Worker Rights

What It Will Take To Get US Citizens To Work The Farm?

August 4, 2025 Samuel Benson, Portside. Strategize! California, Farmworkers, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Wages, Worker Rights

The agriculture sector is on edge like never before. With ICE officers chasing undocumented immigrants through fields and barging into meatpacking plants, workers are spooked. Even before the farm raids, workforce shortages and economic uncertainty rankled the industry. Now, as harvest season arrives for many crops, concerns are growing that there may not be enough workers out there to feed the country. To Dolores Huerta, it’s an unprecedented problem caused squarely by the Trump administration. “It’s an atrocity, what they’ve been doing to the immigrant community,” Huerta said in an interview with POLITICO Magazine.

In Italy, Immigrant Workers Launch A Wave Of Strikes

July 30, 2025 Morganne Blais-McPherson and Sarah Caudiero, Labor Notes. Resist! Immigrants, Italy, Strikes, Worker Rights

Since early April, immigrant workers in the Tuscan city of Prato have staged a wave of strikes demanding their right to a 40-hour work week, or “8x5.” Organized by the union SUDD Cobas, these walkouts, dubbed “Strike Days,” have directly involved 70 textile and garment factories in Europe’s biggest textile manufacturing hub. Highly successful, these simultaneous strikes have now won “8x5”—eight hour days, five days a week—in 68 fashion workshops and warehouses, all within the span of 14 weeks. These victories are the result of seven years of organizing in one of Italy’s most infamous industrial zones.

‘The Pitt’ Production Assistants Launch Landmark Unionization Drive

July 28, 2025 Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter. Resist! Entertainment, Hollywood, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

The hit, Emmy-nominated show The Pitt is notching another distinction: In a rare move, its production assistants are announcing an attempt to unionize. Support staffers on the second season of the show requested voluntary recognition for a union and filed a petition for an election with the National Labor Relations Board on Friday, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Their effort is the first backed by Production Assistants United — a movement that aims to unionize this class of workers nationwide — to go public. “This is the first time ever that we can say PAs and assistants are unionizing on a show like this in film and TV,” says Production Assistants United organizer Ethan Ravens, who like other leaders in the movement is a production assistant himself. “It’s huge.”

Fenway Park Concessions Workers On Strike

July 25, 2025 Ted Wayman, WCVB. Resist! Boston, Red Sox, Strike, Unions, Worker Rights

For the first time in Fenway Park's 113-year history, concession and restaurant workers went on strike Friday as the Boston Red Sox begin a three-game series with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Members of UNITE HERE Local 26, who work for Aramark, providing food services in the historic ballpark and the neighboring MGM Music Hall, had set a strike deadline of noon on Friday to reach an agreement. As negotiations continue for a new collective bargaining agreement, the union said its key demands are: citywide-standard wages; guardrails on automation; increased gratuity for premium workers who serve season ticket holders and special guests; and fair scheduling that respects workers' seniority.

Confront Or Cave? Federal Pressure Splits Building Trades

July 24, 2025 Natascha Elena Uhlmann and Keith Brower Brown, Labor Notes. Educate! Building Trades, DEI, Trump Administration, Unions, Worker Rights

One of the last nationwide bastions of union jobs is getting jackhammered by the Trump administration. Members are languishing in ICE prisons without trial. Programs that protect members from racism and sexism are getting the axe. In response, building trades officers are split: some are pleading, some are protesting, and others are surrendering without a fight. Out of nine million construction workers in the U.S., one million had a union last year. Since the 1970s, when about forty percent of U.S. hardhats wore union stickers, anti-union developers have kicked unions out from most residential and private building sites.

8,000 Indiana Kroger Workers Vote Down Contract A Second Time

July 22, 2025 Caitlyn Clark, Labor Notes. Resist! Contract Negotiations, Grocery Workers, Krogers, Unions, Worker Rights

Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 700 members across Indiana voted on July 10 and 11 to reject a tentative agreement covering 8,000 Kroger retail workers. This is the second contract Kroger workers have rejected, after 74 percent voted down the first offer in May. Local 700 has not announced the vote percentage on the second tentative agreement. Kroger’s offer included a wage increase of just $0.90 over 3 years for starting pay, along with a $200 Kroger gift card that members called “insulting.” “That $200 gift card felt like a huge joke,” said Andrea Reynolds, a 27-year Kroger worker in Kokomo. “I couldn’t tell you how many contracts I’ve been through, and that is the lowest ratification ‘bonus’ we’ve ever had.”

What It’s Like To Work At A Tech Worker Co-op

July 22, 2025 Catalyst Cooperative, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperative, Tech Workers, Technology, Worker Rights

Catalyst Cooperative is an all-remote, 8-person, tech worker cooperative based in North America. The coop was founded in 2017 with the mission to make US energy system data more accessible. Catalyst's main objectives are to curate the free, open-source Public Utilities Data Liberation project (PUDL) and help clients navigate a myriad of energy or environmental data needs. We filmed this interview to help researchers or coop-curious individuals learn more about what it's like working at a tech cooperative.

From Workplace To Wall Street; Technologies Impacting Mine Workers

July 18, 2025 Ericka Wills, Power at Work. Strategize! Black Lung, Indigenous Activism, Mining, UMWA, Unions, Worker Rights, Workplace Safety

When considering workplace artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and new digital technologies, one might envision workers in Silicon Valley or remote factory robotics. However, coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) are addressing the effects of technological change in coal mines and Wall Street from New York City to the Navajo Nation. In the workplace, contemporary mining technologies and practices without adequate regulations and implementation of safety technologies have resulted in a surge of silica-dust-induced Black Lung disease.

Inside Your Union, You Have Due Process Rights

July 18, 2025 Cathy Highet, Labor Notes. Strategize! Legal System, Rank and File, Unions, Worker Rights

Suppose you run for local union office on a reform slate, and nearly win… but then the incumbent leaders trump up charges against you. You’re sure your only crime is challenging them, but they brand your organizing “dual unionism” or “conduct unbecoming a member.” They hold a trial, find you guilty, and suspend your membership. Do you have any recourse? Most unions have an internal discipline process—a way to expel, suspend, or fine members for breaking the union’s rules. Most members have a legal right to due process, and protections against improper discipline, under a 1959 federal law called the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act.

Medicare Advantage Is Such A Threat To Workers, They Wrote A Paper On It

July 17, 2025 Joe Maniscalco, Work-Bites. Educate! Health Care, Medicare Advantage, Privatization, Worker Rights

This past April, labor advocates for single payer health care published a white paper called, “Medicare Advantage: What Labor Leaders Need to Know.”In it, the authors remind labor leaders—including those in New York City who spent the last four years trying to push 250,000 municipal retirees into Medicare Advantage—that Medicare Advantage is “neither Medicare (the public, universal program without intermediaries between patients and the healthcare they need), nor is it an Advantage, except to profit-driven insurance companies.”

Coping With Climate Crises On The Job

July 17, 2025 Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes. Organize! climate crisis, Extreme weather, Heat, Smoke, Worker Rights, Workplace Safety

Heat, smoke, flooding, hurricanes, fires, turbulence—on the job, workers are already facing the ravages of a changing climate. These problems are ripe for organizing—usually everyone is feeling it. Often it’s very clear what solution would help, and who could deliver it. Such fights don’t address the underlying causes of climate change. But they’re opportunities to build union power by strengthening the bonds among co-workers and getting folks into action together. And they can open the door to talking about how confronting climate change at its root is a union issue, too.

Trash Pickup Strikes Spread Nationwide

July 12, 2025 Mike Ludwig, Truthout. Resist! Sanitation Workers, Solidarity, Strikes, Unions, Wages, Worker Rights

A local sanitation workers strike that began on July 1 in Boston, Massachusetts, and left trash unpicked across the city is now spreading nationwide in a series of labor actions coordinated by the Teamsters union as frustrated workers demand better pay and benefits from Republic Services, a major waste disposal company. The Teamsters said in an email on Friday that about 550 sanitation workers were on strike in multiple cities while 1,600 others refused to cross picket line extensions in solidarity with the strikers at local Republic Services sites in Massachusetts, Georgia, Illinois, Washington State, and California.

Union Healthcare Workers Strike Across Minnesota

July 12, 2025 Fight Back! News. Resist! Health Care, Healthcare workers, Minnesota, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

Minneapolis, MN – On Tuesday, July 8 around 300 registered nurses working at clinics for Essentia Health In Northern Minnesota began an open-ended strike. The nurses are represented by the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) and have filed unfair labor practice charges against their boss Essentia Health. Management is refusing to bargain in good faith with the unionized workers. Two days into the nurses’ strike, on July 10, around 430 MNA members, advanced practice providers (APP), also walked off the job in dozens of locations. These workers began an open-ended strike of their own against Essentia Health.

Teamsters Union Exposes UPS Plan To Reduce Union Jobs Through Buyouts

July 10, 2025 Sorcha Lona and Siobhan Moore, Fight Back! News. Resist! Buyout Schemes, Unions, UPS, Worker Rights

Minneapolis, MN – On July 3, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters published an alert laying out a plan by the United Parcel Service (UPS) to offer buyouts for UPS drivers to retire early in exchange for cash payouts. When the Teamsters sent out the alert, UPS had not yet announced the plan publicly. Then on July 4, the company announced the plan which they are calling the Driver Voluntary Severance Program (DVSP). For many drivers, taking the buyout would forfeit benefits they have accrued as part of their contract. Carol Tomé is the CEO of UPS, and the company has been focused recently on plans to reduce jobs at UPS across the country.

The Anti-Labor Forces Pushing The Abundance Movement

July 9, 2025 Dylan Gyauch-Lewis, In These Times. Educate! Abundance Movement, Anti-worker laws, Democrats, Labor Movement, Unions, Worker Rights

The post-Reconstruction United States has never seen durable progressive change without the labor movement’s involvement. The postwar economy’s rapid, widely distributed gains in material conditions for everyday Americans may be the banner accomplishment, but the movement’s contributions to progress go far further. Working women organized through the labor movement became significant drivers of the suffrage movement. Unions played an essential role in the Civil Rights movement, including the steelworkers and UAW providing crucial support for the March on Washington.

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