Worker Rights

May Day Strong Movement Maps Plans At Nationwide Meeting

April 14, 2026 People's World. Organize! Austerity, Labor Movement, May Day, National Day of Action, Wars and Militarism, Worker Rights

With a month to go before mass marches and boycotts are planned nationwide, the May Day Strong movement for “No Work, No School, No Shopping” is accelerating. Hundreds of organizations from coast to coast, including both big teachers unions—the Teachers/AFT and the National Education Association, the nation’s largest union—signed up with the Labor for Democracy coalition. So have National Nurses United (NNU), locals from AFSCME and the Communications Workers, Starbucks Workers United, Jobs With Justice, and United Service Workers West/SEIU. It represents custodians, building engineers, and security personnel, among others.

Virginia Public Workers Make Headway On Bargaining Rights

April 14, 2026 Lee Abbott, Labor Notes. Resist! Collective bargaining, Public Workers, Unions, Virginia, Worker Rights

After a years-long campaign by unions, Virginia’s General Assembly passed legislation to extend collective bargaining rights to nearly half a million state, county, and municipal government employees. Union recognition has been denied Virginia’s public employees since 1946 when the state legislature passed a joint resolution against public sector bargaining to defeat a Black hospital workers’ organizing drive at the University of Virginia. A 1977 state Supreme Court ruling affirmed the ban, which was later codified by legislation in 1993.

Collaboration And Mutual Care

April 11, 2026 Samuel Comé, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperatives, Mozambique, Women, Worker Rights

Maputo, Mozambique - Isaura Matola (pictured above), a widow and mother of four, wakes up every day at 5 a.m., before sunrise, to begin collecting recyclable waste at the Hulene landfill on the outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique’s capital. After losing her job as a domestic worker in 2023, Matola faced unsuccessful attempts to secure other employment. Waste sorting at the landfill became her only viable option. “With what I earn here, even though it is not much, I manage the basics to live. It’s different from doing nothing,” she says, while separating plastic, paper, and metal from large piles of rubbish. “At least my children are able to go to school.”

Bay Area Pediatricians File To Unionize

April 9, 2026 Union of American Physicians and Dentists. Organize! California, Doctors, Pediatricians, Unions, Worker Rights

Palo Alto, Calif. – Nearly 110 pediatricians working for the Packard Children’s Health Alliance (PCHA), part of Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, have filed to unionize with the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD). The pediatricians provide care to children across 27 clinic locations throughout the Greater San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey Bay region. “I’ve wanted to be a pediatrician since I was six years old. Now, as an early career physician, the delivery and structure of medical care is very different even from what I knew it to be while pursuing that goal,” said a pediatrician leading the organizing effort.

Doctors’ Strike In England To Proceed Despite Government’s Repression

April 6, 2026 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. Resist! Doctors, National Health Service, Strikes, United Kingdom (UK), Worker Rights

Resident doctors in England are set to strike again from April 7-13 as part of a long-running dispute over health workforce policies, working conditions, and salaries. For over three years, doctors have negotiated and struggled for pay restoration and more jobs, emphasizing that the National Health Service (NHS) cannot function without enough health workers and adequate working conditions. “Resident doctors have been left with no choice but to strike,” the British Medical Association (BMA) wrote on social media. “Weeks of negotiations with the government have failed to deliver enough progress on pay, with the goalposts being moved at the last minute.

Sheridan Educators On Strike After Negotiations Fall Flat

April 6, 2026 Thomas Chaney, Fight Back! News. Resist! Colorado, Public schools, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

Englewood, CO – On April 1, teachers and faculty across five schools of the Sheridan School District went on strike demanding union recognition and the reinstatement of their contract. Over 100 teachers, faculty and community members walked the picket lines demanding that the school district come back to the table for negotiations. Tensions rose earlier this year when the school district passed a policy that stated they would not recognize staff without licenses in the union. That means school custodians, paraprofessionals on staff, bus drivers – workers who all keep the district’s schools running and operational – were not able to join. When contract negotiations fell apart, 98% of members voted to strike.

Back-To-Back Victories For Amazon Workers

April 4, 2026 Mark Gruenberg and Cameron Harrison, People's World. Resist! Amazon, Labor Movement, NLRB, Victory, Worker Rights

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.

Spain’s Migrant Regularization Marks A Rare Progressive Turn

March 30, 2026 Kim Wilson, Canadian Dimension. Create! Immigrant Rights, Socialism, Spain, Worker Rights

On a warm and sunny February morning in Alicante, dozens of people crowded outside the Algerian consulate next to the city’s central market. Almost entirely men, mostly young or middle-aged, they rummaged through documents and passports, speaking Arabic to one another in low voices. The spectacle on the street couldn’t have gone unnoticed. Small crowds of migrants have become a common sight in cities across Spain since Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s recent announcement that the government would soon begin the process of regularizing undocumented migrant workers currently living there.

Lockout At Largest Inland Oil Refinery Continues

March 28, 2026 Matthew Gutowski, People's World. Resist! Big Oil, Indiana, Lockout, Worker Rights

Whiting, IN—A fire is burning in Whiting, Indiana. At midnight on March 19, some 800 Steelworker union members at the largest inland oil refinery in the United States were locked out of the expansive facility south of Chicago on the shore of Lake Michigan. The lockout was the culmination of a months-long negotiation between USW Local 7-1 and multinational energy giant BP. United Steelworkers represents workers across various industries including oil, steel, glass, and other energy producing industries. Since the lockout, picket lines are positioned at each entrance to the facility.

TSA Is On A Brown-Bag Strike And Is Crippling Airports

March 26, 2026 Chris Brooks, Jacobin Magazine. Resist! Airports, Federal Employees, Strikes, TSA, Worker Rights

Federal laws prohibit strikes by federal workers and can be extremely punitive. Federal workers who strike can face a felony prosecution, time in prison, and fines of thousands of dollars. In fact, if you are a federal worker, you can be officially blacklisted from working for the federal government just for claiming you have the right to strike or even for being a member of a union that makes that claim. To win real collective bargaining rights, federal workers had to directly face off against these constraints. It’s hard to imagine today, but there was a massive wave of public sector strikes in the 1960s and 1970s.

How States Import Labor To Delegitimize Revolt

March 25, 2026 Ritaj Ibrahim, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Gulf States, Immigrants, State Repression, Worker Rights

Migration policies do not solely determine how a state receives foreign workers. They also shape how labor is structured, how different rights are assigned, and how states react to the demands of labor. A combination of temporary visas, employer-sponsored immigration, rotation contracts, and restrictions on permanent residency can construct a labor system that normalizes political exclusion. The Gulf Cooperation Council states, particularly the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar, are extreme cases of this phenomenon. In these countries, a large number of the economically active population are migrants, and they perform the majority of the productive work, yet are still politically excluded.

Solidarity With The NYU Contract Faculty Strike

March 24, 2026 Olivia Wood, Left Voice. Resist! Higher Education, New York City (NYC), Strikes, Worker Rights

As of 11:00 a.m. on Monday, March 23, roughly 950 contract faculty at New York University (NYU) are on strike, demanding higher wages, better job security, and various protections, including stronger academic freedom provisions. NYU Contract Faculty United (CFU) voted to unionize in early 2024, joining their adjunct faculty, graduate worker, and academic staff colleagues in the UAW. Undergraduate workers also voted to join the UAW later that same year. NYU is in the top 1 percent of wealthiest universities in the country and the second-largest private landowner in New York City, after Columbia University.

Los Angeles Unified Faces Potential Strike By 68,000 Teachers On April 14

March 23, 2026 Mallika Seshadri, Portside. Resist! Los Angeles, Strikes, Teachers, Unions, Worker Rights

Two unions representing more than 68,000 LAUSD teachers and employees will strike starting on April 14, unless they reach an agreement with the district beforehand. The announcement was made at a “Fight for LA” joint rally on Wednesday afternoon with members of United Teachers Los Angeles, representing roughly 38,000 teachers, and SEIU Local 99, which represents more than 30,000 workers, including cafeteria workers, bus drivers and special education assistants. UTLA and SEIU Local 99 authorized a strike by 94% and 97%, respectively. “This is definitely to fight for public schools — a fight to make sure that we get the resources that we need at our schools,” UTLA Vice President Julie Van Winkle said.

In 57 Languages, Meatpackers Strike For the First Time In 40 Years

March 22, 2026 Caitlyn Clark and Lisa Xu, Labor Notes. Resist! Colorado, Immigrants, Meatpackers, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

In less than a quarter-mile stretch of sidewalk, chatter in 57 languages overlaps with the sound of dancehall, bachata, Thai pop, Haitian kompa, and Micronesian hip-hop. At sunset, dozens gather for iftar, breaking their Ramadan fast; the music, pulsing from boomboxes and cell phones held up to megaphones, swells into one shared hum. In this sliver of land across from the sprawling JBS beef processing plant—among the largest in the country—workers from around the world have united in the largest U.S. meatpacking strike in 40 years.

A Right To Full-Time Scheduling

March 22, 2026 Adelle Waldman and Matt Bruenig, People's Policy Project. Create! Full-time jobs, Hourly work, Income, Worker Rights

Lawmakers constantly discuss increasing the minimum wage and also float proposals like mandatory paid time off to combat other aspects of overwork. But there is a third problem that gets relatively little attention, which is the problem of involuntary underwork. Many employers — especially in the retail and food service sector — create large pools of part-time workers and then schedule those workers erratically based on real-time estimates of labor need. Some workers like to work part-time because it fits well with the rest of their life, but millions of others do so involuntarily and suffer as a result.

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