Unions

Day Two In French Anti-Government Actions: ‘Stop Austerity!’

September 24, 2025 John Catalinotto, Workers' World. Resist! Anti-Austerity, France, Mass Actions, Unions

A million people joined the Sept. 18 protest action aimed at stopping the French regime’s war on the workers. Besides street demonstrations and some traffic disruptions, tens of thousands of workers held strikes that closed schools and shut down significant public transportation. Strikes cut the metro traffic in Paris in half. It only ran during rush hours. Behind the eruption of class struggle on Sept. 10 and 18 is the continuous decline in the quality of life for working people in cities and in rural areas. This decline includes the 2023 legal rise in retirement age — a de facto cut in pensions — and the current regime’s attempt to cut social services that mainly aid the working class.

Wells Fargo Workers Push To Bring A Union To The Banking Industry

September 24, 2025 Dan DiMaggio, Labor Notes. Organize! Banking, Unions, Wells Fargo, Worker Rights and Jobs

Workers at Wells Fargo are organizing the first union at a major U.S. bank—in one of the least-organized industries in the country. The first branch where workers won a union vote, in 2023, was in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Since then, workers have have voted to join the Communications Workers (CWA) at 29 more branches from Apopka, Florida, to Casper, Wyoming. So have 35 workers who review customer and employee complaints at the bank. These workers, a total of 200, are a small fraction of Wells Fargo’s 217,000 employees. But their organizing represents the first formal union effort since the company’s founding in 1852. And their success is even more notable in an almost entirely non-union industry.

Teachers And Unions Fight Back As US Campuses Prepare To Fuel Witch Hunt

September 23, 2025 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. Resist! Donald Trump, Education, Israel, New McCarthyism, Palestine, Teachers, Unions, University of California

Outrage flared last week about the University of California’s capitulation to this era’s resurgent McCarthyism, as news spread that the university has provided the names of at least 160 students, faculty members, and staff at the University of California, Berkeley, to federal officials who — under the guise of investigating “alleged antisemitic incidents” — are scrutinizing people who have expressed opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Judith Butler, a UC Berkeley philosophy professor and Jewish critic of the Israeli government, said in a recent interview with Democracy Now!, “There is no good evidence that antisemitism is rampant on campus,” adding, “To take a position against genocide is certainly not an antisemitic thing to do.

Trump’s War On Wind: Tens Of Thousands Of Jobs Destroyed

September 23, 2025 Kari Thompson, Labor Notes. Educate! Donald Trump, Energy, Unions, Wind Energy, Worker Rights and Jobs

Environmental groups and unions representing construction workers found common ground this summer over President Trump’s blocking of offshore wind projects. The Revolution Wind offshore turbine farm off the coast of Rhode Island is 80 percent complete, but its fate remains uncertain after the Department of Interior issued a stop-work order on August 22. “The full thing was finally getting put together, and having it stopped like that was out of nowhere,” said Antonio Gianfrancesco, a Laborer from Local 271 who has been working the project for more than two years. The project’s halt resulted in a fiery statement from Sean McGarvey, president of North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), an alliance of 14 construction unions: “Trump just fired 1,000 of our members who had already labored to complete 80 percent of this major energy project.

These Non-Profit Workers Are Fighting Trump’s Attacks On Immigrants

September 23, 2025 Samuel Karlin, Left Voice. Organize! Immigrant Solidarity, Nonprofits, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

The International Rescue Committee is the largest non-profit organization providing services for refugee communities around the world. It is also the site of a growing union campaign. Two years ago, workers at the organization’s office in Dallas, TX won an NLRB election, becoming the first office to unionize. Since then, over one dozen more offices throughout the United States joined the union. For the past year the union, IRC Workers Unite — affiliated with OPEIU: Office and Professional Employees International Union — have been bargaining for a contract. The campaign for better pay and workplace protections has become all the more acute since Donald Trump returned to the presidency. His administration has threatened funding for progressive non-profits, and immigrant communities and their allies have been some of the most targeted by the administration.

The UAW Has A Vision For Green Industrial Policy In California

September 22, 2025 Paul Prescod, Portside. Create! California, Green Energy Transition, UAW, Unions

A consensus is emerging across the political spectrum around the need for industrial policy. Whether in the form of the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act under Joe Biden in 2022 or the haphazard tariff policy of Donald Trump implemented earlier this year, political leaders on both sides of the aisle are clearly searching for answers regarding how to revive the United States’s flagging manufacturing base. While the Trump administration places a lot of rhetorical emphasis on bringing back industrial jobs, its policies so far have displayed a profound lack of seriousness or coherence. Trump’s tariffs have not been focused on strategic industries or paired with the investment and planning required to make jobs actually materialize.

How To Defend Members From Politicized Firings

September 22, 2025 Bill Barry, Labor Notes. Strategize! Employer retaliation, Labor Movement, Unions, Worker Rights

Can a worker be fired simply for expressing an opinion that the boss or a political group finds objectionable? These days online attackers often campaign to pressure employers to fire workers for political speech—even speech that took place on their private social media pages. Stewards have a number of tools at their disposal to defend members from these attacks. Bosses and disgruntled co-workers have long attempted to target workers over off-duty conduct. Grievance books are filled with examples of disputes away from the workplace—for example, a boss and a worker both have too much to drink and get into a dispute at a local watering hole, and the boss demands that the worker be fired “in the interest of workplace safety.”

Teamsters Win University Of Minnesota Strike, With Help From Farm Aid

September 18, 2025 Randy Furst, Labor Notes. Resist! Farm Aid, Minnesota, Strikes, Unions, University Of Minnesota, Victory, Worker Rights and Jobs

Some 1,400 Teamster service workers at the University of Minnesota won a resounding victory in a five-day walkout that showcased their militancy and underscored the power of solidarity. “This is what happens when people stick together,” said Steve Tesfagiorgis, a shop steward and strike captain for Teamsters Local 320 and a senior custodian on the Minneapolis campus. “Our members are from different places and speak many different languages, and we all worked together and won.” The union includes more than 400 East African workers. At rallies, on flyers, and during Zoom meetings, members communicated in five languages.

‘Starbucks Is On The Ropes,’ Says SBWU President Lynne Fox

September 16, 2025 Lynne Fox, In These Times. Resist! Contract Negotiations, Starbucks, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Starbucks’ logo, the green siren, is ubiquitous, and its 40,000 stores occupy an estimated 80 million square feet of real estate globally. But that doesn’t make the company too big to fail. The next three months will determine the future of this iconic U.S. company. Chief Executive Officer Brian Niccol crossed his first anniversary in the position this week, on September 9. He was chosen to replace the previous CEO based on his reputation as a fixer amid declining sales and brand damage. At the time, he wrote this about union baristas: “If our partners choose to be represented, I am committed to making sure we engage constructively and in good faith with the union and the partners it represents.”

Solace, Resistance, Action At APALA’s 2025 Convention

September 12, 2025 Paige Hazen, The Stand. Organize! Asian Americans, Labor Movement, Unions, Worker Rights

From June 26 to June 29, members of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) convened in Los Angeles from all over the country in order to discuss and decide the organization’s priorities. APALA is a labor constituency group that was founded in 1992 as a response to the ongoing exclusion and racism Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) workers faced within unions. Since then, they have remained the only national organization for AANHPI workers, providing invaluable resources, advocacy, and political education for them. The local Seattle Chapter is the largest in the country, sending over 40 delegates to the convention this year. Seattle members connected with each other as well as members from other cities, while also learning about the work everyone has been engaged in – from the local level to the international level.

Three Crises Facing The Labor Movement

September 12, 2025 Hamilton Nolan, In These Times. Strategize! Labor Movement, Politics, Unions, Worker Rights

America did not get to the bad place it is in today by accident. We are here as a result of the combination of a political system that serves money, and a half-century long explosion of economic inequality that has produced an oligarchy. Donald Trump is the product of these factors, but he is not the underlying problem. The underlying problem is that too much power has flown into the hands of too few people, and they have used that power to arrange the entire economic and political system in their favor. Democracy, such as it was, is an inevitable casualty of this process. Climbing out of the hole that we are in will require more than one or two favorable election cycles. It will require shifting that underlying balance of power away from the oligarchs and their allies, and back towards the rest of us.

Teamsters At The University Of Minnesota Begin Strike!

September 11, 2025 Fight Back! News. Resist! Minneapolis, Minnesota, Strikes, Unions, University Workers, Worker Rights and Jobs

Minneapolis, MN – Roughly 1400 Workers at the University of Minnesota walked off the job on Monday night, September 8. beginning an open-ended strike. The workers are represented by Teamsters Local 320 and do grounds maintenance, facilities, dining services and many other important jobs that keep the university running. The strike began on Monday night on the Crookston campus. After that, Duluth joined in, and the Twin Cities campus, which is the largest of the university campuses, began striking on Tuesday night with a large opening rally. In the Twin Cities, around 500 Teamsters and union supporters rallied Tuesday night at 7 p.m. to support and kick off the campus pickets.

Have Private Equity Landlords Met Their Match?

September 10, 2025 Thomas Birmingham, In These Times. Strategize! Housing, Landlords, Tenant Unions, Unions

The most Gerene Freeman saw of her landlord on August 6 were several pairs of eyes peeking out between the blinds of a dark office building. That Wednesday was the day Freeman, a 76-year-old retired creative writing teacher, and her neighbors — all tenants of a New Haven, Conn. apartment complex for elderly and disabled residents called Park Ridge — had formally launched a tenants’ union. They had driven more than two hours to their landlord’s office in Rockland County, N.Y., to deliver a letter announcing the creation of the Park Ridge Tenant Union and demanding to negotiate for better conditions. But they found themselves completely stonewalled: first misdirected to a seemingly vacant building in New Jersey, and then returned to find people clearly visible inside the New York office who would not open the door to receive their letter.

Amazon Fires 150 Unionized Third-Party Drivers

September 10, 2025 Lauren Aratani, The Guardian. Resist! Amazon, Employer retaliation, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Amazon has fired more than 150 unionized drivers working for a third-party contractor in Queens, New York, according to the Teamsters union. Workers rallied at the company’s DBK4 facility in Queens on Monday after the company fired the drivers, who worked for Cornucopia, a delivery service provider (DSP) that Amazon contracted with to make deliveries. Amazon works with more than 3,000 DSPs around the world who deliver the company’s packages. The Teamsters said the firings were in retaliation for unionizing. “Amazon is breaking the law and we let the public know it,” said Antonio Rosario, a member of local 804 and a Teamster organizer, in a statement. “Amazon workers will continue to organize and fight for what they deserve.”

British Columbia Public Service Workers Escalate Their Job Action

September 6, 2025 Gabriela Calugay-Casuga, Rabble. Resist! BCGEU, British Columbia, Canada, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

BC public services workers expanded their picket lines to include 90 workers at the British Columbia Ministry of Finance in Vancouver on Thursday. The move came after the British Columbia General Employees’ Union (BCGEU), representing the more than 2,600 striking workers, said the provincial government has shown “no indication” of willingness to return to the bargaining table. Job action began on Tuesday, with picket lines going up in Prince George, Surrey and at sites across Victoria. Members of BCGEU held a strike vote from August 11 to 29. More than 92 per cent of voters had called for a strike. “Public service workers fight fires, staff emergency lines, and care for our most vulnerable. But these workers are facing an affordability crisis,” said BCGEU President Paul Finch.

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