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Indiana Kroger Workers Win Better Contract after Voting ‘No’ Twice »

October 22, 2025 | Andrea Reynolds

With 8,000 workers, the Indianapolis Kroger contract is the largest in Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 700. After keeping members in the dark about negotiations, our local union leadership dropped a concessionary contract in our laps.
A group of Google workers stand in red shirts behind a sign that reads Workers Over Billionaires.

We Can’t Rebuild the Labor Movement Without Taking on Big Targets »

October 22, 2025 | Kate Bronfenbrenner

[This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable series: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Against Trump 2.0? We will be publishing more contributions here and in our magazine in the months ahead.—Editors]
Several people in high-viz green stocking caps gather around a sheet of paper, pickets in the background have signs saying ‘no contract, no coffee’

Strike Captains and Practice Pickets: Starbucks Workers Aim to Bring a Contract Home »

October 21, 2025 | Jenny Brown

Unionized Starbucks workers are electing strike captains and getting customers to pledge they won't cross picket lines. They’re amassing in front of stores with picket signs, borrowing a slogan that UPS Teamsters used during their 2023 contract campaign: “Just Practicing for a Just Contract.”
People in red T-shirts picket in the sunlight on a downtown sidewalk. Shirts say "Hotel workers strike" and "UNITE HERE Local 23." Picket signs say "Houston's workers on strike for fair wages." Another slogan partially visible on some signs is "One job should be enough."

Still Got the Power of the People »

October 20, 2025 | Alexandra Bradbury

In these terrifying times, I keep thinking of something Racine, Wisconsin, educator Angelina Cruz once said: “There’s a reason we’re supposed to feel isolated and powerless. It’s because we’re not.”
People march with heart-shaped signs saying “workers unite” and “May Day!”

Urgent Times Call for Something Old And Something New from the Labor Movement »

October 16, 2025 | Peter Olney and Rand Wilson

[This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable series: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Against Trump 2.0? We will be publishing more contributions here and in our magazine in the months ahead.—Editors]
Workers in red shirts stand in a row with UAW signs

Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Collect Strike Pledges as Company Stalls at Table »

October 16, 2025 | Luis Feliz Leon

Volkswagen has dug in its heels in first-contract negotiations at its assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where workers won a landslide victory in last year’s union drive.
A man yells into a bullhorn with people in the background holding signs--is it blurry and black and white

Free Speech Rights in Your Union »

October 16, 2025 | Cathy Highet

Sign up for the workshop "Democratic Rights for Union Members: Free Speech" hosted by the Association for Union Democracy on November 5.
Siemens workers pose in front of the factory in the dark behind a blue banner that says Siemens Workers United.

Our Siemens Union Drive Lost. But We Need More Like It. »

October 14, 2025 | Kyle Loewen

Workers at the Siemens Mobility manufacturing plant in Sacramento, where I worked, lost a unionization election in March, 838 to 538.
A man and a woman hold signs saying “no NLRB, no voice” with the columns of a government building behind them

Viewpoint: Attacks on U.S. Labor Rights Should Be an International Scandal »

October 9, 2025 | Benjamin Dictor

The National Labor Relations Board, the only federal agency charged with enforcing private-sector workers’ rights to organize and bargain collectively, is facing a constitutional crisis.
View of hundreds of people, a section of a giant march, filling an Italian street. Some marchers carry a huge red banner "FIOM-CGIL Bologna," some carry union flags or Palestinian flags, and one carries a handmade sign that says "Palestina Libera" with the flag and hearts. Mouths are open to sing or chant. Picturesque columns along the street. Marchers are diverse in race and gender.

Millions of Italians Join General Strike for Gaza »

October 9, 2025 | Leopoldo Tartaglia

More than 2 million people filled public squares across Italy on October 3 during a one-day general strike in support of the people of Gaza and against the ongoing genocide there.
A crowd with UAW signs gathers outside a union hall for a rally.

Labor Needs an Independent Political Program, Says UAW’s Fain »

October 8, 2025 | Jenny Brown

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain recently laid out four priorities he says should form the nucleus of a workers’ political program. And he said that a broad strike in May 2028 is one way to fight for those priorities.

A group of Black men in hi viz green shirts hold signs saying “City workers demand family supporting wages”

The Biggest Bargaining Mistake Unions Are Making in 2025 »

October 6, 2025 | Richard de Vries

When unions get ready for bargaining, we tend to look at the wage scale in our existing contract and think something like, “Let’s open with a proposal for a 5 percent raise every year, and maybe eventually we’ll settle at 3.75 percent.”

River Valley Co-op Workers Opened up Bargaining—and Won Big »

October 2, 2025 | Katrina Jagelski

River Valley Co-op is a consumer-owned cooperative grocery store with two locations in Western Massachusetts. We have been unionized with Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1459 for the last decade with 175 workers in our bargaining unit.
Several workers with signs march towards the camera. Some say “Hands Off” our workers, our union, Social Security and other items

‘Willingly Forgoing Paychecks’: Federal Workers Support Shutdown Fight »

October 1, 2025 | Jenny Brown

Thirty-five union locals, nationals, or other levels of union bodies in the federal sector signed on to an extraordinary Federal Unionists Network letter September 29 urging the Democrats to fight Trump administration cuts, even at the price of a government shutdown.

North Carolina AFL-CIO Convention Backs May Day 2028 Plans »

October 1, 2025 | Dan DiMaggio

The North Carolina AFL-CIO passed a resolution at its September convention backing the call from the United Auto Workers for mass action on May 1, 2028.

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