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A group of workers in red, blue, or grey shirts hold signs saying “United for a Strong Contract,” and “COLA and Fair Pay Now”

Fight for Safety, Own the Shop Floor »

September 8, 2023 | Keith Brower Brown

Earlier this year, on the Ford stamping line in Buffalo, sewage started pouring onto the floor. Careless managers had shut down a pump to install new equipment and caused a deluge.
A group of mostly women stand close together with signs saying “Higher Wages” and “Safer Work”

Countering Dangerous Work at Amazon »

September 7, 2023 | Caitlyn Clark

Amazon workers at the STL8 fulfillment center in St. Peters, Missouri, filed an OSHA complaint August 3 against the company for health and safety violations in their warehouse.
Bernie Sanders speaks at a podium surrounded by people holding signs about housing

Sanders for Labor Day: Unprecedented Corporate Greed Demands Unprecedented Worker Response »

August 31, 2023 | Bernie Sanders

“At a time of unprecedented corporate greed, we need an unprecedented worker response,” said Senator Bernie Sanders before an audience of 2,000 union activists at the UNI Global Union World Congress in Philadelphia on August 27.
A crowd of hundreds is seen from afar and behind them there’s a body of water. They have vertical red on white banners saying “Health and Safety,” “Racial Justice,” “For the schools,” “That Students,” “Deserve.”

‘Big Bargaining’ in Oakland Led to Big Gains »

August 30, 2023 | Vilma Serrano and Tim Marshall

It’s back-to-school season!
A crowd surrounds a large festive purple piggy-bank piñata suspended above them. It is labeled NYU and is in school colors, purple and gold.

Lessons from Lively Picket Lines »

August 29, 2023 | Luis Feliz Leon | Alexandra Bradbury

The heat was scorching in Louisville, Kentucky, last Thursday. But what the windless day lacked in gusts, it made up in guts.
A fired up crowd of about 50 holds round yellow signs saying UAW Local 862 and blue and white signs saying United for a Strong Contract and Every Auto Job a Good Job.

Kentucky Auto Workers at Ford Are Preparing for a Strike »

August 28, 2023 | Luis Feliz Leon

Five hundred Auto Workers (UAW) from Local 862 held rallies in Louisville, Kentucky, August 24 and 25, part of a wave of practice pickets and rallies around the country.

Steward’s Corner: Ten-Minute Meetings »

August 24, 2023 | Lisa Xu

As auto workers prepare for the expiration of the Big 3 auto contracts covering 150,000 members September 14, some are turning to a valuable tool they saw UPS Teamsters use: the 10-minute meeting.
A group of 25 fired-up nurses in royal blue t-shirts poses with signs about striking and safe staffing.

‘Something Must Change’: New Jersey Nurses Strike for Safe Staffing »

August 23, 2023 | Kelsey Khan

I am one of 1,700 nurses on strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. We are members of United Steel Workers Local 4-200.
A row of people in UPS outfits with signs seen from far away block the road to some kind of facility, a gate is visible behind them.

So You Wanna Practice Picket? Here’s How We Did It »

August 22, 2023 | Dane Rohl

For the first time since I started working at UPS 15 years ago, it feels like unions across the country are on the rise. UPS Teamsters mobilized for a massive contract campaign to win the best contract we’ve ever had. Now it’s the Auto Workers’ turn.
A young Black woman and her three children, all in red shirts, pose with UAW president Shawn Fain, a white man, also in a red shirt.

Fired-Up Auto Workers Are Ready to Battle the Big 3 »

August 21, 2023 | Luis Feliz Leon

Sunday afternoon at the Auto Workers (UAW) Region 1 Pavilion in Warren, Michigan, felt a lot like church. Auto workers came together in sweltering heat to rally each other with fiery speeches, cheers, and songs in the first Big 3 contract rally anyone can remember.

A young slender Black man in a baseball cap smiles down at the camera with a sign saying “Just Practicing for a Just Contract.” To the left of him is a Black woman in sunglasses with a whistle in her mouth carrying the same sign..

Teamsters and Auto Workers Are Raising the Bar for Contract Campaigns »

August 17, 2023 | Alexandra Bradbury

With reformers at the helm, the Teamsters and the Auto Workers (UAW) are raising the bar for contract campaigns.
Photo shows a packed hall of autoworkers sitting on folding chairs with standees in the back.

Auto Workers Have Big Demands for the Big 3 »

August 17, 2023 | Dan DiMaggio | Keith Brower Brown

The clock is ticking toward September 14 at midnight, when the Auto Workers’ contracts with the Big 3 automakers expire. The new leaders of the UAW have come out swinging, and in quickly growing numbers, members are stepping up to prepare for a strike.

A line of men in brown UPS uniforms and backwards hats with signs saying “Just Practicing for a Just Contract” walk by trailer trucks labeled UPS.

Despite Big Teamster Wins at UPS, Some Expectations Outpace Gains »

August 14, 2023 | Luis Feliz Leon

Some 323,000 U.S. workers have struck so far this year. Another 340,000 were in gear to strike, until their nationwide mobilization forced the company to concede.
A group of 60, mostly men, a mix of races, marches toward the camera with signs that say “We are One” and “Cives don’t forget without us you have nothing”

Ironworkers’ Loud Contract Campaign Gets the Goods »

August 10, 2023 | Andy O’Brien

To make company negotiators feel their power, ironworkers in Augusta, Maine, got loud—hammering on beams in the plant and leaning on their car horns.
Actor Sam Humphrey and several others march towards the camera with ‘SAG AFTRA on strike’ and ‘Writers Guild of America On Strike’

Striking Writers and Actors Hold the Line Against Tech Slicing and Dicing »

August 9, 2023 | Nelson Lichtenstein

This summer organized labor is on the offensive, with more unity and determination than we have seen in two generations. In Los Angeles, New York, and elsewhere, more than 10,000 writers and 160,000 actors are on strike, seeking to make Hollywood’s global reach finally work for them.

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