Sarah Anderson Inequality.org Low-wage US workers have faced multiple rising threats to their economic and personal security over the past year. Aggressive Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions have terrorized…
By Sharon Zhang This article was originally published by Truthout “t is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers,” the union said. In…
Sarah Lazare, In These Times. Smoke, heat, storms. As wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes intensify, workers are increasingly fighting for basic protections on top of everything else. One morning, when…
If Uber and Lyft resort to the stalling tactics corporations commonly use to block higher pay and better working conditions, gig workers will still have a fight on their hands.…
Fight Back! News. Los Angeles, CA – On Sunday, July 26, over 100 activists from different organizations came together to celebrate the launch of Bulosan – a network fighting for…
Alexandra Martinez Prism A former overnight janitor says fear of losing her job and fear tied to her immigration status kept her from speaking out for years about the conditions…
Paul Prescod and Natascha Elena Uhlmann, Labor Notes. World Cup Leverage. In a World Cup-fueled union win, concessions workers at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles have won the right to…
Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. Chris Smalls and his best friend, Derrick Palmer, led the first successful drive to unionize an Amazon warehouse. He believes that labor must decouple from…
Adryan Corcione Prism In April 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chris Smalls worked at an Amazon warehouse in the Staten Island borough of New York City. With…
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…
