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Greeley Meatpackers Win Contract After Three-Week Strike

April 14, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha. , , , ,
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.

Back-To-Back Victories For Amazon Workers

April 4, 2026 Mark Gruenberg and Cameron Harrison, People's World. , , , ,
New York—In a one-two punch that sent shockwaves through C-Suites, Amazon’s embattled workers—many suffering from abominably low pay and facing a company threat to replace 600,000 warehouse workers with robots—won two major victories in their long war to organize the e-commerce monopoly. First, on March 31, a National Labor Relations Board mediator convinced the firm to not retaliate against any of them, nationwide, who exercise their right to strike. That win cheered the Amazon Labor Union, originally independent but now affiliated with the Teamsters, who announced the victory.

In Spain, Amazon Workers Win With Quick-Hit Walkouts

March 3, 2026 Alfonso Martínez Valero, Labor Notes. , , , ,
At an Amazon fulfillment center in Spain, we used a flurry of brief walkouts late last year to force the company to improve wages and time off. We struck for three days in November and in December in a series of “flexible strikes,” timed to hit production with intermittent walkouts during the holiday “peak” season. On December 22, the union committee announced a settlement, negotiated through government mediators. The facility, RMU1 in the city of Murcia, employed 2,000 workers at the time, and our union the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) was one of four unions that represented them. 

New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center

February 20, 2026 Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams. , , ,
The New Brunswick, New Jersey City Council voted Wednesday to cancel plans to construct an artificial intelligence data center and instead build a new public park where the 27,000-square foot facility would have gone. Artificial intelligence data centers—which house the servers and other infrastructure needed to train and power AI models—have major environmental and climate impacts, as they consume massive amounts of electricity and water, as well as rare earth metals and other resources. According to New Brunswick Patch, hundreds of people packed into Wednesday evening’s city hall meeting to voice concerns that the proposed data center would send their electricity and water bills skyrocketing, and that the facility would harm the environment.

Palestine Action: Aggravated Burglary Charges Dropped Against 18 Defendants

February 18, 2026 Katherine Hearst, Middle East Eye. , , , ,
Eighteen defendants allegedly involved in a Palestine Action raid on an Israeli-owned arms factory in the UK will no longer face charges of aggravated burglary, after six others were acquitted of the same charges. Following the decision to drop the charges, five of the defendants  – William Plastow, Ian Sanders, Madeline Norman, Julia Brigadirova and Aleksandra Herbich – were granted conditional bail. Plastow, Sanders and Norman have been held on remand for the longest period of the 18- spending 18 months in prison. Birgadirova and Herbich has been imprisoned since November 2024.

Ring Scraps Flock Partnership Following Uproar Over Super Bowl Ad

February 18, 2026 Chris Walker, Truthout. , , ,
Ring, the doorbell and security systems company owned by Amazon, announced last week it was canceling its partnership with surveillance company Flock Security following immense backlash to a Super Bowl commercial touting its artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The integration with Flock was first announced in October. Ring released a statement on February 12 stating that the planned partnership with the company “would require significantly more time and resources than anticipated.” “We therefore made the joint decision to cancel the integration and continue with our current partners,” Ring added on its website.

Grassroots Organizers Offer Blueprint For Beating Back Data Centers

February 15, 2026 Derek Seidman, Truthout. , , ,
Data centers are big business. Around 3,000 new data centers — huge buildings that house the computing power that props up the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) — are currently being built or planned across the U.S. Some speculate that global spending on data centers could hit $3 trillion by 2029. Corporate interests — from energy firms and construction companies, to real estate businesses and utilities — are looking to cash in. But private equity — that powerful and opaque slice of Wall Street, run by mega-billionaire founders, focused on private investment and outsized profits — is an especially outsized force driving the data center boom, pouring billions into construction deals while also positioning itself to profit from supplying AI’s insatiable energy demands.

San Francisco Educators Win Major Victory After Citywide Strike

February 14, 2026 Devin B. Martinez, People's Dispatch. , , , , ,
The walkout is the first major educator strike in the city in decades and the first conducted jointly by certified and classified workers. Educators shut down schools across the district and mobilized thousands of workers, families, and businesses. Hundreds of picket lines were seen throughout the city. Before the strike, contract negotiations had stalled for nearly a year, as district officials attempted to push austerity measures that would further shift healthcare costs onto workers, maintain poverty wages for support staff, and fail to address the worsening staffing and support crisis.

Victory Against ICE: Trump Recalled Gregory Bovino From Minneapolis

January 27, 2026 Sou Mi, Left Voice. , , ,
Gregory Bovino — the high-ranking Border Patrol commander who oversaw Trump’s anti-immigrant offensive in Minnesota — is reportedly packing his bags and leaving the state today. This pullback, which includes the removal of some federal agents, is clearly a part of Trump’s attempts to de-escalate the situation in Minnesota. It comes on the heels of a phone call between Donald Trump and Governor Tim Walz on Monday, where Trump claimed they were on a “similar wavelength.” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey confirmed the shift, stating Trump told him “the present situation cannot continue” ahead of Frey’s scheduled meeting today with Trump’s former border czar, Tom Homan.

Palestine Action Strikers Shame The UK

January 18, 2026 Michael Leonardi, Counter Punch. , , ,
In a defiant stand that has shaken the corridors of British power, the imprisoned activists of Palestine Action have suspended their grueling hunger strike after forcing a major concession from the UK government. As of January 14, 2026 the last holdouts, including Heba Muraisi after 73 days without food, Kamran Ahmed at 66 days, and Lewie Chiaramello (who alternated days due to Type 1 diabetes), declared victory. They ended the protest upon news that Elbit Systems UK — Israel’s largest arms manufacturer — was denied a £2 billion Ministry of Defence contract for training British troops.

Atlanta Victory! 61 Charges Dismissed In Cop City RICO Case

January 4, 2026 Fight Back! News. , , , ,
Atlanta, GA – On Tuesday, December 30, after two years of local pressure and national support, a Georgia judge issued an order dismissing RICO charges against 61 activists who protested the construction of Cop City. The ruling comes just months after the charges of three activists wrongfully charged with money laundering in connection to the administration of the Atlanta Solidarity bail funds in 2024 were also dropped due to a flimsy legal argument and increasing pressure from the community.

Union Power Wins: Baltimore Library Workers Get Jobs Back

November 24, 2025 Lev Koufax, Struggle - La Lucha. , , , , ,
Fourteen part-time librarians at the Baltimore County Public Library received a jarring email on the afternoon of Nov. 12. BCPL leadership’s email informed them that they would no longer have jobs. The mass firing came just ahead of the holiday season and without any advance notice. All 14 are members of the International Association of Machinists Local 4538, which represents the several hundred BCPL workers and the staff of a nearby Apple Store. Several of those fired were particularly active members of their union. One of the fired librarians is an active union steward and member of the Local’s bargaining committee.

Texas Electricians Open Up Negotiations And Win Big

November 7, 2025 Paul Steiner, Labor Notes. , , , ,
The building trades can be a tough place for union reformers. Union business is typically conducted behind the scenes, with little involvement from members, while the bosses stall and derail negotiations. But here in Austin, Texas, our Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 520 got off the hamster wheel and got members active like never before—spurred by the organizing of members like me who had joined the national Caucus of Rank-and-File Electrical Workers (CREW). Through an unprecedented amount of outreach, actions that brought members in to confront the bosses head-on, and good old-fashioned raising of stakes and expectations, Local 520 won a contract that put decades of closed-off negotiations to shame.

Indiana Kroger Workers Win Better Contract After Voting ‘No’ Twice

October 24, 2025 Andrea Reynolds, Labor Notes. , , , ,
With 8,000 workers, the Indianapolis Kroger contract is the largest in Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 700. After keeping members in the dark about negotiations, our local union leadership dropped a concessionary contract in our laps. Wage increases didn’t keep up with inflation, and there was no contract language to address understaffing. It was obvious this contract was sending us backwards. My co-workers and I were angry, but we weren’t sure what to do. I joined a Zoom meeting hosted through the reform group Essential Workers for Democracy. I was shocked to see how many members felt the same way about our contract and our union.

River Valley Co-Op Workers Opened Up Bargaining And Won Big

October 3, 2025 Katrina Jagelski, Labor Notes. , , , , ,
River Valley Co-op is a consumer-owned cooperative grocery store with two locations in Western Massachusetts. We have been unionized with Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1459 for the last decade with 175 workers in our bargaining unit. This year, beginning in January and ending in June, we held thirteen bargaining sessions with RVC management and their attorneys in a process that was transformative for our union. Negotiations were tense and at times, adversarial. Workers took a stand in ways they never had before, strengthening our relationships and faith in our ability to fight and win. We made significant strides in the contract, including $2 an hour raises across the board, union orientation for new hires, and protections for our immigrant co-workers. Our contract was ratified with 77 percent of workers turning out for a nearly unanimous ‘yes’ vote.
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