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A group of forty cram into a building lobby with signs saying “Labor for Palestine”

For Palestine Solidarity, Bay Area Union Members Step Up and Dig In »

March 5, 2024 | Bahaar Tadjbakhsh

When street protests seem ignored by the war machine, what are union members to do?

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Welcome New Staff! »

March 4, 2024 | Labor Notes Staff

Labor Notes staff are busy as a hive, ramping up for our biggest-ever conference. As we do, we’re very grateful to have more capable hands on deck: two wonderful new co-workers plus three terrific interns.
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Rail Machinists Rerun Contested Election »

March 4, 2024 | Joe DeManuelle-Hall

A new election for top officers will be held in Machinists District Lodge 19 on May 3, after complaints about bad addresses and campaigning at polling locations during a close vote last year.

Starbucks Workers Win Breakthrough Promise of Real Negotiations »

February 29, 2024 | Jenny Brown

The piñata finally burst. Starbucks corporate heads agreed Tuesday to negotiate for real with the union and allow workers to organize.
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Book Reviews: Fighting Wall Street’s War on Workers and the Corporate BS that Protects It »

February 27, 2024 | Steve Early

One of the occupational hazards of being a labor activist is over-exposure to “corporate bullshit”—on the job, in the community, and in politics.
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Argentinian Working People Fight Milei’s Far-Right Government with a General Strike »

February 26, 2024 | Clara Marticorena and Julia Soul

More than 1.5 million people took part in a general strike in Argentina on January 24 against a new president and his aggressive anti-union “reforms.”
A group of autoworkers sit on a makeshift platform under a window in a factory.

CIO’s History Inspires Podcasts »

February 23, 2024 | by Nicole Greason

A new podcast, "Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO," tells the story of the Committee for Industrial Organization (which later became the Congress of Industrial Organizations) and organized millions of workers in the 1930s and
Several workers work around a crate with black-colored mold visible on the lid

Ford’s Battery Flagship Socked by Mold Sickness, Workers Say »

February 22, 2024 | Schuyler Mitchell and Keith Brower Brown

The smell of mold hit James “Lucky” Dugan the moment he walked into the plant.
A woman with long dark hair speaks into a megaphone to a crowd that is visible beyond her, one holding a “Fair Contract Now” sign.

Sixteen Months on Strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette »

February 19, 2024 | Finley Williams

Bob Batz, Jr., thought it would end quickly.


“It's kind of cute now, that we thought getting into last December [2022] and January was a long time,” Batz said. “Little did we know. [We said] ‘Oh, it’s Christmas and we're still on strike. We can't believe it.’”
A line of children and adults push baby carriages with inflatable animals wearing signs saying ‘Macy’s Workers on ULP Strike’

Strikes and a Boycott Win a Better Deal from Macy’s »

February 16, 2024 | Lisa Xu

Fans of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade may have noticed one glaring omission in its cast of charismatic balloons and floats: Scabby the Rat, who for some reason, has never been invited.
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Contract Faculty Wrest Neutrality from New York University »

February 14, 2024 | Jeff Schuhrke

Contingent professors scored a victory January 3 when they got New York University to agree to a union election this semester, and to remain neutral during the process. The election is scheduled for February 27 and 28.
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UFCW Local Leads Fight to Win Washington's Strongest Tenant Protections »

February 12, 2024 | Ty Moore

Grocery and retail workers helped win the strongest tenant protections in Washington state last November for the 100,000 renters in the city of Tacoma.
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Strike Threat at Allison Transmission Strips Out Tiers »

February 7, 2024 | Luis Feliz Leon

Fifteen hundred auto workers in Indianapolis made their New Year’s resolution public: unless Allison Transmission agreed to eliminate tiers in wages, benefits, shift premiums, and holidays, they would hit the bricks.
A group of workers stands in the snow and cold outside a US Foods yard in Spokane, Washington holding signs that say Local 705 Teamsters On Strike Against US Foods.

Teamster Food Service Drivers Took Their Strike Nationwide and Won »

February 6, 2024 | Scott Jenkins

While most Chicagoans were bracing for a major snowstorm, 130 truck drivers who deliver food from warehouses to cafeterias and kitchens spent the first weekend in January preparing for another kind of storm: a strike.
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The South, Where Automakers Go for a Discount »

February 2, 2024 | Luis Feliz Leon

In 1978, Volkswagen became the first foreign-owned company to manufacture cars in the United States since Rolls-Royce in the 1930s, setting up shop in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania.

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