Labor Groups Write Lawmakers To Back Scaffold Law
A coalition of labor unions this week is writing to state lawmakers urging them to resist efforts that would change the state’s Scaffold Law. The measure is a perennial political fight between trial...
View ArticleAFL-CIO Backs Teachers Unions Versus Charters
New York State AFL-CIO President Mario Cilento backed the state’s teachers unions in their ongoing war of words with a charter school organization. The Northeast Charter Schools Network on Wednesday...
View ArticleLabor Commissioner Backs Tipped Workers Wage Hike
Tipped workers working in the restaurant, hotel and other service-based industries will receive a $2.50 minimum wage increase at the end of the year, the Department of Labor on Tuesday announced. The...
View ArticleAFL-CIO Officially Adopts Prevailing Wage Stance
The New York State AFL-CIO’s executive council on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution backing the prevailing wage’s use in all 421a projects. The resolution comes, however, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo...
View ArticleLabor Cheers IDA Reform Bill
The AFL-CIO on Friday praised the passage of a bill aimed at beefing up oversight for Industrial Development Agencies. The measure was approved by the Democratic-controlled Assembly on Friday after it...
View ArticleUP4NYC Parts With 32BJ On 421a Proposal
As the Republican-led Senate introduces legislation that could be the basis for a “big ugly” compromise on the 421a tax abatement, the coalition of organizations pushing for a prevailing wage is...
View ArticlePEF Ousts Susan Kent
The Public Employees Federation on Tuesday ousted Susan Kent as its president and backed Wayne Spence. PEF, in a news release, said Spence defeated Kent by a vote of 6,172 to 6,045. The slate elected...
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Newly Elected PEF President Vows ‘Courteous Dialogue’ With Cuomo
Wayne Spence took the helm of the Public Employees Federation on Monday — leading an often fractious labor group of mostly white-collar state workers that has feuded with Gov. Andrew Cuomo during much...
View ArticleCSEA’s Donohue Re-elected
Longtime Civil Service Employees Association President Danny Donohue was re-elected to a seventh term as the leader of the state’s largest public workers union. The union announced Donohue had won the...
View ArticleNYSUT Makes Trio Of Legislative Endorsements
The New York State United Teachers union on Monday issued endorsements to one Democratic incumbent in the Senate, while backing two Democrats running for open Assembly seats in an April 19 special...
View ArticleCSEA Sues Thruway Authority Over Retiree Costs
The Civil Service Employees Association on Thursday announced it had filed a class-action lawsuit against the state Thruway Authority after about 1,500 retirees had their health care costs increased....
View ArticleMinimum Wage Deal Not Embraced By All On Left
Business groups that have been opposed to a minimum wage increase were uniformly displeased with the agreement in the state budget. But not all liberal organizations were happy with the outcome,...
View ArticleAFL-CIO Endorses Stavisky, Bailey For Senate
The New York State AFL-CIO on Friday issued early endorsements in two state Senate races, backing Democrats Toby Ann Stavisky of Queens, an incumbent, and Jamaal Bailey, a Democrat who is seeking the...
View ArticleAFL-CIO’s Cilento Re-Elected
Mario Cilento was unanimously re-elected the president of the New York State AFL-CIO on Monday, the labor group announced. The election was held this morning at the Sheraton New York Times Square...
View ArticleWFP Touts Primary Wins
Lots of people and organizations are claiming victory this morning after seeing the results from yesterday’s (extremely low turnout) primaries, and that includes the Working Families Party, which...
View ArticleWNY Labor Wants Collins To Dump Trump
From the Morning Memo: Members of Western New York’s Area Labor Federation rallied in front of Republican Congressman Chris Collins’s office Tuesday evening. In response to Trump’s comments about women...
View ArticleLabor’s Pragmatism Pays Off
Two of New York’s political key labor unions didn’t put all of their chips on one party in the race for control of the state Senate. And the gamble to diversify their political investments appears to...
View ArticleMoya Gets HTC Nod For Council Bid
Democratic Assemblyman Francisco Moya on Thursday received the endorsement from the politically influential Hotel Trades Council in his bid for the New York City Council. “We have enthusiastically...
View ArticleCSEA President Opens Door to 2018 Cuomo Endorsement
To say CSEA President Danny Donohue and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have had a rocky relationship is something of an understatement. Donohue, who heads the second largest state workers union in New York, is a...
View ArticleDC 9 Protests Detainment Of Union Members
The labor union District Council 9 on Wednesday protested the detainment of two of its members by federal immigration officials. Hugo Mejia and Rodrigo Nunez were arrested on their job site in May by...
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