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A leadership change looks likely in the NALC this fall. Members are frustrated about low pay and forced overtime, dangerous heat and robberies, being shut out of bargaining and then forced to accept the contract they rejected last year, our editor Al Bradbury reports

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Fighting the boss is no easy feat—especially when he’s feasting on your blood!! But you don’t have to do it alone: you and your co-workers are stronger together. 🎃🕸️🥀

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🚨Tonight, Monday, Oct. 26: The first of three sessions of this month's Secrets of a Successful Organizer series (online) starts at 7 p.m. ET. There's still time to sign up! labornotes.org/events/2026/...

labornotes.orgSecrets of a Successful Organizer (Online Series)You've been talking to your co-workers, and they say they feel overworked, underpaid, and increasingly pressured by productivity quotas and the ever present threat of discipline. How do you fight for ...
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🚨 TONIGHT, Thursday, Oct. 22, 8 p.m. ET, Online 🚨 If you're trying to -Build and sustain a stewards network -Hold regular steward meetings -Recruit and train new stewards (and developing existing ones) 1/2

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"The people who have the most stake in protesting ICE’s actions and what happened to Fatou aren’t safe to do it—they aren’t safe as private citizens. That is why the hospital and so many organizations in Iowa need to be standing up and saying: This is wrong." 1/3

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"Fatou’s detention and deportation is an abomination. We need her back home," phlebotomy tech Sara Gilmore writes about Fatou Traore, a custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, who was deported to Sierra Leone (a place she has no connection to) 2/3

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A thousand members rallied outside the city’s main post office, pledging to mobilize the labor movement to defend the elections from Trump administration interference 2/2

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The workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in NYC, under legislation that Teamsters and Amazon workers are organizing alongside the DSA to pass 1/3 labornotes.org/2026/10/amaz...

labornotes.orgAmazon Package Drivers Rev Up Organizing to Become Direct EmployeesThe workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in New York City, under legislation that Teamsters and Amazon workers ...
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The Delivery Protection Act would require Amazon, alongside FedEx and other companies, to directly employ drivers rather than rely on third-party subcontractors. It would also establish safety, training, and labor standards for delivery drivers 2/3

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As of October 3, workers and allies had knocked on 11,446 doors across the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, according to the Teamsters 3/3

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"When I first heard the news of Fatou Traore's detention, I was upset that ICE had taken someone from the very hospital where I worked. Many of the workers at the hospital weren’t aware of her detention or were afraid to speak up." 1/3

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"I wrote to all of the inpatient phlebotomists I used to work with at main campus, some of whom had also been custodians and worked with Fatou," writes Sara Gilmore, a phlebotomy technician at the University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center, and an AFSCME Local 12 member 2/3

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Union strength or weakness is often seen only through the light of a strike or lockout. Phil Cohen’s memoir, Maximum Leverage: From the Street to the Picket Line, tells a different story labornotes.org/blogs/2026/1...

labornotes.orgBook Review: Maximum Leverage: From the Street to the Picket LineUnion strength or weakness is often seen only through the light of a strike or lockout. Phil Cohen’s memoir, Maximum Leverage: From the Street to the Picket Line, tells a different story. Union buildi...
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Fatou Traore was on her way to work as a custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics on the morning of Thursday, September 24, when ICE agents detained her 1/3

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Despite having legal immigration status in the United States and no criminal record, she was deported to Sierra Leone (a place she has no connection to) on October 12. Traore is a beloved member of the Iowa City community and of AFSCME Council 61, Local 12 2/2

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United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has won a second four-year term, winning 68 percent of the vote in member balloting for the union’s top officers. @lfelizleon.bsky.social and Jane Slaughter report: labornotes.org/2026/10/uaw-...

labornotes.orgUAW President Shawn Fain Wins Reelection VictoryUnited Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has won a second four-year term, winning 68 percent of the vote in member balloting for the union’s top officers. The election was a referendum on the new figh...
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A custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics was deported to Sierra Leone (a place she has no connection to) on October 12, despite having legal immigration status in the U.S. and no criminal record labornotes.org/blogs/2026/1...

labornotes.orgIowa Hospital Workers Demand Return of Deported Co-WorkerFatou Traore was on her way to work as a custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) on the morning of Thursday, September 24, when ICE agents detained her. Despite having legal i...
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The labor movement can’t grow by acting as a business. We have potential power in our numbers, our skills, and our strategic positions in the economy. But this power becomes real only when members are willing to act on their own behalf. Adapted from Democracy is Power. labornotes.org/store

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Amazon workers at four delivery and sorting warehouses in Germany are organizing to make every minute count. They want Amazon to pay them for all their work, saying in a petition that the company is stealing their time labornotes.org/2026/09/germ...

labornotes.orgGerman Amazon Workers Organize to Get Paid for Every MinuteAmazon workers at four delivery and sorting warehouses in Germany are organizing to make every minute count. They’re demanding that Amazon pay them for every minute of work, saying in a petition that ...
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“For years, Amazon has relied on a convoluted subcontracting system that denies last-mile drivers the protections other workers get, while maintaining extraordinary control over their schedules, workloads, and uniforms.” -Julie Su, NYC's deputy mayor for economic justice 1/2

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The workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in NYC, under legislation that Teamsters, Amazon workers, and the Democratic Socialists of America are organizing to pass labornotes.org/2026/10/amaz...

labornotes.orgAmazon Package Drivers Rev Up Organizing to Become Direct EmployeesThe workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in New York City, under legislation that Teamsters and Amazon workers ...
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"Not every artist has as large a platform as rapper Macklemore, children’s TV star Miss Rachel, or country singer Zach Bryan but there’s plenty that artists and art workers can do to end complicity in Israel’s ongoing atrocities." labornotes.org/blogs/2026/1...

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Read the piece by Mona Abhari, the North America labor organizer for the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment Movement: labornotes.org/blogs/2026/1... 2/2

labornotes.orgPalestinian Arts Workers Call for SolidarityPalestinian cultural workers living through apartheid, occupation, and genocide are calling for solidarity from their counterparts abroad. Not every artist has as large a platform as rapper Macklemore...
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While some expected Fain’s strongest support to come from the higher education and legal aid locals on the East Coast, turnout there was down by more than half from 2022, with fewer than 2,000 ballots counted 1/2

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United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain looks poised to win a second four-year term, with an overwhelming lead in member balloting for the union’s top officers. @lfelizleon.bsky.social and Jane Slaughter report labornotes.org/2026/10/uaw-...

labornotes.orgUAW President Shawn Fain Nears Re-election VictoryUnited Auto Workers President Shawn Fain looks poised to win a second four-year term, with an overwhelming lead in member balloting for the union’s top officers. The election was a referendum on the n...
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Turnout was up in Local 4811 at the University of California, which went 75 percent for Fain, but still only 2,500 of 60,000 members there voted. As in the last election, it was members in the big manufacturing locals that were key to Fain’s victory 2/2 labornotes.org/2026/10/uaw-...

labornotes.orgUAW President Shawn Fain Nears Reelection VictoryUnited Auto Workers President Shawn Fain looks poised to win a second four-year term, with an overwhelming lead in member balloting for the union’s top officers. The election was a referendum on the n...
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Treating DSP delivery drivers as Amazon’s direct employees would make the company responsible for wage and safety protections and other legal liabilities labornotes.org/2026/10/amaz...

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The workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in NYC, under legislation that Teamsters, Amazon workers, and the Democratic Socialists of America are organizing to pass labornotes.org/2026/10/amaz...

labornotes.orgAmazon Package Drivers Rev Up Organizing to Become Direct EmployeesThe workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in New York City, under legislation that Teamsters and Amazon workers ...
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United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain looks poised to win a second four-year term, with an overwhelming lead in member balloting for the union’s top officers. @lfelizleon.bsky.social and Jane Slaughter report labornotes.org/2026/10/uaw-...

labornotes.orgUAW President Shawn Fain Nears Re-election VictoryUnited Auto Workers President Shawn Fain looks poised to win a second four-year term, with an overwhelming lead in member balloting for the union’s top officers. The election was a referendum on the n...
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It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse group of workers building themselves into a fighting force, who then must wrestle with a different version of victory than they expected, writes @lfelizleon.bsky.social labornotes.org/blogs/2026/1...

labornotes.orgFilm Review: A Portrait of How Workers Build a Strike“Who Moves America” is touring the U.S., with upcoming screenings across the West Coast, Northeast, and South. See when it’s coming to your town, or request a screening, here. In the new documentary “...
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In the new documentary “Who Moves America,” filmmaker Yael Bridge offers a window into the working-class culture of one of the country’s largest unions, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, at United Parcel Service in 2023 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/1...

labornotes.orgFilm Review: A Portrait of How Workers Build a Strike“Who Moves America” is touring the U.S., with upcoming screenings across the West Coast, Northeast, and South. See when it’s coming to your town, or request a screening, here. In the new documentary “...
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The Delivery Protection Act would require Amazon, alongside FedEx and other companies, to directly employ drivers rather than rely on third-party subcontractors. It would also establish safety, training, and labor standards for delivery drivers labornotes.org/2026/10/amaz...

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The workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in NYC, under legislation that Teamsters, Amazon workers, and the Democratic Socialists of America are organizing to pass labornotes.org/2026/10/amaz...

labornotes.orgAmazon Package Drivers Rev Up Organizing to Become Direct EmployeesThe workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in New York City, under legislation that Teamsters and Amazon workers ...
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Palestinian cultural workers want U.S. arts unions to: -Reject the blacklisting of members supporting Palestinian rights -Stop working with complicit institutions -Exclude Israel from international labor federations -Pressure governments to compel Israel to end the genocide 1/2

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In the new documentary “Who Moves America,” filmmaker Yael Bridge offers a window into the working-class culture of one of the country’s largest unions, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, at United Parcel Service in 2023 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/1...

labornotes.orgFilm Review: A Portrait of How Workers Build a Strike“Who Moves America” is touring the U.S., with upcoming screenings across the West Coast, Northeast, and South. See when it’s coming to your town, or request a screening, here. In the new documentary “...
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The workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in NYC, under legislation that Teamsters, Amazon workers, and the Democratic Socialists of America are organizing to pass labornotes.org/2026/10/amaz...

labornotes.orgAmazon Package Drivers Rev Up Organizing to Become Direct EmployeesThe workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in New York City, under legislation that Teamsters and Amazon workers ...
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Amazon workers at four delivery and sorting warehouses in Germany are organizing to make every minute count. They’re demanding that Amazon pay them for every minute of work, saying in a petition that the company is stealing their time labornotes.org/2026/09/germ...

labornotes.orgGerman Amazon Workers Organize to Get Paid for Every MinuteAmazon workers at four delivery and sorting warehouses in Germany are organizing to make every minute count. They’re demanding that Amazon pay them for every minute of work, saying in a petition that ...
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Union members typically have health insurance through their employers, but labor has a stake in fighting the privatization of Medicaid, says Rose Roach, National Coordinator for the Labor Campaign for Single Payer 1/3

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"Corporatized health care is harming all of us, starting with our siblings in health care unions, who often work in grossly understaffed facilities, even as layoffs continue." 2/2

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On October 2, the SITIAVW bargaining committee reached a tentative agreement with VW offering a 13.16% combined increase to wages and benefits over the next two years 1/3

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Mexican Volkswagen workers could soon be on strike if their salary demands are not met. The 6,500 workers build the Jetta, Tiguan, and Taos at the company’s Puebla plant, the largest Volkswagen facility outside of Germany 🔗⤵️

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The agreement would guarantee the 611 members laid off in September would be rehired in the future, and guarantee jobs for the current workforce at the plant. Members still have to vote on the deal 2/3

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Amazon workers at four delivery and sorting warehouses in Germany are organizing to make every minute count. They’re demanding that Amazon pay them for every minute of work, saying in a petition that the company is stealing their time labornotes.org/2026/09/germ...

labornotes.orgGerman Amazon Workers Organize To Get Paid for Every MinuteAmazon workers at four delivery and sorting warehouses in Germany are organizing to make every minute count. They’re demanding that Amazon pay them for every minute of work, saying in a petition that ...