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With a Little Help from My Friends: How Taco Bell Workers and Many More Are Self-Organizing in the Pandemic »

June 5, 2020 | Emily Lemmerman, Colette Perold

At a Taco Bell in Washington Township, Michigan, the action began when Jonathon Foster, a shift leader, approached the district manager about paid sick leave during the pandemic. She flat-out refused, despite pledges from Taco Bell’s CEO.
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It’s (Way Past) Time to Redistribute Obscene Police Budgets to Schools, Hospitals, and Buses »

June 4, 2020 | Samantha Winslow | Alexandra Bradbury

The marches are sweeping every state. Hundreds of thousands of people have braved the pandemic to protest the murder of an unarmed Black man, George Floyd, by Minneapolis police.

Labor Fights for George Floyd in Twin Cities »

June 3, 2020 | Cherrene Horazuk

I watched with horror the video of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis Police, so bravely captured by a 17-year-old African American woman. Seared in my brain is Officer Derek Chauvin’s smirk as he knelt on Mr.

Review: Seattle’s General Strike 100 Years Ago Shows Us Hope for Today »

June 2, 2020 | Jeff Johnson

For five days in 1919, union members took control of the city of Seattle. They arguably ran it better, and certainly more justly, than it had ever been run before.

Apple Shed Strikes Win Recognition, But the Fight Goes On »

June 2, 2020 | David Bacon

This article was updated to include information about COVID-19 statistics in Yakima County. -Editors

Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Point to Need for Medicare for All »

June 1, 2020 | Dean E. Robinson

The racial disparities of COVID-19 have received much attention.
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This Saturday: Watch Three Free Plays about Workplace Organizing »

June 1, 2020 | Casey Adler

In a free, online event June 6 at 8 p.m. Eastern time, the nonprofit theatre company Actors Circle Ensemble will present via Zoom three short plays that explore the contemporary American labor movement.
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Twin Cities Labor Mobilizes Against George Floyd Murder »

May 29, 2020 | Saurav Sarkar

The organized labor movement has begun swinging into action to support protests against the racist police murder of Minneapolis resident George Floyd.

North Carolina Nurses Seek Their First Union »

May 27, 2020 | Jonathan Michels

UPDATE, September 18: In a mail-in ballot election, registered nurses at Mission Hospital voted 70 percent in favor of joining National Nurses United.

They Won a New Union While Working from Home »

May 27, 2020 | Annie Martin

When the Orlando Sentinel’s newsroom employees won our election in May with 81 percent voting for The NewsGuild, the organizing committee had not seen our co-workers in person for nearly two months. The election was conducted entirely by mail.
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Workers Will Take the Brunt of This Recession—Just Like the Last One—Unless We Say No »

May 27, 2020 | Samantha Winslow

One reason today's horrific recession feels so familiar is that we're still digging out of the last one.
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In a Pandemic, Finding New and Old Ways To Fight New and Old Foes »

May 26, 2020 | Jane Slaughter

Workers this spring were forced to find new ways to assert their rights when faced with a deadly foe and employers indifferent to their lives.

VIDEO: Ford Workers Shut Down the Line at Dearborn Truck Plant »

May 22, 2020 | Chris Brooks

A video taken by an auto worker and obtained exclusively by Labor Notes shows a rowdy and chaotic scene inside Ford’s Dearborn, Michigan Truck Plant on Wednesday as workers refused to work after a co-worker tested positive for COVID-19.
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Help Us Save the Postal Service »

May 22, 2020 | Jamie Partridge

Read more here about the crisis in the postal service.
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Can We Save the Postal Service? »

May 22, 2020 | Alexandra Bradbury

The U.S. Postal Service is in deep trouble. The postal Board of Governors has asked Congress for $75 billion to keep the agency afloat; without it, the outgoing Postmaster General said, USPS could “run out of cash” by September.

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