The agreement comes with a 20 percent wage increase, equal to around a $7 wage bump for production workers, over the four-year contract. The cost-of-living adjustment is 45 cents per hour on top of the base wage, depending on inflation. @lfelizleon.bsky.social reports labornotes.org/2026/02/majo...

Workers have mobilized so rapidly against ICE in Minnesota because of federal agents' incursions into their workplaces. Agents are harassing passengers on public transit, approaching teachers and students at schools and targeting workers at restaurants 1/4

What does it *feel like* to build worker power? Season two of Haymarket Originals is bringing you inside one of the most dynamic and inspiring organizing drives in the labor movement today. Heat The Ground Up is an oral history of Starbucks Workers United, voiced by the baristas who built it.

In Portland, Oregon, the state labor council and two dozen unions backed a “Labor Says ICE Out!” march and rally on January 31. Thousands of people turned out, many wearing union gear and carrying their union banners. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

Some members may be wary of their union taking up “political issues” like immigration. But many workers have found that fighting for immigrant members and the wider immigrant community has only strengthened the union. labornotes.org/2026/02/how-...

“We weren’t on the streets to 'riot' but to stand up for justice and dignity, the core of what labor solidarity means. Yet, chemical agents rained down in retaliation—volunteers acted to protect the elderly but there was no escape from the choking clouds.” labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

Starbucks has signed union contracts almost nowhere, but in Chile, workers have a national agreement covering 176 stores. They were the first in the world to unionize, in 2009: labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

Workers in Minneapolis are experiencing the escalation of ICE raids there since December as an immediate threat upending their lives, and have been organizing within their workplaces and communities to defend themselves and one another: labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/how-worker... 🧵1/4

Starbucks is rolling out a revamped “Rewards” program next month, aimed at winning customers back after baristas started walking out in November. @sbworkersunited.org members are asking customers to delete the Starbucks Rewards app until they win their strike labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

Some unions, such as the Chicago Teachers, have answered the call from Minneapolis activists to hold protests outside and inside Target stores nationwide 1/2 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

A coalition won’t hold if groups join only because it is “the right thing to do.” Members have to see their material interests tied to the success of the alignment, writes @stephluce.bsky.social labornotes.org/2026/01/how-...

More unions across the country are taking a stand against Immigration and Customs Enforcement since the January 23 mass strike in Minneapolis and the January 24 killing of Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse and union member labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

Workers in Malaysia who make screens like the one you are reading this on are protesting after union leaders were fired following an organizing victory. The workers make LED screens for companies including Apple labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0... 1/8

If you're in/around New York City and want to develop your organizing capacity and strategy with co-workers, neighbors, and others in your community, join the May Day Solidarity School together this month on Saturday, February 21. Learn more: bit.ly/MayDaySchool

Several dozen members of @nynurses.bsky.social at an action on Thursday afternoon outside the Greater New York Hospital Association in Manhattan. NYPD reportedly arrested some nurses who had gathered at the building's entrance. Photos by A.J. Schumann 1/3

🚨 Stewards' Workshop, Wednesday, February 18: Thinking Like an Organizer Sign up here! labornotes.org/events/2026/...

Striking @nynurses.bsky.social have organized a series of actions this week targeting New York Governor Kathy Hochul's repeated extension of an emergency order that allows hospitals to bring in out-of-state scab nurses A.J. Schumann and Sarah Hughes report: labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0... 1/2

On Tuesday, hundreds of nurses and supporters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in the freezing cold to demand safe staffing levels, reliable health benefits, and fair wages. 1/3

The barrage of propaganda nudging us toward hate can make conversations around immigration feel loaded—and much more so in the workplace. How can we challenge misinformation in a way that builds solidarity with our co-workers? labornotes.org/2026/02/how-... 1/2

🗞️ Out now: Our February issue on the ongoing open-ended strike by @nynurses.bsky.social; workers rising up in Minneapolis; logistics workers' fight for a first contract in Tacoma, WA, and more! $30/year for 11 issues. Subscribe by Tuesday, 2/17, to get the March issue labornotes.org/subscribe

Workers in Malaysia who make screens like the one you are reading this article on are protesting after union leaders were fired following an organizing victory. The workers make LED screens for companies including Apple labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

Hundreds of striking New York City nurses and their supporters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday, the latest escalation in week 4 of the open-ended @nynurses.bsky.social strike. Photos by Labor Notes Organizer Danielle Smith.

Since the @sbworkersunited.org strike began, 16 more stores have voted to unionize, bringing the total number of union Starbucks stores last week to 666—a figure that echoes CEO Brian Niccol’s pay: 666 times that of a barista. Our editor Jenny Brown reports labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0... 1/4

The Minnesota Model and @uaw.org's call for a season of strikes in 2028 were part of what inspired @ctulocal1.bsky.social to build the May Day Strong coalition, a national network of labor and community organizations, in 2025, writes @stephluce.bsky.social 🧵1/3 labornotes.org/2026/01/how-...

Rank-and-file nurses, now on week 4 of their historic open-ended strike in New York City, organized an action on Monday targeting state governor Kathy Hochul over the executive order that's allowed hospitals to bring in scab nurses from out-of-state. Photos by Labor Notes Organizer Sarah Hughes

“Hospital administrators UnityPoint in Des Moines were doing what I call 'inactive listening.' They hear our concerns, but rarely do they follow through with actions,” wrote Belinda Carpenter, an emergency department and critical care nurse at UnityPoint Hospitals labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0... 1/2

As thousands of ICE agents swarmed the Minneapolis area since December, workers have been facing them on the job and organizing in various ways to fight back, @lfelizleon.bsky.social reported ahead of the Jan. 23 day of action in Minnesota: labornotes.org/2026/01/will... 🧵 1/7

Sign up here to join May Day Strong's call this Sunday, February 1: www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

What happened in the Twin Cities that made it possible for organizations to pull off such a successful strike? And what can be done to make such actions succeed in other parts of the country? labornotes.org/2026/01/how-... 1/3

Workers are increasingly seeing union contracts as a means to win the basic needs and protections being snatched away. They're also recognizing how robust contract campaigns can build up the labor movement to resist the Trump admin's broadside attacks labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/how-contra...

Wallenius is the largest “roll-on, roll-off” carrier in the world with 128 vessels. In 2024 it brought in $5.3 billion in revenue and more than $1 billion in profits. But until ILWU’s win, it was running a nonunion operation adjacent to longshore work labornotes.org/2026/01/orga... 1/2

When you’re assessing why more people haven’t stepped up to take on the boss, it’s important to find out the actual reasons. You have to diagnose the problem before you can write the prescription. It’s not apathy—but what is it? Read more: labornotes.org/secrets

Hamsa Hussein, a Somali Uber driver organizing a union with SEIU Local 26, said that intimidation from ICE agents has stiffened the drivers’ resolve: labornotes.org/2026/01/twin... 1/2

150 workers at a vehicle processing center in Tacoma, WA, won their first contract last year, a huge step for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union organizing down the supply chain, writes Zack Pattin, longshoreman and rep with ILWU Local 23 labornotes.org/2026/01/orga...

From the large windows of a skyway between buildings in downtown Minneapolis, it looked like some 50,000 to 100,000 demonstrators were in the streets, snarling traffic, lifting banners, and waving handmade signs in gloved hands, @Lfelizleon writes labornotes.org/2026/01/twin...

On January 23, what looked like more than 50,000 people marched in downtown Minneapolis in a protest dubbed “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth and Freedom.” @lfelizleon.bsky.social reports labornotes.org/2026/01/twin... 🧵 1/9

ON STRIKE: The UNAC/UHCP Unfair Labor Practice strike starts TODAY! 31,000+ Kaiser Permanente nurses and health care workers in CA and Hawai'i are holding the line for quality patient care and a fair contract! #TogetherWeWin #SafeStaffingSavesLives #PatientsOverProfits

Key to this victory was the union’s worker-led, store-by-store organizing model: labornotes.org/2026/01/port...

We're horrified & outraged: Immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them. This time, they've executed a fellow nurse, Alex Pretti. We demand justice and accountability. Abolish ICE, now! https://bit.ly/4big77u

One of the big issues nurses are fighting for is safety, because of the kind of routine violence they’re exposed to, especially in emergency rooms 🧵1/7 Listen to the episode on the @nynurses.bsky.social strike, now heading to its third week: labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/15000-nurs...

Alyssa Oursler reports from Minneapolis, where ICE killed again—and a mass movement is taking shape. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Hundreds of people gather for a vigil at the site where 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse and member of AFGE 3669, was shot and killed by federal agents.

“We fight like hell on all issues of wages, benefits, and discipline. And that gives us some credibility to talk about things more broadly. So we talk about the philosophy that an injury to one is an injury to all. I tell people that’s my religion.” labornotes.org/2026/01/will...

‪Update: Federal agents murdered ICU nurse Alex Pretti. ‬That’s the name of the legal observer federal agents executed in Minneapolis today. He was a union member.

AFGE Local 3669 statement:

I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.

Workers in two hundred and fifteen cities are walking off the job today in solidarity with the general strike in Minneapolis, according to @migrantinsider.bsky.social.

Scenes of civil disobedience outside the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, where protesters, including religious readers, blocked the road on a statewide day of “no work (except for emergency services), no school, and no shopping” on January 23. Photos by @lfelizleon.bsky.social

🎙️New on the Labor Notes Pod: “We desperately want to be at the bedside taking care of our patients, that’s why we chose this profession. Our patients become our families, our co-workers become our families—this is more than just a job to us.” labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/15000-nurs... 1/5

"The structures that exist now—our unions and other organized groups that are fighting for immigrant justice, tenant rights, and a fair economy, as scattered and weak as they may be—are the vehicles we have to organize a fightback..." 🧵 1/4