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Viewpoint: Burgerville Workers’ Lessons for Independent Unions »

January 25, 2023 | Kevin Van Meter

Self-organizing a union on a shoestring? Winning the supposedly unwinnable? Workers at a local burger chain out of Portland, Oregon, were doing it before it was cool.

People and photographers gather at KCTU headquarters during the raid.

South Korea: Intelligence Agency Raids Top Union Confederation »

January 24, 2023 | Kap Seol

South Korea’s intelligence agency raided the offices of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the country’s largest organization of independent unions, and an affiliate on January 18.

Workers at Hooters-Style Restaurant Strike, Protesting Racist Sexist Manager »

January 24, 2023 | Luis Feliz Leon

Latino immigrant kitchen workers and a racially diverse group of women servers are on strike at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Brentwood, Tennessee. They say their employer is serving up of a toxic brew of racism and sexism.

How We Began To Bring the Mail Back »

January 23, 2023 | Jamie Partridge

Across the country and here in Portland, Oregon, carriers are working 12-, 14-, and 16-hour days, into the dark as late as 9 p.m., 10 p.m., even midnight! At several stations we have begun to bring the mail back at 12 hours (or 10 hours) and stop work at 60 hours in a week.

Ballots Out in UAW Presidential Run-Off »

January 20, 2023 | Dan DiMaggio

The run-off election for president of the United Auto Workers is underway. Ballots hit the mail January 12 and counting will start March 1.

Mexican workers with La Liga gathered indoors in a line with their hands linked and raised in the air

Mexican Auto Parts Plant Is Battleground For Independent Union’s First Contract Fight »

January 20, 2023 | Luis Feliz Leon

In the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, auto parts workers are throwing down yet again against their employer, Michigan-based VU Manufacturing, and its chosen union, the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM).

Book cover shows a person bending over a table, indoors, welding. On the table is a bright diorama of a farm with miniature barn, buffalos, and a farmer pouring a bucket of water on the same spot where the welder is aiming.

Review: Don’t Bleed in the Shark Pool »

January 17, 2023 | Molly Martin

A woman navigating the challenges of the male workplace makes a good story, and Hilary Peach does the genre proud in her new book, Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood

Virginia Transit Strikers Fight Privatized Race to the Bottom »

January 13, 2023 | Courtney Smith | Jonah Furman

Around 130 workers who operate, fix, and dispatch buses in Loudoun County, Virginia, went on strike Wednesday morning.

Shift of Miners in the Elevator Which Will Take Them Down to Work in the Virginia-Pocahontas Mine #4 near Richlands, Virginia They Are Headed for the 1,200 Foot Level.

What Today's Union Reformers Can Learn from Miners for Democracy »

January 6, 2023 | Steve Early

Originally published at In These Times.

In the foreground we see the backs of a few strikers in red UAW 2865 T-shirts, one holding a strike sign, sitting at a table. Facing them is a huge crowd of strikers, standing, with picket signs, outdoors. The signs say "UAW on strike, unfair labor practice."

Viewpoint: What Message Does a ‘Vote No’ Campaign Send? »

January 5, 2023 | Helena Worthen and Joe Berry

In December, the contract bargaining team for Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2865 brought back a tentative agreement with the University of California and presented it to its membership of teaching assistants, graders and tutors for ratification. A lively “vote no” campaign arose.

Review: Learning from an Older Generation of Troublemakers »

January 5, 2023 | Kim Scipes

One of the fun things about the 2022 Labor Notes Conference was the presence and enthusiasm of young people. To this labor veteran, it was encouraging to see the young blood and new faces; it was clear that we have a new generation of leaders emerging in the labor movement.

Management Rights: A Pitfall When Negotiating Your First Contract »

January 3, 2023 | Robert M. Schwartz

Over the past year, impressive numbers of workers, especially in the retail and service sectors, have begun the process of organizing a union. Workers at Starbucks, Chipotle, Trader Joe’s, Amazon, and other establishments have won union elections.

Viewpoint: Citizenship, Not Surveillance, for Farmworkers »

December 22, 2022 | Servando Jimenez

This week, I joined farmworkers across the country in sounding the alarm on legislation that would make us even more vulnerable. We have defeated it for now.