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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.

How Workers In The Indian State Of Karnataka Shut Down Production

February 23, 2026 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. , , ,
​Mass detentions, motorcycle rallies, protest marches and demonstrations, pickets in industrial areas forcing factories to shut down, and the ubiquitous red flags fluttering over these actions marked the All-India General Strike on February 12 in South India’s largest state, Karnataka. ​Over 600,000 workers downed tools. Almost 100,000 workers, farmers, and activists participated in street actions across its 31 districts. Production had largely come to a halt in most major industrial areas of the state capital, Bangalore, and the neighboring Ramanagar districts.

Starbucks Workers Rally As National Strike Draws To A Close

February 23, 2026 Katherine Draken, Fight Back! News. , , , , ,
Denver, CO – On February 21, Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) organized a Strike Day of Action at the unionized Starbucks store on 16th Street in Denver, Colorado, to rally workers and supporters to demand the company stop stonewalling contract negotiations and bargain a decent contract with their unionized workers. “I got this job for the benefits, which are being eroded away. I love this job enough to want to make it better for myself and all my coworkers,” said a striking Starbucks barista. SBWU and Starbucks have been in negotiations for the first Starbucks contract since 2021, with Starbucks CEO Bryan Nichols facing mounting pressure from the striking workers.

‘International Unions’ And Trump’s Aggression Against Canada

February 20, 2026 Chris Townsend, Portside. , , , , ,
Trade unionists sometimes daydream about cross border solidarity among unions. Once in a while, we can practice it. Corporations routinely operate in different countries, and the governments they control likewise promote their agendas across borders. It is one of the greatest aspirational goals of working people – the ability to confront bosses regardless of national borders. Marxist forces would understand this cross-border goal reflexively, harkening back to Marx and Engels and their admonition that “Workers of All Countries, Unite!”

Unions Held The Line In 2025 Membership Numbers

February 20, 2026 Keith Brower Brown, Labor Notes. , , ,
For four decades, a federal count of union members has been the annual physical exam for the labor movement. Did we grow or shrink, and where? The tally just came out for 2025. At face value, the number looks better than expected, given a year of open warfare on us from CEOs who want to automate everything and a bloodthirsty federal government. The feds asked 15,000 households per month whether they included a union member. Based on that survey, they estimated an additional 450,000 workers were union members compared to 2024, roughly half of them in the public sector and half in the private sector.

SEIU Renews Drive To Unionize Home Health Care Workers In Virginia

February 1, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. , , , ,
Richmond, Virginia - In what would be a major advance for organized labor in Virginia, Service Employees Local 512 is renewing its campaign to have the state be the official “employer” of thousands of home health care workers in the state to unionize. But to do that, they must first get HB1263/SB378 through the state legislature. It would repeal the state’s Jim Crow-era ban on collective bargaining for state public workers, create a Virginia Home Care Authority to be their employer of record, and create a state Public Employee Relations Board to oversee the whole process—including follow-up union recognition elections.

Amazon’s Robot Revolution

January 13, 2026 Luis Feliz Leon, Portside. , , ,
In 2018, Garfield Hylton became a picker at Amazon’s BHX4 warehouse in Coventry, a city in the English Midlands. BHX4 is the first stop in a product’s journey through Amazon’s distribution network. It’s a holding facility close to ports and railyards; workers there break down bulk shipments to be distributed to fulfillment centers, where orders are stored, picked, packed, and shipped. Hylton was one of about 2,000 workers at the warehouse, supplying tens of millions of items each year to the United Kingdom and Europe. The facility, less than ten miles from two major highways and the Birmingham Airport, had once been an auto manufacturing plant—a Jaguar factory that closed in 2004, resulting in the loss of 2,000 union jobs.

This Year In Labour: Workers Fight Back Despite Instability And Hardship

December 31, 2025 Gabriela Calugay-Casuga, Rabble. , , , ,
For workers and their families in Canada, the year has been rough. About one in five Canadians experience high financial pressure, according to data collected by the Angus Reid Institute. This financial pressure is driven by relatively high job insecurity, difficulty putting food on the table and higher debt levels. Many of these families are bracing for even more financial hardship in the new year, with 60 per cent expecting an increased level of difficulty in 2026. Thousands of Canadians are losing their jobs amid U.S. president Donald Trump’s tariffs and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cuts to the public service.

In 2025, Educators Didn’t Just Endure Repression; They Built Resistance

December 28, 2025 Jesse Hagopian, Truthout. , , , ,
On a humid June afternoon, I arrived at Florida International University expecting to give what I thought would be a standard talk on my new book, Teach Truth, about the escalating assault on antiracist education. But when historian and freedom fighter Dr. Marvin Dunn took me to the campus, he made clear this would be no ordinary event. “This is Florida,” he said. “They banned saying ‘systemic racism’ in the classroom.” I knew this was true in theory. But when he locked eyes with me and I saw the turmoil beneath his composure, it became profoundly real.

Worker-Owned Cooperatives Are Rising In New York

December 28, 2025 Camille Luong, The Chief. , , , ,
At most workplaces, there is a boss and an employee. The boss calls the shots — how much employees get paid, what drinks get put on the menu, what the exterior and interior design of the workplace will look like and more. If workers get burnt out, they either get fired or quit, with little say on how things get run or how they could change. What if, instead, the binary between worker and owners was shattered, and workplaces were run collectively by worker-owners? This was the question that Boyfriend Co-op, a lesbian cafe-bar in Bushwick, Brooklyn, sought to answer when they opened nine months ago, joining a movement of more than 85,000 worker-owner cooperatives around the world.
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