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Workers picket with "United for a strong contract" and "Just practicing" teamsters signs. Some wear brown UPS driver uniforms. One little kid, riding on a parent's shoulders, turns to look happily directly into the camera.

UPS Teamsters ‘Just Practicing’ »

July 19, 2023 | Alexandra Bradbury | Luis Feliz Leon

The clock is ticking on the August 1 strike deadline of 340,000 UPS Teamsters. It would be the largest strike at a private employer in decades.

Michigan Amazon Workers Stage Largest Delivery Station Strike Yet »

July 17, 2023 | Luis Feliz Leon

In the middle of Amazon’s Prime Day promotional sales rush, 60 warehouse workers walked out for more than three hours at its delivery station in Pontiac, Michigan—bringing the facility to the brink of a total shutdown.

Amazon Teamsters’ Rolling Pickets Hit Facilities Nationwide »

July 13, 2023 | Luis Feliz Leon

Brandi Diaz was at a customer’s door in Palmdale, California, delivering stuff for Amazon, when the customer asked her, “What’s the difference between you and UPS drivers?”

“He said the difference is UPS is union, Amazon is not. He referred to us as ‘Jeff’s Bozos.’

UPS truck viewed from behind on a Brooklyn street; visible are a few pedestrians and a fruit market. The sky and the whole scene is blanketed in a thick orange haze; buildings down the block are fuzzier because of the smoke.

In Heat and Smoke, Workers Fight Negligent Bosses »

July 12, 2023 | Caitlyn Clark

On June 29, the air quality in Detroit was among the worst in the world.

A group of nurses in dark blue scrubs with badges confront a man in a grey suit who is blocking their path.

Newly Organized Nurses in Texas and Kansas Strike for a First Contract »

July 11, 2023 | Seth Uzman

Through wet weather in Wichita, Kansas, and scorching heat in Austin, Texas, hundreds of nurses walked picket lines June 27 in a one-day strike for safe staffing and patient safety. Nearly 2,000 nurses represented by National Nurses United (NNU) walked out.

Two posters, one colorful, the other a ripped letter, in two different photographs.

Reform Caucus Rises, Sues for Elections in Amazon Labor Union »

July 10, 2023 | Luis Feliz Leon

One year after the landmark union victory at Amazon's JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island, New York, the brightly colored posters that once adorned the glass at the

Slingshot: ‘Work Requirements’ or Real Jobs? »

July 6, 2023 | Jenny Brown

When I heard the debt-ceiling deal would target people in their fifties for new work requirements to get food stamps, I thought about my brother.

Four men and one woman wearing Machinists tabards and holding strike signs face the camera at night with plant lights behind them.

Machinists Ratify Contract at Airplane Parts Supplier, But Expose Rift with Union Leadership »

July 5, 2023 | Luis Feliz Leon

Six thousand Machinists working for Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kansas, ratified a new four-year contract last week, returning to work today. The company had locked workers out on June 22, two days before their strike.

A woman holds a sign about Work from Home, while a child and a group behind her hold other signs.

Communications Workers Seek Answers and Accountability from Top Leaders »

June 29, 2023 | Steve Early

When your union doesn’t permit direct election of national officers, hasn’t had a contested convention vote for union president since the 1950s, and has never had a presidential debate, how should an activist respond to an unprecedented three-way race for the top spot?

A crowd of workers walk away from the camera at night wearing tabards reading “District Lodge 70 on strike”

Six Thousand Machinists Strike Aircraft Parts Giant in Kansas—Threatening Boeing Production »

June 27, 2023 | Luis Feliz Leon

Six thousand Machinists at a key Boeing supplier, Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kansas, went on strike June 24 after voting down the company’s “best and final offer.”

workers walk a circular picket in a driveway, with one visible sign saying “Fighting for our future: Jobs, respect, accountability.”

Wabtec Workers Walk Out for Grievance Strikes and Green Locomotives »

June 27, 2023 | Alex Press

On the evening of June 22, members of the United Electrical workers (UE) crowded into Iroquois High School to vote on whether they would accept what their boss was offering them.

Detail from comic. There is a rainbow at upper left with text: Moranda Smith, Not Words But Action, Pride and Liberation. Background is a photo of a factory; overlaid letters say FTA, CIO. A drawn panel on the right shows Black women with their backs to a conveyor belt, and this caption: "Winston-Salem, North Carolina, June 1943. 10,000 workers turned their backs on their machines at R.J. Reynolds, the largest factory in the South." One worker is saying, "Moranda! Come on!"

Not Words, But Action: Moranda Smith, Food and Tobacco Workers Local 22, and the Fight to Expand Democracy »

June 23, 2023 | Jonathan Kissam

Comic: ‘Not Words, But Action: Moranda Smith, Pride and Liberation’

Welcomes, Farewells, and New Projects at Labor Notes »

June 22, 2023 | Labor Notes staff

Adrian Campbell

Large, multiracial, masked crowd stands on the steps of a public buliding. Many have fists in the air. Back row holds ATU banners. Front row holds a giant banner that reads "Hazard pay now!" with a line drawing of a bus.

Intolerable Conditions Drive ‘Shortages,’ Transit Workers Say »

June 14, 2023 | Sultana Adams and Richard Marcantonio

Why are public transit operators struggling to retain workers and hire new ones? Workers at AC Transit say one major factor is intolerable working conditions—overwork, inadequate breaks, safety hazards, and a pervasive culture of disrespect.

Will Erie Locomotive Plant Workers Strike for the Right to Strike over Grievances? »

June 14, 2023 | Alex Press

UPDATE, June 23: After rejecting the company’s last, best and final offer today, the 1,400 members of UE Locals 506 and 618 are on strike at Wabtec’s locomotive plant in Lawrence Park.

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