Help Us Blow Out the Candles
Hard to believe, but a scrappy rank-and-file magazine and organizing institute, founded in 1979 to bring together leaders from an inspiring string of wildcat strikes and union reform caucuses, turns 33 today.
Labor Notes has grown a lot since then, training thousands of activists at 10 regional Troublemaker Schools last year and publishing a daily stream of unique news and analysis about unions and work, from labor's point of view.
Labor Notes is more than a website and magazine. We're a network of rank-and-file members, union leaders, and labor activists who know the labor movement is worth fighting for.
We encourage connections between workers in different unions, workers centers, communities, industries, and countries to strengthen the movement from the bottom up.
More than a thousand of those activists will gather May 4-6 in Chicago at the Labor Notes national conference to learn new skills, sharpen their strategies, debate the big questions confronting our movement, and have a ton of fun.
But we need your help to train the next generation of activists. We don't get big money from unions or foundations to bring young activists to the conference.
Can you chip in $33 and keep the rank-and-file spirit growing?
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Give $10 a month or more and get our "Fight the Boss, Build the Union" T-shirt.
Thanks for your support, and see you in Chicago!
Mark Brenner & the Labor Notes staff
P.S. Remember that your donation to Labor Notes is tax-deductible.
P.P.S. Act fast to take advantage of our early-bird discount for the conference: Registration is only $95 until March 2.
![Inset photo of Sal Rosselli, a white man in red NUHW scrubs, speaking on a mic at a rally. Behind this, a black-and-white photo of a racially diverse, mostly female group of NUHW workers pose on strike. Most carry printed picket signs with messages like "Patients before profits" and "Kaiser, don't deny my patients [the rest is obscured]." One woman carries a large handpainted sign with a fist logo and the words "Huelga de NUHW," Spanish for NUHW strike.](https://labornotes.org/sites/default/files/styles/related_crop/public/main/blogposts/Untitled%20design%20%2845%29_0.png?itok=ez2Ny5Mx)
![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].](https://labornotes.org/sites/default/files/styles/related_crop/public/main/articles/Iris%20Scott%20speaks%20at%20EWD%20press%20conf%20april%20photo%20TDU%20cropped.jpg?itok=_KmoC2lJ)
