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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 9m
In the new documentary “Who Moves America,” filmmaker Yael Bridge offers a window into the working-class culture of one of the country’s largest unions, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, at United Parcel Service in 2023 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/1...
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Film Review: A Portrait of How Workers Build a Strike
“Who Moves America” is touring the U.S., with upcoming screenings across the West Coast, Northeast, and South. See when it’s coming to your town, or request a screening, here. In the new documentary “...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 2h
The workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in NYC, under legislation that Teamsters, Amazon workers, and the Democratic Socialists of America are organizing to pass labornotes.org/2026/10/amaz...
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Amazon Package Drivers Rev Up Organizing to Become Direct Employees
The workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in New York City, under legislation that Teamsters and Amazon workers ...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 18h
Amazon workers at four delivery and sorting warehouses in Germany are organizing to make every minute count. They’re demanding that Amazon pay them for every minute of work, saying in a petition that the company is stealing their time labornotes.org/2026/09/germ...
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German Amazon Workers Organize to Get Paid for Every Minute
Amazon workers at four delivery and sorting warehouses in Germany are organizing to make every minute count. They’re demanding that Amazon pay them for every minute of work, saying in a petition that ...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 23h
Read her March 2026 speech to the Minnesota AFL-CIO 3/3 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/1...
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How Unions Can Reverse Privatization of Medicaid and Why It Matters
The following was adapted from a March 2026 speech that Rose Roach, National Coordinator for the Labor Campaign for Single Payer, gave to the Minnesota AFL-CIO. In July 2025, President Trump signed HR...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 23h
"Corporatized health care is harming all of us, starting with our siblings in health care unions, who often work in grossly understaffed facilities, even as layoffs continue." 2/2
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 23h
Union members typically have health insurance through their employers, but labor has a stake in fighting the privatization of Medicaid, says Rose Roach, National Coordinator for the Labor Campaign for Single Payer 1/3
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Join us for a celebration of Ellen David Friedman’s new book, Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It's Hard. RSVP: labornotes.org/events/2026/...
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NYC Book Talk—Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It's Hard
Join us for a celebration of Ellen David Friedman’s new book, Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It's Hard. When: Friday, October 23 Time: 6 to 8 p.m. Where: Woodbine NYC; 414 Broadway, 3rd Floor ...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Read the piece by @nataschaelena.bsky.social labornotes.org/2026/09/mexi...
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Mexican VW Workers Weigh Strike as Company Cuts Jobs Globally
Update: On October 2, the SITIAVW bargaining committee reached a tentative agreement with VW offering a 13.16 percent combined increase to wages and benefits over the next two years. The agreement wou...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The agreement would guarantee the 611 members laid off in September would be rehired in the future, and guarantee jobs for the current workforce at the plant. Members still have to vote on the deal 2/3
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On October 2, the SITIAVW bargaining committee reached a tentative agreement with VW offering a 13.16% combined increase to wages and benefits over the next two years 1/3
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Amazon workers at four delivery and sorting warehouses in Germany are organizing to make every minute count. They’re demanding that Amazon pay them for every minute of work, saying in a petition that the company is stealing their time labornotes.org/2026/09/germ...
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German Amazon Workers Organize To Get Paid for Every Minute
Amazon workers at four delivery and sorting warehouses in Germany are organizing to make every minute count. They’re demanding that Amazon pay them for every minute of work, saying in a petition that ...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Our bequest helps assure that our heart and soul continues to live in this movement even when we are gone. As a lifelong union organizer, I can think of no better or more strategic cause to support." Plan a gift to Labor Notes. Learn more at labornotes.org/content/legacy-giving 2/2
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Leave a Legacy of Solidarity
Generations of troublemakers owe their thanks to donors like you, who have made this work possible since 1979. To help secure the future of Labor Notes––and ensure rank & file leaders are prepared to ...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Longtime Labor Notes supporter Gene Bruskin, an organizer and strategist and former director for the Justice for Smithfield campaign in North Carolina, shares why he and his wife Evie are pledging to give to Labor Notes in their will 1/2
Graphic with block text on top that reads, "Why I'm Writing Labor Notes Into My Will." Background is blue, and there's a picture of a older man in profile. He is wearing shades, and the sun is shining on him. 
Text reads: "It's been inspiring to watch Labor Notes grow from a small bunch of us into a network of too many troublemakers to even fit in a giant conference center!" Graphic features a button that reads, "For Generations to Come: Leave a Legacy of Solidarity"
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Philadelphia Orchestra musicians have won first-in-the-nation protections against hearing loss. The groundbreaking provisions, which could serve as a model for other orchestras, are part of a contract just ratified by Musicians Local 77-274 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
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Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Protect Their Hearing and Their Craft
Philadelphia Orchestra musicians have won first-in-the-nation protections against hearing loss. The groundbreaking provisions, which could serve as a model for other orchestras, are part of a contract...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Their union, SITIAVW, is one of Mexico’s most storied independent unions, and is in the midst of an annual wage reopener at the plant. @nataschaelena.bsky.social reports: labornotes.org/2026/09/mexi...
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Mexican VW Workers Weigh Strike as Company Cuts Jobs Globally
Mexican Volkswagen workers could soon be on strike if their salary demands are not met. The 6,500 workers build the Jetta, Tiguan, and Taos at the company’s Puebla plant, the largest Volkswagen facili...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mexican Volkswagen workers could soon be on strike if their salary demands are not met. The 6,500 workers build the Jetta, Tiguan, and Taos at the company’s Puebla plant, the largest Volkswagen facility outside of Germany 🔗⤵️
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sign up here! labornotes.org/events/denver2026
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Denver Troublemakers School
A Troublemakers School is an incredible space for networking, building solidarity, and sharing successes, strategy, and inspiration. We’re excited to bring together Colorado union members, labor activ...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Join union members, labor activists, and local officers in Colorado who are fighting creatively and building solidarity against union-busting bosses and politicians. Build skills through practical workshops, and hear from workers on the front lines of recent struggles 🔗 ⬇️
A graphic that reads, "Denver Troublemakers School," Saturday, October 17, 9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. at CU Denver-Auraria Campus Student Commons Building. The text below reads, "Join Colorado union members, labor activists, and local officers who are fighting creatively and building solidarity against union-busting bosses and politicians!" On the bottom right is a rectangular picture of masked workers in red standing up with their fists raised. The blue and white Labor Notes logo is on the bottom right. To the left of the picture is a QR code to register. Attendees can register at labornotes.org/events
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You can support Nathan and his co-workers here 4/4 www.gofundme.com/f/support-na...
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Donate to Support Nate and the AutoZone Union, organized by Brian Murray
After winning the 1st Union Election at AutoZone with the UAW, Today on Saturday 9/26… Brian Murray needs your support for Support Nate and the AutoZone Union
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Workers have rights under federal labor laws to organize a union and talk to co-workers about it. The law also bars mgmt from surveilling such organizing activities, and from threatening to discipline or fire workers for it. (Supervisors do not have those protections) 3/3
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
During the campaign, DuCongé found his social media and organizing activities under scrutiny by mgmt, who were trying to argue that he was a supervisor and couldn't be part of the effort 2/4 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
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AutoZone Workers Are Trying to Form the Company’s First-Ever Union
UPDATE, September 26: AutoZone workers won their union election on Friday—the first ever union election win at the company. When workers file for a union election, it’s like a Bat-Signal goes off: a c...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
AutoZone workers in White Plains, NY, on Saturday became the first in their company to win a union election. Since then, the company has fired Nathan DuCongé, one of its key worker-organizers 1/4
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Read the story by @lfelizleon.bsky.social labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
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AutoZone Workers Are Trying to Form the Company’s First-Ever Union
When workers file for a union election, it’s like a Bat-Signal goes off: a column of light cuts through the night sky, summoning not Bruce Wayne but a swarm of anti-union managers and consultants who ...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“It’s like hitting a fly with a mallet,” said Michael DiGuiseppe, vice president of Local 259. “At the first whiff of a union, they had their corporate executives in the store the next day.”
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The workers went public in July with their drive to join United Auto Workers Local 259 2/2 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
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AutoZone Workers Are Trying to Form the Company’s First-Ever Union
When workers file for a union election, it’s like a Bat-Signal goes off: a column of light cuts through the night sky, summoning not Bruce Wayne but a swarm of anti-union managers and consultants who ...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A new calculator from workers’ rights watchdog LaborLab estimates that the parts retailer AutoZone has paid $257,943 to managers and lawyers to crush a union drive by 11 workers in one store in White Plains, New York 1/2
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Want to keep your co-workers safe *and* build your union? Join workers at our online workshop tomorrow, Tuesday, September 22, 8 p.m. Eastern. Sign up here! labornotes.org/events/2026/...
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Online Workshop: Organizing for Health & Safety
Health and safety issues arise in every type of workplace. We want to keep our coworkers safe AND we want to build the power of the union. How can we do both at the same time? In this workshop, we'll ...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Workers who make some of the world’s most popular video games, including World of Warcraft and Diablo, won their first union contracts in early September, in an important step forward for organizing in the tech industry. Labor Notes editor Dan DiMaggio reports labornotes.org/2026/09/vide...
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Video Game Workers Win First Contract at Microsoft-Owned Blizzard
Workers who make some of the world’s most popular video games, including World of Warcraft and Diablo, won their first union contracts in early September, in an important step forward for organizing i...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨 Tonight (Monday, September 21, 8 p.m. ET): Online Steward's Workshop on 'Dealing with Difficult Supervisors' — there's still time to sign up! labornotes.org/events/2026/...
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Stewards' Online Workshop: Dealing With Difficult Supervisors
This workshop has limited capacity and is for stewards and elected officers who work with stewards—not staff. Please register only if this applies to you. As the union's most active members in the wor...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Listen on the latest episode of the Labor Notes Podcast! labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/why-evil-w...
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Why Evil Women Make the Best Organizers | The Labor Notes Podcast
They lure people into their campaigns, grow phone trees, and machete a path out of fear. It turns out some of our archetypal evil heroines—Amy Dunne of Gone Girl, sisters Sally and Gillian Owens of Pr...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Our archetypal villainesses—Amy Dunne of Gone Girl, sisters Sally and Gillian Owens of Practical Magic, and Merricat Blackwood of We Have Always Lived in the Castle—have some positively devilish organizing tactics (not all of which we endorse!) up their trumpet sleeves 1/2
A graphic for the Labor Notes Podcast with the title, "Why Evil Women make the Best Organizers." The graphic features images of two women dragging an unconscious man across the ground by his legs, a picture of the actress Rosamund Pike as Amy Dunne from "Gone Girl," and an illustration of the Blackwood sisters from Shirley Jackson's horror novella "We Have Always Lived in the Castle."
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dealing with a difficult supervisor? We can fix that (by preparing, setting clear goals, and acting with our co-workers)! Learn more at our next online Stewards' Workshop on Monday, Sept. 21, at 8 p.m. ET! Sign up here: labornotes.org/events/2026/...
A graphic that reads, "Difficult Supervisors will find ways to trip you up or get around the contract." Next to it is the meme photo of singer Jason Derulo in a pastel pink suit apparently falling down the red carpet steps of the met gala. Below is more text: "But You Can Prepare." This is followed by a stock photo of a beaver dragging a stick in its mouth across a river.
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The new contract also prevents Walmart from raising wages at other warehouses without doing the same at this one. The unionized workers have received a matching raise and back pay for the months when other warehouse workers received raises that they didn’t labornotes.org/2026/09/cana...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
1,400 solar manufacturing workers at a Corning plant in Michigan have joined the Steelworkers after an intense anti-union campaign by the company labornotes.org/2026/09/four...
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Fourteen Hundred Solar Manufacturing Workers Join the Steelworkers
Workers at a Corning solar manufacturing plant in Michigan voted September 1 to join the Steelworkers (USW). The vote was a close 520 to 512, following an intense anti-union campaign by the company. N...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Eight hundred workers at a Walmart distribution center in Canada succeeded where others have not: they are now working under a two-year contract with North America’s largest logistics giant labornotes.org/2026/09/cana...
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Canadian Walmart Workers Make History: A Union Contract
Eight hundred workers at a Walmart distribution center in Mississauga, Ontario, succeeded where others have not: they are now working under a two-year contract with North America’s largest logistics g...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Read the story by Bevin Barber-Campbell and Tim Rousseau, shop members in United Electrical Workers Local 255 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
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Stewards Corner: How We Won Our Co-Worker Her Rightful Promotion
Workers at Hunger Mountain Co-op, a consumer-owned grocery store in Montpelier, Vermont, won a five-month fight to enforce seniority, beat back bias, and win a promotion for a beloved co-worker. We di...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Workers at Hunger Mountain Co-op, a consumer-owned grocery store in Vermont, won a five-month fight to enforce seniority, beat back bias, and win a promotion for a beloved co-worker. We did it not just by filing a grievance, but also by mobilizing union members and the public”
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Who Moves America chronicles the Teamsters’ 2023 near-strike at UPS. It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse group of workers building themselves into a fighting force, who then must wrestle with a different version of victory than they expected.
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A Portrait of How Workers Build a Strike
Who Moves America chronicles the Teamsters’ 2023 near-strike at UPS. It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse group of workers building themselves into a fighting force, who then must wrestle with a different version of victory than they expected.
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Persecuted by Trump, Will Unions Build Towards May 2028?
Three years ago the United Auto Workers, glowing with confidence after a successful strike at the Big 3 and pledging ambitious new organizing drives, put out a call for a national strike on May 1, 202...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
May Day 2028 wasn’t initially about fighting Trump’s billionaire power grab. But since Trump took office, the terrain has shifted. Mass protests have become more frequent, and more urgently needed to stem the volley of attacks on workers and on democratic elections.
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You may have little to no power individually, but you have immense power collectively. Adapted from Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It's Hard
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨Tonight: Join other union members at our online Workshop on Running for Union Office! When: Tuesday, September 15, 8 p.m. Eastern There's still time to sign up here: labornotes.org/events/2026/...
Graphic with a pink background and the blue and white Labor Notes logo on the top right, with a header that reads, "How to Lose a Union Election in 10 Steps." Behind the text is the obscured but still perhaps recognizable image of two rom-com leads leaning against each other and looking toward each other past their shoulder. Below is more text the lists some classic missteps that lead to losing elections. 

Join tonight's online workshop on "Running for Union Office" on Tuesday, September 15, 8 p.m. Eastern.
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“They’re giving these contracts to these billionaires for their technology. And that technology is going to reduce the staffing levels at airports for TSA officers.” labornotes.org/2026/09/dont...
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‘Don’t Privatize Airport Security’ Say Screeners and Flight Attendants on 9/11 Anniversary
Union flight attendants are mourning lost co-workers on the 25-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks. In Chicago today, they’re joining with Transportation Security Officers to defend airport s...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On today's episode of the Labor Notes Podcast, Caitlyn Clark of the group Essential Workers for Democracy talks about how workers are responding to the plant closure and fighting for better: labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/tyson-shut...
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Tyson Shuttered a Plant Overnight, Laying off 2,500 Meatpacking Workers | The Labor Notes Podcast
Tyson workers at a meatpacking plant in Joslin, Illinois, arrived at work one day in mid-August to discover that it was suddenly closed and that 2,500 of them would be out of jobs.  These workers—memb...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
These workers—members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1546—are now rallying to demand that the plant reopen, or that they at least be given six months of severance pay rather than the two the company has offered
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Tyson workers at a meatpacking plant in Joslin, Illinois, arrived at work one day in mid-August to discover that it was suddenly closed and that 2,500 of them would be out of jobs
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Union flight attendants are mourning lost co-workers on the 25-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks. In Chicago today, they’re joining with Transportation Security Officers to defend airport security gains made in the last quarter-century labornotes.org/2026/09/dont...
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‘Don’t Privatize Airport Security’ Say Screeners and Flight Attendants on 9/11 Anniversary
Union flight attendants are mourning lost co-workers on the 25-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks. In Chicago today, they’re joining with Transportation Security Officers to defend airport s...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Some are. Labor Notes has found 830,000 workers with contracts planned or expected to expire from March to July 2028 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
A graphic of the timeline of contract expirations in 2028, with the title, "Worker Fights Coming in 2028." It lists, in chronological order from top to bottom, contract expirations at USPS, Safeway King Soopers, the federal government, Daimler Truck North America, Albertsons Safeway, California Schools, Association of Master Painters, Big Three automakers, and Albertsons Kroger. (The list will continue in the second graphic attached here.)
The list of contract expirations continues from the prior graphic, which showed the top half of a timeline graphic. This second half lists, in chronological order, contract expirations at Kroger, of custodial contractors, of Central Texas electrical contractors, at Chicago Public Schools, of Pacific Maritime Association, at United Parcel Service, Disneyland, and Boeing.
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Are unions getting in gear for a season of strikes and labor action around May 2028, as contracts expire in manufacturing, education, logistics, grocery, and the building trades?
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Anne Feeney Hellraiser Memorial Fund offered five grants this year up to $1,000 for new artists creating art for social movements. The winners include a Mexican-American visual artist, a folk singer in Minnesota indicted over ICE protests, and others: labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
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Anne Feeney Hellraiser Grants Awarded to Five Artists
Update, September 7, 2026: WINNERS ANNOUNCED! This years Anne Feeney Hellraiser Fund grantees are: • Emmet Doyle, political folksinger and MN 15 defendant • Juliana Sanromán, Mexican-American visual a...
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