About Us

The Western New York Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO includes 5 Central Labor Councils (CLCs): Buffalo/Erie County; Cattaraugus/Allegany Dunkirk; Jamestown; Niagara/Orleans. Our mission is to improve the lives of and increase the power for working families, bring fairness and dignity to the workplace and secure social equity.

We are working to build a strong, diverse, free and democratic labor movement in order to give a political voice to workers in our area.

We fight for a public policy agenda at all levels of government which benefits all working families, both union and non-union.

We are active in our community and strive to create a broad progressive coalition for social and economic justice.

Officers

Denise Abbott
President
CWA		Michelle Bollman
Vice President
CSEA		Joe Cantafio
Secretary
NYSUT		Valerie Thomas
Treasurer
USW

Central Labor Council Presidents


Buffalo CLC		Don Williams Jr., CSEA
Dunkirk CLC		Ryan Sweeney, IAM
Jamestown CLC		James Briggs, USW
Niagara-Orleans CLC

General Vice Presidents

James Lakeman
UAW		Ryan Sweeney
IAM		David Chudy
PEF
Joe Vertalino
USW		Joshua Moberly
IATSE		Donna Walters
NYSUT
Debora Hayes
CWA		Jeffrey Richardson
ATU		Michael Gaiser
IBEW
Grace Bogdanove
1199SEIU		Will Westlake
Workers United		David Grosskopf Jr.
NALC
Lonnie Everett
UAW		Richard Morris
BCTGM		Cori Gambini
CWA
Kevin Drysdale
IBT		Mark Manna
UFCW		 

Staff

Denise Abbott, President

Denise Abbott

President
President