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Workers in red UNITE HERE shirts pose at a huge rally. One handlettered sign says "Fair contract for Trump workers" and another printed sign says "Love Trumps Hate."

Project 2025: Eliminate Unions »

July 16, 2024 | Jenny Brown

Corporate backers of the Trump campaign have tipped their hand. In “Project 2025: Presidential Transition Project,” the Heritage Foundation unveiled its 900-page wish list for a new Trump presidency and a compliant Supreme Court.

A large crowd of workers in a dark auditorium listen to a worker onstage. The speaker's back is to us and she wears a head scarf or hijab. Some in the audience are smiling, some look focused, and two in the front row are animatedly discussing something. The workers are racially diverse, including many who could be of South Asian or East African descent, as the article describes.

Will Immigrant Workers Win Britain’s First Amazon Union? »

July 15, 2024 | Luis Feliz Leon

July 18, 2024 Update: The union lost but came heartbreakingly close: 49.5 percent yes votes, just 28 votes short of winning recognition.

Three thousand warehouse workers are poised to become the first recognized Amazon union in Britain.

A group of smiling young workers, diverse in race and gender, raise their fists on the warehouse floor. Their pose is casual and triumphant -- looks like they just came from collective action. Some wear safety vests.

New York Amazon Workers Demand Paid Juneteenth Holiday »

July 11, 2024 | Kenneth Guy and Dylan Maraj

Six hundred of our Amazon co-workers at five warehouses around New York signed a petition demanding starting wages of $25 an hour, time-and-a-half pay for Prime Day (July 16-17), seasonal workers converted to permanent status within 30 days of employment, and Juneteenth as a paid holiday.

A group of serious-faced people stands indoors. Some are wearing matching red EW4D T-shirts, including Iris Scott, a white woman speaking from notes while others listen and someone in front of them holds up a phone camera to livestream the event. Some in the group wear other union shirts. Handwritten signs on the table in front of the group say "We need true reprsentation," "Vote for worker power," and "UFCW 3000, UAW, TDU" [with hand-drawn logos].

Grocery Workers File Union Democracy Lawsuit »

July 10, 2024 | Lisa Xu

Members seeking to transform the United Food and Commercial Workers have added a new weapon to their arsenal: legal action.

Photo of Jane McAlevey smiling at a microphone and looking left in an aqua blue shirt

Organize, Teach, Fight: Jane McAlevey, 1964-2024 »

July 8, 2024 | Eric Blanc

Jane McAlevey was a friend and a comrade and I can’t believe she’s gone. After she won the battle against her cancer so many times over the past few years, up until the very end part of me thought she’d find a way to beat it yet again.

Inside a board meeting, dozens of union members and supporters hold up small yellow and white signs reading 'Fix Our Schedules.'

Transit Workers Demand ‘Fix Our Schedules,’ Packing Board Meeting »

July 8, 2024 | Michael Sebastian and Richard Marcantonio

“Fix our schedules.” That’s the demand that filled the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit board room in Oakland, California, beyond capacity on June 5.

A young, racially diverse group of workers in "Amazon Strike" T-shirts huddles in a parking lot together, cheering. Some raise fists in the air. Behind them a Teamsters Local 705 truck is visible.

Illinois Amazon Drivers Strike, Demand Union Contract »

June 27, 2024 | Luis Feliz Leon

Amazon drivers at the DIL7 delivery station in Skokie, Illinois, struck June 26 over the company’s violations of federal labor laws.

Workers in red UNITE HERE shirts and carrying round matching signs stand on steps outside. Those in front hold a large printed banner: "Tech Cafeteria Workers Say... No Ban, No Wall, Sanctuary for All."

Viewpoint: Migration Isn't Going Away. Unions Have to Get Sharper on It. »

June 27, 2024 | Alexandra Bradbury

The Trump campaign is doing a great job of stirring up anti-immigrant sentiment. Maybe you’re getting an earful from co-workers. Maybe you’re worried yourself.

Two women in dark t-shirts stand side by side, one reading from a thick booklet

Viewpoint: If the AFL-CIO Gets away with a Vermont Purge, It Won’t Stop Here »

June 26, 2024 | Ellen Kaye, Katie Maurice, and Jeremy Rathbun

Vermonters have a special relationship with direct participatory democracy. The first Tuesday of every March, in towns big and small, citizens gather in person to do the business of their community the old-fashioned way—face to face, one person, one vote.

A New Office and a New Co-Worker »

June 25, 2024 | Labor Notes staff

Labor Notes and our trusty officemates—Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), the Association for Union Democracy, and lately the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee—are moving!

Picketers picket on a sidewalk. Person in foreground, wearing a safety-yellow jacket, smiles at the camera. This person has brown skin, glasses, hair in a ponytail, and holds a Local 46 picket sign printed with a limited energy of a fist holding bolts of lightning and the words "Your Life Safety Electricians, Fighting for a Better Contract." The sign appears to be autographed by many other strikers. Another printed sign visible in background says "On strike! NECA! Negotiate now!"

Low Voltage Electricians Live to Strike Another Day »

June 20, 2024 | Jorge Torres

Two months into an unprecedented strike, the 1,023 members of the limited energy construction unit of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 46 in Seattle voted overwhelmingly June 11 and again June 15 to stay out.

Beat the Heat: How Workers Are Winning Fans, AC, and Even Heat Pay »

June 20, 2024 | Keith Brower Brown

If you’re dreading summer on the job this year, you’re not alone.

A Black man in a Teamsters 804 jacket hands a leaflet to a Black woman in a black t-shirt

Amazon Workers Affiliate with the Teamsters, Next Up Electing Top Officers »

June 18, 2024 | Luis Feliz Leon

Amazon Labor Union members voted June 17 to affiliate with the Teamsters.

Workers cast 878 ballots at JFK8 Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island, N.Y. The tally broke down to 829 votes in favor of the affiliation and 14 against it; 10 ballots were spoiled.