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Four women of a range of ages, seated in a row, part of a bigger crowd in what looks like a hotel ballroom, smile and raise fists. Each holds in her lap a stapled packet of printed pages, perhaps a summary of a tentative agreement.

Canadian Walmart Workers Make History: A Union Contract »

September 17, 2026 | Kari Thompson

Eight hundred workers at a Walmart distribution center in Mississauga, Ontario, succeeded where others have not: they are now working under a two-year contract with North America’s largest logistics giant.
Eight people outside face the camera with signs, including “Hire Genesis” and a UE banner.

Stewards Corner: How We Won Our Co-Worker Her Rightful Promotion »

September 17, 2026 | Bevin Barber-Campbell and Tim Rousseau

Workers at Hunger Mountain Co-op, a consumer-owned grocery store in Montpelier, Vermont, won a five-month fight to enforce seniority, beat back bias, and win a promotion for a beloved co-worker. We did it not just by filing a grievance, but also by mobilizing union members and the public.
A group stands with signs against privatization of airport security

‘Don’t Privatize Airport Security’ Say Screeners and Flight Attendants on 9/11 Anniversary »

September 11, 2026 | Jenny Brown

Union flight attendants are mourning lost co-workers on the 25-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks. In Chicago today, they’re joining with Transportation Security Officers to defend airport security gains made in the last quarter-century.
A group of autoworkers with black “Protect Our Freedom to Vote” shirts march

Persecuted by Trump, Will Unions Build Towards May 2028? »

September 9, 2026 | Luis Feliz Leon

Three years ago the United Auto Workers, glowing with confidence after a successful strike at the Big 3 and pledging ambitious new organizing drives, put out a call for a national strike on May 1, 2028.

Marchers bundled against the cold carry colorful signs

How Minnesota Unions and Community Groups Stood Up to an ICE Occupation »

September 8, 2026 | Greg Nammacher

In this excerpt from the new book This Is How We Win: A Guide to Building Working-Class Uprisings, SEIU Local 26 President Greg Nammacher describes how his union, its members battered and exhausted from ICE attac

Vermont Hospital Workers Fight for Immigrant Neighbors »

September 2, 2026 | Natascha Elena Uhlmann

Health care workers fighting for a contract in Vermont have come to the table with not only their own demands for safe staffing and fair pay, but also a more unusual demand—one made in solidarity with farmworkers.
A group of workers, mostly Black, face an official-looking building with signs.

‘Treated Worse than Cattle’: 2,500 Tyson Workers Laid Off, Plant Shutters Overnight »

September 1, 2026 | Caitlyn Clark

Ouano Tante worked the afternoon shift at the Tyson beef plant in Joslin, Illinois, for five years. But when she and hundreds of her co-workers arrived at work on August 13, they found the plant closed.
A line of veterans in Portland and the cover of the book Courage or Complicity

Book Review: Courage or Complicity? How Veterans are Responding to the Assault on Democracy »

September 1, 2026 | John Braxton

U.S. military veterans are drilled by their commanders to obey their superior officers. Many still believe it is their duty to support the commander-in-chief even after their tour of duty.

A group 25 of workers in red shirts gather near an umbrella saying Panda Express

Will Republicans in Congress Torch OSHA’s Heat Standard? »

August 31, 2026 | Jenny Brown

Workers around the country experienced brutal heat this summer, with July the hottest month on record.
A row of musicians with large clocks behind them perform, with Dolly Parton in the center

Dolly Parton Helped Us to Speak Up and Join Together »

August 28, 2026 | Ellen Cassedy

Dolly Parton’s song, “9 to 5,” has endured as a beloved anthem for nearly half a century. What many people don’t know is that the direct inspiration for the song—and the hit movie—was the 9 to 5 working women’s movement that began in Boston in the early 1970’s.

Baristas Ask Organizations to Boycott until Starbucks Signs a Contract »

August 27, 2026 | Jenny Brown

No contract? No Starbucks coffee at the union hall.
Thirty Black workers stand with signs saying “ATU on Strike”

Jackson Transit Workers Win Strike, Save Saturday Service »

August 27, 2026 | Paul Prescod

Eighty public transit workers in Jackson, Mississippi, have won a tentative agreement with MV Transportation, after a grueling five-week strike.
UAW delegates (men and women, Black and white) sit listening at the union's 2026 convention. Table signs identify those in the foreground as from Region 8, Locals 129 and 276.

UAW Members Voting for International Officers »

August 25, 2026 | Luis Feliz Leon | Jane Slaughter

United Auto Workers members are voting by mail ballot for their top officers, for the second time in the union’s 91 years. Ballots went out August 21 and are due back by October 5.
The camera focuses on two women in a crowd of picketers, diverse in race and gender, carrying printed blue and white "UAW on strike" picket signs. The women are wearing different UAW T-shirts. One has the collar cut off, revealing part of a tattoo that reads, in cursive, "darkness light shall prevail." Both women wear serious, determined expressions.

Deere Workers Reject Contract Extension: We’ll Meet You at the Table in 2027 »

August 24, 2026 | Jane Slaughter

This article has been updated from the version originally published August 11. –Editors

New Voices Gain Ground at Letter Carriers Convention »

August 20, 2026 | Alexandra Bradbury

“The number one takeaway is that the times in the NALC, they are a-changing,” said Margo O’Neill of Branch 352 in Des Moines, Iowa, who attended her first Letter Carriers convention August 3-7 in Los Angeles.

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