Worker Rights and Jobs

Putting Reentry Out Of Business

May 8, 2025 Calvin John Smiley, In These Times. Strategize! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Mass Incarceration, Prison abolition, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

About a decade ago, Richard Trumka, then president of the AFL-CIO, told a crowd gathered at Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles that “the theme of this event is mass employment, not mass incarceration.” A year earlier, the AFL-CIO had committed to addressing mass incarceration as a labor issue. In his speech at the jobs and reentry organization, where he was introduced by labor leader María Elena Durazo, Trumka described why: “When some people are forced to work for close to nothing, all workers’ living standards are pushed down.” Then, Trumka repeated the refrain “it’s a labor issue because,” followed by explanations about mass incarceration’s impact on families, communities, the economy and voting, among others, until finally: “because labor rights and social justice and civil rights are intertwined.”

Warehouse Workers Power New York City’s Fashion Industry

May 7, 2025 Natascha Elena Uhlmann, Labor Notes. Organize! Fashion Industry, New York City (NYC), Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Minutes from the high-end boutiques of SoHo in Manhattan sits Bergen Logistics’ fulfillment facility in North Bergen, New Jersey, where workers sort, package, and ship hundreds of packages a day for luxury fashion brands including Acne Studios, Kenzo, and Phillip Lim. The workers themselves can’t realistically afford the ornate gowns and crisp suits they ship to online shoppers. Some work two jobs just to stay afloat, and rush to keep up with unit-per-hour expectations. Now they’re fighting for union recognition and the reinstatement of a colleague the union alleges was fired for her organizing. The workers point to the gap between word and action for high-profile brands that publicly claim to care about working conditions.

From Permanent Precarity To Permanent Power

May 6, 2025 Katherine Passley, In These Times. Strategize! Labor Movement, Legal System, Prison, Worker Rights and Jobs

In Florida, the carceral system coerces workers with records into low-wage, precarious jobs by tying their freedom to employment. Background checks bar them from stable work, leaving only the jobs others avoid, quit, or fight to change. At the same time, probation agreements make employment and the payment of court fines and fees a condition of release. Workers with records are destabilized by an economic system that withholds continuity, protections and dignity by design. No other institution — not schools, employers or prisons — invests in the leadership potential of workers with records.

Italy Shows How Amazon Can Be Forced To Bargain

May 3, 2025 Laura Montanari and Jonathan Rosenblum, Truthout. Strategize! Amazon, Italy, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Is Amazon so formidable that it can’t be beaten? Three years after Staten Island warehouse workers won a union election, Amazon’s legal machinations have blocked all bargaining. Amazon delivery drivers and warehouse workers at a handful of sites have demanded direct recognition and bargaining — only to be fired or ignored by the company. Earlier this year, Amazon deployed a full range of union-busting tactics to beat down workers in a union election in North Carolina. Union organizers in the U.S. and elsewhere struggling to build worker power might look to their Italian counterparts for a bit of encouragement.

No Sanctuary: How Hospitals Collaborate With ICE

May 1, 2025 Mike Pappas, Left Voice. Resist! Deportations, Entrapment, Health Care, ICE, Sanctuary, Worker Rights and Jobs

Are hospital staff now staging fake meetings to help ICE trap their employees? That seems to be what happened recently in Minnesota. Aditya Wahyu Harsano’s case highlights how hospital officials do not care about their patients or staff, and underscores the need for healthcare workers to fight back against these attacks. Harsono, a 33-year-old Indonesian supply chain manager at a Minnesota hospital, is a father to an eight-month-old child with special needs who was recently arrested by ICE in his former workplace Avera Hospital in Marshal, MN.

What Do We Do Now? First, Gather To Talk

May 1, 2025 Barbara Madeloni, Labor Notes. Organize! Labor Movement, Trump Administration, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

I don’t have new words for the dizzying abuses of unions, immigrants, and all working people emanating from the White House in the last three months. Like many people, I’ve been cycling through anger, despair, and dismay. The dismay is less about Trump than about the weak and ineffective union response. Between overreliance on lawsuits and calls to “fight back” or even strike with no clear plan, unions have not shown up. I keep wondering, where are the leaders? I get that it’s overwhelming. Trump’s actions are designed to knock us off balance, to keep us hopeless, divided, confused, and afraid. But as organizers we also know what to do when bosses and the billionaires do this.

Belgians To Government: ‘We Won’t Sacrifice Pensions For Warplanes’

April 29, 2025 Ana Vračar, People's Dispatch. Resist! Austerity, Belgium, Worker Rights and Jobs, Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB/PVDA)

Protests against the pro-austerity and pro-militarization plans of Belgium’s Arizona coalition government continue. On Sunday, April 27, thousands of people demonstrated in Brussels, demanding an end to policies that would severely impact workers’ pensions and incomes, and calling for the introduction of a real millionaire’s tax and a politics of peace. “The parties in government want everyone to work longer for less pension, particularly by introducing a malus or weakening pension indexation,” said Raoul Hedebouw, leader of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA), during Sunday’s protest.

Grocery Workers Vs Goliath

April 28, 2025 Sarah Lazare, In These Times. Strategize! Albertsons, Grocery Workers, Krogers, Mergers, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

In early February, when temperatures in Denver plunged to seven degrees below zero and snow dusted the sidewalks, Martin Bonilla, bundled in two jackets and a neck warmer, walked a picket line 1,000 miles from his home of Fillmore, Calif. Bonilla works in the produce department at Vons and had flown to Colorado in the early morning after finishing an 11-and-a-half-hour shift. Over the next eight days, Bonilla picketed five of the 77 striking Kroger-owned King Soopers stores in Colorado, in support of 10,000 members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7, putting in 16-hour shifts each day before going back to his hotel, exhausted.

Liberal Media Blames Trump For Economic Woes That Began Years Ago

April 26, 2025 Jon Jeter, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Economic Security, Presidents, Racial disparities, Unemployment, Worker Rights and Jobs

It is not that Trump’s economic policies improve upon his predecessors in the White House. Indeed there is every reason to believe that his tariffs and deep cuts to the federal workforce will dry up even more the buying power that is the lifeblood of a consumer economy. A second Great Depression is not out of the question. But our economic woes did not begin under Trump; the country was already on the wrong path. Trump merely hit the accelerator. Said Desjon Yisrael, a 35-year-old African American who sells work boots and drives part-time for DoorDash to make ends meet near Greensboro, North Carolina: “It’s the gig economy. It really baffles me that people think that the economy (was) doing really well (under Biden)."

Trump’s Mass Deportation Operation Escalates With Workplace Raids

April 25, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Educate! Donald Trump, Farm Workers, ICE, ICE Raids, Immigration, mass deportations, United States, Vermont, Worker Rights and Jobs

On Monday, April 21, US Customs and Border Protection raided Vermont’s largest dairy farm, detaining eight immigrant workers in the largest immigration raid in the state’s recent history. The next day, ten workers at a Home Depot in Pomona, California were arrested by immigration authorities. Workers across the country are bracing for the possibility that many of their coworkers may fall victim to sudden kidnappings by federal agents in the name of carrying out Trump’s agenda of mass deportations. In a country where undocumented workers perform many of the most essential functions in the nation’s economy, escalating immigration raids could have enormous ripple effects.

Three Times Workers Resisted Fascism In Minnesota History

April 25, 2025 Amie Stager, Workday Magazine. Strategize! Anti-fascism, History, Minnesota, Protests, Worker Rights and Jobs

Workers and unions across the U.S. are raising the alarm about the Trump administration’s attempts to divide the working class. “They want us to be distracted by attacking the working class on innumerable fronts, but we must stand united,” said University of Minnesota Twin Cities graduate worker Greyson Arnold at a recent rally organized by AFSCME 3800, which represents clerical workers, and GLU-UE Local 1105, which represents graduate workers. The Amazon Labor Union-IBT Local 1 located in Staten Island, New York, released a statement on immigrant solidarity, saying they refuse to be divided: “By standing together across all lines of difference, we are building a movement stronger than their fear tactics, stronger than their threats.

Working Homeless People: Laboring Without A Roof

April 23, 2025 Jocelyn Figueroa, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Gig Workers, Homeless, Housing, Human Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs, Working Poor

While homeless and living in a shelter, one of my neighbors was a woman not much older than my Mom. One day, I learned that she was a certified full-time medical assistant. Her husband, disabled, was not able to work. Due to rising rents in New York City, they couldn’t afford to pay their rent anymore. That’s how they eventually landed a few doors down from me. At the time, it just seemed so unbelievable that a medical professional wasn’t able to afford a place to live. Eventually, I realized that most of us in that shelter, aside from those who were disabled or elderly, were working.

Washington State Workers Take The Fight To The Governor

April 23, 2025 Chris Vasseur-Landriault, Labor Notes. Resist! Public employees, Tax the rich, Unions, Washington State, Worker Rights and Jobs

Hundreds of Washington state workers streamed into the capitol building in Olympia on April 9 demanding, “No cuts! No furloughs! Tax, tax the rich!” Our booming chants echoed through the rotunda, making it difficult for legislators to carry on their work. The governor’s office locked the doors on us, so we staged a sit-in in the hallway and marched throughout the capitol building. When the doors were finally opened, we crowded inside—but the only sign of Democratic Governor Bob Ferguson was a small photograph on the front counter. His chief of staff informed our union president, Mike Yestramski, that he would let Bob know we had stopped by.

Chicago Teachers Approve Contract With Remarkable Gains

April 22, 2025 Jackson Potter, Labor Notes. Organize! Chicago Teachers Union, Education, Illinois, Teachers, Unions, Victory, Worker Rights and Jobs

This month, 85 percent of the Chicago Teachers Union’s 27,000 active members voted on a tentative agreement covering 500 public schools across the city. A record 97 percent voted yes. The contract will run from 2024 to 2028, expiring at the same time as the UAW’s contracts with the Big Three. The negotiation drew the greatest level of member participation and support in the CTU’s history and was achieved without a strike or a strike vote. The new contract addresses both bread and butter concerns and common-good demands. Said CTU president Stacy Davis Gates, a member of the union’s Caucus of Rank and File Educators: “It was the whole buffet.”

Trump Guts Support For Disabled Students; Families Are Fighting Back

April 21, 2025 Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout. Resist! Department of Education, Disability Rights, DOGE, Education, Lawsuits, Trump Administration, Worker Rights and Jobs

If the Trump administration and the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) have their way, the basic educational and human rights of students with disabilities will soon be eviscerated. Due to the planned demolition of the Department of Education, the rights of students with disabilities to “a free, appropriate public education” — guaranteed by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) — are under fire. For nearly 50 years, the Department of Education (DOE) has been responsible for distributing funds — $14.2 billion in fiscal year 2025 — to state and local school districts to enable them to educate students with a range of disabilities.

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