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  • | Kiada Shanklin center a team leader in the quality department at Stellantiss Jeep Grand Cherokee plant posed with her three children and UAW President Shawn Fain at a contract rally on Sunday in Warren Michigan Her shirt says I have 3 major reasons to strike Photo UAW | MR Online

    Fired-up auto workers are ready to battle the Big 3

    Originally published: Labor Notes on August 21, 2023 by Luis Feliz Leon (more by Labor Notes)  | (Posted Aug 23, 2023)

    Sunday afternoon at the Auto Workers (UAW) Region 1 Pavilion in Warren, Michigan, felt a lot like church. Auto workers came together in sweltering heat to rally each other with fiery speeches, cheers, and songs in the first Big 3 contract rally anyone can remember.

  • | Locked out Ascension Seton Medical Center nurses in Austin Texas confront a representative of the hospitals administration on June 28 The company locked them out for three days after they struck but the move backfired Photo National Nurses United | MR Online

    Newly organized nurses in Texas and Kansas strike for a first contract

    Originally published: Labor Notes on July 11, 2023 by Seth Uzman (more by Labor Notes)  | (Posted Jul 22, 2023)

    Through wet weather in Wichita, Kansas, and scorching heat in Austin, Texas, hundreds of nurses walked picket lines June 27 in a one-day strike for safe staffing and patient safety. Nearly 2,000 nurses represented by National Nurses United (NNU) walked out.

  • | Starbucks workers confront managers at the companys Manhattan regional headquarters on May 1 demanding that the company negotiate and stop retaliating against union activists When workers are fired and victimized for exercising their rights to unionize salting is a completely justified response Photo Jenny Brown | MR Online

    Viewpoint: We are all salts

    Originally published: Labor Notes on May 3, 2023 (more by Labor Notes)  |

    Today’s revival of union “salting” could not be more welcome or more urgently needed.

  • | Newly elected UAW leaders including Secretary Treasurer Margaret Mock third from left and President Shawn Fain fourth from left at the convention on March 29 2023 Fain said The rumble of the election is finished and called on members to unite against the employers Photo Jim West jimwestphotocom | MR Online

    Auto Workers convention lurches towards reversing concessions

    Originally published: Labor Notes on March 30, 2023 by Keith Brower Brown and Jane Slaughter (more by Labor Notes)  | (Posted Mar 31, 2023)

    At the union’s Detroit convention this week, hundreds of delegates–often local leaders–signaled they were less ready than the members to welcome the reform leadership. But there was unanimity that it’s time to finally recoup the divisive contract concessions granted in the 2007-2009 recession.

  • | The University of Minnesotas Graduate Labor Union gathered union authorization cards representing nearly half the bargaining unit in the first 24 hours of the drive Photo Nolan Ferlic | MR Online

    What’s fueling the Graduate Worker Union upsurge?

    Originally published: Labor Notes on March 22, 2023 by Dave Kamper (more by Labor Notes)  | (Posted Mar 25, 2023)

    The Twin Cities saw one of its biggest-ever snowstorms the week of Presidents Day. But for labor activists the snow was overshadowed by the launch of the University of Minnesota Graduate Labor Union.

  • | Workers walked out of the Flint Assembly Plant in the 2019 General Motors strike In a runoff election UAW members have elected a full slate of reformers to lead the union into this years Big 3 auto bargaining and beyond Photo Jake MayThe Flint Journal via AP | MR Online

    It’s a new day in the United Auto Workers

    Originally published: Labor Notes on March 17, 2023 by Luis Feliz Leon and Jane Slaughter (more by Labor Notes)  | (Posted Mar 20, 2023)

    The machine will churn no more. Nearly 80 years of top-down one-party rule in the United Auto Workers are coming to an end. Reformer Shawn Fain is set to be the winner in the runoff for the UAW presidency.

  • | Work Work Work Labor Alienation and Class Struggle | MR Online

    Viewpoint: Confronting the nature of work

    Originally published: Labor Notes on September 1, 2022 (more by Labor Notes)  |

    Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle

  • | After whistleblowing short strikes and a year of contract negotiations Kaiser mental health workers are on their first ever open ended strike They say patients shouldnt have to wait months for a therapy appointment Photo NUHW | MR Online

    Kaiser clinicians strike against ‘separate and unequal’ mental health care

    Originally published: Labor Notes on August 16, 2022 by Cal Winslow (more by Labor Notes)  | (Posted Aug 18, 2022)

    Thousands of Northern California Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians, members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), are on strike.

  • | Here comes round two Amazons battalion of unscrupulous union busters has descended on the Staten Island sorting facility where workers will begin voting April 25 on whether to unionize Its a war in there said Amazon Labor Union Treasurer Madeline Wesley | MR Online

    ‘They’re playing really dirty’: Amazon lashes back in Staten Island warehouses

    Originally published: Labor Notes on April 14, 2022 by Luis Feliz Leon (more by Labor Notes)  | (Posted Apr 16, 2022)

    The company has billed itself as the everything store. Now Amazon is the throw-everything-at-them union-buster—trying every trick in the playbook to throttle worker organizing at its Staten Island warehouses in New York City.

  • | At Spry Elementary in Little Village Chicago 130 students were absent on January 3 and more than 30 percent of students present tested positive for Covid Fifteen out of 18 classrooms at Spry are in quarantine until January 18 | MR Online

    As Omicron rages, teachers and students fight for safety measures in Chicago and elsewhere

    Originally published: Labor Notes on January 13, 2022 by Barbara Madeloni (more by Labor Notes)  | (Posted Jan 16, 2022)

    Chicago Teachers Union members voted by 77 percent on January 4 to go fully remote until effective Covid mitigations to protect educators and students were approved by members and enacted, or until the current Covid surge subsided.

  • | Auto worker activists for direct democracy leafleted at plants across the country to promote a yes vote on the referendum | MR Online

    Auto Workers win direct Democracy in referendum

    Originally published: Labor Notes on December 1, 2021 (more by Labor Notes)  |

    It’s a historic win for reformers in one of the nation’s most important unions, where members have pushed for this change for decades.

  • | This Stewards Corner is an excerpt from No Contract No Peace A Legal Guide to Contract Campaigns Strikes and Lockouts by Robert M Schwartz available from the Labor Notes store | MR Online

    How to picket stores that sell your employer’s products

    Originally published: Labor Notes on November 30, 2021 by Robert M. Schwartz (more by Labor Notes)  | (Posted Dec 02, 2021)

    Note: Consumer picketing can be directed against all products that a struck employer manufactures, processes, distributes, transports, or otherwise enhances in value.

  • | Members of UAW Local 74 at John Deeres Ottumwa Works are among 10000 workers on strike at the farm equipment maker | MR Online

    ‘Let’s put a wrench in things now’

    Originally published: Labor Notes on October 20, 2021 (more by Labor Notes)  |

    Ten thousand John Deere workers in Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas launched an open-ended strike October 14.

  • | Los Angeles teachers began a long anticipated strike in the nations second largest school district Theyre fighting for smaller classes more nurses librarians and counselors and to defend the civic institution of public education from privatization Photo Chris Brooks | MR Online

    Los Angeles teachers strike to defend public schools from the privatizers

    Originally published: Labor Notes on January 14, 2019 by Barbara Madeloni (more by Labor Notes)  | (Posted Jan 17, 2019)

    Last spring a teacher uprising swept the red states. Today it reached the West Coast, as the 34,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles began a long-anticipated strike in the nation’s second-largest school district.

  • | Washington Walkouts Win Teachers Big Raises | MR Online

    Washington walkouts win teachers big raises

    Originally published: Labor Notes on September 20, 2018 by Barbara Madeloni (more by Labor Notes)  | (Posted Sep 24, 2018)

    Fifteen districts started the school year on strike in Washington state—the latest to ride the West Virginia wave.

  • | Teachers strikes | MR Online

    Teachers strikes fever spreads

    Originally published: Labor Notes on March 23, 2018 (more by Labor Notes)  |

    It started with a few hundred West Virginia teachers and school employees pulling one-day walkouts. It became an unqualified victory in that state, which educators elsewhere were quick to emulate.

  • | Free Hugo rally IUPAT District Council 9 International Union of Painters and Allied Trades | MR Online

    Painters union fights to free member from immigration jail

    Originally published: Labor Notes on August 23, 2017 (more by Labor Notes)  |

    Imagine being arrested and detained for months just for showing up to work. That’s what happened to construction workers Hugo Mejia and Rodrigo Nuñez on May 3, when their company sent them to work on a hospital inside Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California.

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