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North Pole Elf Sickouts Score Masks from Santa »

December 4, 2020 | Alexandra Bradbury

Holiday toy production season got off to a chaotic start this year. Santa Claus at first resisted the elves’ demands for COVID safety measures—prompting a wave of sickouts around the toy workshop.

'Nurses Over Billboards': Two-Day Strike Hits Site of New York's First COVID Outbreak »

December 3, 2020 | Kris Parker

Nurses at Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital struck this week over safety and staffing.

An organizer talks at lunchtime with a D'Arrigo Brothers worker with a union button on her cap.

Will the Supreme Court Overrule Farmworker Union Rights? »

December 2, 2020 | David Bacon

This article was produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main. It is co-published here with permission.

When You're Winning in the Streets, Don't Lose at the Bargaining Table »

December 2, 2020 | Richard de Vries

The final phase of bargaining can be intense. A strike authorization vote has been taken, or maybe a strike has begun. Members are fully mobilized and your corporate campaign is in high gear. Suddenly the employer is throwing new proposals onto the table.
Panel at the 2019 Dallas Troublemakers School.

To Hand Labor Notes to the Next Generation, Join Me in Giving »

December 1, 2020 | Donna Cartwright

This Giving Tuesday, please consider supporting Labor Notes at our Facebook fundraiser or through the Donate page on this website. -Editors.
Masked people march with signs: "Tyson Is Killing Us for Profits. Tyson Treats the Workers Worst than the Chickens We Process." "Don't Believe Tyson." "Shut Down the Factories." "Protect = Respect."

Work Is the Reason Latinos Are Getting Slammed So Hard by the Pandemic »

November 30, 2020 | Saurav Sarkar

The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout have hammered the Latino community.

The Itch to Twitch: How We Opened Up Our Union’s Webinar »

November 25, 2020 | Boyda Johnstone and Gerry Martini

When our union announced a mass Zoom meeting, we knew members wouldn’t get the chance to participate in any meaningful sense.

General Motors Returns to Oshawa—But Offers Only Second-Tier Jobs in a ‘Pop-Up’ Plant »

November 25, 2020 | Tony Leah and Rebecca Keetch

Unifor President Jerry Dias called it “a home run.” The media headlines were all about “reopening the Oshawa plant.”
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COVID Tipped the Scale: How King County Employees Made Childcare a Union Benefit »

November 24, 2020 | Michael Laslett

Ten thousand union members who work for King County, where Seattle is located, have won a $9 million fund to cover emergency childcare expenses this school year. Now the union coalition is pushing to make the benefit permanent.

Interview: If Only Unions Had Managed to Organize the South, Could Trump Have Been Avoided? »

November 23, 2020 | Chris Wright

At a time when activists and commentators are puzzling over the United States’ enduring conservatism, Michael Goldfield’s new book The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism

How Postal Workers Saved the Election »

November 20, 2020 | Jane Slaughter

The story of mail ballots in 2020 is the story of a union postal workforce willing to go to extraordinary lengths to make sure that every vote got delivered.

It Took a Boatload of Uber Cash to Beat Self-Organized Drivers »

November 19, 2020 | Brian Dolber

Workers suffered a devastating defeat in California’s Proposition 22, the most expensive ballot measure in U.S. history.
Urgent care doctors and staff in white coats picket alongside a sign held by union supporters that reads "Tacoma Is a Union Town."

Will Urgent Care Doctors Be Forced to Strike in a Pandemic for the Right to Go Home? »

November 17, 2020 | Zack Pattin

Update, April 30, 2021: UAPD settled a contract with MultiCare that, according to a statement from the union, provides access to N95 masks, raises for all members, "reasonable access to breaks and controlled closing times," and just cause protections with binding arbitration.
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While the World Focused on Midwest Election Results, Detroit Bikeshare Workers Won Their Union »

November 16, 2020 | Zach Rioux

On November 4, as the country was awaiting the results of the previous day's presidential election, my co-workers and I held our breath as we watched the proceedings of another election play out over Zoom.
Supporters of Prop 15 tabling for the measure with a big sign.

Why Did California's Tax the Rich Measure Lose? »

November 12, 2020 | Fred Glass

California’s Proposition 15, a labor-backed progressive tax measure, gave up the ghost on November 10 after a weeklong vote count.

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