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Teamsters At The University Of Minnesota Begin Strike!

September 11, 2025 Fight Back! News. , , , , ,
Minneapolis, MN – Roughly 1400 Workers at the University of Minnesota walked off the job on Monday night, September 8. beginning an open-ended strike. The workers are represented by Teamsters Local 320 and do grounds maintenance, facilities, dining services and many other important jobs that keep the university running. The strike began on Monday night on the Crookston campus. After that, Duluth joined in, and the Twin Cities campus, which is the largest of the university campuses, began striking on Tuesday night with a large opening rally. In the Twin Cities, around 500 Teamsters and union supporters rallied Tuesday night at 7 p.m. to support and kick off the campus pickets.

Amazon Fires 150 Unionized Third-Party Drivers

September 10, 2025 Lauren Aratani, The Guardian. , , ,
Amazon has fired more than 150 unionized drivers working for a third-party contractor in Queens, New York, according to the Teamsters union. Workers rallied at the company’s DBK4 facility in Queens on Monday after the company fired the drivers, who worked for Cornucopia, a delivery service provider (DSP) that Amazon contracted with to make deliveries. Amazon works with more than 3,000 DSPs around the world who deliver the company’s packages. The Teamsters said the firings were in retaliation for unionizing. “Amazon is breaking the law and we let the public know it,” said Antonio Rosario, a member of local 804 and a Teamster organizer, in a statement. “Amazon workers will continue to organize and fight for what they deserve.”

Sweeping Immigration Raid At Hyundai Plant Is An Attack On All Workers

September 6, 2025 Madeleine Freeman, Left Voice. , , , ,
Hundreds of masked federal agents flooded the construction site of a future electric vehicle battery factory at Hyundai Motor’s massive manufacturing complex in Georgia on September 4 to conduct a sweeping immigration raid and a vicious attack on immigrant workers. Over 450 people were arrested at the end of their work day in what is the largest single-site workplace raid since the Trump administration launched its brutal deportation campaign across the country. Those workers are now detained in ICE facilities, cut off from their families, and threatened with deportation. Hyundai and LG Energy Solution, the two companies building the plant, have given carte blanche to law enforcement to conduct its investigation and target the workers building the factory; meanwhile, they have assured their investors that production has not stalled at the other sites at the complex.

British Columbia Public Service Workers Escalate Their Job Action

September 6, 2025 Gabriela Calugay-Casuga, Rabble. , , , , ,
BC public services workers expanded their picket lines to include 90 workers at the British Columbia Ministry of Finance in Vancouver on Thursday. The move came after the British Columbia General Employees’ Union (BCGEU), representing the more than 2,600 striking workers, said the provincial government has shown “no indication” of willingness to return to the bargaining table. Job action began on Tuesday, with picket lines going up in Prince George, Surrey and at sites across Victoria. Members of BCGEU held a strike vote from August 11 to 29. More than 92 per cent of voters had called for a strike. “Public service workers fight fires, staff emergency lines, and care for our most vulnerable. But these workers are facing an affordability crisis,” said BCGEU President Paul Finch.

Following Sol Power Solar’s Example, R.I. Worker Co-Ops Gain Energy

September 6, 2025 Eric Halvarson, ecoRI News. , , , , ,
Charlestown, R.I. – Sol Power Solar has installed renewable energy for more than 1,100 customers since becoming an early pioneer in Rhode Island’s solar industry in 2013. The staff credit this success to the company’s business model, in which each employee is an equal owner of the company. Now, Sol Power and a group of fellow cooperative businesses are trying to pave the way for workers to democratically run their own workplaces across the state. When Eric Beecher founded Sol Power, he always knew he wanted it to be democratically run. “It just seemed to me like the best way to run a company, kind of the fairest and most sustainable way to do it,” said Beecher, who notes the company is technically an LLC because it was established before the state allowed businesses to register as workers’ cooperatives.

Labor: Turning The Corner? It Will Take More Than Mobilization

September 5, 2025 Michael Eisenscher, Portside. , , ,
It has been called the postwar labor-management accord, social compact or contract, industrial truce, accommodation, and detente. By whatever name, out of the years during and immediately following World War II emerged a system of labor relations markedly different from that preceding the war. The New Deal-era labor movement which had been engaged in sharp, seemingly intractable conflicts with the nation’s corporate giants, had been guided by solidarity, militant collective action, considerable membership initiative and authority, and a broad sense of class interest — earning it the characterization as “social movement” unionism. It included a significant number of workers who questioned the very assumptions on which capitalist production relations were founded and who had an alternative socialist vision for society.

Kawasaki Workers On Strike In The Philippines, And Need Your Solidarity

September 5, 2025 Richard Balberan, Labor Notes. , , , ,
Kawasaki is trying to bust our union. Before negotiations stalled over wage demands in 2024, the Kawasaki United Labor Union (KULU) had represented workers at the Japanese motorcycle manufacturer’s Filipino operations for 57 years, winning good contracts for members, which kept wages strong and working conditions safe. But for the last year, management has refused to bargain seriously, forcing us out on strike for the first time in our union’s history. We’ve now been on strike for over 100 days. Management is now moving backwards in bargaining as part of their effort to break our union once and for all. They are threatening us with lawsuits and filing charges against union leadership for an “illegal strike” in an effort to intimidate us and to stop us from exercising our rights.

Crime Bosses: Here Are The Ten Worst Employers In New York City

September 5, 2025 Steve Wishnia, Work-Bites. , , , ,
Most of the city’s ten worst labor-law violators listed by Comptroller Brad Lander’s office Sept. 3 come from typical categories of low-wage employers: tech giants Amazon and DoorDash, nonunion construction contractors, and home health-care agencies and nursing homes. The anti-awards were given for “egregious violations in ten categories including wrongful termination, prevailing wage violations, wage theft, and willful violations of workplace safety laws,” the comptroller’s office said. They were based on information compiled by its Bureau of Labor Law and Workers Rights. Amazon made the list for having 180 open unfair-labor-practice complaints against it with the National Labor Relations Board, far more than any other employer in the city from 2020 to 2024.

Hundreds Of Staff At California National Parks To Unionize

September 3, 2025 Dani Anguiano, The Guardian. , , , ,
Hundreds of staff at two of California’s most popular national parks have voted to unionize, a move that comes during a troubled summer for the National Park Service, which has seen the Trump administration enact unprecedented staff and budget cuts. In an election held between July and August, more than 97% of workers at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon national parks voted in support of organizing a union, according to a statement from the National Federation of Federal Employees. The Federal Labor Relations Authority certified the results last week. “I am honored to welcome the Interpretive Park Rangers, scientists, biologists, photographers, geographers, and so many other federal employees in essential roles at both Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon to our union,” said Randy Erwin, the NFFE national president.

Crackdown On Immigrant Workers At Cheese Factory Triggers Backlash

September 2, 2025 Ruth Conniff, Wisconsin Examiner. , , , ,
“This fight is all of labor’s fight,” Kevin Gundlach, president of the South Central Federation of Labor, declared at a “solidarity dinner” for 43 immigrant workers who recently lost their jobs at a Monroe, Wisconsin cheese factory. “Even Wisconsinites who don’t know about the story, should know in a cheesemaking state we should support cheesemakers.” The workers, some of whom labored for more than 20 years at W&W Dairy, were told in August they would have to submit to E-Verify screening and confirm their legal status in order to continue their employment after a new company, Kansas-based Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), bought the cheese plant.

A Time For Bold Vision: Labor’s Call For Economic Justice

September 1, 2025 Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou, Minnesota Reformer. , , ,
On this Labor Day, as the Trump administration systematically attacks workers and undercuts labor rights, it is not enough for the labor movement to oppose what is happening. While resistance is essential, we must also chart a path forward — one that clearly articulates what we stand for and the future we are building. A future where all workers — working people of all identities, backgrounds, education, abilities, size, expression and status — feel safety, security and solidarity from their union and labor movement. Local union members recently created an agenda called “Our Shared Vision for Workers’ Rights and Economic Justice” that is the result of listening to workers who understand firsthand what working people need to thrive.

Medicare Pilot Hands Denials To Private Algorithms

August 31, 2025 Alexis Sterling, Nation of  Change. , , , ,
The Trump administration is launching a pilot program in six states that will allow artificial intelligence to help decide whether elderly Americans can receive certain medical procedures under traditional Medicare. The move has been likened by critics to the creation of “AI death panels,” with experts and advocates warning it risks importing the most unpopular practices of private insurance into the federal health program. The pilot, officially named the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction Model, is scheduled to begin in January and last six years. It will run in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington. Under the program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will hire private companies to use A.I. tools to make “prior authorization” decisions—determinations about whether Medicare will pay for particular procedures.

The Labor Education That Workers Need Most

August 29, 2025 Helena Worthen, Dollars & Sense. , , ,
What kind of knowledge do you need the most in order to make a decent living and avoid getting injured or beaten up by your job? It’s not those hard skills that take years of costly training, or the work-ethic skills that workforce development planners promote. It’s labor education. Narrowly defined, it means how to organize a union, plus all the ancillary leadership, mobilizing, negotiation, education, and enforcement responsibilities that come with that. Much of this is quite technical. It’s also philosophy. Broadly defined, it’s essentially the arts and sciences from a working-class perspective. The narrow definition of what people learn in labor education classes reflects the reality that our labor relations system is unusually complex.

FEMA Employees Who Signed Dissent Letter Put On Leave

August 27, 2025 Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill. , , ,
Employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) were placed on leave on Tuesday after signing their names to a public letter criticizing the agency’s leadership, according to a group that helped facilitate the letter’s publication. More than 180 current and former FEMA staffers signed a public letter warning that the Trump administration is weakening the disaster response agency’s capacity and preventing it from carrying out its mission. Thirty-six staffers signed their names, the group told The Hill, while others signed anonymously. The letter was published online by the group Stand Up for Science but was addressed to the FEMA Review Council, which the Trump administration set up to explore ways to reform the agency. It also was sent to various congressional committees.

‘Workers Over Billionaires’ Labor Day Events Climb To Nearly 600 Across US

August 26, 2025 Insider NJ, Portside. , , ,
Washington, D.C. — After gathering more than 2,400 people for an incredible virtual call on August 14 featuring multiple labor leaders, “Workers Over Billionaires” events scheduled for Labor Day (September 1) soared to 584 events and counting across the country. On September 1st, the May Day Strong Coalition will continue the movement they launched together on May 1st, standing in solidarity with all communities under attack and fighting for real wins for all people. Thousands of communities across the country are taking a stand on Labor Day. Workers will be in the streets, outside the offices of corporate executives, and at congressional offices. Together they will demand a country that puts workers over billionaires.
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