Welcome, Danielle!
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.
These Teamsters Don’t Buy Trump’s Lies
By the time Teamsters President Sean O’Brien finally announced in September that the union would not be endorsing anyone for U.S. president—an outcome that had been looking more and more likely—an independent grassroots network called Teamsters Against Trump was ready to step into the breach.