Sarah Lazare

ICYMI @amiestager reported on alleged retaliation against co-op workers for wearing pins expressing solidarity with Palestinians. workdaymagazine.org/workers-say-we…

Open bargaining is extremely cool: It expands rank-and-file power, and direct experience in making demands of their employer. Plus it can also bring in community and other unions. Read about how MFE Local 59 & SPFE Local 28 are doing it. by @amiestager workdaymagazine.org/open-bargainin…

Explainer on how open bargaining is a tool for building union democracy and winning stronger contracts. Twin Cities educators are showing how. By @amiestager workdaymagazine.org/open-bargainin…

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

“She died in terrible pain. It haunts me every single day.” heartbreaking and enraging piece. jacobin.com/2025/07/kenyan…

The strike expanded. Updates here. workdaymagazine.org/hundreds-of-mi…

On-the-ground reporting about how US sanctions continue to hurt everyday people in Syria. inthesetimes.com/article/syria-…

"As I was to learn over time, Bennie took those of us on the left seriously, if we took fighting UPS seriously, this also included fighting the racism that Black workers faced on the job and in the Teamsters union." counterpunch.org/2025/07/10/the…

Was just re-reading a piece by @mindyisser and spotted this from Zohran Mamadani. inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-en…

Trump's tariffs are about consolidating power for corporations and US empire. They do not break with the "free trade" ethos, but double down on its worst aspects. I wrote about it. inthesetimes.com/article/trump-…

“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-…

In the past 5 years, $2.4 trillion in public funds have gone to military contractors. This is the closest thing we have to an industrial program, and it's manufacturing the bombs being dropped on Gaza, Iran, Yemen, Lebanon, etc. New report from @CostsOfWar watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

From rallies to free David Huerta, to rapid response networks that unite communities and unions, to a successful battle to protect street vendors in NYC, Labor is mobilizing to fight ICE. @nataschaelena and I report on how. 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-…

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-…

“There's a lot of emotion on the line. None of us wanted to be here.” Hundreds of nurses are on open-ended strike in Minnesota. Read about it here. By @EscalonaReport workdaymagazine.org/hundreds-of-mi…

As @sarahlazare and I noted five years ago: progressive groups, unions, and actual civil rights organizations need to isolate and condemn the ADL not partner with them. inthesetimes.com/article/anti-d…

Wow. The NEA, the biggest labor union in the US, just voted to cut ties with the ADL. "Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be," the measure says. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/…

Hundreds of healthcare workers in Minnesota could go out on strike this week, some as soon as tomorrow morning. Read @EscalonaReport's reporting. workdaymagazine.org/hundreds-of-mi…

BREAKING: Eight JVP members are being arrested by DHS, two on their 18th day of hunger strike, after refusing to leave Senator Tammy Duckworth’s Chicago office and calling for an end to U.S. weapons to Israel.