Troublemakers Blog
December 12, 2024 /
I am a licensed clinical social worker who has been on strike against the Kaiser Permanente health care system for 53 days now. »
December 11, 2024 /
Even before he takes office, the Trump victory has given more power to poultry corporations. They’re using the political environment to intimidate workers. I’ve been organizing with poultry processing workers in Arkansas for 10 years, and I see a high risk that the (already awful) working conditions will get worse. »
December 02, 2024 /
Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was passed in 1993, the economies of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico have become increasingly integrated. Workers in all three countries have suffered as corporations have used trade rules to maximize profits, push down wages and benefits, and manage the flow of people displaced by these rules. »
November 14, 2024 / Alexandra Bradbury
Our newest staff writer/organizer, Danielle Smith, joined the Labor Notes staff in October. Danielle is a dynamo—a skilled journalist and organizer. »
November 14, 2024 / Jane Slaughter
Unions weren’t strong enough, in numbers or in influence with their members, to make a difference in this election. One sample showed union households at only 54 percent for Kamala Harris vs. 43 percent for the billionaire, with non-union households at 51 percent Trump, 47 percent Harris. If union voters had listened to their officers, Trump’s numbers would have »
November 07, 2024 / Danielle Smith
November 04, 2024 /
American politicians love to pose as defenders of factory workers threatened by globalization, corporate restructuring, and overseas outsourcing. »
October 29, 2024 /
Over Labor Day weekend, 5,500 grocery workers in Portland, Oregon, went on strike across 38 stores—and two unions.
A thousand workers at 10 New Seasons Markets, members of an independent union seeking a first contract, struck for one day on September 1, in their first union-wide strike. »
October 23, 2024 / Alexandra Bradbury
By the time Teamsters President Sean O’Brien finally announced in September that the union would not be endorsing anyone for U.S. »
October 08, 2024 /
A United Auto Workers member was killed on the picket line September 28 outside Eaton Aerospace, where workers have been on strike since September 16. Seth Webb, a member of UAW Local 475, was struck by a drunk driver. So were four other picketers, two of whom were rushed to the Henry Ford Hospital across the street with severe injuries. »