Troublemakers Blog

Viewpoint: Attacks on U.S. Labor Rights Should Be an International Scandal [1]

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October 09, 2025 / Benjamin Dictor

The National Labor Relations Board, the only federal agency charged with enforcing private-sector workers’ rights to organize and bargain collectively, is facing a constitutional crisis. » [1]

River Valley Co-op Workers Opened up Bargaining—and Won Big [2]

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October 02, 2025 / Katrina Jagelski

River Valley Co-op is a consumer-owned cooperative grocery store with two locations in Western Massachusetts. We have been unionized with Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1459 for the last decade with 175 workers in our bargaining unit. » [2]

North Carolina AFL-CIO Convention Backs May Day 2028 Plans [3]

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October 01, 2025 / Dan DiMaggio [4]

The North Carolina AFL-CIO passed a resolution at its September convention backing the call from the United Auto Workers for mass action on May 1, 2028 [5]. » [3]

Labor Signs on to Save Medicare [6]

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September 29, 2025 / Rose Roach

In 1965, President Johnson signed Medicare into law, establishing the right to quality healthcare for millions of retired Americans. The labor movement was essential in passing this landmark legislation. It took decades of organizing—with labor working side by side with the Civil Rights and other social movements—to win one of the most robust public health » [6]

We Who Believe in Democracy Must Fight to Make It Real [7]

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September 24, 2025 / Luis Feliz Leon [8]

We wake daily to new spectacles of violence and humiliation: kidnappings in broad daylight, attacks on unions, LGBTQ people, women, and immigrants, the erosion of long-cherished rights. It’s no longer a tricky question whether we have tipped into authoritarianism. The answer is yes. To fight back, we have to confront what the Trump administration is exploiting » [7]

Air Canada Flight Attendants Overwhelmingly Reject Wage Proposal [9]

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September 18, 2025 / Adam D.K. King

On September 6, flight attendants at Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge rejected a proposed tentative agreement by a resounding 99.1 percent, with nearly 95 percent of bargaining unit members voting. » [9]

How NYC Teachers Ran a Slate to Build Member Power [10]

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August 27, 2025 / Olivia Swisher

Teachers measure time in school years, not calendar years. As the new school year begins, I’ve been reflecting on my experiences from last year as an unexpected candidate for president of the 200,000-member United Federation of Teachers in New York City. » [10]

Uncover How Your Employer’s Power Flows [11]

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August 19, 2025 / Jenny Brown [12]

Review of What the Boss Doesn’t Want Us to Know: Discovering Power and Winning Campaigns [13] by Tom Juravich, Olivia Geho, and Andrew Gorry (PM Press, 2025) » [11]

Salts and Peppers Build a Union at Starbucks [14]

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August 13, 2025 / Jenny Brown [12]

Review of Jaz Brisack, Get on the Job and Organize (Atria/One Signal, 2025). Starbucks Workers United recently celebrated the unionization of their 600th store, disproving reams of conventional wisdom: you can’t organize small shops… you can’t organize high-turnover workplaces… you can’t organize young people. » [14]

Why the UAW Endorsed Zohran When Other New York City Unions Held Back [15]

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August 07, 2025 / Sam Feldman

Zohran Mamdani’s shock victory in this year’s New York City Democratic mayoral primary upended New York politics and called into question the effectiveness of big local unions, which mostly lined up behind loser Andrew Cuomo. » [15]