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NYC Lawmakers Demand LanguageLine Solutions Respects Union Organizing As Workers Take Action on Health & Safety Concerns
WASHINGTON, April 16 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO Communications Workers of America posted the following news release:
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NYC Lawmakers Demand LanguageLine Solutions Respects Union Organizing As Workers Take Action on Health & Safety Concerns
A unionized workforce would ensure quality interpretation services to nearly 1.79 million New Yorkers with limited English proficiency.
(NEW YORK, N.Y.) -As interpreters continue to fight for a union at LanguageLine Solutions (LLS), New York City Council members and New York City Comptroller Mark Levine call on parent company Teleperformance to
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WASHINGTON, April 16 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO Communications Workers of America posted the following news release:
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NYC Lawmakers Demand LanguageLine Solutions Respects Union Organizing As Workers Take Action on Health & Safety Concerns
A unionized workforce would ensure quality interpretation services to nearly 1.79 million New Yorkers with limited English proficiency.
(NEW YORK, N.Y.) -As interpreters continue to fight for a union at LanguageLine Solutions (LLS), New York City Council members and New York City Comptroller Mark Levine call on parent company Teleperformance torespect their workers' right to form a union and improve working conditions. Leaders of powerful council committees overseeing city contracts, workforce development, and labor stood with LLS interpreters at a press conference on the steps of City Hall to announce the formation of a new committee on health and safety and demanded that management meet to address concerns impacting their ability to provide quality interpretation services to New Yorkers.
LanguageLine Solutions serves more than 30,000 clients worldwide, including agencies within the New York City government, which total over $19.3 million in active contracts. LLS interpreters ensure fair language access via telephonic interpretation in situations that impact the health, legal rights, and finances of approximately 1.79 million New Yorkers with limited English proficiency (LEP).
Despite their essential work, interpreters face stressful working conditions, inadequate training, and low pay. According to a survey of LLS employees conducted by CWA, over 80 percent of respondents felt their ability to interpret well is impacted negatively by company policies that pressure interpreters to take calls back-to-back, and a majority of workers report gaps in medical and legal training. These unfair working conditions result in high employee turnover, which places at risk the quality of service they are able to provide to New York City's immigrant communities.
"As interpreters, we are the voice of New Yorkers in their most important moments-in hospitals and courtrooms, accessing city services, financial services, or even calling 911," said Yuliia Moshkova, Russian interpreter at LanguageLine Solutions. "Our working conditions are New Yorkers' service conditions, and we need LLS management to work with us to address health and safety issues on the job that are impacting our ability to provide quality interpretation services."
"As a New Yorker who grew up relying on interpretation and translation services, I would not be here today without the essential services provided by the interpreters at LanguageLine Solutions," said Council Member Julie Won. "These workers provide reliable interpretation that bridges the communication gap between patients and doctors, families and services, people and justice. It is heartbreaking to hear from our interpreters today about horrid pay and terrible working conditions. The City has allocated millions to interpretation services, and so there is no other choice but to listen to these workers and support their right to organize."
"The hundreds of languages spoken across the five boroughs every day are what make New York City such a special place," said City Comptroller Mark Levine. "Many of these New Yorkers rely on the LanguageLine interpreters, who ensure that no matter what you speak, you can understand the city services available to you. Our interpreters deserve better pay and conditions to carry out this vital civil service, and I am proud to stand with them in this fight."
"Interpreters at LanguageLine Solutions have reported meager wages, inadequate training, and impossibly short break times," said Assistant to the Vice President of CWA District 1 Billy Gallagher. "These interpreters are fighting for a union to improve conditions not only for themselves but for everyone who depends on them. CWA will fight alongside these workers every step of the way until LanguageLine Solutions does the right thing and respects these workers' right to organize."
"Interpretation service workers are vital for the well-being of our city. When they are overworked with few workplace protections, it makes it harder for them to do their work effectively and harms our communities in turn. I encourage the CEO of LanguageLine Solutions to hear his workers' demands and create better conditions for all interpreters," said Council Member Alexa Aviles.
"New Yorkers depend on interpretation services to access essential care, education, and city resources, and those services are only as strong as the workers who provide them," said Council Member Harvey Epstein. "The reports from LanguageLine interpreters raise serious concerns about the quality and reliability of these critical services: unsustainable workloads, inadequate training, and insufficient pay. LanguageLine Solutions must work collaboratively with its workforce to ensure fair conditions, stability, and dignity on the job. Doing so is not only the right thing for workers, but essential to delivering the high-quality services that millions of New Yorkers rely on every day."
A subsidiary of French multinational Teleperformance, LLS is party to the Teleperformance-UNI Global Agreement on Social Responsibility, which affords workers the right to organize a union free of management interference and intimidation. While LLS has implemented this agreement in other countries, the company is refusing to fully implement the agreement in the United States. Workers under this agreement are afforded the right to have elected representatives in a Health and Safety Committee that meets with management to address concerns. LanguageLine Solutions workers have formed such a committee and are ready to meet with Teleperformance management to resolve issues affecting their physical and mental health on the job.
With vital services to millions of New Yorkers at stake, the New York City Council is escalating its demands for Teleperformance to improve working conditions and recognize the interpreters' right to organize a union. Previously, the City Council and former Comptroller Brad Lander sent a letter to Teleperformance leadership. In today's press conference, members of the Council and other elected officials stood shoulder-to-shoulder with workers to repeat their demands, including Councilmember and Chair of the Workforce Development Committee Julie Won, Councilmember and Chair of the Contracts Committee Lincoln Rester, Councilmember and Chair of the Labor Committee Shirley Aldebol, Councilmember Alexa Aviles, Comptroller Mark Levine, and Brad Lander.
About CWA : The Communications Workers of America represents working people in telecommunications, customer service, media, airlines, health care, public service and education, manufacturing, tech, and other fields.
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Original text here: https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/nyc-lawmakers-demand-languageline-solutions-respects-union-organizing-workers-take
Joint statement: IATSE and The Juilliard School Ratify Agreement with Production Staff
NEW YORK, April 16 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees posted the following news release:
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Joint statement: IATSE and The Juilliard School Ratify Agreement with Production Staff
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The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and The Juilliard School have ratified a collective bargaining agreement covering production staff who support the school's performances.
The agreement follows the tentative agreement announced on April 2, 2026, and concludes the collective bargaining process. It reflects good-faith negotiations
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NEW YORK, April 16 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees posted the following news release:
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Joint statement: IATSE and The Juilliard School Ratify Agreement with Production Staff
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The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and The Juilliard School have ratified a collective bargaining agreement covering production staff who support the school's performances.
The agreement follows the tentative agreement announced on April 2, 2026, and concludes the collective bargaining process. It reflects good-faith negotiationsbetween the parties. The agreement covers 34 full-time and seasonal employees, as well as overhire production staff, and runs from April 20, 2026, through June 30, 2030.
As an educational institution, Juilliard's performances are an integral part of its curriculum, supported by production professionals who contribute to the student learning environment. The parties will continue to work together in support of the school's educational mission.
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Original text here: https://iatse.net/joint-statement-iatse-and-the-juilliard-school-ratify-agreement-with-production-staff/
Federal Employee Unions File Lawsuit to Block Unlawful FLRA Rule
WASHINGTON, April 16 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Government Employees issued the following news release:
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Federal Employee Unions File Lawsuit to Block Unlawful FLRA Rule
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The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), along with seven other national unions representing over a million federal employees, today filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts challenging an unlawful interim final rule issued by the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) that changes longstanding FLRA regulations without notice and comment.
The
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WASHINGTON, April 16 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Government Employees issued the following news release:
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Federal Employee Unions File Lawsuit to Block Unlawful FLRA Rule
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The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), along with seven other national unions representing over a million federal employees, today filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts challenging an unlawful interim final rule issued by the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) that changes longstanding FLRA regulations without notice and comment.
Thecomplaint, AFGE et al. v. U.S. Federal Labor Relations Authority, alleges the FLRA's interim final rule violates the Administrative Procedure Act on multiple grounds: it is arbitrary and capricious, its rushed 30-day effective date is unjustified, and the agency unlawfully bypassed the legally required notice-and-comment process.
Since 1983, the FLRA's Regional Directors, nonpartisan career professionals, have adjudicated representation petitions, made appropriate unit determinations, approved election agreements, and certified election results. This system was specifically designed to ensure the expeditious processing of representation matters and has functioned effectively for more than four decades.
The FLRA's new rule transfers all of that authority to the three-member Authority itself, which is composed of political appointees. It also eliminates the two-level review process that has served as a critical check against errors in the representation system. The rule is clearly another unlawful effort of this administration to strip federal employees of rights and to politicize the non-partisan civil service.
"The rule challenged by this lawsuit upends regulations that have existed for over four decades. The FLRA issued this rule without engaging in the legally required notice-and-comment process, instead attempting to minimize the significance of the rule," said AFGE National President Everett Kelley. "Make no mistake, these changes are significant and substantive. They eliminate the non-partisan, non-political decision-making process that currently governs who can and can't be represented by a union. We should recognize this for what it is -just another step in this administration's efforts to politicize federal employment and make it easier to retaliate against those, including unions, that speak out against them."
The plaintiffs in the case are AFGE, the National Association of Government Employees (NAGE/SEIU), the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE-IAM), the International Federation of Professional and Technical Employees (IFPTE), the National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and the AFL-CIO. The unions are represented by Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC.
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Original text here: https://www.afge.org/link/e9c8b843e20d408c9bd5c25a055abd30.aspx
CVS Teamsters Authorize Strike
WASHINGTON, April 16 [Category: Union] -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters posted the following news release:
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CVS Teamsters Authorize Strike
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(FREDERICKSBURG, Va.) - More than 500 drivers and warehouse workers at CVS's distribution center in Fredericksburg, Va., have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. The workers, represented by Teamsters Local 592, are demanding a fair agreement and rejecting CVS's concessionary demands. The current contract expires on April 30.
"If CVS keeps pushing concessions and refusing to take bargaining seriously, we will be forced on the
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WASHINGTON, April 16 [Category: Union] -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters posted the following news release:
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CVS Teamsters Authorize Strike
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(FREDERICKSBURG, Va.) - More than 500 drivers and warehouse workers at CVS's distribution center in Fredericksburg, Va., have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. The workers, represented by Teamsters Local 592, are demanding a fair agreement and rejecting CVS's concessionary demands. The current contract expires on April 30.
"If CVS keeps pushing concessions and refusing to take bargaining seriously, we will be forced on thepicket line May 1," said Chris Donald, a 38-year warehouse worker and member of Local 592. "No one wants a strike, but if the company comes after our hard-earned benefits, we will have no choice but to fight back."
CVS is the largest retail pharmacy chain in the United States and posted $402.1 billion in revenue in 2025, with nearly $1.8 billion in profits. Despite its massive wealth, the company is demanding cuts to affordable health care and other core benefits.
"It is outrageous for a company built on health care to try to gut workers' health coverage," said Jim Smith, President of Local 592. "CVS is choosing greed over its workforce. We will not accept a concessionary contract, and we will fight to protect every benefit our members have earned."
The Teamsters represent thousands of CVS workers nationwide. Last year, following a credible strike threat, more than 900 Teamsters at a CVS distribution center in La Habra, Calif., secured a strong new contract with major wage increases, higher pension contributions, and fully protected benefits.
Local 592 members are demanding the same standards won by other CVS Teamsters across the country. The group supplies CVS stores across the Mid-Atlantic, including Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. A strike would disrupt operations across the region.
"CVS needs to understand that this union will not allow concessions from a company this profitable," said Tom Erickson, Director of the Teamsters Warehouse Division. "If CVS keeps heading down this path, they will face the full force of the Teamsters Union. Our members are ready."
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.3 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information. Follow us on X @Teamsters and on Facebook at Facebook.com/teamsters.
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Original text here: https://teamster.org/2026/04/cvs-teamsters-authorize-strike/
AFGE Blasts Secretary Hegseth Move to Terminate AFGE Collective Bargaining Agreements at DOD
WASHINGTON, April 15 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Government Employees issued the following news release:
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AFGE Blasts Secretary Hegseth Move to Terminate AFGE Collective Bargaining Agreements at DOD
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DoD employee union calls the move a "slap in the face" following ceasefire with Iran
Today, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest union representing 300,000 employees at the Department of Defense (DOD), expressed outrage after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo directing agencies and components to terminate all collective
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WASHINGTON, April 15 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Government Employees issued the following news release:
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AFGE Blasts Secretary Hegseth Move to Terminate AFGE Collective Bargaining Agreements at DOD
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DoD employee union calls the move a "slap in the face" following ceasefire with Iran
Today, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest union representing 300,000 employees at the Department of Defense (DOD), expressed outrage after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo directing agencies and components to terminate all collectivebargaining agreements between the DOD and AFGE.
This action comes a year after President Trump signed Executive Order (EO) 14251, which illegally stripped over 1 million federal employees of their union rights citing national security reasons.
AFGE National President Everett Kelley, Army veteran with a 30-year career at DOD, issued the following statement:
"Secretary Hegseth's decision to terminate the union rights of hardworking individuals who support our military is a cowardly continuation of this administration's unlawful attack on federal employees' first amendment right to belong to a union.
"DOD employees, many of whom are veterans themselves, are the backbone of our military, and taking away their collective voice workforce doesn't strengthen the mission; it undermines it.
"For 50 years, these employees have exercised their union rights; under several administrations, during a global pandemic, and throughout peacetime and wartime, including our most recent conflict with Iran.
"To rip up the union contracts of civilian employees after touting a successful ceasefire in the Middle East, is not only a slap in the face to the employees who supported those efforts but again proves that this action has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with silencing workers' voices.
"Our union has successfully challenged illegal attempts to strip our members of their union rights by terminating their collective bargaining rights, and we will continue to do so."
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Original text here: https://www.afge.org/link/d02b983635fa4552bc4bef13a730dc76.aspx
Illinois Teamsters Demand Lawmakers Reject Anti-Worker Waymo Bill
WASHINGTON, April 15 [Category: Union] -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters posted the following news release:
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Illinois Teamsters Demand Lawmakers Reject Anti-Worker Waymo Bill
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(SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) - Illinois Teamsters and the Labor Alliance for Public Transportation (LAPT) announced a new partnership to stop the Autonomous Vehicle Pilot Project Act (IL SB3392/HB5103).
The legislation, which is being backed by Big Tech companies like Waymo, would harm middle-class jobs and jeopardize motorist safety by allowing Autonomous Vehicle (AV) companies to unleash untested and dangerous
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WASHINGTON, April 15 [Category: Union] -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters posted the following news release:
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Illinois Teamsters Demand Lawmakers Reject Anti-Worker Waymo Bill
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(SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) - Illinois Teamsters and the Labor Alliance for Public Transportation (LAPT) announced a new partnership to stop the Autonomous Vehicle Pilot Project Act (IL SB3392/HB5103).
The legislation, which is being backed by Big Tech companies like Waymo, would harm middle-class jobs and jeopardize motorist safety by allowing Autonomous Vehicle (AV) companies to unleash untested and dangerousproducts on Illinois roads within the next three years.
"Autonomous vehicles are bad for workers and communities," said Tom Stiede, President of Teamsters Joint Council 25. "That's why elected officials in Springfield need to kill the AV Pilot Project Act."
Polling of Illinois voters shows that they overwhelmingly oppose fully driverless cars and trucks operating on the state's roads.
"The question for lawmakers is simple: are you going to protect good, family-sustaining jobs, or are you going to replace them with machines?" said Chris Duncan, a Local 727 member and driver for Keurig Dr Pepper. "For working people, this isn't abstract. This fight is for our livelihoods and our families."
This is the coalition's second initiative, following last year's success in saving Illinois' public transit system. In recent months, multiple states have cancelled or postponed plans to expand AV legalization, including Minnesota, New York, Virginia, Washington, and Washington, D.C.
Teamsters Joint Council 25 represents more than 125,000 hardworking men and women throughout Illinois and northwest Indiana. For more information, go to teamstersjc25.com.
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Original text here: https://teamster.org/2026/04/illinois-teamsters-demand-lawmakers-reject-anti-worker-waymo-bill/
AFSCME's Saunders: AFSCME members urge Virginia General Assembly to reject proposed substitute bill to gut collective bargaining legislation
WASHINGTON, April 15 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) issued the following news release:
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AFSCME's Saunders: AFSCME members urge Virginia General Assembly to reject proposed substitute bill to gut collective bargaining legislation
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AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement urging Virginia lawmakers to reject the substitute bill submitted by Gov. Abigail Spanberger gutting Senate Bill 378 and House Bill 1263, legislation which granted collective bargaining freedoms to state government employees and
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WASHINGTON, April 15 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) issued the following news release:
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AFSCME's Saunders: AFSCME members urge Virginia General Assembly to reject proposed substitute bill to gut collective bargaining legislation
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AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement urging Virginia lawmakers to reject the substitute bill submitted by Gov. Abigail Spanberger gutting Senate Bill 378 and House Bill 1263, legislation which granted collective bargaining freedoms to state government employees andenhanced bargaining rights for employees of local governments in Virginia:
"AFSCME members worked tirelessly with pro-worker lawmakers in the General Assembly to pass legislation granting over half-a-million public service workers the freedom to collectively bargain. When public service workers have a voice on the job, they use that voice to improve and strengthen the public services we all depend on.
"The governor's substitute bill not only fails to durably expand collective bargaining freedoms - it takes Virginia workers backwards by weakening the rights public service workers have fought for and established at the local government level. Instead of workers and employers alike having the certainty created by SB 378 and HB 1263, the substitute bill, if it were to become law, makes collective bargaining subject to the whims of a state agency that could change the rules at any time. Working families need a real seat at the table, not an illusory one, so they can bargain for the resources they urgently need to support their families and communities.
"We thank the leaders in the General Assembly, especially Delegate Kathy Tran and Senator Scott Surovell, who worked around the clock to pass this bill. AFSCME members urge the General Assembly to reject the substitute bill, and send the original, pro-worker bill back to the governor's desk for signature."
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Original text here: http://origin-afscme.bytrilogy.com/press/releases/2026/afscme-members-urge-virginia-general-assembly-to-reject-proposed-substitute-bill-to-gut-collective-bargaining-legislation
