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Eight people walk towards the camera, three with signs that say, “shame, Russel Vought”

How Federal Workers Without a Union Can Still Act Like a Union »

May 8, 2025 | Colin Smalley

The reality for over 1.3 million federal government workers leading up to the second Trump Administration has been collective bargaining through unions recognized by the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA).

A rally with 30 or so people with a mixture of colorful signs, including Painters Union and a “We Want Good Jobs and Health Environments” banner

Locomotive Builders Forge Green Rail Project »

May 8, 2025 | Kari Thompson

Union workers who make diesel locomotives at a plant in Pennsylvania are pushing ahead with their campaign to manufacture more green-powered locomotives.
Bergen logistics workers and supporters gather in blue rain ponchos.

Warehouse Workers Power NYC’s Fashion Industry. Now, They’re Unionizing »

May 6, 2025 | Natascha Elena Uhlmann

Minutes from the high-end boutiques of SoHo in Manhattan sits Bergen Logistics’ fulfillment facility in North Bergen, New Jersey, where workers sort, package, and ship hundreds of packages a day for luxury fashion brands including Acne Studios, Kenzo, and Phillip Lim.

May Day Rallies Confront Billionaire Assaults »

May 2, 2025 | Luis Feliz Leon

Hundreds of thousands of people across the United States rallied, engaged in civil disobedience, or struck on May 1, International Workers’ Day, joining hundreds of thousands around the world.
Several demonstrators gather with various signs about Medicaid and Social Security

Viewpoint: How SEIU’s Medicaid Fight Can Shift Gears to Win Big »

April 30, 2025 | Andrew Goldstein

I’m a primary care doctor and Service Employees (SEIU) member in Doctors Council. The Medicaid cuts proposed by Trump and Congressional Republicans will hurt and kill my patients, defund our hospitals, and decimate our unions.
Five women in a black and white photo hold a sign saying “400 on strike since November 7 Our members need funds”

Labor Documentaries for May Day »

April 30, 2025 | Erik Abriss

Looking for something inspiring to binge when you get home from marching this International Workers’ Day? Check out these five classic labor documentaries, all available online for free.

Video Interpreters for Deaf Callers Are Organizing Against Burnout »

April 29, 2025 | Marina Martinez

Growing up, I never considered myself an interpreter. It was just life as the daughter of two Deaf parents, in a world where sign language was a lifeline.
View from back of an auditorium at UAW convention. People in red shirts sit in rows; one red hoodie front and center has UAWD logo on the back. Onstage, Shawn Fain is at the podium, someone in a suit stands near him, and other people mostly in red shirts sit arrayed at long tables on the dais. A big blue screen behind them has UAW logo and intials repeated, and some other images not clearly visible.

UAW Reformers Close Caucus, Launch New Organization »

April 29, 2025 | Jane Slaughter | Keith Brower Brown

Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), the reform caucus in the Auto Workers, voted to dissolve at its quarterly online membership meeting April 27.
A Black woman in a tan shirt speaks while three men, white and Black, look on.

What Do We Do Now? First, Gather to Talk »

April 28, 2025 | Barbara Madeloni

I don’t have new words for the dizzying abuses of unions, immigrants, and all working people emanating from the White House in the last three months. Like many people, I’ve been cycling through anger, despair, and dismay.
A firefighter in full protective equipment moves a yellow hose with fire in the background

Health and Safety Is on the Chopping Block and We’re Fighting Like Hell »

April 28, 2025 | Micah Niemeier-Walsh

The Trump Administration attacked the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) on April 1, cutting more than 90 percent of the agency’s workforce, including me.

Lelo Juarez stands with his wife and child at a May Day march. Behind him, someone holds a sign reading "without fear" in Spanish.

ICE Can't Erase What Lelo Juarez Built »

April 24, 2025 | David Bacon

In 2022 I went to Washington State for May Day, and the following year as well. Just south of Canada, in Bellingham and Mount Vernon, Community2Community and Familias Unidas por la Justicia celebrate the workers holiday in the tradition followed by the rest of the world. They march.
A car back window carries signs, including one saying, “Would you drive 10 miles for $4? Raise the Pay!”

I was banned from the Nashville airport for protesting Uber »

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.
A big crowd, bundled against cold, stands in front of a building with columns. Foregrounded are four women, one with beaming smile, one looking up warmly at her. All hold PSC-CUNY signs that say variously, "Stop the War on Universities," "Save Research," and "Science is for the People." Other handmade signs, a UAW logo, and an upside-down American flag are visible in the crowd behind htem.

Faculty Rally Nationwide for Free Speech, Free Tuition, and to Free Detained Students »

April 23, 2025 | Barbara Madeloni

Faculty-student pairs set up “anti-fascist office hours” at three locations on the Northwestern University campus.


Faculty, students, and staff created anti-fascist art at the University of Hawaii.
A man in a backwards green ballcap and an AFSCME green T-shirt printed with the word "Activist" raises his heavily tattooed arm up to the sky. Behind him other marchers are visible, crossing the capitol campus, some with signs (not readable) and one waving a Washington state flag on a tall pole.

Washington State Workers Take the Fight to the Governor »

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!”
Five women sit applauding, one is wearing a CTU T-shirt, another says “we care” with a drawing of a chalkboard

Chicago Teachers Approve Contract with Remarkable Gains »

April 21, 2025 | Jackson Potter

This month, 85 percent of the Chicago Teachers Union’s 27,000 active members voted on a tentative agreement covering 500 public schools across the city. A record 97 percent voted yes.

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