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Amazon Is Deploying AI To Spy On Its Workers

October 2, 2026 Jonathan Rosenblum, Truthout. , , ,
The 18th-century notion of the panopticon — a circular prison design with a guard station in the middle, allowing a single officer to enforce discipline by keeping watch over all the prisoners — has become real in the 21st century through AI-driven surveillance against workers: It’s the Amazon warehouse. It should be no surprise that the company that harnessed technology to create a vast, $2.7 trillion empire would employ the same sophistication to enforce workplace discipline and tamp down insurgent unionization efforts. A recent disclosure of Amazon’s internal “employee relations” documents reveals just how extreme Amazon’s methods of warehouse surveillance and control have become.

AutoZone Workers Are Trying To Form The Company’s First Union

September 22, 2026 Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes. , , ,
“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. They’ve been camped out at a hotel around the corner since, and it’s been going on for two months.” Managers have been pulling workers into meetings for antiunion propaganda and closely surveilling them to assess union support and chill the organizing. “They’ve had more corporate executive union-busters in the store than workers,” said DiGiuseppe. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that U.S. employers spend $1.7 billion annually on union-busting consultants and law firms.

Big Firms Spent At Least $1.7B On Union-Busting Last Year

September 12, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. , , ,
The nation’s corporations spent $1.7 billion on union-busters last year—and that figure actually is an understatement. A new report from LaborLab, which in turn mined the data it received from the Economic Policy Institute and from forms the Labor Department requires such “persuaders” to file, breaks down the sum into $1.5 billion for “union avoidance” law firms, who can charge thousands of dollars a day for their services, and $200 million more for “consulting fees.” The understatement occurs for two reasons. One is straightforward: Though the union-busters must report to the U.S. Labor Department their expenses for services to companies, 57% of them leave the “fees” box on DOL’s required LM-20 form blank.

Anti-Union Monopoly Power Kills An Iconic Milwaukee Industry

May 29, 2026 Michael Rosen, Portside. , , , , , ,
The announcement that Cargill is closing its Menomonee Valley plant and laying off 221 packinghouse workers is just the latest blow to Milwaukee’s industrial working class. It marks the end of more than 150 years of meatpacking in the Menomonee Valley. It is a cautionary tale illustrating how huge, highly concentrated industries dominate the United States economy to the detriment of workers, family farmers and consumers.  Meatpacking was one of Milwaukee’s leading industries through much of the 19th  and 20th centuries. The industry and city grew together as firms slaughtered, processed and packaged livestock — particularly hogs and cattle — purchased from local farmers and distributed  products for regional, national and international markets.

Report: Employers Spend Over $1.5 Billion A Year To Fight Union Efforts

May 21, 2026 Shireen Akram-Boshar, Truthout. , , ,
A new report finds that U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion a year to fight labor unions, hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers to prevent worker organizing. The report, published jointly by the Economic Policy Institute and LaborLab on Wednesday, estimates that employers spend roughly $1.7 billion annually on union avoidance consultants and law firms to prevent workers “from organizing and bargaining for better pay and working conditions.” Though unionization in the U.S. has grown to its highest levels in 15 years, nonunion workers face mounting obstacles to joining a union.

What Starbucks Taught Me About Union-Busting

May 5, 2026 Jaz Brisack, Portside. , , ,
Howdy, y’all, I’m Steve Buckley, I work at the REI storedown in Soho, New York, and in 2022, me and my coworkers formed the first union in the history of REI.” A cheer erupted throughout the hall. I was among a large crowd of labor organizers and activists assembled in a New York City venue for the launch of a nonprofit called “Union Now,” spearheaded by union leaders Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, and Faye Guenther, who heads UFCW Local 3000. Buckley was one of many worker-organizers—from campaigns ranging from Delta to Amazon to Microsoft—speaking to the urgent need for a union and the challenge of getting one

Faculty Fight Anti-Union Tactics At St. John’s University In New York

April 4, 2026 Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout. , , ,
Sixty-two years ago, St. John’s University (SJU) in New York City became the site of the first major faculty strike in U.S. history — a year-long conflict that followed the firing of 33 teachers, including three priests, without due process. Now, the struggle over labor conditions has forced the faculty to once again mobilize, a move precipitated by the current college administration’s abrupt announcement that it will no longer recognize two faculty unions or continue negotiations to hash out a new contract. St. John’s president, Rev. Brian J. Shanley, and Provost and Senior Vice President Simon Geir Møller, told the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) that the move was necessary to give the college “the flexibility required to innovate … and deliver on our promise to our students.”

Nurses In Ithaca Fight Union-Busting Ahead Of NLRB Election

January 13, 2026 Jason Villarruel, People's World. , , , ,
Ithaca, NY -On a frigid December morning a week before Christmas, Cayuga United—a nurses’ union at Cayuga Medical Center—held a rally on the front steps of the Ithaca Town Hall. Angela Grupe, a nurse at CMC, spoke to the crowd of community supporters gathered around. “So, we’ve all seen it before: The abusive relationship where one person has all the control. One person gets to make all the decisions; one person takes advantage of the other to benefit themselves. And when the abused finally tries to advocate for themselves, the abuser uses threats, lies, and manipulation to get their way. Today, the abuser we speak of is the management at Cayuga Medical Center….”

As Tenants Organize, Landlords Embrace Old-School Union-Busting

December 14, 2025 Rebecca Burns and Thomas Birmingham, In These Times. , , , ,
When a group of renters at New Haven, Connecticut’s Sunset Ridge apartments gathered last month to announce they had formed a tenants union, they were interrupted by some uninvited guests. Since September, Sunset Ridge tenant organizers had been going door-to-door speaking with neighbors about their living conditions, including persistent mold that’s the likely culprit behind a spate of respiratory illnesses in the 312-unit building. With the help of the Connecticut Tenants Union (CTTU), a statewide union of renters, the group collected signatures from more than 160 residents — enough to file for certification with the city

LEGO Tears Down Unionization Effort At Downtown Disney Store

December 10, 2025 Chauncey K. Robinson, People's World. , , , ,
Buena Park, CA — Usually, LEGO is associated with physically building things up, but in this case, workers are accusing the company of tearing down their chances of getting union representation. Employees at the Downtown Disney LEGO store are claiming that the company is using illegal union-busting tactics and violating their rights.  United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 324, the union supporting LEGO Store workers’ unionization efforts in Downtown Disney, announced on Friday, Dec. 5, that it has filed an unfair labor practice charge against LEGO.

Why Walmart Wants To See The Starbucks Barista Strike Fail

December 9, 2025 Derek Seidman, Truthout. , , , , ,
Thousands of Starbucks workers across a hundred cities are nearly one month into an expanding, nationwide unfair labor practice strike in protest of the coffee giant’s “historic union busting and failure to finalize a fair union contract,” according to Starbucks Workers United, the barista union that has spread to over 650 stores since its birth in Buffalo four years ago. The strike comes after years of illegal anti-union antics by Starbucks and follows a historic $39 million settlement announced on December 1 for more than 500,000 labor violations committed by Starbucks management in New York City since 2021.

Tenants Confront Landlord Disruption

December 2, 2025 Peter Fousek and Cameron Harrison, People's World. , , ,
The struggle over who controls the roof over a worker’s head erupted into open confrontation on the steps of New Haven City Hall last Thursday, as a newly formed public tenants union at Sunset Ridge Apartments faced down a landlord-backed “counter-demonstration.” The response by the landlord, Capital Reality, which included counter-protestors, police presence, and a union-busting law firm, highlights the growing battle between private equity and working-class renters in a national tenant organizing drive.

Our Siemens Union Drive Lost

October 15, 2025 Kyle Loewen, Labor Notes. , , ,
Workers at the Siemens Mobility manufacturing plant in Sacramento, where I worked, lost a unionization election in March, 838 to 538. While the result was disappointing, the joint campaign by Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1245 and the Boilermakers represents the kind of organizing that the labor movement should double down on to reverse the tide of declining density in the private sector. Since 2019, elections covering units of more than 1,000 workers have accounted for less than 1 percent of those carried out through the National Labor Relations Board, and most of these have been in health care and higher education.

What’s At Stake: USC And LMU Push Back Against Untenured Faculty Unions

October 1, 2025 Julia Barajas, Portside. , , , ,
Last summer, after nearly two years of organizing, hundreds of untenured faculty at Loyola Marymount University celebrated the certification of their newly formed union. In a message to the campus community, Thomas Poon, who served as LMU’s executive vice president and provost, wrote: “We honor the will of our [non-tenure track] faculty and the perspectives they expressed throughout the election campaign.” The university, he added, “will continue to engage the union in good faith and with transparency.” Poon is now president of LMU and, earlier this month, he changed his tune. Poon announced Sept. 12 that the university’s board of directors decided to invoke a religious exemption to the National Labor Relations Act.

Kawasaki Workers On Strike In The Philippines, And Need Your Solidarity

September 5, 2025 Richard Balberan, Labor Notes. , , , ,
Kawasaki is trying to bust our union. Before negotiations stalled over wage demands in 2024, the Kawasaki United Labor Union (KULU) had represented workers at the Japanese motorcycle manufacturer’s Filipino operations for 57 years, winning good contracts for members, which kept wages strong and working conditions safe. But for the last year, management has refused to bargain seriously, forcing us out on strike for the first time in our union’s history. We’ve now been on strike for over 100 days. Management is now moving backwards in bargaining as part of their effort to break our union once and for all. They are threatening us with lawsuits and filing charges against union leadership for an “illegal strike” in an effort to intimidate us and to stop us from exercising our rights.
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