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Learning, Recharging, Uniting At Labor Notes 2026

July 5, 2026 Alexandra Bradbury and Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes. Organize! Labor Movement, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

In a time when there’s real cause for fear and despair—and when the Trump administration is pushing hard to divide us—the Labor Notes Conference June 12-14 in Chicago was an oasis of inspiration and solidarity. In every hallway you could feel the electric buzz of conversation, of strategies in the making. Labor Notes gives workers a rare chance to come together across unions, sectors, and identities. Conferencegoers packed into sessions on overcoming division: “Organizing in the Multiethnic Workplace,” “Building Unity Across Job Classifications,” “Overcoming Generational Divides.”

Reflections From A Teacher On Labor Notes 2026

July 4, 2026 Emma Lee, Left Voice. Organize! Education, Labor Movement, Schools, Teachers, Unions

This year’s Labor Notes conference was set upon the backdrop of important battles of class struggle within the U.S. and around the world — and in every struggle, educators have been on the front lines. From the United Kingdom to Canada to Puerto Rico to the Spanish state, reflections on and connections to many of these experiences were brought by educators at UCORE and Labor Notes. At UCORE, Eduardo Lozano, a member of the CGT in Barcelona, shared his experience as part of the strike in Catalonia and Valencia of over 100,000 educators fighting for better resources and working conditions, smaller teacher-to-student ratios, police out of schools, and classes taught in Catalan.

United Auto Workers Indict ‘Free’ Trade

July 2, 2026 Cameron Harrison, People's World. Resist! Corporate Trade, Free Trade, Labor Movement, UAW, USMCA, Worker Rights

Detroit—The United Auto Workers (UAW) is challenging the big capitalist-driven trade policies that have gutted American manufacturing and wrecked working-class communities across the country. In a new white paper, “Trade and the American Dream: NAFTA, the USMCA, and the Future of the Working Class,” the union lays out its indictment of “free trade” policies and proposes an alternative: “NAFTA and the like are the social contract as written by multinational corporations,” UAW President Shawn Fain said. “It’s time we rip it up and start over.”

Solidarity Strikes And Taft-Hartley’s Long Shadow

June 30, 2026 Hayley Brown, Counter Punch. Strategize! Labor Movement, Strikes, Taft-Hartley Act, Unions

This week marks the anniversary of the enactment of one of the most consequential pieces of labor legislation in US history. The Labor Management Relations Act, better known as the Taft-Hartley Act, was passed over President Truman’s veto on June 23, 1947, and substantially narrowed the forms of collective action protected under federal labor law. The Taft-Hartley Act provided employers with a myriad of new legal weapons while suppressing some of organized labor’s most powerful tactics, dramatically reshaping the US labor landscape.

When The Revolution Comes

June 21, 2026 Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Amazon, Chris Smalls, Labor Movement, Solidarity, Unions

Chris Smalls, author of When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class has hip hop flash and a half. He comes from working class Hackensack, New Jersey, enjoyed a short career as a rapper, and never stopped dressing like one. While leading the drive that led to the first unionized Amazon warehouse, Staten Island, JFK8, he and his best friend Derrick Palmer resolved to create a brand that made labor organizing and solidarity cool: We had decided to dress as colorfully as possible. We had actually come up with a branding idea that we were calling Union Drip. We thought of it as if we were starting a rap group. You needed your own style, your own look, so that people could connect with you right away.

Workers Defeat Right Wing’s Anti-Worker Labor Package In Portugal

June 21, 2026 Fight Back! News. Strategize! Labor Movement, Portugal, Right wing politics, Unions

Lisbon, Portugal – On Thursday, June 18, thousands of workers marched outside the Assembly of the Republic demanding that the right-wing government kill the anti-worker “labor package” they were poised to vote on. The next day, in a vote that shocked most pundits, the labor package was voted down by the legislators even though there is a right-wing majority in the assembly. How did this happen? Over nearly a year, the governing right-wing parties tried to push the proposal through, presenting it as absolutely necessary and its passage as inevitable.

Auto Worker Delegates Back Union’s Fighting Direction At UAW Convention

June 20, 2026 Dan DiMaggio and Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. Organize! Labor Movement, Rank and File, UAW, Unions

Delegates to the United Auto Workers constitutional convention affirmed this week 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 Stand Up Strike against the Big 3 automakers. The 1,000 delegates who assembled in Detroit voted to increase the money designated for new organizing and to maintain dues at 2.5 hours per month in order to bulk up the strike fund. The union is looking ahead to a projected rematch with the Big 3 on May Day 2028, when contracts covering 150,000 auto workers expire.

How (And When) To Build A Union Reform Caucus

June 19, 2026 Lisa Xu, Labor Notes. Organize! Grocery Workers, Labor Movement, Labor Reform, Unions

Quick! What do these exciting stories have in common? Educators bringing a new fighting spirit to their unions, from Los Angeles to Chicago to Massachusetts. Members overthrowing corrupt leaders in the Teamsters and the United Auto Workers. Grocery workers and letter carriers rebelling against subpar contracts. Building trade workers organizing to turn their locals around. The answer is 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 fight the boss more effectively.

Shadow Of Minneapolis Hung Over 2026 Labor Notes Conference

June 19, 2026 Sou Mi, Left Voice. Strategize! Elections, Labor Movement, Minneapolis, Unions

More than 4,000 workers, organizers, and self-described “troublemakers” braved brutal weather and travel changes to pack into a Chicago-area hotel this past weekend for the 2026 Labor Notes Conference, filling nearly 300 workshops, panels, and meetings over three days. By most measures, this was the largest and most explicitly political iteration of the biennial gathering in recent years. As always, it served as a barometer of what’s animating the labor movement’s most advanced sectors.

Canadian Warehouse Workers Sign First-Ever Union Deal With Walmart

June 8, 2026 Leyland Cecco, Portside. Resist! Canada, Labor Movement, Unions, Walmart

Canadian warehouse workers have signed the first-ever collective agreement with Walmart, a breakthrough labour organizers are calling a “historic and powerful step”. But the union says the deal with a corporation long hostile to organized labour is only an opening salvo in a broader fight to unionize major employers across the country. In May, workers in Mississauga, Ontario, signed a contract with Walmart, the world’s largest employer, that includes a pay bump, guarantees over working conditions and a lump sum payout to settle allegations of unfair labour practices.

Unions Make Slight Gains In South, Mirroring National Trends

June 2, 2026 Chris Kromm, Portside. Organize! Labor Movement, The South, Unions, Worker Rights

The share of Southern workers in unions slightly increased in 2025, mirroring a small uptick in unionization nationally, according to government data released in February. The Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers showed that 14.7 million workers belonged to a union in 2025, an increase of 463,000 from 2024 and the highest number of unionized workers in the U.S. since 2009. Labor unions added 166,000 workers in 13 Southern states, with Georgia registering by far the biggest gains: 62,000 more Georgia employees belonged to a union in 2025 than in 2024.

Green Shoots Of Hope In The Labor Movement

May 31, 2026 Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes. Strategize! Labor Movement, Unions, Victory, Worker Rights

Gardeners have a saying about newly planted perennials: “They sleep, then creep, then leap.” Last summer I pulled a lot of grass out of my yard (hard work!) and planted a garden. The new plants stayed small through the winter, gathering strength. Now suddenly my garden is teeming with new leaves. Spring has brought green shoots in the labor movement too. Here are some causes for hope: Workers using their leverage. It only took three days for strikers on the Long Island Railroad, which carries 300,000 commuters a day, to win needed raises. “Solidarity Forever” still has it right: Without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.

Black Trade Unionists: Labor Rights And Civil Rights Are One Fight

May 23, 2026 Cameron Harrison, People's World. Organize! Civil Rights, Labor Movement, Unions, Voting Rights

Atlanta—Hundreds of mostly Black trade unionists from across the country packed the Hyatt Regency downtown Thursday as the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) opened its 55th International Convention with a sober assessment: The labor movement is under its most severe attack in a generation, and no one is coming to save them but themselves. At this year’s convention, the CBTU is dedicating itself to building its own political roadmap that is rooted in the understanding that labor rights and civil rights are one fight. And, according to the workers here, they are not waiting for permission.

Virginia AFL-CIO: Spanberger’s Veto Is Betrayal Of Working People

May 17, 2026 Virginia AFL-CIO, People's World. Resist! Governor, Labor Movement, Veto, Virginia, Worker Rights

Today, Governor Abigail Spanberger turned her back on working people across the Commonwealth by vetoing legislation that would have finally guaranteed public sector workers the right to collectively bargain. This veto is a devastating betrayal to the hundreds of thousands of public employees who have spent years, and in many cases decades, fighting for a seat at the table. Teachers. Firefighters. Home care workers. State employees. Public servants who are the pillars of our communities and who keep Virginia running through crisis after crisis are being told yet again that their voices do not matter.

Italian Dockworkers Call For A Strike on May 18

May 9, 2026 Axel Justo, Left Voice. Resist! Global Sumud Flotilla, Italy, Labor Movement, Saif Abu Keshek, Strikes, Thiago Avila

With a video published on Thursday, May 7 and a a press release on Friday, May 8, the Grassroots Trade Union (Unione Sindacale di Base, USB) and the Italian Port Workers Collective (Collettivo Autonomo Lavoratori Portuali, CALP) which organizes dockworkers in the port of Genoa, among others, called for a general strike on May 18 to demand the release of Global Sumud Flotilla co-organizers Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila, and to denounce the complicity of the Italian government in their abduction and in the genocide in Gaza.

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