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Safe Bet: Your Employer Handbook Contains Illegal Rules »

September 12, 2017 | Robert Schwartz

UPDATE, February 2018: As we feared when we published the below article in September 2017, the Trump NLRB wasted little time before overruling the Lutheran Heritage standard.

What We're Reading »

September 8, 2017 | Labor Notes

We asked Labor Notes staffers and friends which labor books are on their nightstands these days. Here's a sample.

¡Viva los Troublemakers! »

September 6, 2017 | Dan DiMaggio

How do you say “troublemaker” in Spanish?

Unions and Worker Co-ops, Old Allies, Are Joining Forces Again »

September 5, 2017 | Eric Dirnbach

In the 1800s unions and cooperatives were part of the same movement. Today once again, unions are collaborating with cooperatives to save jobs, create new ones, and organize new members.

After Nissan: Can We Organize the South? »

September 1, 2017 | Labor Notes

It's a truism that for unions to preserve their gains they must organize the South—but as the recent failures at Volkswagen,

A Contract Campaign from Virtual to In Their Face »

September 1, 2017 | Dave Staiger

When confronted with a concessionary demand at the bargaining table, what if you filled the room with rank-and-file members? What would happen?

Concession Fatigue in Connecticut »

August 29, 2017 | John O’Connor and Louise Williams

For the third time in eight years, public sector workers in Connecticut have voted for concessions. State employees have sacrificed a total of $7 billion to close budget deficits in 2009, 2011, and now 2017.

Viewpoint: Air Traffic Privatization Hits Turbulence »

August 28, 2017 | Monika Warner

Message to the airlines: you can’t have it all. Control of the skies and aviation safety is a public service.

Memphis Riders and Drivers Team Up to Win Back Historic Bus Route »

August 24, 2017 | Justin Davis and Bennett Foster

When the Memphis Bus Riders Union (MBRU) was just a year old and growing, the transit authority announced the biggest service cut since the 1980s.

Painters Union Fights to Free Member from Immigration Jail »

August 23, 2017 | Dan DiMaggio

Imagine being arrested and detained for months just for showing up to work.

Stickering Up for Paid Sick Days »

August 21, 2017 | Adrie Naylor and Michael Tran

In July 2016, personal trainers in Toronto at GoodLife Fitness, Canada's largest fitness company, voted to unionize with the Canada Council of Workers United, forming the first fitness sector union in North America.

Solidarity's No Heavy Lift, Say Fitness Workers »

August 21, 2017 | Sonia Singh

Last year personal trainers at Canada’s largest chain of gyms became the first fitness workers in North America to unionize, joining Workers United.

In Wake of Charlottesville, How Can Unions Fight for Racial Justice? »

August 18, 2017 | Labor Notes

How should unions respond to the chilling events in Charlottesville? As believers that “an injury to one is an injury to all,” what's our special responsibility? Can we survive if our own unions are split along racial lines?

Teachers Union Caucuses Gather to Swap Strategies »

August 17, 2017 | Gillian Russom and Samantha Winslow

With teachers facing similar attacks in school districts across the country, it makes sense to share strategies for fighting back. That’s the goal of the United Caucuses of Rank-and-File Educators (UCORE), a growing network of locals and caucuses within the teachers unions.

The 1997 UPS Strike: Beating Big Business & Business Unionism »

August 15, 2017 | David Levin

Twenty years ago this month, 185,000 Teamsters shut down UPS and won labor’s biggest victory in decades.


The contract pitted a Fortune 500 company that was accelerating toward a low-wage, part-time future—against a grassroots campaign intent on applying the brakes.

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