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Hurricane Ian is wreaking havoc in Florida. Experts are calling the storm 'catastrophic,' there are whales and seals and alligators floating in the yards of houses, and then there is a postcard company that asked its employees to work through the dangerous hurricane. Yes! PostcardMania received massive backlash for asking its employees to work through the hurricane. The company even had the nerve to tell its already traumatized workers to focus on what's actually important aka quarterly goals. Obviously, a hurricane with the potential to raze to ground houses isn't exactly ...

Less than two days before the expiration of a Thursday strike deadline set by the International Association of Machinists (IAM), the union announced a “new” contract identical to the one that members rejected by 60 percent two weeks ago.

"These workers should be given time to prepare for the storm and get out of town," tweeted labor activist Jonah Furman.

Home Depot is the latest workplace being organized. While profits at the home-repair chain have broken records during the pandemic, workers at a store in Philadelphia struggle to afford necessities, Jonah Furman reports. By Jonah Furman Labor Notes On Sept. 19, workers filed a petition to

The below is excerpted from the Labor Notes book How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers. Available at labornotes.org/store. Leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union were pretty sure they would need to strike the school district in the fall of 2012 to win what students and educators deserved. But they had come into office only two years before, and begun