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Renee Good, Killed by ICE, Was Standing in Solidarity with Her Neighbors

Jan 9 / Luis Feliz Leon
Richard, a white man with a mustache and glasses, speaks to attentive labor school participants seated in a classroom.

Five Things Steward Training Gets Wrong

Jan 8 / Richard de Vries
Montage of three photos, all showing details from crowds at large outdoor protests. 1: Workers hold blue signs printed with UAW logo, and someone behind holds a handmade "Bad DOGE" sign with Elon Musk's face. 2: An older white man and younger woman of color lean together. He has a fist in the air and she holds high a yellow sign with a fist graphic, the word "Solidarity!" and the Painters union logo. 3: A white woman holds a handmade "Bring Kilmar Home" sign with a photo of his face.

2025 in Review: Stark Battle Lines, Big Potential

Dec 18 / Jenny Brown
People, mostly white, rally outdoors on building steps. Printed signs say "Kill the cuts, save lives" and "UAW says: Fight for our future!" Handmade signs can't all be read but one says "Science belongs to everyone."

One Battle After Another: The Big Contract Fights Coming in 2026

Dec 16 / Keith Brower Brown, Natascha Elena Uhlmann
A group of excited people hold blue signs saying “Yes on 1”

We’re Making ‘Tax the Rich’ More Than a Slogan

Dec 10 / Max Page
Fourteen workers, mostly Black and mostly women, pose smiling in a school classroom. Most are wearing yellow "Baltimore Teachers Union" T-shirts.

To Get on Offense, Offer Workers Many Ways In

Dec 8 / Diamonté Brown

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A handpainted sign on a city street reads in red letters "no war with Venezuela."

‘No More Blood for Oil’: Global Labor Movement Opposes Trump’s Attacks on Venezuela

Jan 7 / Luis Feliz Leon
Three black-and-white photos show a Black man, dressed in the white coat and black slacks of a Pullman porter, putting up a bed on an upper berth, resting on a bench seat looking out the train window, and standing on the train stairs. It is not clear whether the three photos show the same man or different men.

100 Years Ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Changed Black Politics

Dec 18 / Paul Prescod
Three women work around a table with blue cloth grocery bags, outdoors. A man in a red T-shirt walks behind them. A truck is also visible.

Union Members Distribute Food for Federal Workers

Dec 17 / Kerry Taylor
Several Black workers, women and men, sit around a conference table. In the middle of the frame, a man in an orange T-shirt is talking, looking around at the group; others are listening thoughtfully. Everyone's expression is serious.

From Temp Trap to Union Jobs: Building Pathways for Workers with Criminal Records

Dec 17 / Maya Ragsdale

'We Are Fed Up': Winnipeg Bacon Workers Unite for Better Contract

Dec 16 / The North Star Manitoba Committee
Eight people hold printed signs, many in the yellow/purple SEIU style: "AB 715 = genocide censorship." "Fight back my ass!" "Opposed AB 715: CFA, CFT, ACLU, CTA, CNA... [but not] SEIU." "SEIU CA: Selective + politically safe. Fight back!" "You can't be neutral on a moving train." "When we fight we win! When we're neutral we lose!" Big white signs with black & red letters: "AB 715 censors education on Palestine." "What's next? Censoring education on: Slavery, Queer/Ethnic Studies, Japanese Internment?"

Viewpoint: SEIU California Sits Out Fight Against Classroom Censorship

Dec 15 / Larry Bradshaw, Anne Wolf, and Noga Wizansky

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