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· Oct 21
In our November issue: Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Collect Strike Pledges as Company Stalls at Table, and more
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Employers in Mexico routinely evade sanctions for violating workers' rights—that’s the finding of the Independent Mexico Labor Expert Board, established under the USMCA to keep tabs on compliance with the deal's labor reforms, @nataschaelena.bsky.social reported labornotespodcast.podbean.com 1/3
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Employers in Mexico routinely evade sanctions for violating workers' rights—that’s the finding of the Independent Mexico Labor Expert Board, established under the USMCA to keep tabs on compliance with the deal's labor reforms, @nataschaelena.bsky.social reported labornotespodcast.podbean.com 1/3
“By staying on the job and continuing to wait for these demoralizing offers, we show that we accept this, we’re not going to fight. So we decided we’re going out.” labornotes.org/2025/11/cana...
Canadian Postal Workers Strike Again | Labor Notes
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November 25, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“By staying on the job and continuing to wait for these demoralizing offers, we show that we accept this, we’re not going to fight. So we decided we’re going out.” labornotes.org/2025/11/cana...
The USMCA made critical improvements to help enforce Mexican workers’ labor rights, but that alone hasn't exactly led to the explosion in independent union organizing that many union activists had hoped for, @nataschaelena.bsky.social reports labornotes.org/usmca-mexico...
We Can’t Bridge the U.S.-Mexico Wage Gap Without Supporting Organizing in Mexico | Labor Notes
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November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The USMCA made critical improvements to help enforce Mexican workers’ labor rights, but that alone hasn't exactly led to the explosion in independent union organizing that many union activists had hoped for, @nataschaelena.bsky.social reports labornotes.org/usmca-mexico...
12 Days Left! Meet with workers from the South, including nurses at the University Medical Center in New Orleans who've mounted five strikes so far in their fight for a first contract, and Starbucks baristas in the midst of their own nationwide escalation: labornotes.swoogo.com/notms2/9383808
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
12 Days Left! Meet with workers from the South, including nurses at the University Medical Center in New Orleans who've mounted five strikes so far in their fight for a first contract, and Starbucks baristas in the midst of their own nationwide escalation: labornotes.swoogo.com/notms2/9383808
Jackson Potter, VP, @ctulocal1.bsky.social: "The labor movement is not even close to being extinguished. It just takes some spark, effort, initiative, and some vision and imagination to revive what seems to be dormant..."
Watch the full Roundtable Panel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=niZH... 1/3
Watch the full Roundtable Panel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=niZH... 1/3
November 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Jackson Potter, VP, @ctulocal1.bsky.social: "The labor movement is not even close to being extinguished. It just takes some spark, effort, initiative, and some vision and imagination to revive what seems to be dormant..."
Watch the full Roundtable Panel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=niZH... 1/3
Watch the full Roundtable Panel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=niZH... 1/3
Mamdani’s victory should put to rest the lie that workers are drawn only to simpleminded economic populism that casts social justice questions as distractions, wrote @Lfelizleon labornotes.org/2025/11/zohr... 1/2
Zohran Mamdani: New York's Working Class Elects a Movement Mayor | Labor Notes
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November 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Mamdani’s victory should put to rest the lie that workers are drawn only to simpleminded economic populism that casts social justice questions as distractions, wrote @Lfelizleon labornotes.org/2025/11/zohr... 1/2
New on the Labor Notes Pod 🎙️ International solidarity is how we raise conditions for workers across borders. Few things make that clearer than the story of auto workers in Mexico who've dealt with bad bosses, sham unions, and decades of U.S. trade policy labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/notes-on-t...
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
New on the Labor Notes Pod 🎙️ International solidarity is how we raise conditions for workers across borders. Few things make that clearer than the story of auto workers in Mexico who've dealt with bad bosses, sham unions, and decades of U.S. trade policy labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/notes-on-t...
"Wilson organized a movement of voters who—sometimes for the first time—recognized the influence they could have by taking organized collective action," writes Natalie Wellen, president of UAW Local 4121 on the victory of Seattle mayor-elect Katie Wilson labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
Viewpoint: Why Our Members Put in 650 Hours Canvassing for Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor | Labor Notes
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November 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"Wilson organized a movement of voters who—sometimes for the first time—recognized the influence they could have by taking organized collective action," writes Natalie Wellen, president of UAW Local 4121 on the victory of Seattle mayor-elect Katie Wilson labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
🗓️Today (Thursday, Nov. 20, 8 p.m. ET): Stewards' Workshop on Dealing with Difficult Supervisors
Join other stewards from a variety of industries to talk about strategies for handling conflict with bad management!
There's still time to sign up! labornotes.org/events/2025/...
Join other stewards from a variety of industries to talk about strategies for handling conflict with bad management!
There's still time to sign up! labornotes.org/events/2025/...
Stewards' Workshop: Dealing With Difficult Supervisors | Labor Notes
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November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🗓️Today (Thursday, Nov. 20, 8 p.m. ET): Stewards' Workshop on Dealing with Difficult Supervisors
Join other stewards from a variety of industries to talk about strategies for handling conflict with bad management!
There's still time to sign up! labornotes.org/events/2025/...
Join other stewards from a variety of industries to talk about strategies for handling conflict with bad management!
There's still time to sign up! labornotes.org/events/2025/...
“We need to get respect for ourselves, by ourselves,” said Steve Tesfagiorgis, a custodian at the University of Minnesota, where workers organized a contract campaign and a victorious five-day strike in September against the wishes of local union officials labornotes.org/2025/11/team... 1/2
Teamsters Highlight Renewed Militancy, Rank-and-File Power at 50th Annual TDU Convention | Labor Notes
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November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“We need to get respect for ourselves, by ourselves,” said Steve Tesfagiorgis, a custodian at the University of Minnesota, where workers organized a contract campaign and a victorious five-day strike in September against the wishes of local union officials labornotes.org/2025/11/team... 1/2
Employers in Mexico are flagrantly breaching their obligations to workers with few consequences. “The problem is not the law,” said Mexican labor activist Willebaldo Gómez Zuppa. “The problem is its enforcement.” labornotes.org/usmca-mexico...
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Employers in Mexico are flagrantly breaching their obligations to workers with few consequences. “The problem is not the law,” said Mexican labor activist Willebaldo Gómez Zuppa. “The problem is its enforcement.” labornotes.org/usmca-mexico...
Watch our full online panel now with @prospect.org and @haymarketbooks.org, featuring UAW Region 9A director Brandon Mancilla, Baltimore Teachers Union president Diamonté Brown, and Jackson Potter, VP @ctulocal1.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=niZH...
How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Against Trump 2.0?
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November 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Watch our full online panel now with @prospect.org and @haymarketbooks.org, featuring UAW Region 9A director Brandon Mancilla, Baltimore Teachers Union president Diamonté Brown, and Jackson Potter, VP @ctulocal1.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=niZH...
The USMCA made some critical improvements to raise standards for workers in Mexico, but they haven't exactly led to the explosion in independent union organizing that many union activists there had hoped for. @nataschaelena.bsky.social reports labornotes.org/usmca-mexico...
We Can’t Bridge the U.S.-Mexico Wage Gap Without Supporting Organizing in Mexico | Labor Notes
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November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The USMCA made some critical improvements to raise standards for workers in Mexico, but they haven't exactly led to the explosion in independent union organizing that many union activists there had hoped for. @nataschaelena.bsky.social reports labornotes.org/usmca-mexico...
"What's shocking is the escalation of attacks on immigrants, civil rights, unions, federal workers. It can be hard to think of a positive vision if we're defending the little we have." —Brandon Mancilla, Director of UAW Region 9A
Watch the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=niZH...
Watch the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=niZH...
How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Against Trump 2.0?
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"What's shocking is the escalation of attacks on immigrants, civil rights, unions, federal workers. It can be hard to think of a positive vision if we're defending the little we have." —Brandon Mancilla, Director of UAW Region 9A
Watch the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=niZH...
Watch the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=niZH...
The Mexican government is failing to prosecute violent retaliation and threats against workers who organize, says a new report, putting Mexico out of compliance with its trade agreement with the U.S. and Canada. @nataschaelena.bsky.social reports labornotes.org/usmca-mexico...
We Can’t Bridge the U.S.-Mexico Wage Gap Without Supporting Organizing in Mexico | Labor Notes
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November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Mexican government is failing to prosecute violent retaliation and threats against workers who organize, says a new report, putting Mexico out of compliance with its trade agreement with the U.S. and Canada. @nataschaelena.bsky.social reports labornotes.org/usmca-mexico...
🚨Tonight, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 8 p.m. Eastern
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There's still time to sign up! www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
How can the labor movement build power amid the attempted billionaire takeover during the second Trump presidency?
Join workers at a free online panel discussion on Tuesday, Nov. 18, with @prospect.org and @haymarketbooks.org
Sign up: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join workers at a free online panel discussion on Tuesday, Nov. 18, with @prospect.org and @haymarketbooks.org
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November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🚨Tonight, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 8 p.m. Eastern
There's still time to sign up! www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
There's still time to sign up! www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
How can the labor movement build power amid the attempted billionaire takeover during the second Trump presidency?
Join workers at a free online panel discussion on Tuesday, Nov. 18, with @prospect.org and @haymarketbooks.org
Sign up: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join workers at a free online panel discussion on Tuesday, Nov. 18, with @prospect.org and @haymarketbooks.org
Sign up: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
How can the labor movement build power amid the attempted billionaire takeover during the second Trump presidency?
Join workers at a free online panel discussion on Tuesday, Nov. 18, with @prospect.org and @haymarketbooks.org
Sign up: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join workers at a free online panel discussion on Tuesday, Nov. 18, with @prospect.org and @haymarketbooks.org
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The union has organized 650 stores, but the company operates 10,000 stores in the U.S., so striking baristas are asking everyone to shun all Starbucks stores, whether union or not, for the duration of the strike, and to tell the company why labornotes.org/2025/11/no-c...
“It feels like we’re constantly being made to do more with less. They assume that by placing a time constraint on [orders] it will automatically solve the problem when, as we all know, staffing fixes these issues, nothing else.”
labornotes.org/2025/11/no-c...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The union has organized 650 stores, but the company operates 10,000 stores in the U.S., so striking baristas are asking everyone to shun all Starbucks stores, whether union or not, for the duration of the strike, and to tell the company why labornotes.org/2025/11/no-c...
Wages are so low that management has an incentive to over-staff even during slow times, our editor Al Bradbury reports. “We went from 120 dealers to 200. They over-saturated our workforce. Paychecks are down almost $1,000 a month. That’s rent. That’s your car bill.” labornotes.org/2025/11/indi...
Indiana Casino Dealers Are Bringing Back the Recognition Strike
There are no clocks in a casino, so the dealers all set their phone alarms for noon. Everyone was a bundle of nerves. Before work, a couple of people threw up. But when the cacophony of alarms sounded...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Wages are so low that management has an incentive to over-staff even during slow times, our editor Al Bradbury reports. “We went from 120 dealers to 200. They over-saturated our workforce. Paychecks are down almost $1,000 a month. That’s rent. That’s your car bill.” labornotes.org/2025/11/indi...
“By staying on the job and continuing to wait for these demoralizing offers, we show that we accept this, we’re not going to fight. So we decided we’re going out.” labornotes.org/2025/11/cana...
Canadian Postal Workers Strike Again
Canadian postal workers are back on strike—again—as they fight to save a vital public service. Joël Lightbound, the cabinet minister responsible for Canada Post, on September 25 announced drastic chan...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“By staying on the job and continuing to wait for these demoralizing offers, we show that we accept this, we’re not going to fight. So we decided we’re going out.” labornotes.org/2025/11/cana...
Katherine Wallace, a nurse at Michigan’s Corewell Health, saw the nationwide practice pickets during the last UPS contract campaign and was inspired to join an organizing drive in her workplace labornotes.org/2025/11/team... 1/2
Teamsters Highlight Renewed Militancy, Rank-and-File Power at 50th Annual TDU Convention
At the 50th annual Teamsters for a Democratic Union convention, 550 Teamsters talked about building power in their workplaces, from UPS barns to school bus yards to the San Diego Zoo. They swapped tip...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Katherine Wallace, a nurse at Michigan’s Corewell Health, saw the nationwide practice pickets during the last UPS contract campaign and was inspired to join an organizing drive in her workplace labornotes.org/2025/11/team... 1/2
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November 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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“It feels like we’re constantly being made to do more with less. They assume that by placing a time constraint on [orders] it will automatically solve the problem when, as we all know, staffing fixes these issues, nothing else.”
labornotes.org/2025/11/no-c...
labornotes.org/2025/11/no-c...
November 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
“It feels like we’re constantly being made to do more with less. They assume that by placing a time constraint on [orders] it will automatically solve the problem when, as we all know, staffing fixes these issues, nothing else.”
labornotes.org/2025/11/no-c...
labornotes.org/2025/11/no-c...
🎯 The clock is ticking to register for the New Orleans Troublemakers School in December! Join labor activists from around the Gulf coast to strategize, share skills, and organize to win!
Saturday, December 6
IATSE Local 478, 511 N Hennessey St
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IATSE Local 478, 511 N Hennessey St
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November 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🎯 The clock is ticking to register for the New Orleans Troublemakers School in December! Join labor activists from around the Gulf coast to strategize, share skills, and organize to win!
Saturday, December 6
IATSE Local 478, 511 N Hennessey St
Sign up labornotes.swoogo.com/notms2/9383808
Saturday, December 6
IATSE Local 478, 511 N Hennessey St
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“Strikes are back in the Teamsters,” said Dustin Roach, president of Local 135 in Indiana. “We’re not afraid to prepare for them. We’re not afraid to use them. We’re not afraid to win them.” labornotes.org/2025/11/team...
Teamsters Highlight Renewed Militancy, Rank-and-File Power at 50th Annual TDU Convention
At the 50th annual Teamsters for a Democratic Union convention, 550 Teamsters talked about building power in their workplaces, from UPS barns to school bus yards to the San Diego Zoo. They swapped tip...
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November 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“Strikes are back in the Teamsters,” said Dustin Roach, president of Local 135 in Indiana. “We’re not afraid to prepare for them. We’re not afraid to use them. We’re not afraid to win them.” labornotes.org/2025/11/team...