(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»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced he would veto a City Council Bill criticized by Unions representing Academic Workers that would have tasked the NYPD to erect “security perimeters” around Educational Facilities across New York City. Intro 175-B's critics warned the Bill would stifle free speech and possibly affect the ability of more»

Brook D’Angelo was driving to a distressed property in Niagara Falls, where she worked as a Neighborhood Inspector, when her City-owned car slammed downward into a deep sinkhole in an unpaved alley. The impact broke her lower back and ripped her abdominal wall. So, like some 160,000 injured New Yorkers each year, D’Angelo filed a claim in 2018 more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - New York State Agency overtime costs increased 22.7% in 2025 for a total of $1.6 billion, while the number of overtime hours increased by 5.9%, or 1.4 million hours, higher than the previous year, according to the annual report issued by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli examining State agencies’ overtime and workforce trends. The more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - Schools across New York State are working diligently to comply with new, more stringent lead standards that will make school drinking water even safer for students, educators and others who spend time in school buildings. New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) Health and Safety has created: A fact sheet to help schools familiarize more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Carter Myers-Brown at The Chief reports on New York City LanguageLine Interpreters: When a patient walks into a New York City Hospital and doesn't speak English, or when a resident calls 911 in a language other than English, it falls to a LanguageLine Solutions Interpreter to bridge the gap. Now, many of these Interpreters are more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) is focusing a spotlight on the suite of laws it enforces to protect consumers and Workers across City hotels as New York looks ahead to another busy year for tourism and hospitality. In a new Op-Ed in The Nation, DCWP Commissioner Sam Levine joined Hotel and Gaming more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - United University Professions (UUP) - America’s largest higher Education Union, is strongly supporting the Amherst Compact, a first-ever agreement by leaders of more than 50 Unions to coordinate bargaining priorities that raise the floor for Workers of all job categories across the most-densely Unionized Region of the country for more»

Eddie Velazquez at Central Current reports hundreds of Educators and Researchers that make up almost 20% of Syracuse University’s (SU) Faculty want to form a Union. The Union would include around 350 Postdoctoral Researchers, Teaching Professors, Professors of Practice and Research Professors, if a majority of those Workers vote to Unionize at an more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – The Workers’ Justice Project-Los Deliveristas Unidos is celebrating a historic milestone for Delivery Worker Organizing in New York City with the launch of the City Hall Park Deliverista Hub - the first Worker-designed Hub of its kind in the Nation. Developed through organizing by App Delivery Workers and in partnership with more»

Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Workers could go on Strike as early as May 16th if they cannot reach a deal. During a press conference held last week - Kevin Sexton, who serves as the National Vice President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), said Workers would walk off the job on May 16th if they don’t reach a new contract more»

(ELIZABETHTOWN, NEW YORK) – New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses employed at the University of Vermont (UVM)-Elizabethtown Community Hospital have voted to overwhelmingly ratify a new contract after bargaining for months. UVM-Elizabethtown Nurses fought for a fair contract that maintains Safe Staffing Standards and secures more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – The New York City District Council of Carpenters rallied at a high-profile construction site tied to Vanderbilt University in Manhattan’s Chelsea Neighborhood, calling on the project’s developer to ensure workers are paid standard wages. The Carpenters gathered at the site to protest what they described as sub-standard more»

(JAMAICA, QUEENS) - Sixty-two years ago, St. John’s University (SJU) in New York City became the site of the first major Faculty Strike in U.S. History - a year-long conflict that followed the firing of 33 Teachers, including three Priests, without due process. Now, the struggle over labor conditions has forced the Faculty to once again mobilize, a more»

(COMMACK, NEW YORK) – The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) has thousands of Members working in positions that require them to work in dangerous outdoor environments, leaving them vulnerable to reckless drivers. CSEA Department of Transportation (Babylon) Local Vice President Randy Acum and CSEA Nassau County Local Crossing Guard John Miro more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - A Franchisee operating Taco Bell and Dunkin’ locations in New York City will pay $1.5 million in restitution to more than 760 Workers under a settlement reached with the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) for violations of the City’s Fair Workweek Law. On a livestream filmed inside City Hall while lunching on more»

Michelle Kaske at Bloomberg News reports New York City apartment residents are being put on notice of a potential Strike by Unionized Building Staff as soon as next month as the Union representing the Workers and an Advisory Board to building owners negotiate a new contract. Property owners are alerting occupants of 3,500 co-ops, condos and apartment more»

George Weykamp at Bloomberg Law reports more than 900 Non-Tenure Track Professors have reached a tentative contract with New York University (NYU), ending a brief work-stoppage that affected roughly half of NYU’s Full-Time Faculty. The Contract Faculty United-United Auto Workers (CFU-UAW), which represents about 930 Faculty Members who aren’t more»

A student in Ilion missed school for a week. When he finally returned to class, he explained he hadn’t had access to a washing machine and he couldn’t come to school in dirty clothes. Another student - a 9-year-old in Rochester - missed school because he felt the need to stay home to protect his Mother in a house with no locks. These are just more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Hilal Bahctepe at The Chief reports that since Unionizing in 2024, Employees at the Nitehawk Cinema’s Prospect Park Branch have been bargaining for a first contract that would increase Worker safety conditions, hourly pay and health care benefits - concerns which have yet to be met by management. Last week, Nitehawk Workers gathered more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - On International Women’s Day, Homecare Workers took to New York City Hall to pressure Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York City Council to pass the No More 24 Bill, which would abolish the 24-hour workday and force employers to repay $90 million in stolen wages. The proposal was introduced to the Council in 2024, though it has more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Carter Myers-Brown at The Chief reports Labor Leaders, Elected Officials and Community Advocates recently gathered on the steps of New York City Hall to launch the $30 For Our City Campaign, backing legislation that would gradually raise the City’s Minimum Wage to $30 an hour. The Bill would nearly double the City’s more»

Amir Khafagy at Documented reports a Westchester contractor, exposed by Documented for continuing to operate his construction business despite a conviction for stealing thousands from Immigrant Workers, has been arrested again on new wage theft charges. Artemio Fuerte, 40, was arrested for allegedly stealing $51,720 in wages from five Employees between 2022 more»

Last week, the St. John’s University (SJU) American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Chapter - along with students, allies in the Labor Movement including the New York City AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, Political Candidates and Religious Leaders - kicked off the SJU’s Men’s Basketball Team’s participation in the Big East more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) and AFM Local 802 held a solidarity rally with live music in Times Square this week, demonstrating a unified front as the second round of negotiations for the AFM's Sound Recording Labor Agreement resumed with Record Labels - including Sony, Universal, Hollywood Records and Warner. The more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - In response to drastic cuts at The New School, University students, Faculty and Staff recently marched down West 12th Street to hand deliver a gigantic letter and petition addressed to University President Joel Towers that was signed by more than 1,650 people and read, in part: “While the President’s Office characterizes this more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) – Governor Kathy Hochul joined an array of Labor Leaders and Public Sector Workers at MVP Arena in Albany on Sunday (March 8th) to push for changes to New York’s Tier 6 Pension System, saying reforms are needed to help recruit and retain Public Workers. Union Members and a variety of Public Workers participated in the rally - more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - National Wildlife Federation President and CEO Collin O’Mara and a panel of Environmental Leaders are calling for major expansion of State University of New York’s (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) to allow the College to grow enrollment and expand programming. Panelists lauded ESF’s research more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Hundreds of Workers flocked to Albany last week for the latest step in an effort to convince State Lawmakers, particularly Governor Kathy Hochul, to raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers. The Tax The Rich Campaign is backed by a number of Unions, and of the over 1,500 who attended the rally and march in Albany, many were Union more»

(ROCHESTER, NEW YORK) - Caregivers employed at Rochester Regional’s Unity Living Center have returned to bargaining after the Union-represented Workers unanimously voted to authorize their Member-led Bargaining Committee to issue a 10-day notice to picket if a settlement cannot be reached soon. The contract covering more than 110 1199 Service more»

(NEW YORK CITY) – Unionized Editorial Staff at Fortune have won their first contract for both Digital and Print Employees, a deal that lifts wages a total of 11% for the life of the deal, sets new salary standards, provides job security protections and more. The Fortune Union, which represents nearly two dozen Writers, Reporters, Producers, Editors more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - More than 300 students, Faculty and Staff from the City University of New York (CUNY), the State University of New York (SUNY) and Independent Colleges rallied with Legislators inside the State Capitol in Albany to support a platform of increased funding for New York’s Public University Systems, broader access to free tuition, more»

(PERRY, NEW YORK) - Kathryn Luczak had saved up as much sick time as she could over the past nine years, but two unpaid maternity leaves during that time had left the Perry Professional Educators Association (PPEA) Member with only 11 days she could use when she found out she was unexpectedly pregnant again with baby number three. A two-time fertility more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - On Saturday (February 21st), New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses employed at NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) voted overwhelmingly to ratify new three-year agreements. After 41 days, the vote ends a historic Strike, which began as the largest Nurse Strike in New York City History on January 12th when 15,000 NYSNA Nurses more»

UUP Editor’s Note: Pictured above, from left to right, United University Professions Member Mindy Heath, Jesus Manuel Gorra, Alex Gonzalez and Miriam Del Carmen Andres. (UUP Provided Photo) (ALBANY, NEW YORK) – United University Professions (UUP) President Fred Kowal is responding to the release of UUP Member Alcibiades “Alex” more»

The New York City AFL-CIO Central Labor Council joined with the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and the New York Building & Construction Trades Council (BCTC) to recently host a Future in Focus: Exploring the World of Organized Labor event at Bronx Community College. The event exposed high school students to the New York City Labor Movement and more»

Dozens of Workers in Wayne County are on the picket line this week outside Garlock Sealing Technologies in Palmyra after the Members of International Association of Machinists (IAM) Local 588 voted to Strike. The Union announced its Members are seeking “fair wages and better working conditions that better reflect the current cost of living and (their) more»

(ALBANY, NEW YORK) - United University Professions (UUP) President Fred Kowal has issued a statement on a bond being granted to a UUP Member arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agents. The bond order is for Alcibiades “Alex” Lazaro Ramierez González, a UUP Member who works at the Upstate Medical University in 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»

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»

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»

(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»

(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»