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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

Stewards Corner: Organizing to ‘Green’ Your Job: What Works? »

March 27, 2025 | Keith Brower Brown

Stewards often build fights around small issues, and they need to. But stewards also have a special charge to stay ahead of the boss—to think big about shifting power on the job, including by driving the move to green production.
Supporters gather at a rally demanding Alfredo's release with signs reading "ICE Hands off Lelo", "Chinga la Migra" and other statements in solidarity with Lelo.

Three Ways to Support Detained Farmworker Organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez »

March 27, 2025 | Natascha Elena Uhlmann

Longtime farmworker organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents this week in what many believe to be retaliation for his organizing.
A collection of labor pins.

Union Pins and T-shirts On Sale to Benefit Labor Notes! »

March 20, 2025

Do you enjoy collecting old union buttons and pins? Want a vintage labor T-shirt? Longtime organizer and labor activist Rand Wilson is donating to Labor Notes all proceeds from the sale of his collection of labor swag!
People in different colored union shirts or suits line both sides of a glass hallway. Many are men, some are Black and some are white. A few carry handmade signs urging a no vote on HB 1445.

Florida’s Union-Busting Regime: A Report from the Front Lines »

March 19, 2025 | Jenn Powell

Organizing in the South has always been challenging, and Florida’s latest union-busting legislation has only made it harder.
A seated woman with glasses in black holds a newborn baby wrapped in a white blanket to her chest.

Army Corps Workers Defend Parental Leave with Direct Action »

March 13, 2025 | Daniel Kim

The doctor recommended at least 18 weeks to recover from childbirth. But Jane (whose name was changed for this article) was entitled to only 12 paid weeks under the Federal Employee Paid Leave Act. So she put in a request with her employer, the U.S.
TSA workers are shown screening bags and scanning passengers at an airport

Trump Tries to Blow Up Airport Screeners Union »

March 11, 2025 | Jenny Brown

In a memo that that one TSA employee said sounded like “a teenage blogger writing about someone they don’t like,” the Department of Homeland Security announced March 7 that it was cancelling the union contract for 47,000 workers at the Transportation Security Administration.

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