Unions

Should A Union Contract Run Eight Years?

August 12, 2026 Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. Strategize! Contract Negotiations, John Deere, Unions, United Auto Workers (UAW), Worker Rights

The agricultural machinery maker John Deere tested the mettle of the United Auto Workers this summer, probing for softness as the union heads into a leadership election this month. After fits and starts the union essentially told Deere to stick it. As promised, though, members will vote on Deere’s proposal on August 23. Deere wants to extend its six-year contract to eight years. The current pact for 10,000 workers at nine Midwestern plants expires October 31, 2027—six months before the union’s deals with the Big 3 automakers are up on May 1, 2028.

Harvard Withholds Raises, Bonuses From Unionized Academic Workers

August 10, 2026 Noah A. Ferris, The Harvard Crimson. Resist! Harvard University, Higher Education, Unions, Wages, Worker Rights

Harvard withheld annual raises and performance bonuses from unionized academic workers across the University this summer, prompting Harvard Law School clinical instructors to file an unfair labor practice charge late last month alleging the move violated federal labor law. Union representatives said they knew of no Harvard Academic Workers-United Auto Workers members in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School, or Harvard Divinity School who received the raises awarded to non-union employees. At the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, employees represented by HAW-UAW were informed by the institute’s human resources department that they would not receive the annual performance bonus or the July 1 salary increase, according to an email obtained by The Crimson.

How Domestic Workers Built Power In Philadelphia

August 9, 2026 Nicole Kligerman, The Forge. Organize! Domestic Workers, Pennsylvania, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

A few years ago, one of our members — a Black Caribbean immigrant nanny working in one of Philadelphia’s wealthiest neighborhoods — asked her employer for a written contract. She had that right under the city’s Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, which domestic workers won in 2019. Instead, she was fired on the spot. After that, she was quietly blacklisted in the neighborhood’s parent Facebook groups, a form of retaliation that could itself be deemed illegal in many labor violation cases. I’ve spent years working as an organizer alongside Philadelphia nannies, caregivers, and housecleaners to win critical labor protections and the dignity and respect all workers deserve.

Bard College Workers Authorize Strike As Contract Talks Stall

August 9, 2026 Cameron Harrison, People's World. Resist! Higher Education, New York (NY), Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Annandale on Hudson, NY - About 110 service and maintenance workers at Bard College voted overwhelmingly in early July to authorize a strike, as contract negotiations reached an impasse following the expiration of their contract at the beginning of the month. The workers, members of SEIU Local 200United representing building maintenance, groundskeeping and environmental services staff, have been bargaining since March. Union leaders say the administration has proposed health insurance concessions and wage increases well below what workers are demanding.

Can Worker Control Guide The World Past A Neoliberal Crisis?

August 9, 2026 Rebecca Harvey, Co-operative News. Strategize! Book Review, Cooperatives, Neoliberalism, Transformation, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Workers’ self-management is on the rise, as a response to recurring neoliberal crises: this is the central argument in a new book co-authored by Professor Dario Azzellini, senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen with previous roles at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Mexico) and Cornell University (USA). In particular, Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work homes in on worker-recuperated enterprises (WREs), a form of workers’ self-organisation whereby workers restart troubled, bankrupt, or shuttered companies as co-operatives or other forms of democratic workplace.

Class War In Sugartown

August 7, 2026 Joe Allen, Counter Punch. Resist! California, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

Crockett, California, is located on the Carquinez Strait, a forty-minute drive from Oakland, and popularly known as “Sugartown.” This small, unincorporated town of thirty-two hundred residents is the longtime home of the California and Hawaii Sugar (C&H) refinery, one of the last cane sugar processors in the western United States. For more than a month starting on June 15, ninety-three warehouse workers represented by Local 6 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) were on strike against a straight-up union-busting effort by the refinery’s owner, ASR Group, led by the billionaire Fanjul family.

Warehouse Workers Approve Collective Bargaining Agreement With Walmart

August 6, 2026 Luis Martinez, People's World. Strategize! Canada, Contract Negotiations, Unions, Walmart, Worker Rights

Mississauga, Canada—In a historic moment for organized labor, 800 Walmart workers at a warehouse in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga voted overwhelmingly to approve their first-ever collective bargaining agreement with the retail giant. The workers are members of Unifor Local 252, and their vote marks the first time that a union contract has been reached with Walmart anywhere in North America. The contract vote, which passed with 93% approval, caps a nearly two-year organizing drive at the Walmart facility. Workers here first voted to unionize in 2024.

How Journalists And Readers Started A Media Co-op In Pittsburgh

August 6, 2026 Working People, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperative, Media, Pittsburgh, Unions

When workers at the historic Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper hit the picket line in October of 2022, they had no idea that they would be on strike for over three years—or that the strike would end with new owners taking over the paper and most strikers losing their jobs. But now, a new chapter is being written in their epic story. This week, workers and community supporters launched the Pittsburgh Progress, “a cooperative news organization, owned and democratically run by its workers and members… dedicated to looking out for, and telling the stories of, the working-class people who form the heart and soul of our diverse communities.”

How We Made UPS Create Full-Time Jobs In Our Local

August 4, 2026 Russell Sires and John Gascey, Labor Notes. Strategize! Jobs, Teamsters for a Democratic Union, Unions, UPS

Often, winning something in your contract is only half the battle—the other half is enforcing it. It was a huge win in 2023 when our national contract campaign made UPS end its two-tier driver program. After the lower-tier drivers moved up to regular, our center in Charleston, South Carolina, had 91 full-time delivery drivers. But over time, drivers left, and eventually our center dropped down to 75. When we asked management to fill vacant jobs, they said we had adequate staffing. We filed grievances. They were denied because we had not proved we needed more staffing. So we set out to prove it.

The Labor Movement Is Divided Over How To Deal With AI

August 3, 2026 Michael Arria, Truthout. Resist! Artificial Intelligence (AI), Labor Movement, Unions, Worker Rights

Artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated our workplaces, where many employers have sought to boost productivity, cut labor costs, and eliminate jobs via the technology. A 2025 Pew Research Center poll found that 1 in 5 workers now use AI in their jobs. Organized labor’s response to the AI has been fraught. Where some see an inevitable shift that simply needs to be regulated and could potentially even create jobs, others see a dangerous trend that will result in further job losses along with a variety of other problems. The tension is succinctly summarized by a recent Politico headline: “Voters fear AI. Unions want the jobs.”

Employers Stall Labor Contracts for Years; A New Bill Could Change That

August 2, 2026 Keyian Vafai, Portside. Create! Congress, Contract Negotiations, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Unions, Worker Rights

When a fed-up bunch of baristas in Buffalo, New York, organized the first-ever Starbucks union in December of 2021, excitement rippled through the labor movement. Precarious fast-food workers around the country wondered if corporate goliaths like Starbucks and Chipotle, which employ hundreds of thousands of workers without a union contract, could be brought to the bargaining table. Not so fast, they learned. Although Starbucks Workers United’s numbers have grown to more than 12,000 workers at almost 700 locations across 45 states in the nearly five years since the 27 Starbucks workers at Buffalo’s Elmwood Avenue branch first unionized, not a single one of those shops has won a union contract.

Indiana: Blue Chip Slot Attendants Win Landslide NLRB Election

August 2, 2026 Fight Back! News. Organize! Indiana, Unions, Victory, Worker Rights

Michigan City, IN – Slot attendants and dual-rate slot attendants at Blue Chip Casino Hotel Spa voted overwhelmingly to unionize with Teamsters Local 135 in an NLRB election held July 30 and 31. 18 workers voted yes, only two voted no, and one ballot was challenged, equating to a 90% landslide for the union. Every eligible voter cast a ballot. The outstanding victory caps off more than a month of organizing that began June 23, when slot attendants marched on the boss and delivered a union recognition letter to General Manager JC Rieger.

Dockworkers Unions In Six Countries Announce Day Of Strikes, Protests

August 1, 2026 Sarah Lazare, In These Times. Resist! International Day of Action, Palestine, Strikes, Unions

Dockworkers unions in France, Greece, Basque Country, Turkey, Morocco, and Italy are calling an international day of action “against war and militarization” on October 30. They are demanding an end to “the genocide of the Palestinian people” and the “US-Israeli wars of aggression in the Middle East and against Iran.” “Each union will decide the most appropriate form of mobilization according to its national circumstances, starting from strike action and from a shared commitment to prevent the loading of death and destruction,” reads a joint statement from the unions.

Teamsters Local 804 Passes Resolution To Defend Haitian, Syrian Immigrants

August 1, 2026 Pola Posen, Left Voice. Organize! Haiti, Immigrant Rights, Syria, Teamsters, TPS, Trump Administration, Unions

In June, the Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration and Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) cancellation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). This ruling is only the most recent of the devastating attacks in the Trump offensive against immigrant workers and communities, and its impacts are already beginning to sow instability and insecurity in communities and workplaces across the United States. The labor movement has a key role to play in fighting back against this egregious attack, alongside every attack against our immigrant friends, neighbors and coworkers.

Building Workplace Democracy

July 31, 2026 USW, Portside. Create! Cooperatives, Democracy, New Economy, Unions, USW, Worker Rights

Mat Forth and his co-workers at the Keystone Development Center, a technical assistance provider for co-ops, had a goal – to create a democratically structured workplace where they collaborated equally in governance and decision-making and prioritized the common good. “We really wanted to practice what we preached and live our values,” Forth said. That pursuit ultimately led them to the USW, which helped them connect the union with their co-op development work. Cooperatives, or co-ops, are member-owned or worker-owned, and KDC works to support all types of co-ops.

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