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May Day Strong Movement Maps Plans At Nationwide Meeting

April 14, 2026 People's World. Organize! Austerity, Labor Movement, May Day, National Day of Action, Wars and Militarism, Worker Rights

With a month to go before mass marches and boycotts are planned nationwide, the May Day Strong movement for “No Work, No School, No Shopping” is accelerating. Hundreds of organizations from coast to coast, including both big teachers unions—the Teachers/AFT and the National Education Association, the nation’s largest union—signed up with the Labor for Democracy coalition. So have National Nurses United (NNU), locals from AFSCME and the Communications Workers, Starbucks Workers United, Jobs With Justice, and United Service Workers West/SEIU. It represents custodians, building engineers, and security personnel, among others.

May Day Call Grows For ‘No Work, No School, No Shopping’

April 5, 2026 Lallan Schoenstein, Struggle-La Lucha. Resist! General Strike, Immigrant Rights, Labor Movement, May Day, Unions

A growing May Day movement is calling for “No Work, No School, No Shopping” on May 1. The call is driven by rising anger at war, attacks on immigrants, and a system that cuts what workers need while pouring billions into the military. Protests against ICE in Minnesota spread to 300 cities across the country on Jan. 23. Since then, No Kings protests have brought millions more into the streets. From big cities to small towns, many are protesting for the first time. Now organizers are moving forward under a May Day general strike banner: “No Work, No School, No Shopping.”

Back-To-Back Victories For Amazon Workers

April 4, 2026 Mark Gruenberg and Cameron Harrison, People's World. Resist! Amazon, Labor Movement, NLRB, Victory, Worker Rights

New York—In a one-two punch that sent shockwaves through C-Suites, Amazon’s embattled workers—many suffering from abominably low pay and facing a company threat to replace 600,000 warehouse workers with robots—won two major victories in their long war to organize the e-commerce monopoly. First, on March 31, a National Labor Relations Board mediator convinced the firm to not retaliate against any of them, nationwide, who exercise their right to strike. That win cheered the Amazon Labor Union, originally independent but now affiliated with the Teamsters, who announced the victory.

Twin Cities Electrical Workers Build Solidarity

April 2, 2026 Gabriel Legierski, Mike Plante, and Peter Rachleff, Labor Notes. Organize! ICE, Labor Movement, Minnesota, Unions

For months, the country and the world have been watching Minnesota, where the Trump administration’s military occupation by ICE, Border Patrol, and Homeland Security has been met by a multi-faceted grassroots resistance. As rank-and-file electricians, we sought to involve our local unions in the campaign to push ICE out of the Twin Cities and to support our immigrant neighbors and fellow workers. In early February, three weeks after the murder of Renee Nicole Good and just eight days after the murder of Alex Pretti, 40 members of the Electrical Workers (IBEW) joined an “ICE OUT” potluck to talk about the occupation and its effects on working people.

Labor’s New Gambit To Tax The Rich

April 1, 2026 Rebecca Burns, In These Times. Strategize! Austerity, Labor Movement, State budgets, Wealth Tax

The threat of a city government shutdown loomed large in Chicago in December 2025 as the city faced an end-of-year deadline to close a projected $1.2 billion deficit. To counteract the impact of President Donald Trump’s 2025 tax law, Mayor Brandon Johnson had pitched a budget in October that would require some of the law’s biggest beneficiaries to pay more. His proposed payroll tax — on corporations with more than 1,000 employees — would, according to his administration, amount to less than 0.01% of the Trump tax cuts bestowed on companies like Google and Walmart.

How To Build A Union Reform Caucus

March 11, 2026 Labor Notes. Organize! Democracy, Labor Movement, Reform Caucus, Unions

Over the last decade, almost every corner of the U.S. labor movement has experienced an exciting revitalization. Educators have brought a new fighting spirit to their unions, from Los Angeles to Chicago to Massachusetts. 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. What do all these fights have in common? Union reform caucuses.

Women Workers Won’t Settle For Less

March 6, 2026 Andrea Egan, Morning Star. Strategize! International Women's Day, Labor Movement, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

International Women’s Day and the TUC Women’s Conference are opportunities for women in the labour movement to come together and discuss the challenges ahead for working-class women. Women make up the majority of the public service workforce, yet we bear the brunt of unsafe staffing levels, low pay, discrimination and impossible workloads. The average pay disparity between men and women is a massive 12.8 per cent. In education and for the health and social care sector, where women outnumber men, the gender pay gap is 17 per cent and 12.8 per cent.

Fighting Autocracy And Corruption

February 26, 2026 Steve Early, New Politics. Strategize! Book Review, Corruption, Labor Movement, Rank and File, Unions

My first contact with labor reformers in New York City was nearly 50 years ago. Like many rank-and-file dissidents, before and since, these critics of union corruption were prophets without honor in their own local. Teamsters Local 282 was, at the time, one of the most mobbed-up affiliates of a national union then rightly notorious for its organized crime ties. Its members drove trucks full of cement or other building materials to local construction sites, while 282 leaders like Bobby Sasso extorted bribes to insure labor peace or allow non-union operations.

Unions Held The Line In 2025 Membership Numbers

February 20, 2026 Keith Brower Brown, Labor Notes. Educate! Labor Movement, Trump Administration, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

For four decades, a federal count of union members has been the annual physical exam for the labor movement. Did we grow or shrink, and where? The tally just came out for 2025. At face value, the number looks better than expected, given a year of open warfare on us from CEOs who want to automate everything and a bloodthirsty federal government. The feds asked 15,000 households per month whether they included a union member. Based on that survey, they estimated an additional 450,000 workers were union members compared to 2024, roughly half of them in the public sector and half in the private sector.

Why Labor Needs A Declaration Of Political Independence

February 19, 2026 Les Leopold, Scheer Post. Educate! Elections, Independent Politics, Labor Movement, Unions

It’s not a secret: About 45 percent of labor union members voted for Trump in 2024. In unions with fewer minority workers the percentage was substantially higher. More importantly, most union members no longer identify with the Democratic Party. In fact, they are downright hostile to it. In our YouGov poll of 3,000 voters in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, 70 percent held negative views of the Democrats. Why so much hostility? Very few respondents said anything about wokeness or immigration. Much of the bitterness was related to the Democrats failing to live up to their promises and losing touch with everyday people.

Forcing The Boss To Bargain—Even When They Don’t Have To

February 17, 2026 Carlos Perez and Allison Swaim, Labor Notes. Strategize! Collective bargaining, Contract Negotiations, Labor Movement, Worker Rights

North Carolina is one of six states that prohibit collective bargaining for public school staff. But unionized workers in two school districts have built enough bottom-up power to force their employers to “meet and confer,” a non-binding form of negotiation. Labor Notes’ Ellen David Friedman talked with Carlos Perez and Allison Swaim of the Durham Association of Educators, representing 5,000 teachers and classified staff. Ellen David Friedman: Durham is one of two districts in North Carolina that have achieved “meet-and-confer” status. How did you do it?

Michigan Unions Launch Statewide Labor-Climate Coalition

February 13, 2026 Cameron Harrison, People's World. Organize! climate crisis, Energy Transformation, Green Economy, Labor Movement, Michigan, Worker Rights

Lansing, Mich.—Union leaders representing over a million Michigan workers stood together on Tuesday to launch the Michigan Climate Jobs Coalition (MICJ), a new alliance dedicated to ensuring that the state’s transition to a clean energy economy is built by and for the working class. The coalition, announced at a press conference in Lansing, unveiled a detailed 17-point policy blueprint developed with Cornell University’s Climate Jobs Institute. The plan is a direct challenge to corporate-driven climate agendas, insisting that the jobs of the future must be union jobs, and that tackling the climate crisis must address soaring energy costs, inequality, and community health.

The Amazon Imperative: Unions Must Join Forces

February 12, 2026 Peter Olney and Rand Wilson, Labor Notes. Strategize! Amazon, Labor Movement, Unions, Worker Rights

The tentacles of the global logistics juggernaut Amazon reach into every corner of the economy, gripping the planet and workers. Amazon dominates retail e-commerce with a 40 percent market share. It is making major inroads into health care (One Medical), grocery (Whole Foods), Hollywood (Amazon Studios MGM), information technology (Amazon Web Services), and artificial intelligence. Amazon’s operations are full of flashpoints for potential resistance. Its warehouses are rife with safety violations and record injury rates.

AFL-CIO Must Break Ties With US Imperialism

February 12, 2026 James Patrick Jordan, Covert Action Magazine. Strategize! AFL-CIO, Labor Movement, Solidarity Center, US Imperialism

The condemnation by local, national and international labor organizations of the illegal January 3, 2026, U.S. attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, is a welcome development. The AFL-CIO has declared, succinctly and without elaboration, “We join the international labor community in condemning President Trump’s unconstitutional actions in Venezuela.” The Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) released a similar statement. Both major international labor confederations, the ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) and the anti-imperialist and non-aligned World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), denounced the U.S. attacks on Venezuela.

How To Build A Real General Strike Against ICE

February 9, 2026 Eric Blank, Labor Politics. Organize! General Strikes, History, ICE, Labor Movement, Minneapolis

What will it take to stop ICE and Donald Trump? More and more Americans are coming around to the following answer: a general strike. They’re right to move in that direction. General strikes are a powerful tactic that have defeated corrupt and authoritarian rulers across the world, most recently in Egypt and Tunisia in 2011, Puerto Rico in 2019, and Sri Lanka in 2022. As the union anthem “Solidarity Forever” puts it, “without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.” Unfortunately, last Friday’s national call for “no work, no school, no shopping,” billed widely as an anti-ICE general strike over social media, came nowhere close to the projections of its most vocal advocates.

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