Natascha Elena

Beyond excited to join the @labornotes team, where I'll be covering immigrant workers and the Mexican labor movement 🔥 Got an organizing campaign we should be covering? Tips on making bosses cry? DM me or email: [email protected]

As federal agents strapped on their tactical gear and picked up rifles to sweep workplaces, parking lots and streets in Los Angeles, workers and residents mounted what is shaping up into the boldest organized defiance to the Trump administration yet. inthesetimes.com/article/david-…

incredible, feckless cowardice on display

the most vile, destructive statement from US union officials in my lifetime: “Labor and immigration rights are being violated daily at the Arizona TSMC project, which ICE should investigate and send buses immediately.” - @NABTU building trades officals, yesterday

Building trades workers are being targeted by Trump’s culture war crusades. In response, building trades officers are split: some are pleading, some are protesting, others are surrendering without a fight. New from me and @TRAILSANDWAYS labornotes.org/2025/07/confro…

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

Solidarity with DC33 workers who inspired our city and shame on our mayor and city administration who would use the law to break a strike and deny essential workers a living wage

Fight ICE. Build the Union. How labor is mobilizing to defend workers from federal raids. By @nataschaelena and @sarahlazare, co-published with @labornotes workdaymagazine.org/fight-ice-buil…

“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.” How fighting ICE terror can help build the union—@sarahlazare and I report: labornotes.org/2025/07/fight-…

During this escalation in immigration raids, unions are a tool for fighting back, not only to defend unionists who are detained, but also workers who are not in unions: day laborers, textile workers. @nataschaelena and I report on how Labor is fighting ICE labornotes.org/2025/07/fight-…

Workers across the country are taking up the fight against ICE—and strengthening their unions in the process. In collaboration with @sarahlazare and @workdaymagazine. labornotes.org/2025/07/fight-…

NEW on the Labor Notes Podcast: The secret to winning a strong contract? You won't find it at the bargaining table! In our "Winning a Strong Contract" workshop series in July, we talk about building power on the shop floor to win. Here's a preview: labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/how-to-win-a… 1/3

‘They will start to die’: At least 350 kidney failure patients in #Gaza face imminent death as the Strip’s largest medical complex announced a halt to dialysis sessions due to fuel shortages middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-larg…

votes in, OR Carpenters reformers fall short but get over 30%. they plan to keep organizing bowling & family nights to bring rebel rank & filers together. 6% turnout. just 6hrs to vote on a workday, only in person at one hall, in a local spanning 150mi.

Hardly a day goes by where I don't think about this

Auto execs are wary of Mexico's independent union SINTTIA, especially if it holds its winning streak: there hasn’t been a shared contract at two facilities in the Mexican auto industry’s 100-year history, a precedent SINTTIA is determined to break Listen: youtube.com/@labornotes/vi…

Workers will vote next week on whether to join Mexico's independent auto union SINTTIA at a second GM plant. A win would mark a major breakthrough for Mexico's labor movement. The union is asking for messages of solidarity from workers and their unions: labornotes.org/mexican-gm-wor…

A psychiatrist describes visiting a Palestinian 10-yr-old child in Gaza who "hasn’t spoken or eaten in days" because he saw the body of his "friend I was playing with... without his head" and asks: "How could he [friend] go to heaven without his head?" #1/2

A weird trend is not only wanting to do a morally terrible thing but wanting to be validated and patted on the back for doing the terrible thing

NEW 🎙️: What if Union Meetings Were Actually Good? Union meetings can be pretty dry and ineffective. The agenda gets stale, and the usual suspects show up to pat themselves on the back or fight. Some ideas to bring energy and organizing to meetings 🧵labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/stewards-cor…

UPDATE: On May 29, SEIU Local 925 announced that Llewelyn Dixon was being released after being held by ICE for three months. An immigration judge ruled that Dixon could not be deported: labornotes.org/2025/05/labor-… 1/2