Troublemakers Blog

Concurso: Canciones y cantos para la huelga

A group of people stands outside a building, singing. Edwin, a young man with guitar, has his head leaned back shouting into the sky. Several other people have fists in the air, one wears a big smile, and some hold big paper on which lyrics are written out: "Sign me up for the union, bring me my union card, We can work better with decent pay, health care, childcare, and more of a say..."
March 14, 2025 / Kira Yeversky y Edwin Everhart
La música tiene el poder especial de levantar nuestra moral en tiempos de temor y duelo. En el Coro de trabajadores de Pittsburgh, el Pittsburgh Labor Choir, hemos aprendido que las canciones alcanzan su mayor fuerza cuando todas las personas se unen a cantarlas y no solo las escuchan. »

Army Corps Workers Defend Parental Leave with Direct Action

A seated woman with glasses in black holds a newborn baby wrapped in a white blanket to her chest.
March 13, 2025 / Daniel Kim
The doctor recommended at least 18 weeks to recover from childbirth. But Jane (whose name was changed for this article) was entitled to only 12 paid weeks under the Federal Employee Paid Leave Act. So she put in a request with her employer, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for advance sick leave to cover the other six weeks. »

How Health Care Workers Are Defending Their Transgender Patients from Trump’s Attacks

A group of 10 people inside hold signs saying “Nurses Care for All People” and “transgender rights are human rights”
March 04, 2025 / Sarah Lazare
In the five years Quinn has worked as a licensed counselor, they have seen the astonishing positive impact that gender-affirming care can have on young patients’ lives. »

Solidaridad internacional es la respuesta sindical a los aranceles y las deportaciones

Un grupo de cincuenta trabajadores con gorras rojas y camisas blancas levantan sus puños y posan para la cámara.
February 28, 2025 / Jeffery Hermanson
El presidente del sindicato United Auto Workers (UAW), Shawn Fain, ha recientemente expresado la disposición del UAW a «trabajar con Trump en materia de comercio». »

Contest: Songs and Chants for the Strike Line

A group of people stands outside a building, singing. Edwin, a young man with guitar, has his head leaned back shouting into the sky. Several other people have fists in the air, one wears a big smile, and some hold big paper on which lyrics are written out: "Sign me up for the union, bring me my union card, We can work better with decent pay, health care, childcare, and more of a say..."
February 27, 2025 / by Kira Yeversky and Edwin Everhart
Update: This blog is now also available in Spanish, French, and Mandarin Chinese. »

Two Unions Strike the University of California

Two men in blue shirts that say “UPTE” play snare drums while others march in the background.
February 27, 2025 / Labor Notes staff
Picket lines formed across California Wednesday as 20,000 health care, research, and technical workers in UPTE (Communications Workers Local 9119) and 37,000 patient care workers in AFSCME Local 3299 walked out on short strikes across the University of California system. »

Viewpoint: Targeted Postal Workers Are a Bellwether for All U.S. Unions

A group of people, masked, socially distanced, and diverse in race and gender, stand outside the Old Bedford Station post office on a sunny day. They hold up handmade signs: "US Mail Not 4 Sale" and "Save USPS." Someone in the back has a camera set up on a tripod. Similar printed signs from APWU are also visible.
February 26, 2025 / Eric Chornoby
The Trump administration has set its sights on the U.S. Postal Service and its 600,000 workers, 91 percent of whom are union members. The USPS is the nation’s largest unionized employer. »

International Solidarity Is the Union Answer to Tariffs and Deportations

A group of fifty workers red hats and white shirts raise their fists and pose for the camera
February 24, 2025 / Jeffery Hermanson
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has recently expressed the UAW’s readiness to “work with Trump on trade.” Teamsters President Sean O’Brien spoke on a podcast against “illegal immigrants that come into our country to commit crimes and steal jobs.” »

Southern California Kaiser Strikers Stay Out for Parity

Several workers sit in the street with signs saying “Kaiser Don’t Deny Mental Health”--they are surrounded by police.
February 17, 2025 / Cal Winslow
On day 110 of their strike, behavioral health care workers in Southern California sat down in the middle of Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, blocking traffic in front of Kaiser Permanente’s Los Angeles Medical Center. »

Viewpoint: After Resounding ‘No’ Vote, Letter Carriers Should Go on Offense

Seventeen uniformed letter carriers pose together in a post office, holding a big handmade "VOTE NO!" sign.
February 12, 2025 / Rob Darakjian
Members of the National Association of Letter Carriers have rejected a sellout tentative agreement by 71 percent, in a 63,680 to 26,304 vote. That’s a turnout of 48.4 percent—and more “no” votes than the total turnout of 63,452 votes for the last contract. This result is a rejection of the current national leadership and its approach. »

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