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🗓️Tomorrow, Wednesday, July 23: Stewards' Workshop Join workers and learn to train stewards and to maintain connections across a network. With special guest Nicholas Bedell from the NewsGuild-CWA. Sign up here: labornotes.org/events/2025/st…
Food and Commercial Workers Local 700 members across Indiana voted a second time to reject an offer that included a wage increase of just $0.90 over 3 years for starting pay and a $200 Kroger gift card that members called “insulting.” @lilacisms reports: labornotes.org/2025/07/8000-i…
“The less members know about their union, the less control they have,” said Alex McCarron, a draftsperson in Local 52 and 829. “That ignorance might make leadership's jobs easier in the short term, but over time it undermines their bargaining position.” labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/…
"People are seeing it’s their own coworkers, loved ones, neighbors—those who run cherished community institutions and anyone who stands up for them—being terrorized by ICE. Some unions are organizing to defend workers in their communities regardless of whether they're members."
NEW on the Labor Notes Podcast: Union members say that organizing around immigration defense in the workplace and in their communities has also helped mobilize members who've felt left behind by their unions Listen to the full episode: labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/fight-ice-bu… 1/3
🗓️ TODAY, Monday, July 21, 7 p.m. ET: Join workers for a discussion about how unions are coordinating bargaining and even aligning their contracts to maximize leverage in negotiations. Sign up here: labornotes.org/events/2025/we…
Union members covered by the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, a 1959 federal law, have due process rights including a “full and fair hearing,” with written notice of the charges beforehand: labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/…
🗓️Wednesday, July 23: Stewards’ Workshop—Build a Steward Network Learn to train stewards and to maintain connections across a network. With special guest Nicholas Bedell from the NewsGuild-CWA. Sign up here: labornotes.org/events/2025/st…
BREAKING: 8,000 rank-and-file Kroger workers in Indiana just REJECTED a subpar contract for the 2nd time. The offer included an insulting $200 Kroger gift card and $0.90 over 3 years for starting pay. Workers know they’re worth more — and they’re ready to fight for it.
“Anybody who thinks we have to ignore certain issues or avoid certain political conversations in order to grow the base, they don’t understand what it means to grow the base,” said Ryan Andrews, English teacher and member of United Teachers of Los Angeles labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/fight-ice-bu…
NEW on the Labor Notes Podcast: Union members say that organizing around immigration defense in the workplace and in their communities has also helped mobilize members who've felt left behind by their unions Listen to the full episode: labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/fight-ice-bu… 1/3
Federal workers can negotiate working conditions, and in May 2024, EPA workers were able to get language in their 4-year contract to “protect scientific integrity and safeguard the agency’s mission from political attacks,” according to AFGE’s Council 238: labornotes.org/2025/07/enviro…
This week, baristas are standing up to short-staffing by organizing actions across the country! In Lancaster, PA workers walked off their shift and demanded Starbucks resume good-faith bargaining with our union. It's time to listen to your partners, Starbucks! @LancasterSBWU
The LMRDA prohibits unions from retaliating against members for exercising the rights the law grants them, including free speech and the right to run for office: labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/…
🗓️Webinar: Monday, July 21 Join workers for a discussion about how unions are coordinating bargaining and even aligning their contracts to maximize leverage in negotiations Sign up here: labornotes.org/events/2025/we…
Most unions members have a legal right to due process within their unions, and protections against improper discipline, under a 1959 federal law called the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act: labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/…
