Twenty-Five Thousand Auto Workers Are Now on Strike at the Big 3
By Luis Feliz Leon / Labor Notes Seven thousand Auto Workers at two more assembly plants will walk off the job at noon ET today, UAW President Shawn Fain announced…
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…
Los Angeles Hotel Workers Turn Up Media Pressure Amid Boycott Efforts
When one conference declined to cancel, a union walkout helped drive other concessions.
‘Something Must Change’: New Jersey Nurses Strike for Safe Staffing
By Kelsey Khan / Labor Notes I am one of 1,700 nurses on strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. We are members of United…
Barbie Is on the Picket Line
Don’t be surprised that Margot Robbie backs the SAG-AFTRA strike—she has deep roots in Australia’s labor movement.
‘Disgraceful’: GOP Advances Bill That Could Remove 220,000 Teachers From Classrooms
The nonprofit Committee for Education Funding noted that the Republican proposal would impact "virtually all" education programs, hitting teacher funding, student aid, and more.
Supreme Court Weakened Legal Protections for Striking. Only Jackson Dissented.
Unions still have the right to strike, but eight Supreme Court members erected barriers to that fundamental right.
Hollywood Writers Have a Word for It: Inequality
From Cocaine Bear to Panda Express, the fight for a living wage is the same.
In L.A. Schools, Solidarity Strike Scores Big for Both Unions
By Amanda Katz / Labor Notes When Los Angeles educators joined school support staff on the picket lines last month, our solidarity strike helped them clinch a contract with a…
British ‘Mega Strike’: Half a Million Workers Bring UK to a Halt and Protest Government
On Wednesday, over half a million workers in the UK took part in a “mega strike,” the largest labor protest in the country in over a decade.
The Supreme Court Is About to Eviscerate the Right to Strike
The court will likely rule in “Glacier Northwest” that the union’s strike activity isn’t protected by federal labor law.
The First Big Strike of 2023 May Happen Behind Prison Walls
The new year is set to kick off with a statewide strike by incarcerated workers in Pennsylvania.
Chris Hedges: Know Thine Enemy
The expedited legislation passed by Congress to avert a strike by railroad unions dealt one more blow in the decades long war waged by the two ruling parties against the…
Putting ‘Profits Over People’, Senate Rejects Paid Sick Leave for Rail Workers
"Senate Republicans and Joe Manchin have yet AGAIN failed working Americans by voting down seven days of paid sick leave for rail workers," lamented Rep. Jamaal Bowman.