Auto Workers Escalate: Surprise Strike at Massive Kentucky Ford Truck Plant
By Keith Brower Brown / Labor Notes Every Friday for the past four weeks, Big 3 CEOs have waited fearfully for Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain to announce which…
The Price of Amazon’s “Prime” Business Model Is Our Bodies
The billion-dollar company profits off pushing workers like me to our physical limits — only to ignore us when we’re hurt on the job.
Washington Post Columnist Charles Lane Wants Auto Workers to Lose Their Jobs
By Dean Baker / Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) The Washington Post has a long history of hating on powerful unions, like the United Auto Workers (UAW), or…
Ralph Nader: Good News — Big Opportunities on the Horizon
By Ralph Nader / Nader.org In the midst of so much bad news in the media, it is always good to be alert to rays of sunlight that civic action…
Mexican Auto Parts Workers Face Blacklist After Union Campaign
By Charlie Saperstein and Dan DiMaggio / Labor Notes In August 2022, auto parts workers at VU Manufacturing won a landmark election to gain recognition for a new independent union,…
‘No Justice, No Jeeps!’ Scenes From the Auto Workers Strike
By Keith Brower Brown, Luis Feliz Leon and Jane Slaughter / Labor Notes The strike is on. Last night the Auto Workers (UAW) shut down three major assembly plants at…
America’s Auto Workers: On Strike Against Inequality. Again
UAW activists years ago helped usher in a vastly more equal society. Can history repeat?
UAW Strike Puts Massive CEO-Worker Pay Gap in the Spotlight
"The CEOs gave themselves 40% pay increases in the last four years alone," United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain said from the picket line. "And they want to call us…
What’s ‘Realistic,’ What’s ‘Disturbing’?
How Entertainment Trade Magazines Spin the WGA, SAG-AFTRA Strikes.
Mandatory Overtime Is Inhumane and Dangerous
Mill workers are battling harder than ever against overtime requirements that strain families and put lives at risk.
Los Angeles Hotel Workers Turn Up Media Pressure Amid Boycott Efforts
When one conference declined to cancel, a union walkout helped drive other concessions.
Don’t Blame My Fellow Retail Workers for Poor Service — Blame Our CEOs
New data shows big retailers have the cash to hire more workers and pay them well. They just spend it on stocks and CEOs instead.
Wage Gains at UPS Have Amazon Workers Demanding More
By Luis Feliz Leon / LaborNotes Amazon warehouse worker Paul Blundell has spent the past year talking to his co-workers about how UPS Teamsters were getting organized to strike. So…
Chris Hedges: Nurses Fight Godzilla
The severe nursing shortages in hospitals across the country has turned one of the most important jobs in the medical profession into a nightmare. Nurses at a major hospital in…
UPS & Teamsters Reach Tentative Deal, Averting Strike
As the deal reached Tuesday goes out to union members for approval, Natalia Marques points out four things about the last-minute talks.