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»

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»

(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»

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»

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»

(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»

(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»

(HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK) - Faculty at Hofstra University - who are Members of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), an Affiliate of American Federation of Teachers (AFT), have ratified a new contract. Union Members overwhelmingly approved the agreement, securing annual raises of between 3% and 3.5% over the lifetime of the five-year deal. more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - S.T.O.M.P. The Bull made his Union debut last week outside the Department of Financial Services (DFS) in New York City, where Public Employees Federation (PEF) Members and Staff have experienced bullying management tactics, intimidation, and retaliation. The 20-foot inflatable bull was blown up on the sidewalk outside 1 State Street in more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - 32BJ Service Employees International Union (SEIU) - the largest Union for Security Officers in the Nation and representing 20,000 in New York City, has announced an ambitious drive to organize 50,000 more Security Officers in the City while honoring 24 Union Members who were lost on 9/11 while working at the World Trade Center. Before more»

Chris Brock at The Watertown Daily Times reports that in July, concrete began to be poured for the largest Semi-Conductor Factory in the country, with the number of Workers now there a drop in the bucket as to what is planned for the site, located in the Suburb of Clay that’s about 10 minutes north of Syracuse and about an hour south of Watertown. more»

A Federal Court ruling striking down the Trump Administration’s cuts to H-2A Farm Worker wages is a victory for both Agricultural Guest Workers and Domestic Farm Workers, the United Farm Workers (UFW) says. Union Officials pointed out that the decision will carry particular significance in New York State, where many farms rely heavily on H-2A more»

Paul Kir at The Daily Freeman reports from Kingston that New York State Senator Michelle Hinchey has teamed with Labor Leaders to call on Governor Kathy Hochul to sign the AI Labor Information Act, described as first-in-the-Nation legislation that will require private employers to report how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is affecting the State’s more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – Members of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) testified late last week before the New York State Public Health and Health Planning Council’s Establishment and Project Review Committee in Albany in support of two proposed Hospital mergers at Maimonides Medical Center and St. John’s Riverside Hospital as a more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - The 2.5 million Member New York State AFL-CIO has announced endorsements of candidates running for Congress, State Senate and Assembly. The endorsements took place at the State Federation’s 2026 Committee on Political Education (COPE) Convention at the Albany Capital Center. Delegates representing Union Members from the Public more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Management at Static Media has voluntarily recognized the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) as the Collective Bargaining Representatives of the Staff’s Full-Time Editors, Writers and Reporters. A Card-Check conducted by an independent third-party confirmed an overwhelming majority of the 58-Member Bargaining Unit signed more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) - Clad in bright orange ponchos, Construction Workers, Labor Leaders and Elected Officials recently rallied against unsafe and exploitative labor practices that they said are occurring at Kingsland Commons, a City-funded Affordable Housing Project in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Standing in front of the partially-completed complex, more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - Governor Kathy Hochul announced a five-year contract with the Public Employees Federation (PEF), which represents 60,000 New York State Employees, that was quickly ratified by 88% of those PEF Members who cast ballots. The contract runs until April 1st, 2031 - and includes raises in each of the five years of the agreement: 4.5%; 4%; more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – The Teamsters have released a report that exposes Amazon as the leading violator of the New York State Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (NY WARN) Act. The Union simultaneously filed a complaint with the New York City’s Labor Department over Amazon’s WARN Act violations, requesting the Commissioner of Labor more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Frustrated by a lack of progress on bargaining with management for a new contract, the Union representing more than 160 Front-Line Health Care Workers employed at Planned Parenthood in the Greater New York City area recently conducted a lunch-time picket line outside five offices across the City and on Long Island. The Workers, who include more»

(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»