Labor Notes

  • Help Us Blow Out the Candles

    Hard to believe, but a scrappy rank-and-file magazine and organizing institute, founded in 1979 to bring together leaders from an inspiring string of wildcat strikes and union reform caucuses, turns 33 today.

    Labor Notes has grown a lot since then, training thousands of activists at 10 regional Troublemaker Schools last year and publishing a daily stream of unique news and analysis about unions and work, from labor's point of view.

    Labor Notes is more than a website and magazine.

  • Philly Troublemakers Get Schooled

    Philadelphia’s Troublemakers School saw classrooms full of union activists eager to work together and share. For many of the 125 participants, the opportunity to communicate with each other about their experience as organizers in the workplace was rare and important.

  • AFL-CIO Convention: We'd Like to Thank the Academy...

    Labor Notes started the AFL-CIO convention week with a little something to celebrate: we took home first place for general excellence among national labor publications, in the International Labor Communications Association Labor Media awards. ILCA is the organization of editors and reporters who put together local and national union newspapers, magazines, and electronic media.