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CHICAGO – Delegates at the Labor Notes Conference here last weekend took time out to cheer the historic breaking of the anti-union stranglehold on the deep South by the organizing victory of the United Auto Workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Worker organizing at UPS reaped significant concessions from the company. Now, they'll need to decide whether or not to ratify the contract.
Unable to stop the strike through the courts, university administrators have resorted to calling campus police, docking pay, and pressuring faculty to report on strikers, organizers say.
If the organizers win their election, they will join a wave of graduate students at other elite private colleges unionizing—including Northwestern.
We’re excited to announce that the next Labor Notes Conference will be April 19-21, 2024, in Chicago. Our last one was the biggest ever, drawing 4,000 workers—and the youngest ever, with lots of newly organized workers. Who will be the surprising newcomers, the strike warriors, the newly elected reformers at the next conference in 2024? Stay tuned. But if you can’t wait that