With much talk lately about how history will judge this moment, a reminder that history isn't a natural force. Being on 'the right side of history' requires the labor of people recording, preserving, remembering, researching, storytelling, & educating across multiple generations.

For three and a half decades, lean management drove the production and movement of goods. But now logistics and manufacturing employers are shifting to a new model. To maximize our leverage, workers should understand it.labornotes.org/2024/05/end-le…

'The exercise of positional power can put the brakes on the velocity of inventory, goods, and revenue to make strikes and work-to-rule actions more effective,' Labor Notes cofounder Kim Moody on what changing logistics models mean for worker actions: labornotes.org/2024/05/end-le…

'(Mercedes) knows that with a union they would have to bargain with a more powerful workforce on the distribution of the money earned. Of course they don’t want a union, they want the money.'

- IndustriALL general secretary Atle Høie

'This bible taught me another kind of faith. It taught me faith in the membership. It taught me faith in the working class. And it is that faith that carried the UAW to our new chapter in history.” - Shawn Fain. Free PDF of A Troublemaker's Handbook: labornotes.org/2024/04/free-d…

Union reformers maintained a strong presence at #LaborNotes2024 , with more than a hundred building trades workers, Railroad workers (BMWE) and letter carriers (NALC) having meetings to discuss their respective union democracy fights: labornotes.org/blogs/2024/04/…

Sign up for the Labor Notes Troublemakers Dispatch weekly newsletter to hear about and *from* rank-and-file workers mobilizing their shop floors and taking on the boss. The stories of Volkswagen auto workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee are a great example: labornotes.org/2024/04/tennes…

'We answer the calls for solidarity from our students, from Palestinian trade unions and from Palestinian educators.' — CUNY faculty and staff within PSC-CUNY who mounted yesterday's sick out.

BOOM! 💥 Hotel workers showed up big today - and this was only the beginning.

Union contracts covering 10,000 Bay Area hotel workers are set to expire this summer. Today, we showed the hotel companies that we’re ready to fight!

HAPPENING NOW: Over 1,000 San Francisco hotel workers and janitors are marching through downtown. We’re want hotels to raise our pay, secure our health care, fix painful workloads, and protect against cuts to guest services and amenities.

A very large crowd at Foley Square for the students and workers march for Palestine.

👀 EWOC at Labor Notes group shot comparison
#LaborNotes2024

A successful organizing drive 'requires a fighting workforce to attract a union campaign—not a union campaign to contrive a fighting workforce,' writer Richard Yeselson told Luis Feliz Leon: labornotes.org/2024/04/relay-…

The UAW 4811 Executive Board is calling for a strike authorization vote in response to last night’s attacks at UCLA.
uaw4811.org/updates/strike…

The NewsGuild-CWA stands with student journalists.

We call on universities and law enforcement to respect press freedom.

Full statement:
newsguild.org/newsguild-cwa-…

Not even that long ago we literally called it “Occupy ______”

It’s a trend the NYT hasn’t picked up on yet: “A lot of young workers are doing this today — getting jobs with the intention of organizing a new union, often called “salting,” or improving the union already there.” indypendent.org/2024/05/at-an-…

Loved writing about the recent exhilarating @LaborNotes conference, almost 5,000 folks who want to revitalize the labor movement! #UnionYes #UnionStrong

'The general strike, where many unions and potentially tens or hundreds of thousands of workers strike together, is a concept usually encountered in history books or other countries,' Eric Dirnbach ⁉️ writes. 'That it’s a live conversation in the United States today is amazing.'