Unions

Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters Changed Black Politics

December 20, 2025 Paul Prescod, Labor Notes. Strategize! Railroads, Sleeping Car Porters, Unions, Worker Rights

The fact that the meeting was even happening was enough to produce an air of subversive excitement. One hundred years ago on August 25, 1925, Black sleeping car porters, hoping to form a union at the Pullman company, packed the Elks Hall in Harlem. Company spies were probably in the audience as well. Socialist A. Philip Randolph led the meeting, making the case that a union was the only way to deal with their grievances and reclaim their manhood. This gathering initiated a 12-year struggle to form the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) and win a first contract against a corporate giant.

Building Pathways For Workers With Criminal Records

December 18, 2025 Maya Ragsdale, Labor Notes. Organize! Jobs, Prisoners, Temporary Workers, Unions

During a factory organizing drive, the Steelworkers in Chester, South Carolina, saw how criminal legal barriers were undermining its organizing efforts. Many of the workers had felony records and were afraid of losing their jobs, while others in the community were barred from getting these jobs in the first place. So the union established a worker center, the Chester Worker Empowerment Center, that now provides record-sealing and expungement support, among other offerings. Unions like this one are beginning to recognize that there is no path to transforming the conditions of work in this country without addressing the impacts of incarceration.

Privatize USPS? Mail Carriers Have A Better Idea

December 18, 2025 Mel Buer, In These Times. Strategize! Contract Negotiations, Privatization, Unions, US Postal Workers

This week, we’re taking a more national focus, and checking in with the National Association of Letter Carriers, who have been embroiled in a years-long contract negotiation with the U.S. Postal Service. In our episode today, I’m sitting down with Melissa Rakestraw, member of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 825 in Chicago, IL, to discuss the state of negotiations with our nation’s letter carriers, the unprecedented rejection of the recent tentative agreement and what happens next, and what would happen if the U.S. Postal Service was privatized.

Twin Cities Letter Carriers Demand ICE Off Post Office Property

December 18, 2025 Fight Back! News. Resist! ICE, Minneapolis, Postal Service, Unions

Minneapolis, MN- On December 14, over 100 postal workers and supporters braved subzero temperatures to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) using post office parking lots as staging areas. The action was organized by rank-and-file members of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 9, which represents Minneapolis workers. After a short rally at the Lyndale neighborhood post office, protesters marched down Lake Street over 1.4 miles to the Powderhorn neighborhood post office. The march went through the heart of one of Minneapolis’ major Latino communities, which has experienced intense ICE surveillance and attacks.

Striking Barista On Starbucks’ Endgame

December 17, 2025 Silvia Baldwin, In These Times. Resist! Starbucks, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

On November 13, I was one of hundreds of Starbucks baristas who walked out of our stores on an open-ended unfair labor practice strike. Last week, our numbers grew to more than 3,800 workers participating across some 130 cities as we marked a month on strike, the longest national work stoppage in Starbucks’ history. Striking members of our union, Starbucks Workers United, have staged a sit-in outside the Empire State Building; held demonstrations outside of the company’s corporate offices in Newport Beach, Calif., and even picketed at a distribution center in York, Pa., —all to demand that Starbucks settle a fair contract with us, four years after baristas in Buffalo, New York, began a rebellion that soon spread nationwide.

One Battle After Another: The Big Contract Fights Coming In 2026

December 17, 2025 Keith Brower Brown and Natascha Elena Uhlmann, Labor Notes. Educate! Contract Negotiations, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

The coming year could keep the strikes rolling through steel mills, state offices, telephone lines, axle plants, baseball diamonds, and hospitals from coast to coast. Union contracts expiring in 2026 could open up major fights by manufacturing, education, entertainment, and government workers. The contract covering 20,000 Verizon workers in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic expires on August 1. Since their seven-week strike in 2016, the Communications Workers and Electrical Workers (IBEW) have agreed with the company on two contract extensions—but not this year.

SEIU California Sits Out Fight Against Classroom Censorship

December 16, 2025 Larry Bradshaw, Anne Wolf, and Noga Wizansky, Labor Notes. Organize! California, Education, SEIU, Teachers, Unions

SEIU California routinely uses fighting words. Unfortunately, when it was time to “stand up” and “fight back” against legislation that threatens the working conditions of tens of thousands of SEIU education workers, our union’s spirited rhetoric dissipated. SEIU California stood down. In the final days of the legislative session, AB 715, a dangerous censorship bill with broad implications for California public education, was forced through an abbreviated legislative process and subsequently signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom. The bill was backed by Israel lobby groups and California Democrats.

In Largest Expansion Yet, Starbucks Baristas Join Red Cup Rebellion

December 14, 2025 Starbucks Workers United. Resist! International Solidarity, Labor Movement, Red Cup Rebellion, Starbucks, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

The Red Cup Rebellion unfair labor practice (ULP) strike grew to over 3,800 baristas in 180+ stores across 130+ cities Thursday as the largest wave yet of union baristas walked off the job to protest Starbucks’ historic union busting and failure to finalize a fair union contract. The historic ULP strike is the largest nationwide work stoppage in the company’s history, with 36 new stores in 34 cities joining their coworkers already out on strike. Baristas’ ULP strike began on Red Cup Day, November 13 and has grown each week since.

As Tenants Organize, Landlords Embrace Old-School Union-Busting

December 14, 2025 Rebecca Burns and Thomas Birmingham, In These Times. Resist! Housing, Landlords, Tenant Union, union busting, Unions

When a group of renters at New Haven, Connecticut’s Sunset Ridge apartments gathered last month to announce they had formed a tenants union, they were interrupted by some uninvited guests. Since September, Sunset Ridge tenant organizers had been going door-to-door speaking with neighbors about their living conditions, including persistent mold that’s the likely culprit behind a spate of respiratory illnesses in the 312-unit building. With the help of the Connecticut Tenants Union (CTTU), a statewide union of renters, the group collected signatures from more than 160 residents — enough to file for certification with the city

LEGO Tears Down Unionization Effort At Downtown Disney Store

December 10, 2025 Chauncey K. Robinson, People's World. Resist! California, Lego, union busting, Unions, Worker Rights

Buena Park, CA — Usually, LEGO is associated with physically building things up, but in this case, workers are accusing the company of tearing down their chances of getting union representation. Employees at the Downtown Disney LEGO store are claiming that the company is using illegal union-busting tactics and violating their rights. United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 324, the union supporting LEGO Store workers’ unionization efforts in Downtown Disney, announced on Friday, Dec. 5, that it has filed an unfair labor practice charge against LEGO.

To Get On Offense, Offer Workers Many Ways In

December 9, 2025 Diamonte Brown, Labor Notes. Organize! Baltimore, Political Education, Teachers, Unions

To fight back against authoritarianism and the billionaire takeover, the labor movement must get on offense. We must have our own agenda, set by rank-and-file members, rooted in the issues that members care most about—issues that unite us and build power. Maybe our agenda includes a starting wage of no less than $30 an hour, expanding workers’ rights, and building union membership to a supermajority in our bargaining units. We can be fighting for a lot of things. But to fight for any of them, we need enough involved union members, armed with political education and trained on organizing skills, to increase our fighting capacity.

Horseshoe Workers Win Union Recognition After 53 Day Strike

December 9, 2025 Fight Back! News. Resist! Indianapolis, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

Shelbyville, IN – In a decisive victory for their historic strike for union recognition, table games dealers and dual rate dealers at the Horseshoe Indianapolis casino voted overwhelmingly on Friday, December 5, to join Teamsters Local 135. In an expedited NLRB election ordered after the end of the government shutdown, striking casino workers delivered a landslide mandate for union representation and forced Caesars Entertainment, the corporation that owns the casino, to recognize their union. The vote took place on day 50 of the strike.

Why Walmart Wants To See The Starbucks Barista Strike Fail

December 9, 2025 Derek Seidman, Truthout. Educate! Starbucks Workers, Strikes, union busting, Unions, Wlamart, Worker Rights

Thousands of Starbucks workers across a hundred cities are nearly one month into an expanding, nationwide unfair labor practice strike in protest of the coffee giant’s “historic union busting and failure to finalize a fair union contract,” according to Starbucks Workers United, the barista union that has spread to over 650 stores since its birth in Buffalo four years ago. The strike comes after years of illegal anti-union antics by Starbucks and follows a historic $39 million settlement announced on December 1 for more than 500,000 labor violations committed by Starbucks management in New York City since 2021.

Maybe A General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now

December 6, 2025 Alex Han, Labor Notes. Organize! General Strike, Labor Movement, Unions, Worker Rights

Trump’s attacks on working people—threats to send troops into major U.S. cities, ripping collective bargaining rights from a million federal workers, an immigration enforcement terror campaign that borders on unconstitutional—have been so extreme that many people are talking about a general strike. These calls are coming not just from the usual suspects, but even from my own mayor, former Chicago Teachers Union leader and organizer Brandon Johnson. We’ve all heard calls for a general strike before—usually not as a serious proposal or strategy, but as a reaction to the attacks that working people face on a regular basis from existing political and economic power.

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