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Five women sit applauding, one is wearing a CTU T-shirt, another says “we care” with a drawing of a chalkboard

Chicago Teachers Approve Contract with Remarkable Gains »

April 21, 2025 | Jackson Potter

This month, 85 percent of the Chicago Teachers Union’s 27,000 active members voted on a tentative agreement covering 500 public schools across the city. A record 97 percent voted yes.

60 people at tables hold papers high in the air

Battery Workers Organize To Safeguard Their Health »

April 20, 2025 | Keith Brower Brown

Rural Kentucky factory workers in the heart of the Southern battery belt filed for election January 7 to join the Auto Workers. More than two-thirds of the 900 hourly workers signed the union petition at BlueOval, a joint venture of Ford and SK On.
Members of SINTTIA's salary revision committee pose in red union shirts with fists raised up in the air in front of the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration.

Unmoved by Tariff Threats, Mexican GM Workers Win a Double-Digit Wage Hike »

April 17, 2025 | Natascha Elena Uhlmann

Mexican General Motors workers in the Silao, Guanajuato, factory complex clinched record raises after staring down company scaremongering about tariff threats.


“They said, well, we’re offering 6 percent,” said Norma Leticia Cabrera Vasquez about management’s offer at bargaining.
Workers join the top piece of a giant wind turbine to the bottom. They are tiny against its hugeness.

Fight the Boss, Build a Green Future »

April 16, 2025 | Kari Thompson

As the Trump administration sows chaos, it is only intensifying global heating—and the storms, heat waves, and fires that come with it—while gutting the safety nets that should support working people in times of crisis.
a speaker at a mic set up on the sidewalk is backed up by people holding signs about lead in schools

Chicago Teachers Win Greener Schools »

April 16, 2025 | Nick Limbeck and Lauren Bianchi

The Chicago Teachers Union won a tentative agreement in December that, for the first time, addresses climate and environmental justice demands—making healthy green schools a priority in our city. We achieved this breakthrough even while broader contract negotiations stalled.
Crowds gather at a "Hands Off!" protest in Louisville.

Kentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers »

April 10, 2025

Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice this month that the Trump administration is revoking their work authorizations.
A group of 30 men and women with signs in Turkish stand outside behind a banner

TikTok Moderators Fight against Trauma and for a Union »

April 9, 2025 | Kıvanç Eliaçık

TikTok, the social media giant that keeps billions scrolling, relies on a vast, largely invisible workforce. Behind the joy and entertainment are workers—content moderators, engineers, outsourced staff—facing long hours, psychological strain, low pay, and a lack of rights.
A crowd of people hold red and white signs saying “Delete Doge”

Viewpoint: PATCO’s Lessons for this Crisis »

April 9, 2025 | Joseph A. McCartin

Donald Trump’s March 27 executive order revoking the collective bargaining rights of more than 700,000 federal workers is the largest act of union-busting in U.S. history.

Workers gather in a March 27 protest holding signs reading "Shame" and "Melt ICE!"

Ten National Unions Call for Anti-Trump Resistance »

April 8, 2025 | Natascha Elena Uhlmann

Ten national unions and dozens of locals representing more than 3 million members have issued a joint statement demanding the release of immigrant workers recently snatched by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Marchers walk away from the camera with a giant orange on black sign, “Benefits over Billionaires”

Viewpoint: Why Oligarchs Want a Recession »

April 7, 2025 | Van Jackson

A recession is looming. Trump himself recently affirmed that his economic plans would induce a recession in the near term.
A group of 20 protesters with UAW and Save Our Services signs, many are yelling

Federal Unionists Say It’s Not Game Over, It’s Game On »

April 3, 2025 | Jenny Brown

A scrappy network of federal unionists is leading the response to the Trump administration’s attacks on their workplaces, including Trump’s March 27 order purporting to end union contracts covering most federal workers.
Screenshot shows Israel Cervantes on the left, in a weathered brown leather jacket, shaking hands with Sean Crawford, right, in a red UAW T-shirt and a baseball cap, while a few other activists carrying handmade signs look on approvingly. They're standing in a parking lot after a rain.

Viewpoint: Will Trump’s Tariffs Be Good for Auto Workers? »

April 2, 2025 | Sean Crawford

During the 2019 General Motors strike, while my fellow workers and I were pounding the pavement, something inspirational was happening south of the border: Mexican auto worker Israel Cervantes, along with many others at a GM plant in Silao, Guanajuato, refused overtime in solidarity with us.
At least a dozen activists crowd up to the door of a VU Manufacturing office, where a company flack is gesuring widely and trying to fend them off. One activist is holding a camera aloft, others holding signs or wearing UAW or Labor Notes gear. A woman

Setting the Pace in Auto: Thinking Bigger than Tariffs »

March 28, 2025 | Andrew Elrod

President Donald Trump’s infatuation with tariffs dates back to the 1980s, when he first said tariff was “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” On March 26 he announced “a 25 percent tariff

A group of worried-looking protesters hold signs about government cuts

Trump Goes Nuclear on the Federal Workforce »

March 28, 2025 | Joe DeManuelle-Hall

In his broadest attack on federal workers and their unions to date, President Donald Trump on Thursday announced an executive order that claimed to end collective bar
Two Black workers foregrounded in a dense crowd. Man on left wears orange New York Metro APWU T-shirt and lifts his hands to clap. Woman on right has thick eyelashes and holds a blue printed sign: "The Post Office belongs to the people, not the billionaires." Both smiling, energetic, probably chanting.

Postal Workers Throng to 500 Rallies to Save the Postal Service »

March 28, 2025 | Alexandra Bradbury

From big cities to small towns, postal workers organized hundreds of rallies across the country in the past week to defend a beloved public service—and the nation’s largest union employer—against privatization and

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