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What began as a day of unity ended as a brutal, premeditated assault on peaceful protestors representing over 30 unions. News coverage confirms that federal agents met a family‑friendly, labor‑led march with repeated rounds of tear gas and other munitions.
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Portland Labor Rally against ICE Attacked with Tear Gas
On January 31 my husband and I stood shoulder to shoulder with thousands of union members and community allies in Portland’s South Waterfront. We gathered for a peaceful, permitted rally and march: “L...
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February 12, 2026 at 3:25 PM
What began as a day of unity ended as a brutal, premeditated assault on peaceful protestors representing over 30 unions. News coverage confirms that federal agents met a family‑friendly, labor‑led march with repeated rounds of tear gas and other munitions.
labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
“I hope that the other plants here in the South are watching,” said bargaining committee member Yolanda Peoples, who works on the engine assembly line. “We now have our seat at the table, and it’s going to be life-changing for a lot of people in our plant.”
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In Major Breakthrough, Volkswagen Auto Workers Reach Tentative Deal
Volkswagen had dangled a treat: a ratification bonus of $4,000, sweetened by $1,500 if a first contract at its assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was approved by Halloween 2025. But auto worker...
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February 11, 2026 at 9:19 PM
“I hope that the other plants here in the South are watching,” said bargaining committee member Yolanda Peoples, who works on the engine assembly line. “We now have our seat at the table, and it’s going to be life-changing for a lot of people in our plant.”
labornotes.org/2026/02/majo...
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The wellspring of resistance against ICE in Minneapolis owes much to the organization of workers on the ground. Local union members, many of whom have been directly affected by ICE, played a pivotal role in empowering people to participate en masse. 1/4
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
The wellspring of resistance against ICE in Minneapolis owes much to the organization of workers on the ground. Local union members, many of whom have been directly affected by ICE, played a pivotal role in empowering people to participate en masse. 1/4
The agreement comes with a 20 percent wage increase, equal to around a $7 wage bump for production workers, over the four-year contract. The cost-of-living adjustment is 45 cents per hour on top of the base wage, depending on inflation. @lfelizleon.bsky.social reports labornotes.org/2026/02/majo...
In Major Breakthrough, Volkswagen Auto Workers Reach Tentative Deal
Volkswagen had dangled a treat: a ratification bonus of $4,000, sweetened by $1,500 if a first contract at its assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was approved by Halloween 2025. But auto worker...
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February 10, 2026 at 10:11 PM
The agreement comes with a 20 percent wage increase, equal to around a $7 wage bump for production workers, over the four-year contract. The cost-of-living adjustment is 45 cents per hour on top of the base wage, depending on inflation. @lfelizleon.bsky.social reports labornotes.org/2026/02/majo...
Workers have mobilized so rapidly against ICE in Minnesota because of federal agents' incursions into their workplaces. Agents are harassing passengers on public transit, approaching teachers and students at schools and targeting workers at restaurants 1/4
How Workers Pulled Off a Mass Strike in Minnesota | The Labor Notes Podcast
More than 75,000 people, including teachers, food service workers, Uber drivers and many others marched through downtown Minneapolis on January 23, where federal agents have staged a military occupati...
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February 10, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Workers have mobilized so rapidly against ICE in Minnesota because of federal agents' incursions into their workplaces. Agents are harassing passengers on public transit, approaching teachers and students at schools and targeting workers at restaurants 1/4
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What does it *feel like* to build worker power?
Season two of Haymarket Originals is bringing you inside one of the most dynamic and inspiring organizing drives in the labor movement today. Heat The Ground Up is an oral history of Starbucks Workers United, voiced by the baristas who built it.
Season two of Haymarket Originals is bringing you inside one of the most dynamic and inspiring organizing drives in the labor movement today. Heat The Ground Up is an oral history of Starbucks Workers United, voiced by the baristas who built it.
February 10, 2026 at 3:02 PM
What does it *feel like* to build worker power?
Season two of Haymarket Originals is bringing you inside one of the most dynamic and inspiring organizing drives in the labor movement today. Heat The Ground Up is an oral history of Starbucks Workers United, voiced by the baristas who built it.
Season two of Haymarket Originals is bringing you inside one of the most dynamic and inspiring organizing drives in the labor movement today. Heat The Ground Up is an oral history of Starbucks Workers United, voiced by the baristas who built it.
In Portland, Oregon, the state labor council and two dozen unions backed a “Labor Says ICE Out!” march and rally on January 31. Thousands of people turned out, many wearing union gear and carrying their union banners.
labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
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More Unions Are Saying ‘ICE Out’
More unions across the country are taking a stand against Immigration and Customs Enforcement since the January 23 mass strike in Minneapolis and the January 24 killing of Alex Pretti, an intensive ca...
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February 10, 2026 at 7:02 PM
In Portland, Oregon, the state labor council and two dozen unions backed a “Labor Says ICE Out!” march and rally on January 31. Thousands of people turned out, many wearing union gear and carrying their union banners.
labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
Some members may be wary of their union taking up “political issues” like immigration. But many workers have found that fighting for immigrant members and the wider immigrant community has only strengthened the union.
labornotes.org/2026/02/how-...
labornotes.org/2026/02/how-...
How to Debunk Anti-Immigrant Myths at Work
Anti-immigrant myths flood our airwaves. They dominate news cycles and our online feeds. And now they’re amplified from the highest halls of power. President Donald Trump has asserted, for example, th...
labornotes.org
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Some members may be wary of their union taking up “political issues” like immigration. But many workers have found that fighting for immigrant members and the wider immigrant community has only strengthened the union.
labornotes.org/2026/02/how-...
labornotes.org/2026/02/how-...
“We weren’t on the streets to 'riot' but to stand up for justice and dignity, the core of what labor solidarity means. Yet, chemical agents rained down in retaliation—volunteers acted to protect the elderly but there was no escape from the choking clouds.” labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
Portland Labor Rally against ICE Attacked with Tear Gas
On January 31 my husband and I stood shoulder to shoulder with thousands of union members and community allies in Portland’s South Waterfront. We gathered for a peaceful, permitted rally and march: “L...
labornotes.org
February 10, 2026 at 3:48 PM
“We weren’t on the streets to 'riot' but to stand up for justice and dignity, the core of what labor solidarity means. Yet, chemical agents rained down in retaliation—volunteers acted to protect the elderly but there was no escape from the choking clouds.” labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
Starbucks has signed union contracts almost nowhere, but in Chile, workers have a national agreement covering 176 stores. They were the first in the world to unionize, in 2009: labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
The Country Where Starbucks Workers Have a National Contract
Starbucks has signed union contracts almost nowhere, but in Chile, workers have a national agreement covering 176 stores. They were the first in the world to unionize, in 2009. In the U.S., workers at...
labornotes.org
February 9, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Starbucks has signed union contracts almost nowhere, but in Chile, workers have a national agreement covering 176 stores. They were the first in the world to unionize, in 2009: labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
Workers in Minneapolis are experiencing the escalation of ICE raids there since December as an immediate threat upending their lives, and have been organizing within their workplaces and communities to defend themselves and one another: labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/how-worker... 🧵1/4
February 9, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Workers in Minneapolis are experiencing the escalation of ICE raids there since December as an immediate threat upending their lives, and have been organizing within their workplaces and communities to defend themselves and one another: labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/how-worker... 🧵1/4
Starbucks is rolling out a revamped “Rewards” program next month, aimed at winning customers back after baristas started walking out in November. @sbworkersunited.org members are asking customers to delete the Starbucks Rewards app until they win their strike labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
Delete the Starbucks App Now, Say Striking Workers
Starbucks barista Christi Gomoljak has been on strike for 80 days. Managers at her Disney store in Anaheim, California had taken away the workers’ restroom without consultation. “There was a note on o...
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February 8, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Starbucks is rolling out a revamped “Rewards” program next month, aimed at winning customers back after baristas started walking out in November. @sbworkersunited.org members are asking customers to delete the Starbucks Rewards app until they win their strike labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
Some unions, such as the Chicago Teachers, have answered the call from Minneapolis activists to hold protests outside and inside Target stores nationwide 1/2 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
More Unions Are Saying ‘ICE Out’
More unions across the country are taking a stand against Immigration and Customs Enforcement since the January 23 mass strike in Minneapolis and the January 24 killing of Alex Pretti, an intensive ca...
labornotes.org
February 8, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Some unions, such as the Chicago Teachers, have answered the call from Minneapolis activists to hold protests outside and inside Target stores nationwide 1/2 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
A coalition won’t hold if groups join only because it is “the right thing to do.” Members have to see their material interests tied to the success of the alignment, writes @stephluce.bsky.social labornotes.org/2026/01/how-...
February 7, 2026 at 10:32 PM
A coalition won’t hold if groups join only because it is “the right thing to do.” Members have to see their material interests tied to the success of the alignment, writes @stephluce.bsky.social labornotes.org/2026/01/how-...
More unions across the country are taking a stand against Immigration and Customs Enforcement since the January 23 mass strike in Minneapolis and the January 24 killing of Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse and union member labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
More Unions Are Saying ‘ICE Out’
More unions across the country are taking a stand against Immigration and Customs Enforcement since the January 23 mass strike in Minneapolis and the January 24 killing of Alex Pretti, an intensive ca...
labornotes.org
February 6, 2026 at 11:54 PM
More unions across the country are taking a stand against Immigration and Customs Enforcement since the January 23 mass strike in Minneapolis and the January 24 killing of Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse and union member labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
Workers in Malaysia who make screens like the one you are reading this on are protesting after union leaders were fired following an organizing victory. The workers make LED screens for companies including Apple labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0... 1/8
Malaysian Workers Protest Union-Busting at Apple Supplier
Workers in Malaysia who make screens like the one you are reading this article on are protesting after union leaders were fired following an organizing victory. The workers make LED screens for compan...
labornotes.org
February 6, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Workers in Malaysia who make screens like the one you are reading this on are protesting after union leaders were fired following an organizing victory. The workers make LED screens for companies including Apple labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0... 1/8
If you're in/around New York City and want to develop your organizing capacity and strategy with co-workers, neighbors, and others in your community, join the May Day Solidarity School together this month on Saturday, February 21. Learn more: bit.ly/MayDaySchool
February 6, 2026 at 5:32 PM
If you're in/around New York City and want to develop your organizing capacity and strategy with co-workers, neighbors, and others in your community, join the May Day Solidarity School together this month on Saturday, February 21. Learn more: bit.ly/MayDaySchool
Several dozen members of @nynurses.bsky.social at an action on Thursday afternoon outside the Greater New York Hospital Association in Manhattan. NYPD reportedly arrested some nurses who had gathered at the building's entrance.
Photos by A.J. Schumann 1/3
Photos by A.J. Schumann 1/3
February 6, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Several dozen members of @nynurses.bsky.social at an action on Thursday afternoon outside the Greater New York Hospital Association in Manhattan. NYPD reportedly arrested some nurses who had gathered at the building's entrance.
Photos by A.J. Schumann 1/3
Photos by A.J. Schumann 1/3
🚨 Stewards' Workshop, Wednesday, February 18: Thinking Like an Organizer
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Union stewards are expected to wear many hats. But instead of doing all the work yourself, find ways to spread the work around. That builds union strength—and will pay off in the long run. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
February 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM
🚨 Stewards' Workshop, Wednesday, February 18: Thinking Like an Organizer
Sign up here! labornotes.org/events/2026/...
Sign up here! labornotes.org/events/2026/...
Striking @nynurses.bsky.social have organized a series of actions this week targeting New York Governor Kathy Hochul's repeated extension of an emergency order that allows hospitals to bring in out-of-state scab nurses
A.J. Schumann and Sarah Hughes report: labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0... 1/2
A.J. Schumann and Sarah Hughes report: labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0... 1/2
On Tuesday, hundreds of nurses and supporters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in the freezing cold to demand safe staffing levels, reliable health benefits, and fair wages. 1/3
February 5, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Striking @nynurses.bsky.social have organized a series of actions this week targeting New York Governor Kathy Hochul's repeated extension of an emergency order that allows hospitals to bring in out-of-state scab nurses
A.J. Schumann and Sarah Hughes report: labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0... 1/2
A.J. Schumann and Sarah Hughes report: labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0... 1/2
On Tuesday, hundreds of nurses and supporters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in the freezing cold to demand safe staffing levels, reliable health benefits, and fair wages. 1/3
February 4, 2026 at 9:48 PM
On Tuesday, hundreds of nurses and supporters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in the freezing cold to demand safe staffing levels, reliable health benefits, and fair wages. 1/3
The barrage of propaganda nudging us toward hate can make conversations around immigration feel loaded—and much more so in the workplace. How can we challenge misinformation in a way that builds solidarity with our co-workers? labornotes.org/2026/02/how-... 1/2
How to Debunk Anti-Immigrant Myths at Work
Anti-immigrant myths flood our airwaves. They dominate news cycles and our online feeds. And now they’re amplified from the highest halls of power. President Donald Trump has asserted, for example, th...
labornotes.org
February 4, 2026 at 4:42 PM
The barrage of propaganda nudging us toward hate can make conversations around immigration feel loaded—and much more so in the workplace. How can we challenge misinformation in a way that builds solidarity with our co-workers? labornotes.org/2026/02/how-... 1/2
🗞️ Out now: Our February issue on the ongoing open-ended strike by @nynurses.bsky.social; workers rising up in Minneapolis; logistics workers' fight for a first contract in Tacoma, WA, and more! $30/year for 11 issues. Subscribe by Tuesday, 2/17, to get the March issue labornotes.org/subscribe
February 4, 2026 at 4:12 PM
🗞️ Out now: Our February issue on the ongoing open-ended strike by @nynurses.bsky.social; workers rising up in Minneapolis; logistics workers' fight for a first contract in Tacoma, WA, and more! $30/year for 11 issues. Subscribe by Tuesday, 2/17, to get the March issue labornotes.org/subscribe
Workers in Malaysia who make screens like the one you are reading this article on are protesting after union leaders were fired following an organizing victory. The workers make LED screens for companies including Apple labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
Malaysian Workers Protest Union-Busting at Apple Supplier
Workers in Malaysia who make screens like the one you are reading this article on are protesting after union leaders were fired following an organizing victory. The workers make LED screens for compan...
labornotes.org
February 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Workers in Malaysia who make screens like the one you are reading this article on are protesting after union leaders were fired following an organizing victory. The workers make LED screens for companies including Apple labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
Hundreds of striking New York City nurses and their supporters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday, the latest escalation in week 4 of the open-ended @nynurses.bsky.social strike. Photos by Labor Notes Organizer Danielle Smith.
February 4, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Hundreds of striking New York City nurses and their supporters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday, the latest escalation in week 4 of the open-ended @nynurses.bsky.social strike. Photos by Labor Notes Organizer Danielle Smith.