New York, NY – The current four-year industry-wide labor agreement between 32BJ SEIU and the New York City residential real estate industry, represented by the Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations (RAB) expires on April 20, 2026 Negotiations are taking place for the 34,000 porters, doorpersons, superintendents, handypersons and resident managers who maintain 600,000 households across […]
The labor movement has always been about economic security. It’s about ensuring that working people can build stable, meaningful lives for themselves and their families. For many union members today, that includes the ability to pursue parenthood without putting their financial future at risk. As fertility care becomes more common, it’s also becoming more expensive. […]
Washington, DC – UPS has agreed to capping severance offers while rewarding and protecting the seniority of Teamsters drivers. Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien successfully pushed UPS into negotiations in the wake of national grievances filed against the package giant over its Driver Choice Program (DCP), which UPS pursued in February without agreement from […]
Brooklyn, NY – On April 9, 2026 — Thirty-six days before the current contract between TWU Local 100 and the MTA expires, leadership from both parties gathered at the union hall in Brooklyn to exchange demands and formally begin contract negotiations. After citing the especially snowy winter we moved New York through and the continuous […]
New York, NY – Unionized Staff at ProPublica Walk Off the Job in Protest of Management’s Refusal to Agree to a Contract Including Fair AI Protections, Job Security, and Wages. Unionized staff at investigative nonprofit newsroom ProPublica walked off the job Wednesday in a one-day strike, setting up picket lines outside the company’s New York […]
New York, NY – Amazon Teamsters and their allies rallied at city hall today in support of the Delivery Protection Act, later testifying in favor of the bill before the New York City Council Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection. The landmark legislation, introduced by Councilmember Tiffany Cabán, would outlaw Amazon’s controversial Delivery Service Partner […]
Workers today are experiencing a technological, political and economic transformation of a scale not seen in at least a century, one bound to profoundly reconfigure our relationship with capital and power. If we want that reconfiguration to go in the favor of American workers, unions must aggressively stay ahead of the changes and seize the […]
New York, NY — NYC has announced a new child care center provider permitting portal. This streamlined technology is fully online and will make it simpler to open child care centers across New York City. The new portal consolidates application requirements, simplifies communication with the Health Department and provides real-time updates on application status — […]
LaborPress is proud to welcome Wayne Joseph as our new Director of Operations. A Brooklyn native whose parents immigrated from Trinidad and Tobago, Wayne brings more than three decades of frontline and leadership experience at the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority. Wayne currently serves as President and Fiduciary of the Bridge and Tunnel Officers Benevolent […]
For more than 20 years, the New York State AFL-CIO and Cornell University have co-sponsored the Hundreds of prospective leaders from local unions throughout the state have gone through the program with many progressing to leadership positions within their respective unions. As part of its commitment to fostering equity in our movement and ensuring that […]
New York, NY – At an April 1, 2026 press conference at City Hall, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani discussed his launch of a new online child care map and resource center designed to make it easier for families to find, understand and choose child care programs that meet their needs. Families visiting nyc.gov/childcare, will have the availability to search for child […]
New York, NY – Union Leaders rallied on March 30, 2026 on the steps of City Hall calling for increased funding for New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), which investigates exploitative labor practices and enforces worker protections in New York City. Representatives from several unions demonstrated at NY City Hall that […]
The Teamsters National Negotiating Committee has reached a strong tentative agreement with DHL. The deal averts a national strike that would have involved thousands of workers across 26 locals across the country. “Our members at DHL held management’s feet to the fire and demanded a contract that recognizes the hard work they perform every day,” […]
On Thursday March 5, 2026 – 32BJ SEIU kicked off negotiations for the contract covering more than 34,000 porters, doorpersons, superintendents, handypersons and resident managers working in NYC Buildings with disappointing results from RAB. “In the wake of this week’s disappointing and insulting proposals from the real estate industry, 32BJ has set a formal strike […]
The NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Workers United, SEIU, and the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, hosted the 115th Anniversary Commemoration of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on Wednesday March 25, 2026 at Washington Place and Greene Street in Lower Manhattan. More than 400 attendees from across the Labor Movement and the broader community gathered […]
LaborPress has worked alongside unions for several years and we know how important it is to have leaders who truly understand and respect the labor movement. That’s why LaborPress is proud to support Mariama James for Assemblymember in NYS Assembly District 65. Mariama has consistently shown a commitment to working families and understands the challenges […]
New York, NY – Workers employed at the Patagonia Store in SoHo have voted to join RWDSU. The vote marks a historic milestone for employees of the Outdoor Apparel Giant, as they become the first Unionized Patagonia location in the Eastern United States. The victory comes as Workers at the store seek to address a growing disconnect between the company’s public values and the daily […]
For over a decade, WEX has been a steadfast partner to the Taft-Hartley community, providing Union Funds with the intelligent infrastructure needed to manage Members’ hard-earned benefits. Today, this partnership is critical as Trustees face a difficult tradeoff: absorb skyrocketing GLP-1 costs exceeding $1,000 per Member monthly or risk damaging trust by cutting the benefit […]
Two decades to the day after Patrick Mapleson was struck by a cement truck and killed while filling potholes in Eastport, his family, friends and fellow state transportation road crew remembered him Tuesday March 17th by planting a maple tree in his honor and urging drivers to pay attention in work zones. In 2025, there […]
NYSNA nurses at The Brooklyn Hospital Center, who have been without health insurance for more than 45 days, took their demands to reinstate coverage to CEO Gary Terrinoni’s luxury condo. Nurses have been working without health insurance for more than 45 days, after hospital executives failed to pay into their benefit fund. The Brooklyn Hospital […]
Following strikes and 11 months of rocky negotiations, a national coalition of unions reached tentative agreement March 13 on a new set of collective bargaining agreements with Kaiser Permanente. The agreements cover roughly 60,000 workers in the 22 local unions that are part of the Alliance of Health Care Unions. That includes about 4,000 nurses […]
New York, NY – Carter Myers-Brown at The Chief reports when Samantha Martin entered the Construction Industry at the age of 21, she was stepping into a world where Women were still a rarity on most job sites. The path from Apprentice Carpenter to Union Leader would require long days, physical labor and the confidence to prove she belonged in a field […]
St. John’s University’s Unions along with students and other labor organizations rallied outside Madison Square Garden, site of the Big East Tournament. The large demonstration demanded that St John’s get back to the bargaining table and not try to bust their unions. Speakers called on the University Administration to reverse its decision to end recognition of its […]
The American Federation of Musicians and AFM Local 802 held a solidarity rally in Times Square – negotiations for the AFM’s Sound Recording Labor Agreement must be fair for musicians. Negotiations has resumed with record labels, including Sony, Universal, Hollywood Records and Warner. Local 802 President Dan Point said, “Musicians are leading the fight for […]
The Brooklyn Hospital Center has failed to pay for nurses’ healthcare benefits for three straight months, and now NYSNA nurses and their families have lost their healthcare coverage. Take action today by sending an email to Brooklyn Hospital Center leadership demanding that they pay their bills and restore nurses’ healthcare. Frontline nurses losing healthcare coverage […]
PetaLiuma, CA, — Workers at 2K’s motion capture studio in Petaluma, California have ratified their first union contract with Take-Two Interactive management. The culmination of this union contract, is a first for motion capture video game workers in the United States. This agreement is the result of these workers Unionizing in 2024. This agreement includes […]
Construction workers are six times more likely to die from suicide than from job site-related injuries and four times more likely to commit suicide than the average American. To address this issue, NYC BCTC has launched the Building Trades Peer Support Network (BTPSN). This important program is designed to reduce suicide rates and mitigate the […]
New York, NY – The current four-year industry-wide labor agreement between 32BJ SEIU and the New York City residential real estate industry, represented by the
The labor movement has always been about economic security. It’s about ensuring that working people can build stable, meaningful lives for themselves and their families.
Washington, DC – UPS has agreed to capping severance offers while rewarding and protecting the seniority of Teamsters drivers. Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien
Brooklyn, NY – On April 9, 2026 — Thirty-six days before the current contract between TWU Local 100 and the MTA expires, leadership from both
New York, NY – Unionized Staff at ProPublica Walk Off the Job in Protest of Management’s Refusal to Agree to a Contract Including Fair AI
New York, NY – Amazon Teamsters and their allies rallied at city hall today in support of the Delivery Protection Act, later testifying in favor
Workers today are experiencing a technological, political and economic transformation of a scale not seen in at least a century, one bound to profoundly reconfigure
New York, NY — NYC has announced a new child care center provider permitting portal. This streamlined technology is fully online and will make it
LaborPress is proud to welcome Wayne Joseph as our new Director of Operations. A Brooklyn native whose parents immigrated from Trinidad and Tobago, Wayne brings
For more than 20 years, the New York State AFL-CIO and Cornell University have co-sponsored the Hundreds of prospective leaders from local unions throughout the
New York, NY – At an April 1, 2026 press conference at City Hall, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani discussed his launch of a new online child care map
New York, NY – Union Leaders rallied on March 30, 2026 on the steps of City Hall calling for increased funding for New York City’s
The Teamsters National Negotiating Committee has reached a strong tentative agreement with DHL. The deal averts a national strike that would have involved thousands of
On Thursday March 5, 2026 – 32BJ SEIU kicked off negotiations for the contract covering more than 34,000 porters, doorpersons, superintendents, handypersons and resident managers
The NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Workers United, SEIU, and the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, hosted the 115th Anniversary Commemoration of the Triangle Shirtwaist
LaborPress has worked alongside unions for several years and we know how important it is to have leaders who truly understand and respect the labor
New York, NY – Workers employed at the Patagonia Store in SoHo have voted to join RWDSU. The vote marks a historic milestone for employees of the Outdoor Apparel Giant, as
For over a decade, WEX has been a steadfast partner to the Taft-Hartley community, providing Union Funds with the intelligent infrastructure needed to manage Members’
Two decades to the day after Patrick Mapleson was struck by a cement truck and killed while filling potholes in Eastport, his family, friends and
NYSNA nurses at The Brooklyn Hospital Center, who have been without health insurance for more than 45 days, took their demands to reinstate coverage to
Following strikes and 11 months of rocky negotiations, a national coalition of unions reached tentative agreement March 13 on a new set of collective bargaining
New York, NY – Carter Myers-Brown at The Chief reports when Samantha Martin entered the Construction Industry at the age of 21, she was stepping into a world
St. John’s University’s Unions along with students and other labor organizations rallied outside Madison Square Garden, site of the Big East Tournament. The large demonstration
The American Federation of Musicians and AFM Local 802 held a solidarity rally in Times Square – negotiations for the AFM’s Sound Recording Labor Agreement
The Brooklyn Hospital Center has failed to pay for nurses’ healthcare benefits for three straight months, and now NYSNA nurses and their families have lost
PetaLiuma, CA, — Workers at 2K’s motion capture studio in Petaluma, California have ratified their first union contract with Take-Two Interactive management. The culmination of
Construction workers are six times more likely to die from suicide than from job site-related injuries and four times more likely to commit suicide than
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New York, NY – SEIU 32BJ begins contract negotiations with residential real estate industry. The 32BJ represents more than 34,000 porters, door-persons, superintendents, handypersons and resident managers
Albany, NY – Labor Leaders and Public Sector Workers turned out at the MVP Arena in Albany on Sunday, March 8th to push for changes to New
The ongoing effort to reform the New York State pension plan brought more than 15,000 members from PEF, NYSUT, AFT, UFT, IAF and dozens of
Unions have always stood for more than wages. They exist to protect workers and their families through the moments that shape their lives. As more
Joint Bargaining Committee (JBC) representatives from the IBEW joined the IAM representatives from GE Haier Appliance Service Technicians from across the country recently at the
Albany, NY – More than 400 DC 37 members rallied at the Capitol to demand the state legislature “FIX TIER 6!” The rally took over the
Ironworker Chris Scattone remembers walking slowly to the edge of the 63rd story of the skyscraper he was helping to build and imagining his own
New York, NY – Unionized Editorial Staff at fortune have won their first contract. The Fortune Union, which represents nearly two dozen Writers, Reporters, Producers,
New Britain, Connecticut – David Sullivan, IAM Eastern Territory General Vice President, and IAM District 26 Directing Business Representative Jeff Santini, issued the following statement on
On Feb. 16, over 28,000 members of UFCW Locals 328, 371, 919, 1445, and 1459 who work at 225 Stop & Shop stores in Massachusetts,
The United Steelworkers (USW) have installed a historic slate of Leaders, led by new International President Roxanne Brown. Roxanne Brown becomes the 10th International President of the USW,
New York City – St. John’s University no longer recognizes its two unions and demonstrations in support of the unions continue daily. Christopher Denny, a Theology and Religious
Earlier in February, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters unveiled a new bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Teamsters Headquarters in Washington, D.C. The
New York, NY — A man who pleaded guilty to assaulting a Subway Conductor in May 2025 was sentenced on February 25th, in New York
New Jersey is in an energy crisis. Electricity prices have been rising in states across the country, but in New Jersey, which was already home
Wednesday, March 25, 11:30AM-1PM: On March 25, 1911, 146 workers—mostly young, immigrant women—were killed in a horrific fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory at Washington Place
New York, NY —At the February 25, 2026 MTA Board Meeting, Local 100 President John Chiarello addressed transit bosses, taking them to task for ignoring
