The protests are fueled by rage over decades of government underinvestment and privatization—policies that have eroded public services and stretched essential workers to their limit labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

"With 'No Kings' protests, you go there and you're like, 'It's not clear what this does. We don't think Trump is just going to listen to us.' We need to articulate a campaign where ordinary people see how their participation can move the needle." 1/3 labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/how-do-we-...

Today, (Saturday, 11/8, 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern): There's still time to sign up! labornotes.org/events/2025/...

🚨Workshop Tomorrow (Saturday, Nov. 8): Talk to other rank-and-file members about strategies to bring your co-workers closer to the center of the bullseye—the core of your union—and build power around issues resonating across the shop floor Sign up here! labornotes.org/events/2025/...

Transparency isn't a goal in itself, but a means to an end—in this case, getting members ready for a boss fight, writes Paul Steiner, an inside wire journeyworker in IBEW Local 520 and a member of the Caucus of Rank-and-File Electrical Workers labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1... 1/4

"Over 12,000 workers are members of @sbworkersunited.org, part of Workers United/SEIU, at 650 U.S. stores. But Starbucks operates 10,000 stores in the U.S., so asking the public to shun all stores in a strike is an important escalation." Our editor Jenny Brown reports labornotes.org/2025/10/stri...

New on the Labor Notes Pod: @ericblanc.bsky.social on scalable tactics for non-violent disruption that build on the mass mobilization of "No Kings"—walkouts by students and teachers that can go viral, and May 2026 actions to pressure institutions labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/how-do-we-...

“You have joined a movement for the rest of your life,” Mamdani told the campaign’s legions of volunteers in his closing message. “Now, however you want to be a part of that movement is your decision, just as long as you continue to be a part of it.” labornotes.org/2025/11/zohr...

"Our Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 520 got members active like never before—through unprecedented outreach and actions that brought members in to confront the bosses, we won a contract that put decades of closed-off negotiations to shame." labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

Join rank-and-file members at the next Labor Notes 'Secrets of a Successful Organizer' online workshop series in November! First of two sessions starts this Saturday, Nov. 8, Noon to 3 p.m. Eastern. Second session is on Saturday, Nov. 22 Sign up: labornotes.org/events/2025/...

New Zealand’s streets filled with nurses, doctors, teachers, healthcare assistants, public workers, and firefighters last month in a massive one-day strike demanding that the government fully fund public services labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

“A politician can’t save us, so as great as Mamdani is, we will need to keep organizing to win his bold agenda,” said labor scholar Stephanie Luce, a PSC-CUNY member labornotes.org/2025/11/zohr... 1/3

Good: Wearing your union T-shirt to the protest. Better: Bringing a whole group in union shirts, with your union banner. Even Better: Getting your union to publicize the protest and turn members out labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

Unions can’t afford to wait for friendly labor law. labornotes.org/2025/10/we-c...

“The working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands,” Mamdani told a roaring crowd at his victory party in Brooklyn. labornotes.org/2025/11/zohr...

To turn around the sense of fear and powerlessness among the working class, we should experiment with disruptive, nonviolent, attention-grabbing campaigns that are easily replicable and can go viral nationwide, writes @ericblanc.bsky.social labornotes.org/2025/10/afte...

“If there’s one thing to remember about Donald Trump, it’s that he’s a boss—he wants us divided so that he can keep the upper hand. And if ever there was a time to stand up to a boss and declare that 'an injury to one is an injury to all,' it’s now.” labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

In light of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's big victory yesterday, reupping this piece about how my union, the @uaw.org, was the first to endorse his campaign last fall & has remained among his strongest supporters in labor ever since.

“Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor; palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars; knuckles scarred with kitchen burns—these are not hands that have been allowed to hold power,” Mamdani said at his victory party in Brooklyn, @lfelizleon.bsky.social reported 1/2

Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist and the Democratic nominee, will be New York City’s next mayor, after trouncing former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a primary and general election double whammy. @lfelizleon.bsky.social reports labornotes.org/2025/11/zohr...

I’ll be covering tonight’s big news. Follow for updates.

A new period of social strikes, combined with political education can plant seeds for supermajority organizing for durable power, bargaining for the common good, and serious progressive electoral work, write Alex Caputo-Pearl and Jackson Potter: labornotes.org/2025/10/stop...

"It’s a good thing members want more from us. It means they’re hungry for contact, for information, for a relationship with their union. There’s so much misinformation out there and it’s essential that they hear from their union about what really matters." labornotes.org/2025/10/buil...

Two concrete tactics that @ericblanc.bsky.social writes could galvanize a national upsurge against authoritarianism: Strategic walkouts by groups with deep community ties (like students and teachers) and disruption to move institutions away from the Trump regime: labornotes.org/2025/10/afte...

Some UFCW members said they see this as a moment to build the union with solidarity, not shame. With benefit cuts looming, some Safeway workers have organized food drive donation boxes in their break room for any employee to access

We're hiring a staff organizer! Learn more and apply: labornotes.org/jobs

Faced with the administration’s relentless offensive against immigrants, free speech, public services, and majoritarian rule, it’s normal to feel some despair. But we can take steps to win back the country through nonviolent resistance, writes @ericblanc.bsky.social labornotes.org/2025/10/afte...

"If we’re going to defeat Trump and any other anti-worker politician, we’re going to need a wellspring of organized workers," wrote @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social, president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades labornotes.org/2025/10/buil...

👀Is your contract expiring in 2026? Tell us about it! We’re putting together a roundup of big union contract fights coming next year. Email us: [email protected]

"Where the bosses stoke divisions, we can draw on shared values to unite us. The more workers are active in the union, the greater our power on the job. The boss wants total control. That’s why our differences—workers vs. bosses—are irreconcilable." labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

Turns out that horror movies and fiction have a lot to say about fighting back against the real life horrors of our bad bosses, if you're watching with your copy of 'Secrets of a Successful Organizer' labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/all-horror...

As Election Day nears, Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate, returns to his base among New York City’s multiracial working class. @lfelizleon.bsky.social reporting from NYC. inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

"Part of what’s made it so hard to move beyond one-off protests against Trump is that we have so little direct leverage over him in between elections. People normally go to rallies, then go home without much to do in between," writes @ericblanc.bsky.social 1/3 labornotes.org/2025/10/afte...

42 million Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, more commonly known as “food stamps,” are set to go without benefits. Among them are union members in underpaid industries like grocery and retail labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

"Labor does not have to be paralyzed in the face of Trump: there is plenty of room for action that strikes at the MAGA billionaire boys club and becomes a problem for Trump’s sponsors."

Building a welcoming culture in your local, adapted by @lfelizleon.bsky.social and @nataschaelena.bsky.social from a piece Dan La Botz wrote in A Troublemaker's Handbook 2: labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1... 1/2

🦇 On a very sinister Hallowepisode, our podcast team gleans organizing lessons from the 1988 John Carpenter cult classic, They Live, and Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House (1959). Plus, a little Stewards Corner with Nosferatu (2024) labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/all-horror... 1/2

"The Trump administration has been refusing to spend certain funds appropriated by Congress, using a seldom-used process called rescissions to cut funds that Congress already approved. This causes all kinds of chaos, not just for workers but for everyone."

"Unions remain one of the most durable, democratic, and internally diverse institutions that are a microcosm of society, with different races, religions, countries of origin, genders, and political views. And they represent 14 million members."

With an emboldened Trump in the White House for a second term, the ground has shifted dramatically for unions What tactics and strategies can help unions organize more new members and best survive an all-out assault on our rights? labornotes.org/content/how-... 1/2

"This authoritarian consolidation of power is testing unions. What can unions do to survive in the second Trump presidency? What tactics and strategies can help organize more new members and best survive an all-out assault on labor and other rights?"

“Federal agents are terrorizing immigrants and citizens, and racially profiling us Latinos for kidnapping and detention. If ever there was a time to stand up to a boss and declare that an injury to one is an injury to all, it’s now,” writes @lfelizleon.bsky.social

Federal agents are sowing terror among immigrants and citizens alike. It's not about protecting U.S. jobs. It's about keeping workers complaint. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

"We have to organize new members, build independent political power in our communities, and educate our fellow workers and our communities. We have to hold every politician who isn’t pro-worker accountable, regardless of party and regardless of rhetoric," writes @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social

Adapted from our special issue: How to Strike and Win. You can find it at labornotes.org/strikes

Comprehensive union organizing campaigns are associated with significantly higher union win rates, even when controlling for employer opposition and the organizing environment. So why aren’t we seeing more of them? labornotes.org/2025/10/we-c...

"Non-tenure track faculty who are kept in penury are less able to serve as moral guides for our students or be the teachers and public intellectuals we were meant to be, helping to stave off the creeping authoritarianism and bigotry sweeping our nation." labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

"Despite bright spots in organizing, our movement has not developed methods to reverse the staggering loss of union density over the last 40-plus years. Unions represented one in four U.S. workers in 1980, but today we represent just one in nine..." 1/5 labornotes.org/2025/10/stop...

Why bring your union identity—and your union—to the struggle? ✅ More turnout ✅ Opportunities for workplace conversations ✅ Unions are best equipped to organize economic disruption ✅ Labor participation can emphasize concrete demands ...and more! labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

"We have to draw on a range of tactics like consumer boycotts, sickouts, and slow-downs. We need to reenergize union structures at the national, state and local levels and line up political and contract demands." -Jackson Potter and Alex Caputo-Pearl labornotes.org/2025/10/stop... 1/2