Labor Notes Archive

August, 2023

How We Turned Our Backs on an Abusive UPS Manager
Wage Gains at UPS Have Amazon Workers Demanding More
Steward’s Corner: For Open Bargaining, Start Early and Build
Hotel Workers Strike against Racist Hiring and a Scab App

July, 2023

A Third Wave of Strikes Crests at Los Angeles Hotels
UPS Teamsters to Vote on Contract that Ends Driver Tiers, Lifts Part-Timer Pay
As Big 3 Auto Contracts Expire: Hurried Line Speeds and Horrible Hours
Auto Workers Kick Off Bargaining With ‘Members’ Handshake’
UPS Teamsters ‘Just Practicing’
Michigan Amazon Workers Stage Largest Delivery Station Strike Yet
Amazon Teamsters’ Rolling Pickets Hit Facilities Nationwide
In Heat and Smoke, Workers Fight Negligent Bosses
Newly Organized Nurses in Texas and Kansas Strike for a First Contract
Reform Caucus Rises, Sues for Elections in Amazon Labor Union
Slingshot: ‘Work Requirements’ or Real Jobs?
Machinists Ratify Contract at Airplane Parts Supplier, But Expose Rift with Union Leadership

June, 2023

Communications Workers Seek Answers and Accountability from Top Leaders
Six Thousand Machinists Strike Aircraft Parts Giant in Kansas—Threatening Boeing Production
Wabtec Workers Walk Out for Grievance Strikes and Green Locomotives
Not Words, But Action: Moranda Smith, Food and Tobacco Workers Local 22, and the Fight to Expand Democracy
Welcomes, Farewells, and New Projects at Labor Notes
Intolerable Conditions Drive ‘Shortages,’ Transit Workers Say
Will Erie Locomotive Plant Workers Strike for the Right to Strike over Grievances?
Six Weeks In, Stock Dwindles at Struck Ohio Battery Plant
As New York Skies Darken, Delivery Workers Help Each Other
UPS Teamsters Start Strike Authorization Vote
Unions Can Still Strike—Don't Let the Supreme Court Tell You Otherwise
Ford Parts Workers Strike over Money, Safety, Discipline

May, 2023

DHL Violates Neutrality, Freight Workers Join Teamsters Anyway
Biden Labor Board Restores Right to Use Heated Language

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