Worker Rights

General Strike In Alberta Possible

November 2, 2025 Gabriela Calugay-Casuga, Rabble. Organize! Canada, Solidarity, Strikes, Teachers, Worker Rights

Workers across Alberta have begun the process of organizing a general strike after the province legislated an end to the teacher’s strike using the notwithstanding clause, according to the Alberta Federation of Labour. Teachers across the province were on strike from October 6 until the government passed Bill 2 early Tuesday morning, forcing teachers to be back in classrooms the next day. Teachers were calling for better pay, more per-student funding in public education and smaller class sizes. “Although this legislation will end the strike and lift the lockout, it does not end the underfunding and deterioration of teaching and learning conditions—our schools will not be better for it,” the union wrote on their website.

Disability Rights Are Workers’ Rights!

November 1, 2025 Disability Justice and Rights Caucus of Workers World Party, Workers World. Create! Disability Rights, Education, Jobs Guarantee, Worker Rights

For the last few years, the monthly Second Sunday Dialogue public meetings of the Disability Justice and Rights Caucus of Workers World Party (DJRC) have been discussing the idea of a transitional demand: a “Disability Justice, Full Employment, Health Care and Education Second Bill of Rights” amendment to the U.S. Constitution. San Francisco Bay Area disabled activist Michael Karsh is the main architect of this proposal, which is an idea whose time has come. Karsh has written the following justification for such an amendment at this time: “The Disability Justice, Full Employment, Health Care & Education Second Bill of Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution would transform the U.S. Constitution into a human rights document.

How The Rhizome Therapy Cooperative Counters Burnout

October 28, 2025 Megan McGee, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cincinnati, Cooperatives, mental health, Worker Rights

“One of the things I don't think a lot of people outside the mental health field realize,” says clinical social worker Evelyn Heflin, “is that a lot of community mental health agencies, because they're underfunded, and private practices that are larger agency format, really sort of take advantage of the therapists at the bottom.” Faced with unsustainable caseloads, a lack of additional support, and inadequate pay for the work they do—a situation grown drastically worse since the COVID pandemic began—over half of mental health clinicians reported experiencing burnout in surveys conducted between 2021 and 2024.

Resident Doctors Say Enough Is Enough

October 25, 2025 Alex/Rose Cocker, The Canary. Resist! Doctors, NHS, Strikes, United Kingdom (UK), Worker Rights

Resident doctors in England have announced that they’ll be walking out on strike next month. They’ll begin the industrial action at 7am on 14 November. The news comes after Labour’s complete failure to bring a credible offer to the table, regarding jobs and pay restoration. England’s BMA (British Medical Association) resident doctors’ committee (RDC) has urged Wes Streeting to do the right thing. They want the health secretary to return with a sensible offer. One that would allow them to call off the strike. So what has Streeting done in return? He’s accused the BMA of trying to “wreck” the NHS, and has called the strike a “slap in the face” for other hospital staff.

We Can’t Rebuild The Labor Movement Without Taking On Big Targets

October 23, 2025 Kate Bronfenbrenner, Labor Notes. Organize! Labor Movement, Militancy, Unions, Worker Rights

Last year, U.S. unions cautiously celebrated a turnaround in their organizing fortunes. National Labor Relations Board election win rates had reached 79 percent, and the number of workers organized for the year approached 100,000, the highest number since 2009. Yet these gains masked a harsher reality for labor, even before the disastrous 2024 elections. For the labor movement to grow, it needs to organize millions of workers each year, not 100,000. Organizing continues to lag in fast-growing, low-density sectors such as personal services, IT, finance, and health care, while union-heavy sectors like government and manufacturing keep shedding jobs.

Starbucks Workers Aim To Bring A Contract Home

October 22, 2025 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. Organize! Starbucks, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

Unionized Starbucks workers are electing strike captains and getting customers to pledge they won't cross picket lines. They’re amassing in front of stores with picket signs, borrowing a slogan that UPS Teamsters used during their 2023 contract campaign: “Just Practicing for a Just Contract.” Thirty-eight stores held practice pickets in early October, and starting October 25, 80 more stores plan to hold pickets and sign up customers to a “No Contract, No Coffee” pledge, promising not to patronize any Starbucks in case of a strike. “We're all strike-ready,” said Jhoana Canada, a barista in Nashville.

Fighting The Arms Trade: An Inside Job?

October 19, 2025 Ben Cowles, Morning Star Online. Strategize! Antiwar Movement, Weapons Maker, Worker Rights, Workplace organizing

"You're just a war criminal,” the heckler said, appearing seemingly from nowhere. “If you’re working inside the arms industry, that makes you a war criminal. You’re complicit with imperialism,” she said, directing her ire at the Unite union rep sitting next to me. “How am I?” he asked as the rest of the table fell into an awkward silence. The rep was one of the speakers at a panel discussion at The World Transformed (TWT) Festival 2025 in Manchester last Saturday, focused on opposing militarism. His name and employer did not appear on TWT’s programme listing for the event, and so we’d better keep his identity anonymous here too.

Artificial Intelligence: Principles To Protect Workers

October 19, 2025 AFL-CIO, Portside. Strategize! Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Unions, Worker Rights

There is a path where new technology makes work better and safer, with good union jobs that have fair pay and better job quality. In this vision, working people have economic security, knowing that companies and public agencies must follow rules to make sure technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) is used safely, responsibly, and fairly. These rules put people first, and include worker input in the research and development (R&D) process, during development and deployment, and at the collective bargaining table where they negotiate protections with employers. There is accountability with meaningful enforcement so that employers think twice before designing or using AI systems that hurt workers or communities.

Climate Change Sets Workers’ Feet On Fire

October 17, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! climate crisis, COP30, Extreme weather, Global heating, Worker Rights, Working Class

This summer, there were days in tropical cities when it was unbearable to walk out in the sunlight. In Mango, Togo, for instance, the temperature soared to 44°C in March and April. Heat maps depict a world on fire, red hot flames licking the planet from the equator outwards. If the air temperature is around 44°C, then the temperature of asphalt and concrete surfaces can exceed 60°C. Since second-degree burns occur in less than five seconds at 60°C, those exposed to that heat are liable to burn their skin. Walking the streets of these burning cities is hard enough with shoes – imagine what it must be like for the millions of people who lack appropriate footwear but must work outdoors during the hottest parts of the day.

All Licensed Government Professionals Join Historic BC Strike

October 17, 2025 Gabriela Calugay-Casuga, Rabble. Resist! BCGEU, Public employees, Strikes, Worker Rights

The number of public service workers taking job action in BC has now surpassed 26,000 after workers represented by the Professional Employees Association (PEA) escalated their strike to include all Government Licensed Professionals they represent. PEA represents 1,600 workers on strike. They are joined on the picket lines by more than 25,000 striking public workers represented by the British Columbia General Employees Union (BCGEU). Talks between the government and the BCGEU began in January and bargaining with PEA began in May. Since then, both unions have decried what they call insufficient wage offers.

Reshaping The Music Industry Through Solidarity

October 6, 2025 Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Arts, Cooperatives, Music, Worker Rights

The music industry doesn’t have to be exploitative. What if artists owned the platforms we depend on? What if musicians shared resources, power, and profits—together? Recorded live at AmericanaFest 2025, this panel explores how music cooperatives are reshaping the industry through solidarity, not exploitation. We discuss: Why artists need alternatives to Spotify and corporate streaming. How cooperatives create sustainable careers for musicians. Building movements rooted in community, equity, and ownership. This conversation is just the beginning. Together, we can build the music industry we actually want to exist in.

Canada Post Workers On Strike

September 28, 2025 Gabriela Calugay-Casuga, Rabble. Resist! Canada, Postal Workers, Strikes, Worker Rights

Postal workers across the country have started their second strike action in less than a year after Public Works Minister, Joël Lightbound, announced changes to the Canada Post. Lightbound said he will be instructing Canada Post to introduce flexibilities in their delivery standards. The government is also authorizing the corporation to introduce community mailboxes to approximately four million more addresses ending door-to-door delivery in those areas. In response, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) began strike action. The union said the measures introduced by Lightbound could result in major job losses. CUPW and the Canada Post have been negotiating a new collective agreement for 20 months.

Federal Workers Declare Five-Alarm Fires At Agencies

September 25, 2025 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. Resist! Federal Workers, Government, Trump Administration, Worker Rights

Braving retaliation, thousands of federal workers across six agencies have signed open letters charging that their workplaces are being hamstrung or dismantled by the Trump administration. They join federal unionists at dozens more workplaces who have been sounding the alarm to Congress and the public. When deadly flooding in central Texas killed 135 people in July, “FEMA’s mission to provide critical support was obstructed by leadership who not only question the agency’s existence but place uninformed cost-cutting above serving the American people,” wrote 155 Federal Emergency Management Agency workers on August 25. A third of FEMA’s staff were either fired or have resigned so far this year.

Research And Public Service Professionals Vote To Form Union

September 25, 2025 Josephine Murphy, Portside. Organize! California, Higher Education, Unions, Worker Rights

Research and public service professionals across the UC voted Tuesday to form a new union that will represent 7,200 workers. The union, Research and Public Service Professionals-United Auto Workers, will represent workers who run “core facilities,” administer grants and analyze data, among other services. About half of those who the union will represent voted in the election, with 83% voting “yes” for the union’s formation. RPSPs have cited multiple reasons for the formation of RPSP-UAW, including stagnant salaries amid increasing workloads and a lack of administrative transparency. “In the face of federal funding cuts to higher education, many RPSPs also want a union to gain a stronger political voice,” a RPSP-UAW press release said.

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.”

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