WESTERN NEW YORK COUNCIL ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH WESTERN NEW YORK WORKER CENTER FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 15, 2014 The WNY Worker Center is happy to announce it has received funding to continue advocating for workers. The WNY Worker Center (Worker Center) is a project of the WNY Council on Occupational Safety and Health...Continue Reading
Audubon Machinery Corp. has been stealing wages earned by its employees. About 30 workers, community organizers, and labor organizations rallied on Friday to protest wage theft and poor treatment of workers and to urge Audubon to pay its workers unpaid wages. Richard Lipsitz, President of the WNY Area Labor Federation, stated at the Friday rally,...Continue Reading
Honoring: Angela Blue, CBTU, NYS AFL-CIO Greg Stoner, IUPAT DC #4 Gordon DeLeys, Buffalo OSHA Office WHERE: the VFW 8113 Post 299 Leydecker rd. West Seneca, NY 14224 WHEN: Saturday, September 27, 2014 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm WHY: We want to have a fun, relaxed party with family, friends and everyone who has helped...Continue Reading
Jared Bernstein, of the New York Times, writes about cost-of-living discrepancies between and within various states in this country and why standardizing a minimum wage might not be as effective in one state as it is in another. He suggests that local wage authorization might be a better method of ensuring that people can live...Continue Reading
The Worker Center will be having a fundraiser this summer. The fundraiser will be on July 31st at LaSalle Park from 5pm to 9pm. We will be celebrating all of the hard work of our seasonal laborers. There will be a corn roast, BBQ, lawn games, beer trivia, and more, so come on out and...Continue Reading
The WNY Worker Center participated in and attended a living wage rally at the Capitol Building in Albany on June 17th. The Worker Center joined scores of other community organizations, among them the Community Action Network, Make the Road, Workers United, et al. pressuring legislators to raise the minimum wage to 10.10/hr and to secure...Continue Reading
A coalition of New York contractors is pushing to significantly reform one of the most important laws for construction worker safety: the Scaffold Law. Originally ratified in 1885, this law mandates employers to provide safety measures for workers that carry out their jobs above the ground (such as builders, roof repairmen, and so on). Failure...Continue Reading
The WNY Worker Center joined hundreds of leaders and activists at the annual Coalition for Economic Justice banquet on May 8, 2014 to receive the Norm Harper Labor Award. Norman Harper worked as a janitor in the TRICO plant in the 1980’s and fought for his own civil rights and the rights of his co-workers. After...Continue Reading
The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) has released a report on the role that OSHA can play in developing health and safety protections for temporary workers, available here. The crucial details include the following: 1. OSHA should place responsibilities on temp agencies and employers that hire workers through temp agencies, which apply...Continue Reading
The Buffalo AFL-CIO/WNYCOSH Safety and Health Committee meeting is on March 11th, 2014 from 6:00PM to 7:30PM. Please note that the location has changed: it is at: 1830 Abbot Road, Lackawanna, NY 14218. The topic for this meeting is the New York State Scaffold Law, and how it protects workers. Our presenter is Frank Dolce of Dolce...Continue Reading
