Worker Rights

Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters Changed Black Politics

December 20, 2025 Paul Prescod, Labor Notes. Strategize! Railroads, Sleeping Car Porters, Unions, Worker Rights

The fact that the meeting was even happening was enough to produce an air of subversive excitement. One hundred years ago on August 25, 1925, Black sleeping car porters, hoping to form a union at the Pullman company, packed the Elks Hall in Harlem. Company spies were probably in the audience as well. Socialist A. Philip Randolph led the meeting, making the case that a union was the only way to deal with their grievances and reclaim their manhood. This gathering initiated a 12-year struggle to form the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) and win a first contract against a corporate giant.

Rail Workers Warn That Merger Would Yield Injury And Even Death

December 20, 2025 Cameron Harrison, People's World. Educate! Merger, Monopoly, Railroads, Worker Rights, Workplace Safety

It is no secret that irresponsible rail giants out for profits have visited injury and death on workers and massive destruction to communities around the country. Workers are warning that a new corporate monster railroads want to create via a merger would tear up critical health and safety measures that protect both workers and people in towns thorough which the trains pass. The monster rail monopolies created America’s Gilded Age. Now, the proposed $85 billion merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern seeks to create a new Gilded Age for the 21st century.

Trump’s Cuts To Infrastructure Projects Harm Working People

December 18, 2025 The Stand, Portside. Educate! Austerity, Infrastructure, Jobs, Trump Administration, Worker Rights

You’re going to have the American dream back,” promised then-candidate Donald Trump on the campaign trail in 2024. But nearly a year into the President’s second term, his administration is failing to live up to campaign promises. In fact, the Trump administration’s actions are pushing the dream of economic security and dignity even farther out of reach for working families across the U.S. Countless headlines have rightfully covered executive orders stripping a million federal workers of union rights. They’ve detailed legislation that defunds healthcare and nutrition programs while funneling money to massive corporations and billionaires.

Striking Barista On Starbucks’ Endgame

December 17, 2025 Silvia Baldwin, In These Times. Resist! Starbucks, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

On November 13, I was one of hundreds of Starbucks baristas who walked out of our stores on an open-ended unfair labor practice strike. Last week, our numbers grew to more than 3,800 workers participating across some 130 cities as we marked a month on strike, the longest national work stoppage in Starbucks’ history. Striking members of our union, Starbucks Workers United, have staged a sit-in outside the Empire State Building; held demonstrations outside of the company’s corporate offices in Newport Beach, Calif., and even picketed at a distribution center in York, Pa., —all to demand that Starbucks settle a fair contract with us, four years after baristas in Buffalo, New York, began a rebellion that soon spread nationwide.

One Battle After Another: The Big Contract Fights Coming In 2026

December 17, 2025 Keith Brower Brown and Natascha Elena Uhlmann, Labor Notes. Educate! Contract Negotiations, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

The coming year could keep the strikes rolling through steel mills, state offices, telephone lines, axle plants, baseball diamonds, and hospitals from coast to coast. Union contracts expiring in 2026 could open up major fights by manufacturing, education, entertainment, and government workers. The contract covering 20,000 Verizon workers in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic expires on August 1. Since their seven-week strike in 2016, the Communications Workers and Electrical Workers (IBEW) have agreed with the company on two contract extensions—but not this year.

Workers Caught Up In Warner Bros. Media Monopoly Battle

December 11, 2025 Chauncey K. Robinson, People's World. Strategize! California, Mergers, Monopoly, Warner Bros, Worker Rights

Hollywood, Calif.—Streaming media giant Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) announced on Dec. 5 that they had entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max, and HBO. The deal, valued at $82.7 billion, may have the companies’ investors ready to celebrate, but several labor unions and elected officials are sounding the alarm that the acquisition may be bad business for workers and consumers alike. Over the course of several weeks, a bidding war broke out between major media studios Netflix, Paramount Skydance, and a number of other large media conglomerates over which company would acquire part or all of WBD.

LEGO Tears Down Unionization Effort At Downtown Disney Store

December 10, 2025 Chauncey K. Robinson, People's World. Resist! California, Lego, union busting, Unions, Worker Rights

Buena Park, CA — Usually, LEGO is associated with physically building things up, but in this case, workers are accusing the company of tearing down their chances of getting union representation. Employees at the Downtown Disney LEGO store are claiming that the company is using illegal union-busting tactics and violating their rights. United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 324, the union supporting LEGO Store workers’ unionization efforts in Downtown Disney, announced on Friday, Dec. 5, that it has filed an unfair labor practice charge against LEGO.

Horseshoe Workers Win Union Recognition After 53 Day Strike

December 9, 2025 Fight Back! News. Resist! Indianapolis, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

Shelbyville, IN – In a decisive victory for their historic strike for union recognition, table games dealers and dual rate dealers at the Horseshoe Indianapolis casino voted overwhelmingly on Friday, December 5, to join Teamsters Local 135. In an expedited NLRB election ordered after the end of the government shutdown, striking casino workers delivered a landslide mandate for union representation and forced Caesars Entertainment, the corporation that owns the casino, to recognize their union. The vote took place on day 50 of the strike.

Why Walmart Wants To See The Starbucks Barista Strike Fail

December 9, 2025 Derek Seidman, Truthout. Educate! Starbucks Workers, Strikes, union busting, Unions, Wlamart, Worker Rights

Thousands of Starbucks workers across a hundred cities are nearly one month into an expanding, nationwide unfair labor practice strike in protest of the coffee giant’s “historic union busting and failure to finalize a fair union contract,” according to Starbucks Workers United, the barista union that has spread to over 650 stores since its birth in Buffalo four years ago. The strike comes after years of illegal anti-union antics by Starbucks and follows a historic $39 million settlement announced on December 1 for more than 500,000 labor violations committed by Starbucks management in New York City since 2021.

Maybe A General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now

December 6, 2025 Alex Han, Labor Notes. Organize! General Strike, Labor Movement, Unions, Worker Rights

Trump’s attacks on working people—threats to send troops into major U.S. cities, ripping collective bargaining rights from a million federal workers, an immigration enforcement terror campaign that borders on unconstitutional—have been so extreme that many people are talking about a general strike. These calls are coming not just from the usual suspects, but even from my own mayor, former Chicago Teachers Union leader and organizer Brandon Johnson. We’ve all heard calls for a general strike before—usually not as a serious proposal or strategy, but as a reaction to the attacks that working people face on a regular basis from existing political and economic power.

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.

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