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Three union activists sit around a table on their phones, making calls to drum up support for Initiative 1.

UFCW Local Leads Fight to Win Washington's Strongest Tenant Protections »

February 12, 2024 | Ty Moore

Grocery and retail workers helped win the strongest tenant protections in Washington state last November for the 100,000 renters in the city of Tacoma.
Forty workers in red t-shirts pose together outside a building with a blue awning.

Strike Threat at Allison Transmission Strips Out Tiers »

February 7, 2024 | Luis Feliz Leon

Fifteen hundred auto workers in Indianapolis made their New Year’s resolution public: unless Allison Transmission agreed to eliminate tiers in wages, benefits, shift premiums, and holidays, they would hit the bricks.
A group of workers stands in the snow and cold outside a US Foods yard in Spokane, Washington holding signs that say Local 705 Teamsters On Strike Against US Foods.

Teamster Food Service Drivers Took Their Strike Nationwide and Won »

February 6, 2024 | Scott Jenkins

While most Chicagoans were bracing for a major snowstorm, 130 truck drivers who deliver food from warehouses to cafeterias and kitchens spent the first weekend in January preparing for another kind of storm: a strike.

The South, Where Automakers Go for a Discount »

February 2, 2024 | Luis Feliz Leon

In 1978, Volkswagen became the first foreign-owned company to manufacture cars in the United States since Rolls-Royce in the 1930s, setting up shop in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania.

Three smiling men, two African American, one European American, face the camera

Hyundai Workers Roll the Union On in Alabama »

February 1, 2024 | Luis Feliz Leon

Auto workers at Hyundai in Montgomery, Alabama, have signed up more than 30 percent of their nearly 4,000 co-workers in an ambitious drive to unionize.
Autoworkers in red t-shirts stand on stage at a convention.

UAW Strike Saved Shuttered Plant, Now Comes Enforcement »

January 31, 2024 | Sarah Lazare

It’s been almost five months since JC Bengtson, an autoworker for 24 years, lost his job. “I miss working,” says the 55-year-old father of three daughters, all adults. “Right now I am unemployed and waiting to hear back.”
A group write colorful post-in at outside round tables--one says bereavement leave

Sticking It to Nickelodeon »

January 31, 2024 | Nora Meek

Production workers at Nickelodeon’s Animation Studio are fighting for their first contract alongside already-organized artists (writers, designers, colorists, storyboarders and background painters) who have been working under an expired contract for two and a half years.

Two women in green bandanas that say “bans off our bodies” march with many others

Stewards Corner: Abortion Restrictions, What Can the Union Do? »

January 25, 2024 | Kari Thompson

At Local 911, Chief Steward Emma woke up to an angry text from member Jane about having her time off request refused by the boss.

Three solar workers in yellow vests lift a large solar panel into place on a solar array.

How Solar Ironworkers Zapped Tiers »

January 24, 2024 | Keith Brower Brown

California’s solar power plants now rival the scale of any in the world. What stands out most is how they were built: under union contracts.
A group of 20 workers in winter clothes gather with yellow UFCW signs around a SuperOne Foods sign

Grocery Workers Make Waves in the Land of Lakes »

January 22, 2024 | Lisa Xu

It wasn’t such a merry Christmas for grocery store management in central Minnesota. Five hundred grocery workers in the Brainerd Lakes area walked out on an unfair labor practice strike, deserting five stores between December 22 and 25.

We Threw Out the Old Playbook: The New Union Drive at Mercedes »

January 18, 2024 | Jeremy Kimbrell

Auto workers have had several organizing campaigns at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama. They all follow a similar pattern: Frustrated workers decide there’s enough energy for change in the plant and start talking about organizing.
A woman wearing jeans, a blue apron, a colorful striped shirt, and heavy gloves walks between two dense rows of vegetation with a five gallon plastic bucket on each shoulder

Why Fair Trade Produce Labels Are Bogus »

January 16, 2024 | Anna Canning and James Daria

Any U.S. consumer walking down the supermarket aisle will find berries, tomatoes, and other vegetables that are labeled “responsibly grown,” “farmworker-assured,” and “fair-trade certified.”
A large group of teachers stand in the steps of a large brick building holding red signs that say “Andover Educators on Strike”

Massachusetts Teachers Illegal Strike Wave Rolls On »

January 11, 2024 | Barbara Madeloni

A wildly successful, illegal three-day strike by the Andover Education Association in November has reverberated statewide for educators in Massachusetts.
An image of the cover of the book, with tech workers standing in front of a big sign that says "Google: End Rater Poverty" in the background.

Book Review: Power to the Tech Workers »

January 10, 2024 | Peter Olney

Many of us have tried to follow the recent kerfuffle involving Sam Altman’s leadership of the company he founded, OpenAI. In mid-November 2023 he was abruptly fired, then returned to power just five days later.
People cheer in a massive packed outdoor crowd with light green flags that say “We are of one voice” in French

Québec Workers Conduct Largest Strike Ever »

January 9, 2024 | Shannon Ikebe

One of the largest strikes in North American history happened this winter and the struggle is ongoing.

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