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Place of Origin: USA Occupation: Temporary Worker (Industrial, Construction) My name is Henry. I have been a temporary worker for 2 years in Buffalo, NY. I have worked with a few Temp Agencies and been placed in jobs doing demolition, construction and industrial work. One Temp Agency took money out of my paychecks–hundreds of dollars […]

Place of Origin: Burma Occupation: Laundromat This is Zaw Win. Zaw is a refugee from Burma. He fled his country nearly a decade ago as a young man amid global conflict and was captured as a slave in Thailand. He made it to the United States and was resettled in Buffalo, NY in 2005. He […]

On Friday May 1st, our very own Liz Smith kicked off the Worker Day Rally with a speech commemorating the deaths of workers who dies on the job due to unsafe working conditions. Many people from the public sector, private sector and building trade union members gathered in Niagara Square in solidarity to rally for […]

The WNY Worker Center presented a film called ‘Permanently Temporary’ on May 6th, 2015 at the Porter Library right here in Buffalo. The film gave some light to the world of temp-work, exposing the dangerous work conditions some workers experience. Some workers are even pushed to be silent about these issues for fear of being […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]