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Governor Hochul Announces Five-Year Labor Agreement with Civil Service Employee Association
June 1, 2026 // The agreement includes increases in salary for employees in each year of the agreement. The agreement also includes paid prenatal leave, increases in location pay and health insurance changes that reduce costs for employees by eliminating certain co-pays and minimizing reliance on out of network providers. CSEA represents New York State employees in four bargaining units. The contract agreement must be ratified by CSEA rank and file members.
NYC hotel maids now make more than rookie cops, firefighters, teachers — as union averts strike following new salary agreement
May 27, 2026 // Hotel maids in NYC already out-earn rookie cops, firefighters and even teachers with master’s degrees — and they just got a raise. The Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, the union representing 22,000 city hotel workers, ratified the new contract Thursday that will bring housekeepers to $77,113 on July 1 with $110,000 in salary alone in the sixth year. The agreement made last weekend with the hotel owners averted a strike that was already throwing a wrench into the city’s America 250 celebrations and the FIFA World Cup as visitors said they were afraid to make reservations if a strike was at hand.
Hair stylists and make-up artists who work at ESPN headquarters in CT vote to unionize
April 18, 2026 // Local 798 is a chartered local of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, and it represents hair stylists and make-up artists who work on films, television, commercials and live-theatrical events. It has approximately 2,200 members across 23 states.
States Lead the Way on Portable Benefits and Flexible Work
March 24, 2026 // The momentum behind portable benefits reflects the strength of a growing network of organizations and leaders committed to modernizing workforce policy. Americans for Prosperity has worked in conjunction with a diverse range of state and national organizations including the Mercatus Center, Libertas Institute, Institute for the American Worker, Independent Women, R Street Institute, and more from state to state. With research, data, examples of those who would benefit, and a dose of optimism, the educational outreach to highlight how beneficial these reforms are to American families has created a surge of interest among state lawmakers who increasingly understand this golden opportunity to help their residents thrive in today’s economy including shifts due to the rise of AI and other technology.
Recology union authorizes strike after ‘failed’ negotiations, say members
January 29, 2026 // Hundreds of San Mateo County Recology union workers could go on strike after representatives said that the garbage company has continued to make failed attempts at negotiations. Recology serves San Mateo County, including unincorporated areas such as North Fair Oaks. A strike would threaten the continuation of waste services in the area.
What we know so far about San Francisco’s looming teachers strike
January 28, 2026 // Su said the offer was one of SFUSD’s “creative suggestions” it presented to the union at the bargaining table. Other suggestions included augmenting the salaries of special education teachers and identifying a pathway for the district to fully fund family health benefits. Those offers were rejected by the union without a counteroffer, according to Su. The district claims that it simply can’t meet the union’s salary demands while also closing its roughly $100 million budget deficit and avoiding state oversight.
WCCUSD strike: District says teachers union’s latest offer would cost more than $180M
December 11, 2025 // For months the teachers union has said the district has the funds to pay educators higher salaries while the district has maintained that it doesn’t. It used reserves to balance its most recent budget due to a $16.9 million structural deficit and still needs to cut an additional $7.7 million.
SEPTA strike averted after workers’ union, transit agency reach new contract
December 10, 2025 // The Philadelphia-based transit authority and TWU Local 234 tentatively agreed to a new contract Monday to stave off what could have been a devastating strike for thousands of riders. TWU Local 234 members have been working without a contract since Nov. 7, and members voted to authorize a strike last month. The union, the largest representing SEPTA employees, serves 5,000 subway, trolley and bus operators and mechanics.
Unions Brace to Bargain With New Boss Zohran Mamdani
December 2, 2025 // At a party during SOMOS, the annual Puerto Rico getaway for New York’s political class, District Council 37 executive director Henry Garrido proudly introduced Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to a packed outdoor crowd at the Caribe Hilton of jubilant union officials, political insiders and government lobbyists. Just days after Mamdani’s election, the public display of support from the union leader — highlighted with a hug — underscored the emerging alliance between the incoming mayor and the leader of New York City’s largest public-sector union. That bond is about to be tested, or at least leaned on more than ever before
Amazon CDL drivers at Kentucky facility unionize: Teamsters
December 1, 2025 // Amazon says it’s been investing in worker pay for years, adding that workers who stayed with the company for three years saw their pay increase by 35%, Udit Madan, SVP of Amazon worldwide operations, said in a September article. Based on company feedback, Amazon will also reduce an entry-level health care plan to $5 per week and $5 for copays, starting in 2026, Madan said. The parcel giant employed nearly 1.56 million part-time and full-time workers as of the end of 2024,