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California Continues to Record Dozens of Workplace Covid Outbreaks Every Day »

June 3, 2021 | Marc Norton

Foster Farms was fined $181,500 on May 24, 2021 by the California Division of Occupational Health and Safety (Cal/OSHA) for failing to protect workers from Covid-19 at its Livingston poultry plant and distribution center near Fresno, and for failing to report all infections.
Three EPA workers protesting with signs: EPA workers demand respect. Other sign cut off.

Get Fossil Fuels Out of Our Pension, Say Environmental Protection Workers »

June 3, 2021 | Saurav Sarkar

Not long ago, workers at the Environmental Protection Agency were battling the Trump Administration’s many attempts to interfere with both their agency’s mission and

Gearing Up for Bargaining, Canadian Union Pushes for a Greener, Better Postal Service »

June 2, 2021 | Derek Seidman

With its contracts expiring in 2022, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers is stepping up the fight for its own vision of the post office of the future.
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For Pride Month, Here’s Your Definitive Reading List on Queerness and Work »

June 1, 2021 | Anne Balay

I have worked as a car mechanic, an English professor, a truck driver, and a union organizer—and through it all I have been a lesbian.
Masked people marching outside. Some have signs: "UNLOCK THE MONEY," "FREE OUR FUNDING," "AUSTERITY IS RACIST!"

Grieving Transit Local Has Been Leading Fights for Safety and Service Restoration »

May 28, 2021 | Labor Notes staff

We join the whole labor movement in mourning the nine brothers and sisters from Transit (ATU) Local 265 and SEIU Local 521 who were killed on May 26 in a mass shooting at a workplace union meeting.

Bay Area Transit Workers and Riders Demand to Unlock $1.7 Billion Already Earmarked for Jobs and Bus Service »

May 26, 2021 | Richard Marcantonio

Federal help is on the way, we were told months ago—but where’s the money?

Nurses stand together holding picket signs and wearing red bandanas on their heads, a la Rosie the Riveter.

How Many Strikes Are There in the U.S.? »

May 26, 2021 | Johnnie Kallas, Eli Friedman, and Dana Trentalange

How many strikes are there in the United States?


It’s a question with obvious importance to labor activists, yet there is no readily accessible answer.

Captured by the Flag »

May 25, 2021 | Saurav Sarkar

It feels like the world is on fire again.

Steward's Corner: What Your Boss Doesn't Want You to Know, and Where to Find It »

May 24, 2021 | Tom Juravich

Given the wealth of information available online, conducting research on your employer is more possible than ever—and more important than ever, as firms become more complex and globalized.

BREAKING: Draft Legislation in New York Would Put Gig Workers into Toothless 'Unions' »

May 21, 2021 | Joe DeManuelle-Hall

An effort backed by the New York State AFL-CIO would create a new bargaining scheme for app-based workers without addressing the question of whether or not these workers are legally “employees.”

Can a Driver Uprising Make Food Apps Deliver? »

May 20, 2021 | Luis Feliz Leon

Jonán Mancilla is standing on a Manhattan street corner under the awning of a shuttered salon, handing out stickers to his fellow food delivery drivers.

Conservative Talking Heads Love Coal Miners—Until They Go on Strike »

May 19, 2021 | Jacob Morrison

A supposed defense of coal miners, their families, their way of life, and their culture has been front and center of the Republican agenda ever since the push for decarbonization began.
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Out of the Pandemic: UC Student Researchers Emerge United »

May 18, 2021 | Ahmed Akhtar and Jess Banks

Graduate student employees have fought for decades to form unions.
Picketers (Black and white, men and women) marching in front of a post office. Signs say "U.S. Mail Is Not for Sale," "Postmaster DeJoy Is Destroying Our Post Office," "Save Our Public Postal Service: Forever Essential." Also visible are copies of the flyer "Dump DeJoy and His 10-Year Plan."

Detroit Postal Workers Push to Dump DeJoy and His Ten-Year Plan »

May 12, 2021 | Jane Duggan

Last fall, the Detroit local of the Postal Workers (APWU) stepped out with a rally and flyer calling on workers to defend democracy and warning of a possible coup.
Masked people (Black and white, men and women) holding signs. Most prominent is a handwritten sign: "#Save the Post Office." Preprinted signs say "Stand with Postal Workers" and "Senators, do the right thing! Save USPS"

The Postmaster General’s New Attack on the Mail Is a Fig Leaf for Privatization »

May 7, 2021 | Dennis O’Neil

The battle over the future of the Postal Service, which was a focus of American political life last year, is still on.

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