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…
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…
Joshua Scheer As economic desperation deepens and both major parties continue to hemorrhage working-class trust, conversations once dismissed as fringe are moving back toward the political center. In this wide-ranging…
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…
Les Leopold Substack When the polls close next November, about half the country will flash red within seconds. That’s because there are more than 130 congressional districts where Democrats lose…
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…
Maximillian Alvarez Working People Podcast TRNN “Workers are fighting to be able to afford the same food that they produce for the rest of the country, to be able to…
More than 31,000 nurses and health care workers plan to walk out next week following months-long stalemate with Kaiser.
“No nurse should be asked to accept less pay, fewer benefits, or less dignity for doing lifesaving work,” said New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Trump’s anti-union campaign dovetailed with his efforts to terminate the employment of hundreds of thousands of federal workers, many of them union members.
Speaking outside a store in Brooklyn, Mamdani said New York is a “union town,” and vowed to continue joining pickets even after he is sworn in as mayor on January…
Union-busting consultants thrive on secrecy, but they can’t hide their obscene pay rates for long.
New Mexico’s fourth largest city is integrating the average rent into calculations of its lowest pay rate.
Meanwhile, unions organize as over 100 hotel and catering contracts in the area expire in the run-up to the Olympics.
