Unions

Long Strike Yields Big Gains For Kaiser Mental Health Workers

May 30, 2025 Cal Winslow, Labor Notes. Resist! California, Health Care, Healthcare workers, Kaiser Permanente, mental health, Strikes, Unions, Victory, Worker Rights and Jobs

The 196-day strike of Kaiser Southern California mental healthcare workers is over. The 2,400 therapists, psychiatric nurses, social workers and psychologists won significant gains not just for themselves but for their patients in a time of an acute national mental healthcare crisis. They are members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers. They outlasted Kaiser, the huge California-based health maintenance organization, with six and a half months of picket lines from Modesto to San Diego. They held rallies at Kaiser’s Southern California medical centers. They blockaded the Sunset Strip. They held a hunger strike, putting their own health on the line to improve care for patients and reverse Kaiser’s record of misconduct.

Engaging Critics Can Create A Stronger Local

May 29, 2025 Paul Ruth, Labor Notes. Organize! Inclusion, Labor Movement, Rank and File, Unions

Factions often emerge in local unions—and they aren’t necessarily a bad thing. But a local union’s “divided government” can be problematic, especially when a contract campaign is on the horizon. Often “factions” happen when certain members frequently criticize the local leadership, and leaders push back. The division may appear to be hostile, but often the underlying tension comes from frustration and lack of communication on both sides. For union leaders, pushing back against critics is often the natural human reaction. But as the leader of a teachers’ union local, I have found that it’s usually better to be inclusive.

Unions Rise For Immigrant Rights At Tacoma ICE Detention Center

May 29, 2025 Aife Pasquale, Fight Back! News. Resist! Detention Center, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Tacoma, Unions, Washington State

Tacoma, WA – On May 23, labor unions and Filipino community groups rallied with a unified message: “Free them all and shut it down!” As the Trump administration continues escalating attacks against immigrant communities, the working class is drawing closer together to defend itself and fight back. The coalition is demanding the immediate release of a Filipino union member known lovingly as “Kuya Max.” Maximo Londonio immigrated to the U.S. as a 12-year-old boy and is now 42. He was detained at the Sea-Tac airport on his way back home to Olympia from a family trip to the Philippines.

Will Mexican GM Workers Get A Fair Union Election?

May 23, 2025 Natascha Elena Uhlmann, Labor Notes. Educate! General Motors, Mexico, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Workers at a second General Motors assembly plant in Mexico are campaigning to join SINTTIA (the National Auto Workers Union), the independent union that won a landmark election to represent workers at another Mexican GM plant in 2022. The 6,500 workers at the San Luis Potosí plant produce the GMC Terrain and the Chevrolet Trax and Equinox SUVs. Days after SINTTIA filed to represent workers on April 21, a second union, Carlos Leone, began collecting signatures, in what appears to be an effort to ward off a legitimate union at the facility. SINTTIA supporters allege the rival union is being assisted by GM management.

Workers In Samsung India’s Chennai Plant Win A Significant Pay Raise

May 22, 2025 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Resist! India, Samsung, Samsung India Workers' Union (SIWU), Strikes, Unions, Victory, Worker Rights and Jobs

The workers of the Samsung India’s Chennai plant secured a landmark wage revision agreement after a long battle with the company management on Monday, May 19. Samsung management was forced to agree to revise the wages of all workers at the plant, increase leave, and improve the overall working conditions at the factory. The agreement was negotiated by the newly formed Samsung India Workers Union (SIWU) with the company management, under the mediation of the Tamil Nadu state government, where the plant is situated. Announcing the agreement, A. Soundararajan, president of the Tamil Nadu Center for Indian Trade Union (CITU), with which the SIWU is affiliated, congratulated the workers and the SIWU leadership for the victory.

Dartmouth Student Workers Demand ‘ICE Off Campus’

May 21, 2025 James Dennis Hoff, Left Voice. Resist! Dartmouth College, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

In January of 2022, in the midst of a cold New Hampshire winter and an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, student dining services workers unanimously formed their first ever undergraduate student worker union at Dartmouth College. The Student Worker Collective of Dartmouth (SWCD) won sick pay for all workers and 50 percent hazard pay for those working during the pandemic. Just a year later the independent union, which now represents an additional 100 undergraduate advisors (UGAs), were able to force significant concessions from the college in their first contract, including a $21 an hour base wage ($3 more than what the college was offering and $8 more than the minimum that workers were earning before), with increases linked to the cost of tuition.

Kennedy Center Staff To Vote To Unionize

May 21, 2025 Nick Kurtz, CBS News. Organize! Kennedy Center, Trump Administration, Unions, Washington D.C., Worker Rights and Jobs

Staff employees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. announced this week an intent to unionize across departments and argue for collective bargaining rights. The effort comes amid months of layoffs and job uncertainty following major changes brought on by the Trump administration. According to multiple staff members who spoke to CBS News on the condition of anonymity, more than 150 employees that handle crucial responsibilities for the Kennedy Center — including education, donor relations, and arts programming — are sounding the alarm that the mission and legacy of the storied arts institution are at risk unless a sense of normalcy is returned to everyday operations.

Construction Unions Grab Hold Of Clean Energy Jobs

May 21, 2025 Paul Prescod, Labor Notes. Strategize! Energy, Green Transition, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

State and local governments have begun taking concrete steps towards a clean energy economy, and for now, even under Trump, green union jobs are increasing. Meanwhile, unions have partnered with climate activists to win legislation for more such jobs. Six states have passed “climate jobs” bills to expand renewable energy and raise labor standards for that construction. Four more have union coalitions advocating for such legislation. Will the green surge continue? And if it does, will workers reap the economic benefits—or get left behind? The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act opened the door for clean energy projects across the country. Many IRA tax credits were designed to encourage the use of high-wage union labor.

Powerful Three-Day Strike Wins New Contract For Transit Engineers

May 20, 2025 Mary Owen, Workers' World. Resist! New Jersey (NJ), Strikes, Transit, Unions, Victory, Worker Rights

On May 18, Locomotive Engineers at New Jersey Transit (NJT) won a new tentative contract with an improved wage offer after a solid three-day strike that halted the vital passenger rail service statewide. A message on the union’s strike website said it all: “Thank you members. We did it.” The NJT engineers were forced out on strike after midnight May 16 when transit bosses walked out of contract negotiations. This was the second round of bargaining with the Locomotive Engineers union, representing 450 engineers and trainees, after 87 percent of voting members overwhelmingly rejected a previous proposal.

Labor Demands Minnesota Divest From Apartheid Israel

May 19, 2025 Maddy Schwartz, Fight Back! News. Organize! Anti-war Movement, Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), Israel, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Minneapolis, MN – On May 10, Minnesota public sector workers, union members and activists attended the Labor Demands Divestment teach-in and panel at the Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local 59 office. The event was organized by Minnesota Labor for Palestine and the Minnesota Anti-War Committee and was the first event organized by Minnesota Labor for Palestine, a grassroots coalition of union and non-union members based in working class solidarity with Palestine. Over 45 members of public sector unions and local advocacy groups joined to learn about Divest MN, the state campaign to get the State Board of Investment to divest public employee pensions from genocide and apartheid.

Strike Halts New Jersey Transit

May 17, 2025 Joe DeManuelle-Hall, Labor Notes. Resist! New Jersey (NJ), Strikes, Transportation, Unions, Worker Rights

Four hundred and fifty train engineers at New Jersey Transit walked off the job overnight, after years of fruitless negotiations with their employer. These workers drive the state-run commuter trains that serve 350,000 daily riders in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. As of late Thursday night, NJT train service was completely shut down. The transit system is running additional buses as an alternative, but it’s extremely unlikely that they can make up the difference. “I take pride in what I do,” said one longtime engineer on the picket line, who didn’t want to give his name for fear of retaliation. “It gives me great joy taking my commuters to and from work every day.

Swedish Dockworkers’ Union Leader Sacked For Gaza Solidarity Action

May 16, 2025 Arthur Neslen, Equal Times. Resist! Dockworkers, Gaza, Palestine Solidarity, Sweden, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Security is a funny elixir. The more of it that you have, the less there is for someone else… or that’s the conventional wisdom anyway. Erik Helgeson’s experience, however, proves otherwise. Erik, 42, is the vice-chair of the Swedish Dockworkers’ Union and he cared deeply for the security of his members – and also for the safety of Gazan civilians, some of whom have been killed by weapons which may have passed through the port of Gothenburg, where he has worked for 20 years. Erik cared so much in fact that in February of this year, he led a symbolic six-day blockade of 20 Swedish ports against military cargos destined for Israel. His employer – DFDS – responded by sacking him, claiming that he had broken Sweden’s Security Protection Act.

California Educators Sync Up Negotiations For More Leverage

May 16, 2025 Danielle Smith, Labor Notes. Strategize! California, Solidarity, Teachers, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Public school educators in 32 union locals across California are joining forces to maximize their power in a campaign called “We Can’t Wait.” It covers 77,000 educators—about a quarter of the California Teachers Association’s total membership—serving a million students. The campaign started with 11 locals that worked to align their contract expiration dates for the end of June: Anaheim, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Natomas, Oakland, Richmond, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, and Twin Rivers. And it quickly spread from there. Locals have organized educators to sign onto the campaign’s platform, rally before school and walk in all together, and join informational pickets. The goal is to have educators strike-ready in the fall.

Blue Bottle Baristas Walk Out In Boston

May 13, 2025 Steve Gillis, Workers World. Resist! Boston, Unions, Walkouts, Worker Rights and Jobs

Boston, Massachusetts - Baristas at Blue Bottle coffee shops in Boston are so fed up with their boss’s blatant union-busting bulls–t that they walked off the job at multiple stores twice last week. They are preparing for more job actions. This time last year Blue Bottle workers in Greater Boston voted 38-4 in a National Labor Relations Board-conducted election to join the Blue Bottle Independent Union (BBIU). This came after years of low wages and disrespect from the San Francisco-based, high-end coffee chain, part of the Nestlé corporation’s sprawling global conglomerate.

A Fighting Union’s Path To Renewal: The UE Story

May 12, 2025 Chris Townsend, Portside. Strategize! History, Labor Movement, UE, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

The ongoing organizational renewal and substantial growth of the United Electrical Workers (UE) is one of the most distinctly remarkable stories in the U.S. labor movement in decades. Few other unions have suffered such losses from state repression, raiding attacks by opportunist unions, and the catastrophic effects of corporate job relocation — and survived. Of the original 42 unions who comprised the founding roster of the Congress of Industrial Unions (CIO) in 1938, a grand total of eight survive intact today. UE is one of them. The remainder have passed out of existence, been destroyed by repression and employer attacks, or been merged into larger unions and lost forever.

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