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Workers At Sheraton Downtown Hotel Strike For Second Straight Day

June 23, 2026 Michaela Althouse, PhillyVoice. , , , ,
Hospitality workers at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown hotel in Center City are continuing their strike into a second day after walking off the job Sunday morning. Represented by the Unite Here Local 274 union, workers are seeking a wage increase from $22.11 to $30 per hour for non-tipped employees by 2028, a decrease from a 16-room to a 15-room quota per day for housekeeping staff and 18% banquet gratuity. Unite Here said the demands are in line with a new citywide standard at five other unionized hotels in Center City. The union initially set a strike deadline of June 12, but extended it after workers at two other hotels were able to reach an agreement with management for new contracts.

Japan’s Volunteer Labour Bank

June 23, 2026 Mari Nishitani, Grassroots Economic Organizing. , , , , ,
Teruko Mizushima is a founder of the Volunteer Labour Bank in Japan. If you are a time-bank enthusiast, you’ve probably heard her referred to as the creator of the world’s first-ever time bank. Have you ever wondered: how the “first-ever time bank” functioned? How big a thing was the time bank in Japan? Does Japan have a time bank as part of society now? This short article delves deeper into the story of the “world's first time bank.” Don’t worry! Her story will not disappoint you, and you will be even more fascinated with time banks by the time you finish reading.

The Biggest Union-Busting Drive In US History

June 9, 2026 Gary Wilson, Struggle - La Lucha. ,
The bosses came after the unions the moment Trump took office, and they have not let up since. In a little over a year, the Trump administration has paralyzed the National Labor Relations Board, stripped collective bargaining rights from more than a million federal workers, slashed wages for hundreds of thousands of private-sector workers on government contracts, and joined Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other union-busters in a court fight to abolish the labor board outright. It is the largest anti-union offensive the country has ever seen.

REI Workers Launch Consumer Boycott Of Chain

May 12, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. , , , ,
Bellingham, Washington. — The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Workers, who represent the employees at the REI retail outdoor equipment chain, a co-op, asked REI’s 70,000 co-op members and other consumers to vote with their feet and stay away from its stores. The boycott began on May Day after the chain management failed to reach an agreement with the union by the deadline set by the RWDSU. The workers now plan to strike from May 15-25 against the chain, which likes to advertise itself as pro-worker and ecologically friendly. Those dates coincide with REI’s big anniversary sale.

The Billionaires Have Two Parties: An Organizer’s Review

May 12, 2026 Steve Lawton, Labor Notes. , , , ,
In my 25 years as a union organizer and labor educator, my core purpose has been to help working-class people recognize and act on their own power. In that work, I’ve come to rely heavily on the writing of Les Leopold. Whether it was running workshops based on his Reversing Runaway Inequality in the lead-up to the 2016 Verizon strike, or using Wall Street’s War on Workers as a teaching text with union apprentice electricians, Leopold’s work has helped me translate complex political economics into something workers can engage with, debate, and act on.

April Job Market Report Mixed

May 11, 2026 Masao Suzuki, Fight Back! News. , , ,
San José, CA – On Friday, May 8, the Bureau of Labor Statistics or BLS, which is under the federal Department of Labor, released their monthly job market report for the month of April. The report was mixed, with strength shown by businesses while households showed weaknesses, reflecting the growing polarization in the economy. The employment report, based on a survey of businesses, was strong relative to the weak hiring in 2025, with 115,000 new jobs created. There were still pockets of weakness, with government jobs declining by 8000, making April the seventh month in a row of job losses by government workers.

Google AI Workers Unionize Against Tech Giant’s Role In US, Israeli War Crimes

May 6, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , , , , , , ,
On 6 May, Google DeepMind workers in the UK asked management to recognize the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite the Union as their workplace representatives, as staff prepare to challenge the use of Google AI technology by the US and Israeli militaries. “We don’t want our AI models complicit in violations of international law, but they already are aiding Israel’s genocide of Palestinians,” one DeepMind employee said. “Even if our work is only used for administrative purposes, as leadership has repeatedly told us, it is still helping make genocide cheaper, faster, and more efficient.

May Day 2026: Why Black Workers Must Mobilize

April 26, 2026 Cameron Harrison, People's World. , , , ,
For most of Jay Ozier’s decades as a trade union activist in St. Louis, May Day came and went just like any other workday. A small fundraising breakfast for People’s World here, a few comrades and likeminded fellow workers gathered there—but nothing like the international working-class holiday celebrated in countries all over the world. But this year, that’s changing. Now, there are plans for over a thousand rallies in cities across the country—with many led by organized labor, including dozens of central labor councils, state labor federations, and now even the national AFL-CIO itself signing on.

Unite Escalates Strike Action Against Below-Inflation Pay For Workers

April 20, 2026 Alex/Rose Cocker, The Canary. , , , , , ,
On 20 April, Unite the Union announced that more than 1,100 workers at five Scottish universities will stage a 24-hour strike. The industrial action is scheduled for 24 April to dispute an imposed real-terms pay cut. Unite members at Glasgow, Strathclyde, Glasgow School of Art, Edinburgh Napier and Heriot Watt universities will take part. At 12:30pm on the same day, 24 April, Unite will also hold a Pay and Fair Funding Rally. The assembly will take place at the top of Buchanan Street, next to the Concert Hall and Donald Dewar statue.

Second Minneapolis Workers’ Assembly Prepares For May Day

April 13, 2026 Rachel and Pola Posen, Left Voice. , , , ,
Minneapolis, Minnesota - On Saturday, April 4, in another meaningful demonstration of worker power and solidarity, nearly 200 workers and activists gathered for a second Workers’ Assembly in Minneapolis to prepare for May Day. The room filled with rank-and-file teachers, bus drivers, logistic workers, and workers from other sectors, both unionized and non-unionized. In contrast to union or social movement meetings where attendees are treated as constituents rather than political actors, members of the assembly brought proposals, openly debated them, and voted decisions to act on.

Teamsters Health Care Workers To Picket Hospital For Fair Contract

April 13, 2026 Brandon Chew, People's World. , , , ,
Chicago, Illinois - University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) health care workers are “drastically underpaid” compared to other hospitals in Chicago, Debra Simmons-Peterson, president of Teamsters Local 743 told People’s World. Simmons-Peterson spoke at a rally Thursday in which hospital workers protested pay rates that don’t reflect the rising costs of living in the Chicago area. The health care workers’ collective bargaining agreement with the medical center expired on March 9. The rally included fellow Teamsters, SEIU Healthcare workers, as well as local pastors, alderpersons, and other elected officials, and the Chicago Federation of Labor.

100,000 Join National Strike Against Austerity In Belgium

March 13, 2026 Ana Vračar, People's Dispatch. , , , , , ,
On Thursday, March 12, 100,000 people joined another national demonstration and strike against the anti-people reforms of the so-called Arizona coalition in Belgium. Trade unions, feminist networks, international solidarity organizations, and many more took to the streets in Brussels to oppose plans to promote and finance militarization at the expense of workers’ salaries and pensions. “Our main messages today are: first, ‘stop the pension malus,’ because it’s a punishment that will affect people who can’t work until age 67,” Selena Carbonero Fernandez, general secretary of the trade union confederation FGTB-ABVV, told local media ahead of the action.

Women Workers Won’t Settle For Less

March 6, 2026 Andrea Egan, Morning Star. , , ,
International Women’s Day and the TUC Women’s Conference are opportunities for women in the labour movement to come together and discuss the challenges ahead for working-class women. Women make up the majority of the public service workforce, yet we bear the brunt of unsafe staffing levels, low pay, discrimination and impossible workloads. The average pay disparity between men and women is a massive 12.8 per cent. In education and for the health and social care sector, where women outnumber men, the gender pay gap is 17 per cent and 12.8 per cent.

Four Union Strategies To Fight Artificial Intelligence

March 6, 2026 Keith Brower Brown, Labor Notes. , , ,
A corporate artificial intelligence frenzy is sowing fear for workers on a massive scale. Seventy-one percent of people in the U.S., according to a Reuters poll on A.I., are concerned “too many people will lose jobs.” Wall Street and Big Tech are running a huge hype machine to back up their massive, risky investment in A.I., pledging it will drive a “productivity surge,” meaning fewer workers and more profits. But workers can take heart that, so far, it’s mostly hot air. To date, A.I. is making few profits. It can be helpful at a few tasks—rough drafts of computer code, summaries of reams of data—but is rarely the equal of human talent otherwise.

New Oregon Union Coalition Will Make A Push For ‘Climate Jobs’

February 28, 2026 Don McIntosh, People's World. , , ,
Portland, OR — A newly formed coalition of Oregon unions will advocate for a union-built transition to clean energy. And it has a big head start on how to achieve that: A book-length set of policy recommendations from the Climate Jobs Institute, part of Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. The group is called Climate Jobs Oregon. It held its public launch on January 23 at the IBEW Local 48 hall in Portland, followed by tours of four construction union training centers. The launch party was packed with state, county, and city elected officials and their staffs, and attendees applauded the commitment of sponsoring unions to promote green jobs that are good jobs too.
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