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How to Jump-Start a Weak Union to Fight Open-Shop Attacks »

January 2, 2018 | Ellen David Friedman

Hostile forces are poised to encourage public sector workers to ditch their unions as soon as the Supreme Court rules on the Janus v. AFSCME case in 2018. To stave off a big exodus, many unions are asking workers to commit to keep paying dues.

Music City Unions Mobilize against ALEC »

December 22, 2017 | Anne Barnett

A year ago, when local union leaders and activists gathered at our Central Labor Council of Nashville and Middle Tennessee strategic planning meeting, we learned that the right-wing policy group the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) was hosting its big annual conference in our city in...

Labor Notes: Making Trouble for the Bosses Worldwide »

December 20, 2017 | Labor Notes

Labor Notes supporters have been busy spreading our bottom-up approach to building the labor movement all over the globe. Here are a few reports:

2017 Year in Review: Turning Lemons into Lemonade »

December 19, 2017 | Alexandra Bradbury | Samantha Winslow

If there’s one lesson labor can draw from the events of 2017, it’s this—to survive and grow in the face of a nationally coordinated employer offensive, we’ll have to use the attacks against us as organizing opportunities.

NYC Building Trades Make a Stand at Biggest Project since Rockefeller Center »

December 15, 2017 | Dan DiMaggio

New York City building trades unions are in a fight that hits at the very core of their jurisdiction: big commercial office buildings.

Honduran Unionists Back Presidential Election Recount »

December 7, 2017 | John Walsh

Hondurans went to the polls November 26 to elect a president, national congress, and local authorities.

My Quarter-Million-Dollar Baby »

December 7, 2017 | Alexandra Bradbury

Call her our $250,000 baby.


In July my uneventful pregnancy took a turn—I developed a serious condition called preeclampsia and had to deliver a month early. Paloma weighed less than five pounds at birth, and spent a week in neonatal intensive care.

Ontario Workers and Students Notch Biggest $15 Win Yet »

December 5, 2017 | Jonathan Rosenblum

Mainstream politicians often claim that we have to elect progressives to office first, before workers can win big legislation. Ontario workers and students just proved otherwise.

Resources for the Rank and File: An Interview with Robert Schwartz »

December 4, 2017 | Robert M. Schwartz

Labor lawyer Robert M.

Viewpoint: Electrical Workers Talk Sexual Harassment over Coffee »

December 1, 2017 | Erin Sullivan

Some days the men I work with amaze me. It was just about time for coffee when the Matt Lauer story broke. [NBC fired the "Today" co-host November 29 over allegations of sexual harassment. -Ed.] So one of the guys says, “Why now? Why are all these women coming out now?

Jersey Library Workers Get Loud to Win $15 »

November 30, 2017 | Jim McAsey

The best way to increase union membership on the eve of the Janus decision? Build a fighting campaign in your workplace. If there’s no fight, there’s nothing to join.

Health Care Splits Rail Crafts »

November 28, 2017 | Dan DiMaggio

After nearly three years of bargaining with the nation’s top freight carriers, railroad unions are at odds over a contract settlement that will set the pattern for 135,000 rail workers.

Motion towards Medicare for All at AFL-CIO Convention »

November 27, 2017 | Traven Leyshon

While they didn’t get everything they wanted, single-payer health care advocates are celebrating progress getting the AFL-CIO to embrace Medicare for All.

Reform Slate in North Pole Elves Union Challenges Cozy-with-Santa Leadership »

November 24, 2017 | Alexandra Bradbury


Tennessee Campus Workers Foil Billionaire Governor's Outsourcing Scheme »

November 22, 2017 | Thomas Walker, Jessica Buttermore, and Jeffrey Lichtenstein

Two years ago Tennessee’s billionaire governor Bill Haslam, then the richest elected politician in the country (now it’s Trump), quietly initiated the largest and most radical restructuring of public services in the state’s history.

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