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This new model for worker organizing could supercharge today’s labor movement

Hard work’s abate over the day part century has devastated working-class communities, undermined self-government, and deepened the fondle of bulky industry over our paintings lives, our political device, and our planet,” Eric Blanc writes in his unused reserve, We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. “To turn this around, we […]

Trump goes nuclear on the federal workforce

This story originally appeared in Labor Notes on Mar. 28, 2025. It is shared here with permission. In his broadest attack on federal workers and their unions to date, President Donald Trump on Thursday announced an Executive Order that claimed to end collective bargaining rights for nearly the whole federal workforce. Early estimates have the move affecting 700,000 […]

Airline workers held Trump to account in his first term—here’s what we can learn from them now | , labor movement, politics,airline workers held trump to account in his first term—here’s what we can learn from them now, term—here’s

Donald Trump will once again be inaugurated as president in just a week’s time, and the lessons of workers’ victories from his past administration provides an important roadmap to the fight ahead. In 2019, flight attendants organized to end a government shutdown that threw airports around the country into chaos. Sara Nelson, international president of the Association […]