Read the new Labor Notes resource packet for union members seeking advice on transforming their unions: how (and when) to build a union reform caucus, and how to navigate the challenges of developing a caucus: labornotes.org/sites/defaul... 4/4
What do all these fights have in common? Union reform caucuses. A reform caucus is simply a group of union members who are organizing together to improve their union, and build its power to effectively fight the boss 3/4
...rank-and-file members have overthrown corrupt leadership in the Teamsters and the United Auto Workers. Grocery workers and letter carriers have rebelled against subpar contracts, and building trades workers are turning around their locals 2/4
Nearly every corner of the US labor movement has experienced an exciting revitalization in the past decade—educators have brought a fighting spirit to their unions from Los Angeles to Chicago to Massachusetts... 🧵 1/4
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"We as nurses need to have the power and control over our union to make things better for us as workers, but also [to] make health care better for all Oregonians," said Raven Winters, a nurse on the reform slate at Oregon Health & Science University.
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A grievance is more than just paperwork. The real work is the investigation, where you gather evidence and build a case that management can’t ignore.
Join fellow union stewards on Monday to swap strategies on how to dig up the facts!
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"New tech could become an excuse to outsource your work to non-union hands. To keep it union, you can bargain contract language, make direct demands on management, and take a proactive union approach to learning technology."
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"Rank-and-file letter carriers in Minneapolis continue to demand that national NALC leadership support getting ICE off of postal property, and that they fight to ensure that ICE cannot use postal facilities for its operations," writes letter carrier Emmett Bongaarts.
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Join NYT Tech Guild steward John Cruickshank and Seattle teacher Alaina McCallum for a rank-and-file training on how to energize union members by opening up bargaining!
When: Tuesday, March 17
Time: 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. EST
Where: Online via Zoom
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We have assembled a new guide for union members seeking advice on transforming their unions: how (and when) to build a union reform caucus, and how to navigate the challenges of developing a caucus.
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"Starbucks baristas in Ann Arbor, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and St. Louis have held marches on the boss or other workplace actions demanding that ICE be barred from their worksites in the absence of a signed judicial warrant."
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"Focused, disciplined organizing has always been one way through the most dire political moments," Labor Notes organizer Danielle Smith reminds us.
Hear why there's ample reason to be hopeful about the labor movement on our latest podcast episode!
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Join stewards across various unions to talk about strategies and best practices for grievance investigations!
When: Monday, March 16, 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Where: Online via Zoom
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"A.I. is no unstoppable force of progress. Standing up to management’s technological power grab is one big step to take responsibility for the world we make on the job—and to keep open the path to a better one."
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"We believe we should do both, and that doing so will strengthen our union as well as strengthening movements for justice." 5/5
"Our actions have forced debate within the union about what the role of a union should be. Should we be concerned only with bread-and-butter issues like wages and working conditions? Or should the labor movement also play a role in mass social movements?" 4/5
"We organized not only for our own safety, but also to stand in solidarity with our immigrant brothers and sisters who are most impacted by this state violence." 3/5
"ICE operations in Minneapolis have made our working conditions unsafe. The chaos and violence they bring to our streets puts letter carriers at risk: unmarked cars flying through neighborhoods at high speeds, tear gas and flashbangs deployed wantonly, and deadly shootings." 2/5
"As workers who serve our community and are out walking every day, we wanted to make it clear that postal workers are not associated with ICE, and that we want them off of postal property," writes letter carrier Emmett Bongaarts in Minneapolis labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0... 🧵1/5
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Cover story by @lfelizleon.bsky.social. Other stories in this issue are by critical care nurse Belinda Carpenter, CUNY Labor Studies professor @stephluce.bsky.social, and Labor Notes writers Jenny Brown, @nataschaelena.bsky.social, Al Bradbury and Dan DiMaggio 3/4
Workers there won a 20 percent wage increase in a four-year contract that expires in 2030, along with a $6,550 ratification bonus, additional annual bonuses and profit sharing, cuts to health care costs, and the right to strike over health and safety grievances 2/4
🗞️ Out now: Our March issue cover story is on the Volkswagen @uaw.org members in Chattanooga, Tennessee, who won their first contract in February, almost two years after they became the first auto plant in the South to unionize through an election since the 1940s 🧵1/4 labornotes.org/2026/02/majo...
Workers won a 20 percent wage increase in a four-year contract that expires in 2030, along with a $6,550 ratification bonus, additional annual bonuses and profit sharing, cuts to health care costs, and the right to strike over health and safety grievances 2/4
“We can only ask ICE agents to leave if they are harassing or disrupting business,” Starbucks barista Alex Rivers told @nataschaelena.bsky.social. “Starbucks must follow hundreds of Minnesota businesses and forbid ICE from entering without a warrant.”
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Labor Notes Pod: The antidote to despair, even now, is organizing. From autoworkers in Chattanooga winning their first contract to the trolleybus operators in Mexico City preparing to go on strike, there are pockets of labor everywhere building momentum
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The Labor Notes Podcast turns 1 year old! 🥳
Each week, we’ve gone behind the headlines to dig deeper into the struggles of rank-and-file organizers who make up labor’s troublemaking wing. Listen to some of our favorite episodes out now:
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