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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.

Why Did Nissan Workers Vote No? »

August 11, 2017 | Chris Brooks

There's no sugar-coating a loss this dramatic: 2,244-1,307 against the United Auto Workers, after a 12-year campaign to organize the mile-long Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi.


After four attempts, the UAW has yet to win a plant-wide vote at a foreign-owned auto plant in the South.

Spectrum Workers Soldier On in Months-Long Strike »

August 11, 2017 | Joe Richard

Some 1,800 members of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 3 have been on strike at Spectrum/Time Warner Cable in New York and New Jersey since March 28, more than four months ago.

With Nike Up to Old Tricks, Students and Workers Launch Global Protests »

August 10, 2017 | Kory Stuer

In February Nike launched its “Equality” campaign, professing its commitment to diversity and inclusion. On July 29, students and workers held a Global Day of Action in 25 cities across 12 countries to tell Nike: we’re not buying it.

Review: In the Fields of the North (En los campos del norte) »

August 8, 2017 | Eve Ottenberg

Mexican blueberry picker Honesto Silva Ibarra died in Washington state on Sunday after complaining of headaches but being forced by his supervisor

The Racist Origins of Right to Work »

August 3, 2017 | Michael Pierce

As right-to-work laws proliferate, it's worth remembering that they originated as a means to maintain Jim Crow labor relations in the South and to beat back what was seen as a Jewish conspiracy.

Irish Retail Workers Strike for Secure Hours »

August 2, 2017 | Moira Murphy

In Ireland the retail sector employs 1 in 7 workers—and their fight for a living wage, secure hours, and union rights is heating up. Recent strikes at the country’s largest private sector employers, Tesco and Dunnes, have grabbed headlines and working-class support.

Making Buses Safer »

August 1, 2017 | Alexandra Bradbury

After two passengers died in a horrific stabbing on a train in Portland, Oregon, the transit agency upped police presence. But the union is pushing for a different solution.

Four Months into Strike, Idaho Miners Stand Strong »

July 28, 2017 | Brian Skiffington

A beloved 53-year old miner named Larry Marek was killed on the job at the Lucky Friday mine in Mullan, Idaho just a few years back. Steelworkers Local 5114 had been warning the company about the stability of a certain area called a stope.

Ohio Teachers Win Back Regular Raises »

July 27, 2017 | Myra Warne

In 2014, members of the Maysville Education Association voted to accept a deal that would end our pay freeze, which dated back to 2011, in exchange for replacing our traditional pay scale with a new merit-pay system.

How D.C. Grocery Workers Got Their Groove Back »

July 25, 2017 | Alan Hanson

Grocery workers in the Washington, D.C., area have reversed concessionary bargaining in the industry for the first time in a generation. Last November 17,000 workers at Giant Food and Safeway stores ratified a contract that:

Argentine PepsiCo Workers Fought Shutdown with Factory Occupation »

July 20, 2017 | Tatiana Cozzarelli

On the night of July 13 Katy Balaguer thought she was ready for what was coming next. She was no stranger to protests, to tear gas, to the cops’ batons and the sound they make when they hit the body of your co-workers.

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