Troublemakers Blog

I was banned from the Nashville airport for protesting Uber [1]

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April 24, 2025 / Monique Mcclain

On February 14, I joined 50 other Uber and Lyft drivers, all of us members of the Tennessee Drivers Union, in a peaceful caravan at the Nashville airport to protest our low pay and dismal working conditions. Our action, which took place on public property and when our rideshare apps were turned off, coincided with Valentines Day protests by rideshare unions » [1]

Washington State Workers Take the Fight to the Governor [2]

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April 22, 2025 / Chris Vasseur-Landriault

Hundreds of Washington state workers streamed into the capitol building in Olympia on April 9 demanding, “No cuts! No furloughs! Tax, tax the rich!” Our booming chants echoed through the rotunda, making it difficult for legislators to carry on their work. The governor’s office locked the doors on us, so we staged a sit-in in the hallway and marched throughout » [2]

Punto de vista: ¿Serán buenos los aranceles de Trump para los trabajadores del sector automotriz? [3]

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April 09, 2025 / Sean Crawford

Durante la huelga de General Motors de 2019, mientras mis compañeros de trabajo y yo estábamos en la calle, algo inspirador estaba sucediendo al sur de la frontera: el trabajador automotriz mexicano Israel Cervantes, junto con muchos otros en una planta de GM en Silao, Guanajuato, se negó a trabajar horas extras en solidaridad con nosotros. » [3]

TikTok Moderators Fight against Trauma and for a Union [4]

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April 09, 2025 / Kıvanç Eliaçık

TikTok, the social media giant that keeps billions scrolling, relies on a vast, largely invisible workforce. Behind the joy and entertainment are workers—content moderators, engineers, outsourced staff—facing long hours, psychological strain, low pay, and a lack of rights. TikTok workers from Turkey to Colombia are pushing back against this exploitation. » [4]

Viewpoint: PATCO’s Lessons for this Crisis [5]

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April 09, 2025 / Joseph A. McCartin

Donald Trump’s March 27 executive order revoking the collective bargaining rights of more than 700,000 federal workers is the largest act of union-busting in U.S. history. » [5]

Ten National Unions Call for Anti-Trump Resistance [6]

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April 08, 2025 / Natascha Elena Uhlmann [7]

Ten national unions and dozens of locals representing more than 3 million members have issued a joint statement [8] demanding the release of immigrant workers recently snatched by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. » [6]

Viewpoint: Why Oligarchs Want a Recession [9]

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April 07, 2025 / Van Jackson

A recession is looming. Trump himself recently affirmed [10] that his economic plans would induce a recession in the near term. He remarked when asked as much by an interviewer, “There is a period of transition because what we’re doing is very big.” » [9]

Viewpoint: Will Trump’s Tariffs Be Good for Auto Workers? [11]

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April 02, 2025 / Sean Crawford

During the 2019 General Motors strike, while my fellow workers and I were pounding the pavement, something inspirational was happening south of the border: Mexican auto worker Israel Cervantes, along with many others at a GM plant in Silao, Guanajuato, refused overtime in solidarity with us. » [11]

Setting the Pace in Auto: Thinking Bigger than Tariffs [12]

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March 28, 2025 / Andrew Elrod

President Donald Trump’s infatuation with tariffs dates back to the 1980s [13], when he first said tariff was “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” On March 26 he announced “a 25 percent tariff on all cars not made in the U.S.,” but exempted auto parts that » [12]

Trump Goes Nuclear on the Federal Workforce [14]

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March 28, 2025 / Joe DeManuelle-Hall [15]

In his broadest attack on federal workers and their unions to date, President Donald Trump on Thursday announced an executive order [16] that claimed to end collective bargaining rights for » [14]