(NEW YORK CITY) - Two new Unions of Workers at the Fortune Society and New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) were certified this month by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) after a third-party check of Workers’ Union Authorization Cards. More than 400 Workers employed at the Fortune Society, a Prison Re-Entry Organization, and another 39 at the more»

Chris Wade at The Center Square reports a Federal Judge has overturned New York State's NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) Trigger Law following a lawsuit from Amazon, which claimed it was an unconstitutional "power grab" by the State's Labor Board. In the ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Eric Komitee said the 2025 State Law giving the New York State more»

(ROCHESTER, NEW YORK) – A group of 65 Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Workers employed at Penfield Webster EMS have voted to join Teamsters Local 118 to fight for fair pay, improved workplace protections and a real voice on the job. “These Workers stood strong and fought hard to win their union, and we could not be prouder to welcome more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Members have overwhelmingly approved a new five-year contract with New York State, ratifying an agreement that will provide annual pay increases, health insurance improvements and other workplace benefits for more than 55,000 State Employees. The agreement - which run through April 1st, more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Nurses represented by the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) held a vigil at Maimonides Medical Center to protest the Trump Administration’s termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000 Haitian Immigrants in the U.S., leaving them vulnerable to increased enforcement activity and subject to deportation. Nurses more»

(UPSTATE NEW YORK) - Registered Nurses (RNs) at Guthrie Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton have voted by a 2-to-1 margin in favor of joining 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East, the largest Health Care Workers Union in the country. The new Bargaining Unit includes 340 RNs at Guthrie Lourdes Hospital who provide care more»

The Teamsters have announced on Social Media (Facebook) that a tentative contract agreement has been reached between five Teamster Locals and Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirts, ending a short Strike that involved its Locals in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany and Middletown. Those Teamster Locals included Buffalo Area Teamsters Local 449, more»

The Associated Press (Via WKTV-NewsChannel 2 Utica) reports the Salamanca School District in Western New York has hit pause on plans to deploy an AI (Artificial Intelligence)-powered, humanoid robot in the classroom after New York State Education Officials, Teachers and local residents raised concerns, including the maker's ties to a company that produces more»

(SARANAC LAKE, NEW YORK) - New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses employed at the Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake held a speak-out for a fair contract earlier this week and called for an agreement with a plan to recruit and retain Nurses, including respectful wages and affordable health benefits. This is the first time in more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - Members of United University Professions (UUP), which represents more than 42,000 Academic and Professional Faculty at State University of New York (SUNY) State-operated Campuses, have ratified a new five-year contract with New York State. The contract was approved by 97.7% of eligible voters who cast ballots, one of the Union’s more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Workers employed at the Movement Harlem Climbing Gym held a one-day Strike on July 18th to protest Unfair Labor Practices (ULPs) in what the Workers United Union claimed was the first-ever wall-to-wall Strike at a North American Climbing Gym. Standing in pouring rain, the Workers picketed outside the gym at 256 West 125th Street in more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Top-level Editors at Reuters - including Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni - have repeatedly big-footed Unionized Journalists by cherry-picking stories, taking bylines and doing reporting and writing instead of managing their Staff, all in violation of Labor Law, the NewsGuild of New York says. The NewsGuild of New York has taken more»

(LONG BEACH, NEW YORK) - For the first time since 2010, members of Long Beach Professional Fire Fighters Local 287 are working under a current contract. Long Beach City has approved a successor agreement, officially ending one of the longest bargaining efforts in the Local’s nearly 100-year history. The contract provides long-awaited stability for more»

(OGDENSBURG, NEW YORK) – The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) is condemning Ogdensburg’s Northstar/Claxton-Hepburn’s proposed cuts to its Maternal Health Services with NYSNA President Nancy Hagans releasing the following statement: NYSNA Nurses are outraged to hear Northstar/Claxton-Hepburn is planning to eliminate Maternal more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Workers employed at New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) who Unionized last month say management's bad-faith bargaining and attempts to carve over a dozen members out of the nascent Union show the Immigrant Rights Organization is failing to live up to its professed Pro-Worker values. In June, over 40 NYIC Workers notified management they more»

Union-represented Public Workers employed in Pittsford’s Department of Public Works rallied earlier this week in front of the Suburban Rochester Town Hall to demand better pay. As the first Union in Pittsford's 200-year history, the Workers are making history while fighting for a fair contract and the respect they have earned, Union Officials said. more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Lillian Roberts, the former Executive Director of American Federation of State, County & Municipal Workers o(AFSCME) District Council 37 - and a giant of the Labor Movement, has died. AFSCME President Lee Saunders announced her passing in a special message to Members and honored her legacy as a trailblazer: “Her leadership at more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Ninety-six-percent of Staff at Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS), Members of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2325, have voted to authorize a Strike if their contract demands are not met. The wall-to-wall Union represents more than 500 Workers representing indigent clients in Criminal, Immigration and Family Court cases in Brooklyn and more»

(PORT JEFFERSON, NEW YORK) - New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses have reached a tentative contract agreement at Long Island’s Catholic Health/St. Charles Hospital, averting a Strike that was set to begin on Monday (July 13th). Nurses will vote on whether to ratify the contract on Friday (July 10th). Highlights of the more»

(BALDWIN, NEW YORK) – A group of 200 Teamsters employed at Bimbo Bakeries in Baldwin have ratified what Union Officials are called a “significant” new contract. The Route Sales Professionals, Route Riders, Field Merchandising Representatives and Utility Drivers are employed by Entenmann’s and S.B. Thomas, brands under the Bimbo more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) has reached a tentative five-year contract agreement with New York State that delivers improvements in wages, benefits and workplace protections and addresses affordability challenges facing State Workers. CSEA President Mary Sullivan said: “We applaud Governor (Kathy) more»

(THE BRONX, NEW YORK) - Montefiore Hospital is planning to lay off real Nurses and replace them with Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered software, so says the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA). NYSNA Nurses just hosted a virtual town hall with directly-impacted Nurses to discuss Montefiore’s plan, its negative impact on jobs and patient care more»

The New York Court of Appeals has issued a significant decision in Walton v. Comfort Systems USA (Syracuse), Incorporated, answering previously unsettled certified questions from the Second Circuit with important implications for employers performing work on public projects in New York. The Court held that under Labor Law § 220, the statutory more»

(MALONE, NEW YORK) - New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses employed at the University of Vermont (UVM)-Alice Hyde Medical Center in Malone have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new four-year contract. This victory comes after months at the bargaining table and a late-night bargaining session on June 17th when Nurses reached a more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Thousands of Health Care Workers rallied near City Hall in Foley Square, urging the League of Voluntary Hospitals and Homes of New York to reach a new contract covering 86,000 Service Employees International (SEIU) Union Local 1199 members who are employed at Hospitals and Nursing Homes across New York. The Workers - Registered Nurses, more»

(CARMEL, NEW YORK) - Approximately 200 New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses employed at Northwell/ Putnam Hospital are fighting for a fair contract that delivers safe staffing for quality patient care. Safe staffing is a priority for Putnam Nurses who often work short-staffed, NYSNA said. For example, in December 2025, Nurses more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – The New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) and the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) have filed a legal challenge to stop a scheme by Success Academy Charter Schools and the State University of New York’s Charter School Committee that attempts to circumvent the State’s Charter Cap. The petition, filed in New York more»

Austyn Gaffney and Anna Watts at Documented report: Lazaro, a 67-year-old Dairy Worker in New York, has hopped between 20 different farms in the 12 years he’s been in the United States. But his work on a Dairy Farm in Western New York this Fall was the worst he’s experienced, he said. Eighteen people shared one house. He was paid the legal more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - With 80% of eligible Members on cards and 70% signing a voluntary recognition letter, a super-majority of New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) Employees have announced the launch of their effort to form a Union - NYIC United with Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 153. For the first time in the more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – The New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) and the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) have mobilized Educator Union Leaders from across the U.S. in urging Democratic Governors to reject participation in President Donald Trump’s Private School Voucher Tax Credit Program and publicly reaffirm their commitment to Public more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – The New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) has announced it is committed to advancing developmentally appropriate limits on educational technology in New York Schools. NYSUT’s 82-Member Board of Directors has passed a resolution that calls for developmentally appropriate limits on screen time and Artificial Intelligence more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - St. John’s University (SJU) has escalated an on-going fight against its Faculty Union by going into Federal Court to sue the New York State Labor Board in order to evade the basic tenets of State Labor Law on religious grounds. The two SJU Chapters of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have been fighting for more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has announced her administration has reached a contract agreement with the United University Professions (UUP) for a five-year term running until July 1st, 2031. The agreement is subject to ratification by Union Membership, which includes 42,000 State University of New York (SUNY) System more»

Max Parrott at amNewYork reports the New York Attorney General’s Office and the Teamsters have turned a lawsuit over a State Labor Law into an appraisal of the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) failures. Recent filings by the Union and the State Attorney General in Amazon’s Federal case against New York’s recent attempt to more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) President Melinda Person released the following statement on the 2026-27 enacted New York State Budget: New Yorkers made their voices heard and this budget proves what’s possible when Educators, public school allies and communities stand together and fight for what students and Working more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - More than 100 Union-represented New York Times Employees walked out of the newspaper's Midtown Headquarters this week to rally for a new contract, almost three months after their last one expired. The Staff are members of the Times Guild, the largest Bargaining Unit of the NewsGuild of New York, that represents more than 1,500 Editorial, more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – A deal has been reached to increase Tier 6 pensions for more than 830,000 New York State Public Employees, as well as allow Teachers with 30 years on-the-job to retire at age 58 rather than 63 - and increase the amount of overtime that can be counted towards every Municipal Tier 6 Member’s pension throughout the State. New more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - Nearly 2,000 Unionists at the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) Representative Assembly stood in sustained applause for United University Professions (UUP) Upstate Chapter President Mindy Health, who was honored for her tireless advocacy for two Unionists arrested by ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Created by more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) President Melinda Person has released the following statement in response to reported fixes to Tier 6 in the State Budget: This Tier 6 agreement is proof that when Workers organize and stay united, change is possible. This is a victory for Public Workers across New York. Because Members more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - United University Professions (UUP), the Nation’s largest Higher Education Union, has honored New York State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky with its Friend of UUP Award. Senator Stavisky, the first Woman from Queens County elected to the State Senate and the first Woman to chair the Senate Higher Ed Committee, was elected in 1999 and more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – More than 100 Faculty Members of the St. John’s University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Faculty Association (FA) - along with students, community members and Labor allies from PSC-CUNY (Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York) and Fordham Faculty United, gathered at more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Kickstarter United (Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 153) Members and supporters gathered on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall to demand the immediate reinstatement of Union Leaders fired by Kickstarter in what the Union characterizes as illegal retaliation. The terminations came just months after Kickstarter more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - A group of Workers and Unions - including LiUNA Local 79, City University of New York’s Professional Staff Congress (PSC-CUNY), St. John’s University’s Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (SJU-AAUP), and the New York City AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, rallied against Worker mistreatment outside more»

(ACROSS NEW YORK STATE) - Standing with Labor Leaders and Advocates at Teamsters Local 118 in Rochester, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 43 in Syracuse and the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) in Albany. U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand urged the swift passage of the Faster Labor Contracts Act, which would require more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - Journalists and leadership from the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE), Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and the NewsGuild of New York joined New York State Senator Patricia Fahy (Democrat-Albany) and Assembly Member Nily Rozic (Democrat-New York more»

(WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK) - The International Association of Machinists (IAM) Air Transport Territory is welcoming 40 new Members at Unifi - North America’s largest Aviation Service Provider, who are employed at the Westchester County Airport (HPN), marking another strong IAM organizing win for Working People in the Airline Industry. The more»

(PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK) - New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Health Care Workers employed at UVM (University of Vermont Health)-Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital (CVPH) recently held a speak-out to demand safe staffing and a fair contract. NYSNA Nurses, Health Care Professionals and IT Professionals have been fighting for a fair deal more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - United University Professions (UUP) President Frederick E. Kowal has been re-elected by a unanimous vote of Delegates April 25 at UUP’s 2026 Spring Delegate Assembly in Albany. Delegates of UUP, America’s largest Higher Education Union, elected Kowal by acclamation, with UUP Statewide Secretary-Treasurer Jeri more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Workers, Labor Leaders and Government Officials gathered for a Workers’ Memorial Day event in Midtown Manhattan to honor New Yorkers who have died or suffered injury or illness on the job, and to renew the fight for strong workplace safety protections. The event was organized by the New York City AFL-CIO Central Labor Council and more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – Mary Sullivan, who serves as President of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) - which represents 250,000 Public Workers across New York State, released the following on Workers Memorial Day 2026: April 28th is Workers Memorial Day, when we remember Workers who were killed, injured or made ill on the job. But it must more»