gathered on Tuesday (November 19th) outside the 7th Avenue headquarters of New Line Structures - one of the largest construction management companies in New York City, to protest $70,000 in unpaid wages to more than 20 Workers. New Line Structures is accused of more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Kyle Bragg, the head of 32BJ Service Employees International Union (SEIU) - which represents 22,000 Commercial Cleaners across New York City, has only been involved in two strikes over the course of his decades-long Union career - and he doesn’t expect to be involved in one now. But, that doesn’t mean his Members aren’t more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Last week, the New York City Council voted 46-to-1to pass a law that would require the operators of many future “affordable housing” developments to pay Building Service Workers Prevailing Wage. The bill, sponsored by Councilmember Rafael Espinal, Jr. (Democrat-Brooklyn), amends the city’s 2012 Prevailing Wage Law more»

Editor’s Note: Pictured left to right: Dynamic Star President and CEO Gary Segal; Santos Rodriguez, Director of Community Affairs & Strategic Initiatives, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York; and Gary LaBarbera, President, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York. (Photo by Kendall Glaspie) (NEW more»

(STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK) – Rank-and-File Members from the Cement and Concrete Workers District Council and the Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust (LECET) recently hit the hardwood on Staten Island to help a bunch of Metropolitan Area kids in the fight of their lives. The afternoon of charitable basketball at the Lucille & Jay more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - “This looks like the ‘Leaning Tower of New York,’” said Joe Scopo, Head Organizer of District Council 16 of the Cement and Concrete Workers, as about a dozen Laborers Union Members and supporters rallied outside a condominium building under construction in Manhattan on Wednesday (November 13th). The 13-story more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Ronald McDonald’s image as America’s innocuous grinning clown took another series hit on Tuesday (November 12th) when the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Fast Food Workers in the State Michigan hit the multibillion-dollar eatery with a Class Action Lawsuit alleging a “systemic problem” of sexual harassment more»

After decades of declining Membership and seemingly sidelined authority, a series of National Strikes has put Labor Unions back in the spotlight - and as Economic Inequality has become a hot-button issue for Workers and Presidential Candidates on the 2020 campaign trail, some experts have said a surge of emboldened Organized Labor movements could be on the more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) - Housing Works CEO Charles King is sounding “a lot like a person who really is trying not to have a Union.” That’s the conclusion New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams was left with following a sidewalk summit between the non-profit head and elected leaders, in which King once again refused calls to sign more»

Local elections are far more important than voters seem to think, given the historically low turnouts for most of them in recent decades. Especially during off-year contests like this year’s. So, for starters, I just want to encourage everyone who is reading this in a municipality that is holding elections to get out and vote in the upcoming more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - Caregivers and Union Officials are up in arms over changes to Nursing Home Medicaid Reimbursement Rates slated to go into effect this week. Advocates and Members of 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) rallied Monday (November 4th), arguing the cuts will jeopardize jobs and resources and could affect the quality of care more»

When U.S. Workers try to Unionize, roughly a third of their employers engage in retaliatory firings and a Union Organizer today has a 1-in-5 to 1-in-7 chance of losing their job while trying to secure the ability to bargain collectively. Last month, the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 153 filed a complaint with the more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - For those who don’t work in the Nursing Profession, it can come as a surprise to learn that Health Care and Social Services Workers experience a greater rate of on-the-job violence than Police Officers or Prison Guards. According to statistics from 2016, Health Care Workers were the victims of 70% of all violent workplace more»