Worker Rights

Solace, Resistance, Action At APALA’s 2025 Convention

September 12, 2025 Paige Hazen, The Stand. Organize! Asian Americans, Labor Movement, Unions, Worker Rights

From June 26 to June 29, members of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) convened in Los Angeles from all over the country in order to discuss and decide the organization’s priorities. APALA is a labor constituency group that was founded in 1992 as a response to the ongoing exclusion and racism Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) workers faced within unions. Since then, they have remained the only national organization for AANHPI workers, providing invaluable resources, advocacy, and political education for them. The local Seattle Chapter is the largest in the country, sending over 40 delegates to the convention this year. Seattle members connected with each other as well as members from other cities, while also learning about the work everyone has been engaged in – from the local level to the international level.

Three Crises Facing The Labor Movement

September 12, 2025 Hamilton Nolan, In These Times. Strategize! Labor Movement, Politics, Unions, Worker Rights

America did not get to the bad place it is in today by accident. We are here as a result of the combination of a political system that serves money, and a half-century long explosion of economic inequality that has produced an oligarchy. Donald Trump is the product of these factors, but he is not the underlying problem. The underlying problem is that too much power has flown into the hands of too few people, and they have used that power to arrange the entire economic and political system in their favor. Democracy, such as it was, is an inevitable casualty of this process. Climbing out of the hole that we are in will require more than one or two favorable election cycles. It will require shifting that underlying balance of power away from the oligarchs and their allies, and back towards the rest of us.

North Carolina Electrical Workers Gear Up For Jobsite ICE Defense

September 11, 2025 Jody Anderson, Labor Notes. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Solidarity, North Carolina, Worker Rights

I'm an electrical worker in IBEW Local 553 in Durham, North Carolina. We're one of the fastest growing locals in the South, with members in both construction and utility line work. Last month, I worked with a group of members to organize an immigrant defense training at our union hall, after persuading our officers to approve it. We worked with local immigrant organization Siembra NC to lead it. We had about twenty people there, half IBEW members and half from other organizations. Everybody agreed it was very useful. Siembra NC combined two trainings into one. One was ICE verification: training people to show up when they hear reports of ICE, and send out a confirmation or an “all clear” to a local network.

Kentucky Battery Plant Joins United Auto Workers In Close Vote

August 29, 2025 Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes. Resist! Kentucky, Unions, Worker Rights, Workplace Safety

Kentucky battery plant workers at the BlueOval SK Battery Park (BOSK) in Glendale have voted to join the United Auto Workers. The workers make batteries to power Ford’s all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck and E-Transit cargo van. On August 27 at 10 p.m., an unofficial tally showed 526 yes and 515 no votes, with 41 challenged ballots. There were 1,200 eligible voters; turnout was over 90 percent. The UAW called the vote “a major step forward for workers who stood up against intense company opposition and chose to join the UAW.” “We’re feeling pretty confident, I think we’re gonna win,” said battery worker Halee Hadfield via text message on August 23.

Farmworkers Continue To Organize In Face Of Chilling ICE Raids

August 25, 2025 Joe Maniscalco, Work-Bites. Resist! Farmworkers, Global heating, ICE, Worker Rights, Workplace Safety

Imagine you’re a farmworker in 2025. You make the food on tables across the United States possible. Five years ago because of the pandemic, people even began acknowledging the essential work you do. It felt good for a second, even hopeful, after decades of being left out of the conversation around worker rights. Soaring summer temperatures threaten more than 69 million workers across the United States with heat-related illnesses each year, according to the National Committee on Occupational Safety and Health [COSH]. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 14 heat-injury deaths in Texas alone. But farmworkers are 35 times more likely to die of heat-related stress than workers in other dangerous industries.

Meet The Low-Wage 100

August 23, 2025 Sarah Anderson, Inequality.org. Educate! Low wages, Profiteers, wealth inequality, Worker Rights

The gap between CEO compensation and median worker pay at Starbucks hit 6,666 to 1 last year. In other words, to make as much money as their CEO made last year, typical baristas would’ve had to start brewing macchiatos around the time humans first invented the wheel. Starbucks takes the prize for the most obscene corporate pay disparities of 2024. But jaw-dropping gaps are the norm among America’s leading low-wage corporations. This year’s edition of the annual Institute for Policy Studies Executive Excess report finds that CEOs of the 100 S&P 500 firms with the lowest median wages, a group we’ve dubbed the “Low-Wage 100,” have enjoyed skyrocketing pay over the past six years.

Air Canada Flight Attendants To Vote On New Tentative Agreement

August 23, 2025 Gabriela Calugay-Casuga, Rabble.ca. Resist! Canada, Flight Attendants, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

Flight attendants with Air Canada are voting on whether to accept a new tentative agreement from their employer. After a high-profile strike, this tentative agreement marks a victory in the face of government intervention in labour negotiations. Represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, flight attendants began a strike on August 16, the same day the employer initiated a lock-out. Negotiations had been ongoing since December 2024, with the parties being sent to conciliation and still not reaching a deal. CUPE made headlines when its membership decided to defy a back-to-work order issued by the Canada Industrial Relations Board. The order was delivered after Minister of Jobs and Families Patty Hadju invoked section 107 of the Canada Labour code which allows the Minister of Labour to take actions they believe would be likely to “secure industrial peace.”

New Jersey Temps Fight Agency Efforts To Block Their Rights

August 22, 2025 Reynalda Cruz and Liana Katz, Labor Notes. Resist! Caribbean, Immigration, Latin America, New Jersey (NJ), Temporary Workers, Worker Rights, Workplace Safety

It’s 5:30 in the morning and the warehouse is already buzzing. Workers are unloading trucks, breaking down pallets, folding boxes, and packing orders to be shipped to local stores. Most of the workers at this New Jersey warehouse are immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean, and most are temps, hired by one of the 200 temp agency branches that advertise warehouse and light manufacturing jobs in the state. These agencies take a cut of workers’ wages while companies save on recruitment, benefits, and payroll costs. Companies use the temp agencies to shirk their responsibilities, since temps are officially agency rather than company employees. For many immigrants in New Jersey, particularly those without legal status, temp work is one of few employment options, but they face low pay and perilous working conditions.

Uncover How Your Employer’s Power Flows

August 21, 2025 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. Organize! Book Review, Employers, Investigation, Unions, Worker Rights

When workers at one company started researching their employer, says a union leader in What the Boss Doesn’t Want Us to Know, “it felt like the curtain was pulled back on Oz. All these things that didn’t make sense to them for so long suddenly made sense.” In their new book, Juravich, Geho, and Gorry share their experience researching private-sector employers and helping unions design strategic campaigns based on what they’ve learned. Then they teach us how to do it. The audience is not just union leaders or staff, but rank and filers who want to build winning workplace campaigns. Most of the information is geared toward the U.S., but there is solid advice for Canadians, too.

Indiana Teamsters Take Fight To UPS CEO Over Contract Violations

August 21, 2025 Fight Back! News. Resist! Indianapolis, Teamsters, Unions, UPS, Worker Rights

Indianapolis, IN – More than 60 members of Teamsters Local 135 rallied outside the UPS facility in Plainfield on Tuesday, August 19, as company UPS CEO Carol Tomé visited the site. The action put the company’s top executive face-to-face with UPS workers’ anger over rampant contract violations, illegal buyout schemes, and building closures that threaten job security and working conditions. “Local 135 has a simple message for Carol Tomé,” said Dustin Roach, president of Teamsters Local 135. “We're done tolerating corporate games and illegal practices.” The rally took place outside the UPS Plainfield hub, the largest in the Indianapolis metro area. Teamsters quickly raised a giant “greedy pig” inflatable, said to represent Tomé’s tenure as CEO, and carried signs reading “No way Tomé” and “UPS lies.”

Worker Protection Agency Ditches Judges For Trump Administration

August 20, 2025 Dave Jamieson, Portside. Educate! Federal Workers, FRLA, Trump Administration, Worker Rights

A small but essential federal agency plans to get rid of its judges who help resolve government workplace disputes, a move unions say will consolidate more power among President Donald Trump’s political appointees and weaken the collective-bargaining system. The Federal Labor Relations Authority has told Congress it will eliminate its administrative law judges as part of a reorganization scheme to comply with the Trump administration’s cost-cutting orders. The judges conduct hearings involving unlawful firings and union contract violations, and issue decisions that can be reviewed by the authority’s three presidentially appointed members.

Member-Organizers Drive A NewsGuild Surge

August 19, 2025 Randy Furst, Labor Notes. Strategize! CWA, Media, Unions, Washington Post, Worker Rights

The news industry has undergone a sea-change in the last two decades. Print readership of newspapers has declined sharply, while their digital readership has edged up slowly. Local newspapers have consolidated into ever larger chains controlled by private equity and vulture funds. Newer digital-only media sites have multiplied. Into this changing news landscape has come an influx of new journalists who bridle at the poor working conditions and low pay inflicted by media moguls building their empires on the cheap. Thousands of these media workers are finding a home in the NewsGuild. The Guild has transformed itself in recent years, thanks to rising rank-and-file militancy and innovative organizing tactics. Since 2020, the Guild has organized 210 workplaces, including some of the largest media organizations in the U.S.

Flight Attendants Defy Back To Work Order

August 19, 2025 Nick Seebruck, Rabble.ca. Resist! Airlines, Canada, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

Labour leaders are condemning the federal government’s usage of Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to end a strike by Air Canada flight attendants. The flight attendants, who are represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are seeking higher wages and an end to unpaid labour. Flight attendants are only paid as long as a plane is in the air. They are not paid for as long as a plane is on the ground, but are still expected to help passengers board and deplane, as well as cleaning the aircraft and preparing food and drinks. Both the union and Air Canada had been negotiating for months, but remained far apart in the lead up to the strike, which began on Friday, August 15.

Common Mistakes Union Organizers Make And How To Avoid Them

August 18, 2025 Bill Barry, Work-Bites. Organize! Labor Movement, Organizers, Unions, Worker Rights

To err is human, to be a union organizer is to make mistakes. We all do it, so don’t sweat it. Here are some tips to try to avoid the next one. Don't wait for people to come to you One of the most common mistakes a union organizer makes is hanging around the union office, hoping to get a call from a group—hopefully a large one—of angry workers who want a union. Unfortunately, you may wait a long time. Set up a proactive organizing strategy with targets that will help your members—like competitors or unorganized divisions. Talk with your members about friends and relatives who work non-union, so they can help get the word out. Guess what? That phone might actually ring.

REI Union Members Win A Major Victory

August 16, 2025 Marie Kelly, Workers World. Strategize! Contract Negotiations, REI, Unions, Worker Rights

Union members at REI won a major victory when REI Co-op, the outdoor recreational gear specialty store, agreed to the demand to establish a national bargaining structure for the 11 unionized REI stores. The REI bargaining committee hailed the agreement as “a tremendous step forward in negotiating a first contract.” Workers at the 11 REI stores are represented by United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Locals 5, 663, 700, 1208, 1445 and 3000 and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) Locals 379 and 1102. First to unionize was the Soho store in New York City, followed by the store in Berkeley, California, in 2022.

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