News Stories
Mar 17, 2023 | News Story
Friday, March 24, 11:30AM-1PM: Please join us for the commemoration of the 112th anniversary of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, one of the pivotal events in US history and a turning point in labor’s struggle to achieve fair wages, dignity at work and safe working conditions. Outrage at the deaths of 146 mostly young, female immigrants inspired the union movement and helped to institute...
Mar 17, 2023 | News Story
After weeks of bargaining and organizing in the streets to make their voices heard, 32BJ SEIU and the Bronx Realty Advisory Board this week reached a tentative agreement that achieves wins for the union's membership. The TA was reached before the expiration of the current contract, averting what would have been the first strike of residential building service workers in the Bronx.
Mar 17, 2023 | News Story
Actors’ Equity Association, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, is part of the call to invest in New York State’s arts industries. Assembly Member Daniel J. O’Donnell and Senator José M. Serrano have called for New York’s FY24 budget to include $140 million for the New York State Council on the Arts and restore $50 million...
Mar 10, 2023 | News Story
New York is a union town and Saturday Night Live is built with union labor. But NBC Universal has resisted negotiating a fair union contract with its newly organized editorial crew.
Mar 10, 2023 | News Story
After more than a year of bargaining, the union membership of the Whitney Museum Union of Local 2110 UAW have voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first union contract with the Museum. The three and a half year Agreement will increase employee wages retroactively to January 1 by 15% on average with additional increases of 9.5% during the contract. Employees will also receive a $1000 ratification...
Mar 10, 2023 | News Story
President Biden unveiled his new federal budget yesterday, building on his commitment to fostering an economy that focuses on putting working families first.
Biden's budget proposal reduces the federal deficit by nearly $3 trillion and includes proposals aimed at lowering the cost of healthcare, prescription drugs, childcare, housing and education while making new investments in domestic...
Mar 10, 2023 | News Story
We join Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Reps. Bobby Scott (Va.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) in their call to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. Working people are sick of corporations raking in record profits while we can barely support our families.
That’s why we’re organizing like never before. Work stoppages were up 52% in 2022, and the number of workers involved in stoppages...
Mar 3, 2023 | News Story
On Tuesday, President Biden announced his nomination of Deputy Secretary of Labor Julie Su to succeed Marty Walsh as the next U.S. Secretary of Labor. AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement:
"Simply put: There’s no one more dedicated and qualified to defend the fundamental rights of working people than Julie Su. It’s her life’s work. The AFL-CIO is thrilled with her historic...
Mar 3, 2023 | News Story
With their union contract set to expire the next day, almost 500 CUNY faculty and staff rallied outside CUNY’s Midtown headquarters Monday morning to take their demands for a new contract straight to management’s front door. The Professional Staff Congress (PSC) – the union representing 30,000 faculty and staff at CUNY – was joined by students and advocates in calling for a new agreement that...
Mar 3, 2023 | News Story
Arbitrator Howard Edelman this week handed down a decision that stops New York City Transit from carrying out the Spring A Division Pick, taking plans for service cuts off the table for now. Finding that the MTA had over-stepped past practice, Edelman ruled that the pick put forward by NYCT put an unacceptable burden on Conductors and Train Operators.