Labor Notes

1 week ago | popularresistance.org | Barbara Madeloni |Labor Notes

Above photo: We bring workers together to name the problem, assess what concrete power we have, and make a plan to build the power we need through collective action. Jenny Brown. I don’t have new words for the dizzying abuses of unions, immigrants, and all working people emanating from the White House in the last three months. Like many people, I’ve been cycling through anger, despair, and dismay. The dismay is less about Trump than about the weak and ineffective union response.

2 weeks ago | popularresistance.org | Jane Slaughter |Keith Brown |Labor Notes

Above photo: UAWD members were at the 2023 UAW Convention right after electing their slate to the international executive board. Jim West / jimwestphoto.com. Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), the reform caucus in the Auto Workers, voted to dissolve at its quarterly online membership meeting April 27. “It was a heartbreaking decision to come to,” said UAWD founder and chair Scott Houldieson, a 36-year electrician at Ford.

1 month ago | popularresistance.org | Luis Feliz Leon |Labor Notes

Above photo: Thousands of people gathered in Jefferson Square Park in Louisville, Kentucky as part of the “Hands Off!” protest against the Trump administration. Cassie Lyles. Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice this month that the Trump administration is revoking their work authorizations.

1 month ago | popularresistance.org | Van Jackson |Labor Notes

Above photo: Jenny Brown. A recession is looming. Trump himself recently affirmed that his economic plans would induce a recession in the near term.

1 month ago | progressivehub.net | Jenny Brown |Labor Notes

Federal unions are leading the charge to push back against Trump’s anti-worker policies. By Jenny Brown, Labor NotesA scrappy network of federal unionists is leading the response to the Trump administration’s attacks on their workplaces, including Trump’s March 27 order purporting to end union contracts covering most federal workers. Where the Federal Unionists Network has led, union leaders have followed.