Hundreds of workers across Mexico who provide rides and deliveries through apps held a two-hour work stoppage in May demanding fair rates, an end to unjustified deactivations, and a collective labor agreement with app giants like Uber and two Uber Eats-style delivery platforms 1/4

A reform caucus is a group of union members organizing to improve their union and build power to fight the boss more effectively. Read the Labor Notes guide on how (and when) to build a reform caucus, and how to navigate the challenges of developing one labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

The federal monitor charged with rooting out corruption in the UAW has issued a series of reports critical of President Shawn Fain, ever since Fain rebuffed the monitor's request to block the union from calling for a Gaza ceasefire

Hundreds of workers across Mexico who provide rides and deliveries through apps held a work stoppage last month demanding fair rates, an end to unjustified deactivations, and a collective labor agreement with app giants like Uber and two Uber Eats-style delivery platforms 1/3

Still not fully recovered from last week’s @labornotes.bsky.social conference in Chicago. Despite taking place in a time of huge challenges for unions and the working class in general, it was an inspiring place to take stock, recharge, and gear up for the battles ahead. 1/

BONUS LABOR VIDEO OF THE WEEK The 2026 @labornotes.bsky.social Opening Night Procession Find out more and watch the video at tinyurl.com/2kmsfhmu #Solidarity #Music #Song #Parade

Local union leaders who had joined and led fights with management, aided by the International union, have strongly supported the union’s new way: hard-hitting contract campaigns with high member involvement; ambitious, even life-changing contract goals; and strikes when necessary

“This year’s conference included the largest Amazon contingent in Labor Notes history, around two hundred warehouse workers and delivery drivers.” 1/6

We and 4,700 other people recently braved a tornado watch to head to Chicago for LaborNotes, the largest gathering of rank-and-file union organizers in the U.S. Here’s some of what we learned. Thank you @nyguild.bsky.social and thank you @labornotes.bsky.social!

Delegates to the @uaw.org constitutional convention affirmed the aggressive direction the union has taken under President Shawn Fain, who took office in 2023 and immediately set the 400,000-member union on a new path, illustrated in bold campaigns like the Big 3 Strike (link in 🧵)

The federal government on Tuesday arrested and indicted 15 people, many of them union activists, on conspiracy charges over the protests and massive strike against ICE in Minnesota last winter (story linked in thread) 1/5

A reform caucus is a group of union members organizing to improve their union and build power to fight the boss more effectively. Check out our guide on how (and when) to build a reform caucus and how to navigate the challenges of developing one labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

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COWINS was at Labor Notes this weekend! We're excited to share our insights from this amazing conference of hundreds of activists, organizers, and union members.

Watch Live Now: Hear from Nurses, Electricians, and Amazon Workers at the 2026 Labor Notes Conference! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGWG...

📺Starting soon at 1:00 p.m. Central / 2:00 p.m. Eastern: Watch live from the 2026 Labor Notes Conference: Sunday Main Session! youtube.com/live/BGWGpvw...

More scenes from #LaborNotes2026! - Elise Bryant of the DC Labor Chorus led a combined supergroup of singers from Pittsburgh, Durham, D.C., Detroit, and Seattle in a special performance at the Labor Notes Fundraising Dinner. 1/5

📺 Starting soon at 4:30 p.m. Central / 5:30 p.m. Eastern: Watch live from the 2026 Labor Notes Conference: Opening Up Bargaining www.youtube.com/live/dAxjbfJ...

📺 Starting soon at 2:15 p.m. Central / 3:15 p.m. Eastern: Watch live from the 2026 Labor Notes Conference: The Soul in the Machine: Resisting A.I. Pressure on the Character and Quality of Our Jobs www.youtube.com/live/6OHgiLv...

Our latest issue, seen here at #LaborNotes2026, features stories on open bargaining, organizing at American Axle, a strike wave among California educators, and more. Get our monthly magazine for $30/year and share your own organizing stories! labornotes.org/store/labor-.... 1/10

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#LaborNotes2026 continues with panels on some of the most pressing issues facing workers, from defending our immigrant siblings to pushing back against employer-driven A.I. schemes and boosting labor's political power. A thread on related stories from our coverage: 1/7

Tune in to our Friday Main Session livestream now! www.youtube.com/live/yFKWTBt...

On our latest podcast episode, we're joined by Ellen David Friedman and Durham Association of Educators member Carlos Pérez to discuss channeling members’ frustrations into action and building an empowering escalation campaign. Tune in here! labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/keep-going... 1/2

#LaborNotes2026 is off to a great start with panels on successful tax-the-rich campaigns, lessons from landmark healthcare strikes, building worker power in the meatpacking industry, and much more! A thread on related stories from our coverage: 1/7

#LaborNotes2026 officially kicks off today! We're bringing together thousands of rank-and-file union members from across the labor movement to share tactics, swap notes, and revisit the stories shaping the moment. 1/7

For years pay at American Axle topped out at $22 an hour. Now $22 becomes a new hire’s starting pay, and all workers will make $30 an hour by 2030 under the tentative agreement workers secured after 10 days on strike. 1/2 labornotes.org/2026/06/amer...

As educators across California were gearing up to fight, district administrations across the state united around their own common message—that the money simply wasn’t there. But when educators walked off the job, the districts found the funds. labornotes.org/2026/06/they...

When transit systems make cuts, service quality declines and the public responds by using it less. Transit workers and unions have gone on the offensive by waging state and local campaigns for increased funding. labornotes.org/2026/06/can-...

The leader of Mexico's Honda workers’ union won reinstatement after a 15 year legal battle. “Sometimes justice is slow," said José Luis Solorio Alcalá, “But when you have truth on your side, it’s worth it to keep fighting. It’s the right thing to do.” labornotes.org/2026/06/hond...

Transit unions must make common cause with the public by waging state and local campaigns for increased funding. Take it from Massachusetts: Since 2022, the state’s “Fair Share” tax on millionaires has raised $867 million for the Mass. Bay Transit Authority (story linked in reply)

Tens of thousands of California educators joined forces statewide, wagering that they could win more by working together. The result was a wave of strikes this school year that defied narratives of austerity and won better funding. (Story linked in reply)

Open bargaining has helped win over some skeptical members even in right-to-work Indiana, says Jesse Mikesell of Teamsters Local 135. 1/2 labornotes.org/2026/06/brin...

When you talk to your co-workers as an organizer, your goal is not to become friends, though that may happen. What you are doing is attempting to build relationships of solidarity. 1/3 labornotes.org/2026/06/stew...

Despite prolonged delay tactics from management, deck officers at Alaska Tanker Company (ATC) and Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) have continued building momentum and functioning as a union. 1/2 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

At a bus manufacturing plant in Alabama, longtime worker Stevie Joe Thornton said a manager tried to force workers into overtime daily, despite clear limits in the contract. Thornton walked out during the forced overtime, and later persuaded others to join. 1/2 labornotes.org/2026/05/bus-...

Open bargaining has helped turn up the pressure on employers, says Jesse Mikesell of Teamsters Local 135: “It delivers a more serious message to the company—that members are involved, and that these members are ready to take you guys on if they need to.” labornotes.org/2026/06/brin...

"Our strike succeeded because organizers had planned ahead for a long strike that would include a series of escalating actions to increase the pressure on management," writes Michelle DuBarry of the PCC Federation of Faculty and Academic Professionals. 1/2 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

“At this very moment, Delaney represents a dark and desolate world for those who sought to attain the American Dream,” said Gloria Guerrero of New Labor in Spanish to Labor Notes. Guerrero organizes alongside domestic workers whose husbands have been detained in ICE prisons. 1/2

Organizing burnout is real. But so is the antidote: co-workers who remind us we’re not carrying the fight alone. “When we have people in our corner who believe in the work we're doing, it helps us keep going,” says Antonio Rosario, an organizer with Teamsters Local 804.

Unlike many workers on union ships, officers at Alaska Tanker Company (ATC) and Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) face the risk of toxic benzene exposure, high-risk tank cleaning operations, and grueling cargo turnarounds. 1/2 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

“In the workplace we typically don’t experience respect—we experience coercion. No matter how much the boss may call us 'partners' or claim 'we’re a family here,' the employment relationship is fundamentally undemocratic: The employer makes decisions, and workers must comply.”

At a busy industrial corridor in Newark, federal agents with rifles, metal batons, flak vests and balaclavas faced off against unarmed activists with cardboard signs and a bullhorn. Detained workers could be heard on the soccer field behind prison walls, shouting, “¡Libertad!”

What does it take to unionize factories today, especially in the South? In the last two years, bus manufacturing workers secured first union contracts and a national master agreement across New Flyer facilities in three states @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social reports: labornotes.org/2026/05/bus-...

Two unions representing 2,300 workers at Portland Community College went on strike for three weeks in March, in the first-ever community college strike in Oregon, and a rare wall-to-wall strike where both educators and support staff walked out together. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

Gardeners have a saying about newly planted perennials: “They sleep, then creep, then leap.” Although the first year of the Trump administration was rough, spring has brought green shoots in the labor movement. Here are some causes for hope: labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

American Axle CEO David Dauch has been paid $111 million in the last decade, the UAW says. Meanwhile the union says workers are sleeping in their cars or living in motels, and biking to work because they can’t afford the very vehicles they supply parts for. 1/2 labornotes.org/2026/05/cont...

"Unions can be a place where people actually change their views. Many times, the act of coming together moves them out of individualistic attitudes and helps them see the power of solidarity," writes Steve Lawton, former president of CWA Local 1102. 1/2 labornotes.org/2026/05/bill...

“What happened on May Day didn't come out of nowhere,” said Jackson Potter, Vice President of the Chicago Teachers Union. “It came from solidarity schools, picket lines, and months of organizing in cities across the country, from Memphis to Philadelphia to Denver.” labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

It’s not just workplace organizers who are translating Secrets of a Successful Organizer. In Spain, the Madrid Tenants’ Union (el Sindicato de Inquilinos e Inquilinas de Madrid) published a tenant organizing manual inspired by the book. 1/2 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...