Alexandra Bradbury

Still Got the Power of the People

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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.”

Every day Trump unveils some outrageous new cruelty against immigrants, federal workers, peaceful protesters dressed as frogs, or whoever is the target of today’s Two Minutes Hate. He and his gang of billionaires act like they’re all-powerful—and they’re getting away with so much, so fast, that it’s easy to start believing it.

Coping with Climate Crises on the Job

Heat, smoke, flooding, hurricanes, fires, turbulence—on the job, workers are already facing the ravages of a changing climate.

These problems are ripe for organizing—usually everyone is feeling it. Often it’s very clear what solution would help, and who could deliver it.

Such fights don’t address the underlying causes of climate change. But they’re opportunities to build union power by strengthening the bonds among co-workers and getting folks into action together.

Labor Defends Jailed Immigrants: Forklift Driver, Hospital Worker

UPDATE: On May 29, SEIU Local 925 announced that Lewelyn Dixon was being released after being held by ICE for three months. An immigration judge ruled that Dixon could not be deported. "Because of our communities coming together and exercising people power, Auntie Lynn is being released from detention," the union said in a Facebook post.

The Seattle-area labor movement is rallying in defense of immigrant members seized by the Trump regime.

Postal Workers Throng to 500 Rallies to Save the Postal Service

From big cities to small towns, postal workers organized hundreds of rallies across the country in the past week to defend a beloved public service—and the nation’s largest union employer—against privatization and DOGE attack.

“Whose Postal Service?” workers chanted in New York: “The people’s Postal Service.”

Postal Workers Brace for Trump’s Wrecking Ball

Is the nation’s biggest union workforce, at the Postal Service, President Trump’s next target?

The Washington Post broke the news February 20 that Trump was on the verge of issuing an executive order to dissolve the independent leadership of USPS and move it into the executive branch under the Department of Commerce, now led by enthusiastic privatizer Howard Lutnick, a Wall Street banker. Trump confirmed the next day that he was “looking at” this option.

Welcome, Danielle!

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Our newest staff writer/organizer, Danielle Smith, joined the Labor Notes staff in October. Danielle is a dynamo—a skilled journalist and organizer.

As a labor reporter for the legal news website Law360.com, she was a member and shop steward of the NewsGuild of New York. Later she joined the union staff as a full-time organizer, and worked on strikes at Business Insider and Law360.

Letter Carriers are Organizing Against an Insulting 1.3 Percent Raise

A wave of anger is cresting at post offices across the country. Letter carriers are looking at the big raises that other union members have won—38 percent over four years at Boeing, 62 percent in six years at the East Coast ports, $7.50 in five years at UPS.

They’re comparing those gains to the tentative agreement their president handed them in October: 1.3 percent a year for three years.

Consolidation Threatens to Rip ‘Service’ Out of Postal Service

Workers are battling an overhaul of the U.S. Postal Service that would cost thousands of jobs and slow the mail for half the country.

In the name of efficiency, a letter mailed within Cheyenne, Wyoming, would travel to Denver and back. And if you miss a package, your local post office would no longer have it. It might be 45 minutes away.

In March, Buffalo became the first place to fend off the closure of its mail processing plant, in a team effort by Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 3 and Postal Workers (APWU) Local 374.

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