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A group of workers and supporters hold cardboard signs reading Stop Unfair Labor Practices and Fair Contract Now. Many are wearing red bandanas.

Portland Grocery Workers Score Big First Contract Win

Jan 22 / Johanna Brenner
Mass march with many handmade anti-ICE signs. Most prominent are rainbow butterflies with the word "Together." Another in lower right says "How do have money for ICE but not teachers, veterans, childcare, health care, mental heath services, clean water, SNAP?" A flag farther back in crowd shows Star Wars rebellion logo.

Will ICE Ignite a Mass Strike in Minnesota?

Jan 16 / Luis Feliz Leon
Three Black women nurses pose for camera; two are smiling, one looks determined. Two hold printed NYSNA signs: "Safe nurses = safe patients" and "STOP hiding the truth about your $$$" and the other holds a handwritten sign, partly covered, long text. Lots of red NYSNA hats are visible in the dense, upbeat crowd behind them.

Fifteen Thousand New York City Nurses Strike

Jan 13 / Luis Feliz Leon, Sarah Hughes, Danielle Smith
A group of veterans stand behind a blue banner that reads Veterans for Democracy.

How Vets in Labor Have Joined the Fight Against Trump

Jan 12 / Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon
photo taken at night shows a giant crowd of people in a residential street, facing away from the viewer, silhouetted by a streetlight

Renee Good, Killed by ICE, Was Standing in Solidarity with Her Neighbors

Jan 9 / Luis Feliz Leon
Richard, a white man with a mustache and glasses, speaks to attentive labor school participants seated in a classroom.

Five Things Steward Training Gets Wrong

Jan 8 / Richard de Vries

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A tight-packed group stands with signs and giant Starbucks cups.

Delete the Starbucks App Now, Say Striking Workers

Feb 3 / Jenny Brown
A group of 25 blue-shirted nurses pose happily in front of a Teamsters Local 90 banner

Iowa Nurses Join Teamsters in Hard-Fought Election Win

Feb 2 / Belinda Carpenter
A handpainted sign on a city street reads in red letters "no war with Venezuela."

‘No More Blood for Oil’: Global Labor Movement Opposes Trump’s Attacks on Venezuela

Jan 7 / Luis Feliz Leon
Three black-and-white photos show a Black man, dressed in the white coat and black slacks of a Pullman porter, putting up a bed on an upper berth, resting on a bench seat looking out the train window, and standing on the train stairs. It is not clear whether the three photos show the same man or different men.

100 Years Ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Changed Black Politics

Dec 18 / Paul Prescod
Three women work around a table with blue cloth grocery bags, outdoors. A man in a red T-shirt walks behind them. A truck is also visible.

Union Members Distribute Food for Federal Workers

Dec 17 / Kerry Taylor
Several Black workers, women and men, sit around a conference table. In the middle of the frame, a man in an orange T-shirt is talking, looking around at the group; others are listening thoughtfully. Everyone's expression is serious.

From Temp Trap to Union Jobs: Building Pathways for Workers with Criminal Records

Dec 17 / Maya Ragsdale

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