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‘Don’t Privatize Airport Security’ Say Screeners and Flight Attendants on 9/11 Anniversary

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A group stands with signs against privatization of airport security
September 11, 2026

Union flight attendants are mourning lost co-workers on the 25-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks. In Chicago today, they’re joining with Transportation Security Officers to defend airport security gains made in the last quarter-century.

“I was there. I lost my friends,” said Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants. “Our union made a sacred promise to ensure that such a tragedy is never repeated.” She described the Trump administration’s attempts to privatize airport security as a danger to the public as well as the 55,000 members of her union.

Persecuted by Trump, Will Unions Build Towards May 2028?

Luis Feliz Leon
A group of autoworkers with black “Protect Our Freedom to Vote” shirts march

Three years ago the United Auto Workers, glowing with confidence after a successful strike at the Big 3 and pledging ambitious new organizing drives, put out a call for a national strike on May 1, 2028.

UAW President Shawn Fain called for unions to align their contracts with the Big 3 to build leverage and create a crisis for the billionaire class. It was a new day in the UAW, and a wider labor renewal felt possible.

How Minnesota Unions and Community Groups Stood Up to an ICE Occupation

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Marchers bundled against the cold carry colorful signs
September 08, 2026

In this excerpt from the new book This Is How We Win: A Guide to Building Working-Class Uprisings, SEIU Local 26 President Greg Nammacher describes how his union, its members battered and exhausted from ICE attacks, went on the offensive against a federal occupation of Minnesota. -Editors

Trabajadores de la salud luchan por la comunidad inmigrante en Vermont

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September 02, 2026

Los trabajadores de la salud quienes están luchando por un contrato sindical en Vermont han acudido a la mesa de negociaciones no solo con sus propias demandas de plantillas suficientes y salarios justos, sino también con una petición algo inusual: una planteada en solidaridad con trabajadores lecheros en el estado.

Quieren que su empleador, el Centro Médico de la Universidad de Vermont, se una al programa “Leche con Dignidad”.

‘Treated Worse than Cattle’: 2,500 Tyson Workers Laid Off, Plant Shutters Overnight

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A group of workers, mostly Black, face an official-looking building with signs.
September 01, 2026

Ouano Tante worked the afternoon shift at the Tyson beef plant in Joslin, Illinois, for five years. But when she and hundreds of her co-workers arrived at work on August 13, they found the plant closed.

They speculated that someone on the morning shift might have gotten injured. Then two mid-level supervisors came outside in tears. Plant supervisors told workers the plant was closing permanently, effective immediately.

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