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Labor Notes 2022 — A Reason to be Hopeful
This year’s Labor Notes Conference in Chicago brought a record number of activists and rank …
This year’s Labor Notes Conference in Chicago brought a record number of activists and rank …
Apple workers in Towson, Maryland have voted to form a union, the first at Apple. …
On May 28, 2022, striking workers at Chevron in Richmond, California voted by a narrow …
On June 14, South Korean truck drivers won an eight-day strike for higher wages. In …
The California Department of Managed Health Care recently announced it would be examining the medical …
The Minneapolis general strike of 1934 grew out of a strike by the local union of the International Brotherhood …
AC Transit workers have gotten an extension of the current contract and a raise, but it’s not much considering inflation and pandemic conditions. …
Live Within Our Means? Some of us have been told that the key to being …
On April 18, over 8,000 nurses in Northern California went on a one-day strike in …
Workers at the Richmond Chevron refinery have been on strike for a month. Chevron has brought in less skilled replacement workers, causing instances of polluting flaring. …
In the last week of March, India saw workers across the private and public sectors …
Workers at the JFK8 Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, have voted to form a union. …
Over 500 workers at the Richmond, California Chevron refinery have gone on strike. …
The coronavirus has overwhelmingly impacted workplaces, meaning worse conditions for many workers. The service sector, …
Staff at the California College of the Arts (CCA) recently went on a four-day strike …
Imagine: a country with an inspiring history of revolt and resistance, caught in the claws …
330 truck drivers, concrete pourers, technicians, mechanics, and yard workers have been on strike since …
Workers at Golden Gate Transit have voted to authorize a strike. …
Since Wednesday, Jan. 12th, more than 8,000 workers in the Denver metro area at King Soopers, a grocery chain store owned by Kroger, have been on strike against low wages and poor working conditions. …
On December, 27th, after two and a half months on strike, workers at Kellogg’s voted to ratify a five year contract and return to work. …
After rejecting a tentative agreement with a two tier wage structure, Kellogg’s has recently responded by trying to hire permanent replacement scabs. …
On November 17th, after being on strike for 35 days across 14 facilities in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Georgia and Colorado, 61% of the over 10,000 John Deere workers have voted to approve the third contract proposal. …
30,000 Kaiser Permanente workers in Southern California and Oregon have voted to strike. …
On Tuesday, November 2nd, 10,000 John Deere workers in the United Auto Workers (UAW) union rejected a second tentative agreement to continue their strike which started on October 14. …
10,000 workers at John Deere went on strike against a bad contract. …
Workers at Kellogg’s are standing up to the bosses strikebreaking tactics. …
In September, angry workers have gone on strike in several bus stations in Ile-de-France (the area surrounding Paris). …
Today we are sharing an episode of This American Life: “Essential” which shares a range of voices of workers who were deemed essential during the first wave of the pandemic. …
Workers at Nabisco, the company that makes snacks like Oreos, Fig Newtons and Wheat Thins, have been on strike since August 10th. …
Eighty-six years ago, longshore workers all along the Pacific coast were on strike. …
On June 26th, 1894, members of the American Railway Union began a boycott in support …
The UAW shut down a Volvo workers’ strike in Dublin, Virginia. …
In 1968, students in France started a movement which became a general strike. …
Healthcare workers in Argentina are striking against worsening standards of living. …
Workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, AL fulfillment center are trying to organized a union. Amazon is doing everything it can to prevent that. …
Kim Moody is a longtime activist, socialist, a founder of Labor Notes, and author of many books on rank and file unionism and politics. …
These two words best describe how healthcare workers across the board feel about dealing with …
The U.S. company Tyson Foods Inc., among the largest beef, pork and chicken producers …
Hundreds of millions have shown they are willing to stand together …
We can’t forget who is really essential and who just feeds off our labor …
On October 2, at least 288 Detroit bus drivers pulled a wildcat work stoppage, striking for safety under pandemic working conditions …
The links and connections made can be the fuel to energize the battles to come. …
In a demonstration of the power of the working class, workers in Belarus have gone on strike in support of the protestors against state repression. …
Postal workers in Tacoma Washington defied their top management last week by reconnecting the sorting machines post office bosses had ordered shut down …
There have recently been a number of demonstrations led by healthcare workers …
Workers at Highland Hospital are walking out for the safety of their patients and themselves …
The southern side of the U.S.-Mexico border is dotted with maquilas – companies contracted with U.S. corporations to run factories employing workers at poverty wages …
Ford workers forced their assembly line to shut down at the Dearborn, MI truck assembly plant. …
For months, hospital staff in France have been fighting for better pay. Then, during the crisis, they were sent to the front without ammunition: a lack of PPE …
Dozens of sanitation workers in New Orleans went on strike for COVID safety equipment last Wednesday, May 6. …
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