Worker Rights

The Red Cup Rebellion Expands

November 30, 2025 Starbucks Workers United. Resist! Labor Violations, Starbucks, Strike, Worker Rights

More union Starbucks baristas are on ULP strike Friday, joining what has become the longest unfair labor practice (ULP) strike in Starbucks history. With the addition of hundreds of new union baristas from 26 new stores across nearly 20 new cities joining the picket lines, 2,500 baristas from 120+ stores across 85 cities are now engaged in the open-ended ULP strike that began on Red Cup Day, November 13 and expanded on November 20, to protest Starbucks’ historic union busting and failure to finalize a fair union contract. “We’re joining the Red Cup Rebellion to fight for a better future at Starbucks that we all know is possible,” said Hailie Muro.

Historic Win For Italy’s Metal Workers

November 27, 2025 IndustriALL, Portside. Strategize! Italy, Labor Movement, Unions, Worker Rights

Last week Italy’s metal workers secured a major victory as the unions Fim, Fiom and Uilm, all affiliated to IndustriALL Global Union, signed the renewed National Collective Labour Agreement (NCLA) with Federmeccanica and Assistal after four days of continuous and intense negotiations. The agreement covers more than 1.5 million workers across the country and guarantees a €205(US$ 237.17) increase on minimum contractual salaries over four years, which the unions say is essential to protecting wages amid rising living costs and economic uncertainty.

How ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago’s Working Class

November 25, 2025 Sarah Lazare, In these Times. Educate! Chicago, ICE, Immigrants, Worker Rights

When federal immigration agents thread through her Chicago neighborhood and circle above her home in a helicopter, Araceli hides with her husband. “You hear the whistles,” she says through an interpreter. “You hear the people yelling, ‘Don’t go out! Stay inside! There’s immigration here!’ ” Sometimes they are forced to hide for days. “It’s alarming, it’s not normal, it’s like being in a crisis,” explains Araceli, who is 55 and originally from Mexico City, though she has lived in Chicago for 30 years. That means Araceli often misses work as an apartment cleaner and her husband misses work in construction.

Another Crack In The Amazon Empire

November 25, 2025 Cameron Harrison, People's World. Organize! Amazon, Kentucky, Unions, Worker Rights

Shepherdsville, KY - Another crack in the Amazon empire has been exposed. This time, in a breakthrough for workers across the world trying to organize the notoriously anti-union monopoly, Amazon CDL drivers at the SDF9 warehouse here have become the first company tractor-trailer drivers nationwide to organize with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The drivers, part of the Amazon Transportation Operations Management (TOM) Team, voted to join Teamsters Local 89 after a year of clandestine organizing to shield their campaign from the company’s well-documented, multi-million-dollar union-busting apparatus.

Unifor Workers Threaten To Occupy GM Plant

November 23, 2025 Gabriela Calugay-Casuga, Rabble.ca. Resist! auto industry, Canada, Occupation, Unions, Worker Rights

Unifor Local 88 has threatened to take over the GM CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll, Ontario if the company attempts to remove anything from the building. This comes after GM announced last month that it was pausing production of an electric cargo van at the plant which put more than 1,000 jobs at risk. Members of Unifor Local 88, which represents the workers employed by the plant, quickly took to the streets to call for the protection of Canadian jobs. “For nearly four decades, Unifor Local 88 members at the GM CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll have built vehicles that drive Canada’s auto industry forward,” a web post by Unifor reads.

Protestors Block Trucks From York Starbucks Distribution Center

November 22, 2025 Emma Rossi, CBS. Resist! Direct Action, Starbucks, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

York County, PA — Seven days into union baristas’ nationwide, open-ended unfair labor practices (ULP) strike, over one hundred Pennsylvania Starbucks Baristas gathered outside Starbucks’ York distribution center Wednesday to protest. The center, located on1605 Bartlett Dr., is the largest on the east coast for the coffee giant. According to organizers, it services the entire northeast region. Protesters formed a blockade to stop trucks from delivering supplies to the distribution center, holding large banners which read, “No contract, no Starbucks” and “Grind to a halt”. A picket line formed at the entrance of the distribution center.

Organizing For A Breakout

November 21, 2025 Chris Townsend, Portside. Strategize! Labor Movement, Organizing, Unions, Worker Rights

There is a military axiom that if your positions are encircled by far superior forces, you will inevitably be annihilated, unless you break out. I have been a member of our labor movement and left wing since I got out of high school in 1979. For every one of those 46 years our labor movement has been under heavy attack, and at the end of every year we were smaller and more exhausted than when it began. This year will be no exception. With only a few scant exceptions the U.S. labor movement continues to avoid the key question of new organizing. The call to “Organize the Unorganized!” is no longer heard. Embattled unions must draw to their support the masses of unorganized – or face destruction.

Day 30 On Strike: Horseshoe Dealers Mark ‘Labor Day In November’

November 19, 2025 Fight Back! News. Organize! Indiana, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

Shelbyville, IN – Thirty days into their historic strike for union recognition, the Horseshoe Indianapolis table games dealers and dual rate dealers marked the milestone the way striking workers always have: together, in solidarity, and in full public view. At noon on November 15, striking workers and their supporters gathered for “Labor Day in November,” a large cookout held directly across from the Horseshoe Indianapolis casino. Despite being one month into a bitter showdown with casino giant Caesars Entertainment, morale on the line was high and the sense of momentum unmistakable. More than 100 Teamsters from other shops joined the celebration, alongside members of the UAW, USW, AFSCME, AFT, and other unions from across central Indiana.

40,000 University Of California Hospital Workers In Two-Day Strike

November 19, 2025 Janice Rothstein, People's World. Resist! California, Health Care, Strikes, University of California, Worker Rights

San Diego — As 40,000 AFSCME Local 3299 workers throughout the ten-campus University of California system launched a two-day strike on Nov. 17, two Communist Party members—Alvin, an AFSCME-represented employee at University of California at San Diego (UCSD), and another worker, an AFSCME retiree from UC San Francisco—shared their thoughts before they prepared to picket. Pay, or lack of it, is the big issue. But so is disparate treatment on a class basis. While the university system fails to settle contracts addressing the cost of living and affordability crises facing its most economically vulnerable patient care workers, it’s also handed out six-figure salaries and housing subsidies to multiple high administrators.

No Contract Means No Coffee As Starbucks Baristas Walk Out

November 15, 2025 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. Resist! Starbucks, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

Chanting “What’s outrageous? Starbucks wages! What’s appalling? Starbucks stalling! What’s disgusting? Union busting!”, Starbucks workers at stores across the country walked out Thursday. They are on strike against unfair labor practices and the company’s stonewalling at the bargaining table. The strike started with 65 stores in 40 cities, and could spread to as many as 550. The union, Starbucks Workers United, said it is prepared to make this the “longest and largest unfair labor practice strike in Starbucks history.” After rounds of practice pickets in October and November, workers voted 92 percent vote to strike. The strike started on Starbucks’ big annual promotional “Red Cup Day,” a day many workers dread, Sabina Aguirre, a Columbus, Ohio, barista told the Labor Notes Podcast. Starbucks distributes a re-usable cup with most drinks as a promotion, leading to long lines. “It’s one of the busiest days for Starbucks all year,” said Aguirre. “It’s so well known to be a day of overwork and frustration on behalf of the employees.” SHUN ALL STARBUCKS BREW The union has organized 650 stores, but the company operates 10,000 stores in the U.S., so striking baristas are asking everyone to shun all Starbucks stores, whether union or not, for the duration of the strike, and tell the company why. Starbucks started bargaining with its unionized workers in February of 2024, after inflicting record unfair labor practices starting in 2021, when the first stores in Buffalo organized with Starbucks Workers United, a division of Workers United/SEIU. But then progress stopped. “It was just very disheartening, because so much progress was made in the earlier part of 2024, before the new CEO, Brian [Niccol], took over in September of last year,” said Tyler Cochran, who works in downtown Manhattan. “Obviously, we knew that getting to the economic portion of the bargaining is always going to be the most challenging part. So the timing there kind of aligned with Brian taking over.” Niccol came from Chipotle, where the company closed the first store that filed to unionize, later paying $240,000 to workers there in a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board. Niccol makes 666 times the pay of the average barista, Cochran said. In the face of flagging sales, Niccol launched a billion dollar program to refurbish stores to get people “Back to Starbucks,” but baristas consistently say that adequate staffing is the main thing that would make stores more appealing to customers. Lines are often out the door, baristas said.

Europe Is Regulating AI Hiring; Why Isn’t The United States?

November 15, 2025 Ryan Zhang, On Labor. Create! Artificial Intelligence (AI), European Union (EU), Regulations, Worker Rights

In 2018, Amazon unveiled a groundbreaking AI hiring tool. But what began as a promise to revolutionize how the company identified talent devolved into an algorithm that “did not like women.” The model, trained on a decade of old resumes mostly from men, penalized references to women’s organizations and graduates of women’s colleges. Although Amazon abandoned the tool, the incident revealed a more fundamental problem: In automating hiring, employers are also automating bias. Today, AI plays a major role in hiring, yet the U.S. has failed to establish coherent guardrails even as jurisdictions like the European Union have acted decisively.

Big Win For News Guild In Three-Year Strike Against Post-Gazette

November 15, 2025 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. Resist! Media, Pittsburgh, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

After more than three years on strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and five years of overall corporate violation of labor law, The News Guild of Pittsburgh, TNG-CWA Local 38061, completely won its case against the Block brothers, the paper’s owners. Writing on Nov. 10 for a unanimous panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, Judge Cindy Chung—the former U.S. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania, headquartered in Pittsburgh—ordered the Blocks to bargain and reach a contract with the Guild, just as the National Labor Relations Board demanded in seeking an injunction, a mandatory court order, against the duo.

A Diary From The Streets Of South Korea

November 11, 2025 Vijay Prashad, People's Dispatch. Resist! Donald Trump, Palestine, South Korea, US Imperialism, Worker Rights

Jinsoo Koh has been living on a rickety metal overpass that sits above Toegye-ro street in Seoul, across from the old Sejong Hotel. He had been up there illegally for 261 days when I met him. I didn’t go up, and nor did he come down. In either case, one of us would have been arrested. So, we spoke via megaphones, the traffic of the street drowning out our words. Jinsoo worked in the Japanese restaurant of Sejong Hotel as a sashimi chef. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he and 259 workers of the hotel were collectively dismissed, some forced into early retirement. The hotel, whose proprietor also owns Sejong University and other properties, only retained 21 workers and hired subcontracting firms to run the rest of the functions of the hotel with casual workers.

Maryland Workers Fight To Divest Their Pensions From Israel’s Genocide

November 8, 2025 Jaisal Noor, Truthout. Resist! Divestment, Israel, Maryland, Palestine, Worker Rights

On a cold, sunny morning in October, Grace Smith, a 42-year-old Baltimore County middle school teacher, arrived at the annual statewide teachers union convention in Ocean City, Maryland, with two fellow educators and a folder full of zines. Their mission: talk to as many teachers as possible about Maryland’s pension investments in Israel and hand out every copy they’d brought. Smith estimated that they spoke to dozens of educators and distributed over 200 zines. The response, she said, was overwhelmingly positive. “Everyone I talked to was glad to hear about it,” she said. “They didn’t know about it — and they were pissed.”

The Unraveling Of Workplace Protections For Delivery Drivers

November 8, 2025 Daniel Schneider, Portside. Educate! Amazon, Unions, UPS, Wages, Worker Rights

American households have become dependent on Amazon. The numbers say it all: In 2024, 83% of U.S. households received deliveries from Amazon, representing over 1 million packages delivered each day and 9 billion individual items delivered same-day or next-day every year. In remarkably short order, the company has transformed from an online bookseller into a juggernaut that has reshaped retailing. But its impact isn’t limited to how we shop. Behind that endless stream of packages are more than a million people working in Amazon fulfillment centers and delivery vehicles.

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