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A First Contract for Mexican GM Plant's Independent Union »

June 22, 2022 | Alejandra Quintero

An independent union at General Motors in Silao, Mexico, has ratified its first contract, with an 8.5 percent wage hike and benefit improvements—outstripping

Videos from the 2022 Labor Notes Conference »

June 22, 2022 | Alexandra Bradbury

Wow! What an amazing weekend. Thank you to all 4,000 troublemakers who converged in Chicago June 17-19 and made this year's Labor Notes Conference incredible.

Videos from the 2022 Labor Notes Conference »

June 21, 2022 | Alexandra Bradbury

Wow! What an amazing weekend. Thank you to all 4,000 troublemakers who converged in Chicago June 17-19 and made this year's Labor Notes Conference incredible.
A line of people, whose faces are replaced by clocks or windows, stretches back

Must-see play for union leaders at Labor Notes! »

June 15, 2022 | Sarah Hughes

Waterwell, in association with Working Theater, present


7 Minutes

written by Stefano Massini
translated by Francesca Spedalieri
directed by Kristina Valada-Viars

The Sign Says It All: How Unions Can Stop Employers from Crying Poor »

June 1, 2022 | Chris Townsend

My wife and I were motoring down the main avenue in Alexandria, Virginia, in 2017 when I yelled out, “Stop! I gotta have this sign!”
Striking Starbucks workers and supporters hold signs reading Stop Union Busting outside a store.

Deep South Baristas Strike Starbucks »

May 28, 2022 | Kerry Taylor

Starbucks baristas in Columbia, South Carolina, returned to their jobs on Saturday, May 21, following a three-day walkout to protest anti-union retaliation.

A group of labor activists sit together in a room while one writes ideas on a piece of flip chart paper on the wall.

Learning from the Covid Disruption: How Unions Can Emerge from the Pandemic More Effective »

May 27, 2022 | Elaine Bernard

The Covid-19 pandemic has not only upended our lives and workplaces but also shaken up our unions, placing many new demands on activists and leaders. Representation, organizing, advocacy, education—just about every union activity or function has been disrupted or transformed.

‘You Have to Be Very Persistent’: Lessons from the Starbucks Union in Chile »

May 21, 2022 | Andrés Giordano

Andrés Giordano is the former president of the Starbucks union in Chile and a recently elected congressman.

Workplace Bullying in Higher Education is Rampant. We’re Fighting Back »

May 20, 2022 | Yiwen Huang, Marco Man-Ho Tang, and Liz Adler

Grabbing her hair, the boss held scissor blades an inch from her face. “If you don’t give me any brilliant ideas I’m going to cut your hair off,” he deadpanned.


Was this a sick joke? Was he serious? She was alone in his office with him. She was petrified.

Farm and Construction Equipment Workers Strike in Iowa and Wisconsin »

May 20, 2022 | Jonah Furman

Eleven hundred workers who manufacture agricultural and construction equipment for CNH Industrial in Burlington, Iowa, and Racine, Wisconsin, have been on strike since May 2.

Amazon Bites Back in Vote at Second New York Warehouse »

May 13, 2022 | Luis Feliz Leon

The Amazon Labor Union, after making history in April when it won the first-ever unionized Amazon warehouse, JFK8 on Staten Island, New York, was routed in May in a second election at LDJ5, another warehouse in the same complex.
One masked worker speaks into a bullhorn as another looks on. Both look happy and young.

Labor Notes Conference 2022: It’s Gonna Be Big »

May 12, 2022 | Alexandra Bradbury

This year’s Labor Notes Conference (June 17-19, Chicago) will be one for the record books. About 4,000 people are coming—more than ever before—after a long wait.

A Life in Transit: ‘What You Can Get Is Set by How Far You Are Prepared to Go’ »

April 28, 2022 | Tim Schermerhorn

Tim Schermerhorn is a Black socialist, lifelong political activist, Labor Notes board member, and retired militant New York City transit worker.

Learn It, Do It, Teach It: Member Organizers Turn the Moment into a Movement »

April 27, 2022 | Stephanie Basile, Brittany Carloni, and Andrew Pantazi

Over the last five years, in big pro-union cities and small Southern towns, more than 7,000 workers in 145 shops have organized with the NewsGuild, a sector of the Communications Workers (CWA).

Retaliation Can't Stop Growing Starbucks Union »

April 20, 2022 | Jonah Furman

So far, over 200 Starbucks stores across the country have filed for union elections, with 25 of the 27 that have voted so far choosing to join Starbucks Workers United. That includes the union going five for five yesterday in elections at stores in Richmond, Virginia.

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