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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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Faculty Rally Nationwide for Free Speech, Free Tuition, and to Free Detained Students

1 day 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

3 weeks 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.
Postal Workers Throng to 500 Rallies to Save the Postal Service

3 weeks 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

1 month 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

1 month 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.
Blocked Nippon Deal Is Lesson on Tariffs: Workers Need a Say

2 months ago | labornotes.org | Jenny Brown

The business press howled in January when outgoing President Joe Biden blocked Japanese steel giant Nippon from buying U.S. Steel. The Steelworkers (USW) had strongly opposed the deal. But Nippon’s promises to invest, and U.S. Steel’s threats to close plants, led some members and local union officials to support it. As a result, the press portrayed the disagreement as “union bosses” versus the rank and file. In fact, most workers were skeptical and the union had good reasons to oppose the takeover.
2024 in Review: Strikes and Organizing Score Gains, but Storm Clouds Loom

Dec 18, 2024 | labornotes.org | Jenny Brown

Union workers broke open the cookie jar in 2024, after years of stagnant wages and rising prices. With strikes and the threat of strikes, workers did more than forestall concessions: They gained ground. Union workers in the private sector saw 6 percent real wage rises for the year. Just the fear that workers would organize drove up wages at non-union employers like Delta Airlines, Amazon, and Mercedes. Meanwhile, unemployment rates of around 4 percent made strikes easier to maintain.
UFCW Locals Block Kroger-Albertsons Mega-Merger

Dec 17, 2024 | labornotes.org | Lisa Xu

In a victory for labor—and in particular, for a coalition of United Food and Commercial Workers local unions—judges in Oregon and Washington state have separately ruled against the proposed mega-merger of Kroger and Albertsons, effectively blocking it and leading Albertsons to terminate the merger agreement. On December 10, a federal district court in Oregon upheld a preliminary injunction on the merger requested by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
UFCW Reformers Block Kroger-Albertsons Mega-Merger

Dec 17, 2024 | labornotes.org | Lisa Xu

In a victory for labor—and in particular, for a coalition of reform-minded United Food and Commercial Workers local unions—judges in Oregon and Washington state have separately ruled against the proposed mega-merger of Kroger and Albertsons, effectively blocking it and leading Albertsons to terminate the merger agreement. On December 10, a federal district court in Oregon upheld a preliminary injunction on the merger requested by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).