Unions

Starbucks Is Bargaining Backwards, Baristas Say

April 16, 2026 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. Resist! Contract Negotiations, Starbucks, Starbucks Workers, Unions

Union baristas are finally back to the negotiating table with Starbucks, but the workers charge that rather than progressing, the company is reopening already agreed-upon issues. “They're trying to move backwards on issues we've already settled instead of settling the few that we have left,” said Mina Leon, a barista in downtown Manhattan who struck for two months to get the company back to the table. “These were not small details, these were things that we had already fought for and won after months in bargaining in 2024,” said Jasmine Leli, a Buffalo, New York, barista and member of the Starbucks Workers United bargaining team.

Indiana: Solidarity With Locked-Out Steelworkers

April 15, 2026 Fight Back! News. Resist! Indiana, Lockouts, Steelworkers, Unions, Worker Rights

Whiting, IN – On Saturday April 11, members of Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and Jobs with Justice Chicago (JwJ Chicago) traveled to Whiting, Indiana to stand in solidarity with the over 800 United Steelworkers (USW) Local 7-1 members who have been facing an illegal lockout by British Petroleum (BP) since March 19. USW members warmly welcomed the supporters and were anxious to share their story about a fight with one of the most powerful corporations in the world. Despite the vast wealth of the bosses at BP, the locked-out USW members are confident that worker solidarity will prevail in the end.

Virginia Public Workers Make Headway On Bargaining Rights

April 14, 2026 Lee Abbott, Labor Notes. Resist! Collective bargaining, Public Workers, Unions, Virginia, Worker Rights

After a years-long campaign by unions, Virginia’s General Assembly passed legislation to extend collective bargaining rights to nearly half a million state, county, and municipal government employees. Union recognition has been denied Virginia’s public employees since 1946 when the state legislature passed a joint resolution against public sector bargaining to defeat a Black hospital workers’ organizing drive at the University of Virginia. A 1977 state Supreme Court ruling affirmed the ban, which was later codified by legislation in 1993.

Greeley Meatpackers Win Contract After Three-Week Strike

April 14, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha. Resist! Meatpackers, Strikes, Unions, Victory, Worker Rights

United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 released a statement on April 12 reporting that meatpackers at the JBS beef processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, voted to ratify a tentative agreement covering nearly 3,800 workers. The contract runs through April 2028. UFCW Local 7 members ratified the contract following JBS’s return to the bargaining table, ending a three-week unfair labor practice (ULP) strike that began March 16. The ULP strike shut down the facility as an 80% immigrant workforce exercised their protected right to strike, refusing to be intimidated by the bosses and their ICE partners.

Teamsters Health Care Workers To Picket Hospital For Fair Contract

April 13, 2026 Brandon Chew, People's World. Resist! Chicago, Health Care, Healthcare workers, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Chicago, Illinois - University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) health care workers are “drastically underpaid” compared to other hospitals in Chicago, Debra Simmons-Peterson, president of Teamsters Local 743 told People’s World. Simmons-Peterson spoke at a rally Thursday in which hospital workers protested pay rates that don’t reflect the rising costs of living in the Chicago area. The health care workers’ collective bargaining agreement with the medical center expired on March 9. The rally included fellow Teamsters, SEIU Healthcare workers, as well as local pastors, alderpersons, and other elected officials, and the Chicago Federation of Labor.

New Festival Brings Workers’ Struggle And Solidarity To Cornwall Coast

April 10, 2026 The Canary. Organize! Austerity, Unions, United Kingdom (UK), Working Class

Trade unionists, families, and campaigners will gather on the Cornwall coast this June for Unite on the Hill. It’s a new festival that aims to combine culture, community, and class politics. Branch SW008 of the Unite union is organising the event. It’ll take place from 19–21 June 2026 at Maker Heights (PL10 1LA) and bring together live music, food, and family activities. There’ll be a programme of political discussion addressing issues facing working people in Devon and Cornwall. The festival comes at a time when the region is facing rising levels of insecure, low-paid work and some of the highest rates of child poverty in the UK.

Bay Area Pediatricians File To Unionize

April 9, 2026 Union of American Physicians and Dentists. Organize! California, Doctors, Pediatricians, Unions, Worker Rights

Palo Alto, Calif. – Nearly 110 pediatricians working for the Packard Children’s Health Alliance (PCHA), part of Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, have filed to unionize with the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD). The pediatricians provide care to children across 27 clinic locations throughout the Greater San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey Bay region. “I’ve wanted to be a pediatrician since I was six years old. Now, as an early career physician, the delivery and structure of medical care is very different even from what I knew it to be while pursuing that goal,” said a pediatrician leading the organizing effort.

AI Used Against Associated Press And ProPublica Journalists

April 9, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. Resist! Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cooperatives, Journalism, Pro Publica, Strikes, Unions

New York—AI has hit the AP: At least 120 U.S. newspeople, some of them longtime veterans of the Associated Press, the worldwide wire service, have received layoff notices as a result, with buyout offers—but with little notice to and no negotiations with their union. AI—artificial intelligence—can be used for good or ill, but corporate executives are using it to guillotine people’s jobs, thus increasing company profits. The cost, however, as critics on social media pointed out, is in reduced coverage at a time when news consumers need unbiased information more than ever before.

Migrant Workers Lead Three-Week Colorado Meatpackers’ Strike

April 7, 2026 Viviana Weinstein, Workers World. Resist! Meatpackers, Migrants, Strikes, Unions, Worker's Rights

Greeley, Colorado -The strike by 3,800 workers at the JBS Swift Beef plant in Greeley, Colorado, will pause as the company has agreed to negotiations starting April 9. Workers, the majority of them immigrants, bravely walked out on March 16, extended the strike to three weeks and almost stayed out for a fourth. They will now return to work in one of the largest meatpacking plants in the country. Kim Cordova, president of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7, which represents the JBS workers, said that the union is fighting for a fair contract that protects worker safety in an industry that has extensive worker injuries.

Sheridan Educators On Strike After Negotiations Fall Flat

April 6, 2026 Thomas Chaney, Fight Back! News. Resist! Colorado, Public schools, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

Englewood, CO – On April 1, teachers and faculty across five schools of the Sheridan School District went on strike demanding union recognition and the reinstatement of their contract. Over 100 teachers, faculty and community members walked the picket lines demanding that the school district come back to the table for negotiations. Tensions rose earlier this year when the school district passed a policy that stated they would not recognize staff without licenses in the union. That means school custodians, paraprofessionals on staff, bus drivers – workers who all keep the district’s schools running and operational – were not able to join. When contract negotiations fell apart, 98% of members voted to strike.

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.”

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

April 4, 2026 Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout. Resist! Higher Education, New York City (NYC), union busting, Unions

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.”

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.

Overwhelmed By Strike, San Francisco Schools Found Money For Top Demands

April 1, 2026 Danielle Smith, Labor Notes. Resist! Public schools, San Francisco, Strikes, Teachers, Unions

Six thousand San Francisco educators won fully funded health care, sanctuary schools, and an up to 8.5 percent raise over two years by walking out for the first time in nearly 50 years. After just four days on strike, February 9 to 12, they won their top demands—some of which the district had previously refused even to bargain over. “It was hard and it was joyful and we f-ing beat them,” said Ilan Desai-Geller, a high school teacher who served on the bargaining committee and as a regional strike captain. “They found the money all of a sudden. “They found the money for the things they said they couldn’t. They agreed to the language they said they couldn’t.”

Warship Builders Bath Iron Works Union On Strike

March 23, 2026 WGME. Resist! Bath Ironworks, Military Industrial Complex, Strikes, Unions, US military

BATH, Maine (WGME) -- Members of the Bath Marine Draftsmen Association are on strike after union negotiations fell through with Bath Iron Works (BIW). Six weeks ago, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited BIW, encouraging workers to build warships as fast as they can. Some of those workers are now on strike. Members of the Bath Marine Draftsmen Association voted on Sunday to reject the proposed “best and final offer” from General Dynamics and BIW. The strike of more than 600 workers would also extend beyond BIW to other General Dynamics locations across the world.

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