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Labor Notes is primarily recognized for its monthly magazine, also called Labor Notes. Our focus is on covering stories about workers that mainstream media often overlooks, presenting these issues from the workers' perspective. We delve into the trends that are making it challenging for workers and assess how labor is responding: identifying what strategies are effective and which ones are falling short. As an independent publication, we have the freedom to highlight voices that suggest improvements and share ways to make progress.

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May Day Rallies Confront Billionaire Assaults

1 week ago | labornotes.org | Luis Feliz Leon

Hundreds of thousands of people across the United States rallied, engaged in civil disobedience, or struck on May 1, International Workers’ Day, joining hundreds of thousands around the world. Overall, actions organized by the May Day Strong coalition numbered more than 1,300 across all 50 states in over 1,000 cities and towns, extending into Saturday, May 3.
UAW Reformers Close Caucus, Launch New Organization

2 weeks ago | labornotes.org | Jane Slaughter |Keith Brown

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. “UAWD had become a caucus that is ‘resolutionary,’ and focused more on caucus discipline than on actually organizing workers. Meetings had become dreadful.
What Do We Do Now? First, Gather to Talk

2 weeks ago | labornotes.org | Barbara Madeloni

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. Between overreliance on lawsuits and calls to “fight back” or even strike with no clear plan, unions have not shown up. I keep wondering, where are the leaders? I get that it’s overwhelming.
Faculty Rally Nationwide for Free Speech, Free Tuition, and to Free Detained Students

3 weeks ago | labornotes.org | Barbara Madeloni

Faculty-student pairs set up “anti-fascist office hours” at three locations on the Northwestern University campus. Faculty, students, and staff created anti-fascist art at the University of Hawaii. American Association of University Professors members combined membership drives with tabling about the critical issues facing higher education on 30 campuses.
Federal Unionists Say It’s Not Game Over, It’s Game On

1 month ago | labornotes.org | Jenny Brown

A 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. In a Zoom event that drew 65,000 viewers, FUN got official support from all the significant federal unions for their bottom-up organizing approach to the Trump onslaught.
Viewpoint: Will Trump’s Tariffs Be Good for Auto Workers? | Labor Notes

1 month ago | labornotes.org

During the 2019 General Motors strike, while my fellow workers and I were pounding the pavement, something inspirational was happening south of the border: Mexican auto worker Israel Cervantes, along with many others at a GM plant in Silao, Guanajuato, refused overtime in solidarity with us. Their practical action was particularly helpful to our cause because they built large
Postal Workers Throng to 500 Rallies to Save the Postal Service

1 month ago | labornotes.org | Alexandra Bradbury

From big cities to small towns, postal workers organized hundreds of rallies across the country in the past week to defend a beloved public service—and the nation’s largest union employer—against privatization and DOGE attack. “Whose Postal Service?” workers chanted in New York: “The people’s Postal Service.”“U.S. Mail Is Not for Sale” was the rallying cry March 20 at 250 rallies organized by the Postal Workers (APWU).
Trump Tries to Blow Up Airport Screeners Union

2 months ago | labornotes.org | Jenny Brown

In a memo that that one TSA employee said sounded like “a teenage blogger writing about someone they don’t like,” the Department of Homeland Security announced March 7 that it was cancelling the union contract for 47,000 workers at the Transportation Security Administration. The American Federation of Government Employees signed its contract with TSA in May 2024, and it wasn’t set to expire until 2031.
Postal Workers Brace for Trump’s Wrecking Ball

2 months ago | labornotes.org | Alexandra Bradbury

Is the nation’s biggest union workforce, at the Postal Service, President Trump’s next target? The Washington Post broke the news February 20 that Trump was on the verge of issuing an executive order to dissolve the independent leadership of USPS and move it into the executive branch under the Department of Commerce, now led by enthusiastic privatizer Howard Lutnick, a Wall Street banker. Trump confirmed the next day that he was “looking at” this option. The other shoe hasn’t dropped yet.
Federal Workers Mobilize against Musk’s and Trump’s ‘Corporate Coup’

2 months ago | labornotes.org | Jenny Brown

Federal employee union members have been speaking out, rallying, and suing, as agency after agency has been hit by Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE)—a private unaccountable entity which has been demanding access to all government records while spreading wild lies about waste and fraud. Around 20,000 workers have been summarily fired so far.