Dan DiMaggio Labor Notes Since electing new leadership in 2022, Teamsters Local 135 in Indiana has completely changed the way it conducts negotiations. It’s using open bargaining to revitalize the…
Ellen David Friedman Labor Notes Solidarity among co-workers is your source of power against the employer. And one essential ingredient for solidarity is respect. In the workplace we typically don’t…
Lisa Xu Labor Notes Effective troublemakers need many skills. One of the most important, though not the most glamorous, is list-building. If you otherwise have the fundamentals of organizing in…
Miles Hadfield, Coop News. The action, following unseccessful contract negotiations for unionised stores, coincides with the iconic co-op’s anniversary sale. On May 15, REI Union workers launched a boycott against…
By Ella Fassler This article was originally published by Truthout Organizer Daniel Gross explains how to make sure that union building actually works and is sustained over time. Despite a…
The system is rigged – and the political and media class rigging it are not about to draw our attention to the ugly reality of what they have been up…
Jenny Brown for Labor Notes. Union baristas are finally back to the negotiating table with Starbucks, but the workers charge that rather than progressing, the company is reopening already agreed-upon…
Michelle Zacarias for Prism A month after the explosive New York Times investigation into the rape and sexual misconduct allegations against Latino labor rights organizer César Chávez, immigrant and labor…
The revelations about Cesar Chavez underscore the need to reckon with sexual abuse by changing organizing cultures and following workers’ lead. Victoria Valenzuela for Waging Nonviolence When Dolores Huerta came…
Tina Vásquez Prism Revelations that the co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union sexually abused young girls and women, including fellow civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, has set off a…
Sluggish labor market swells ranks of long-term unemployed, leaving some job seekers frustrated with an ever-shifting hiring landscape.
Billionaire-owned media outlets have framed teachers’ advocacy for their students and communities as self-serving.
Wouldn’t it be better to build with the membership a vision that puts working people in the center of the economy rather than as an afterthought of trickle-down two-party politics?
A conversation with Kieran Knutson, president of CWA Local 7250 in Minneapolis.
More than 31,000 nurses and health care workers plan to walk out next week following months-long stalemate with Kaiser.
