#Unions can align contract dates and #strikes crafting common good bargaining demands that enlist public support for those struggles, plan national no-work, no-school, no-shopping efforts like the one #Minnesota pulled off on January 23, and as the #MayDay Strong movement is now doing.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-labor-unions-worker-power-economic-democracy

#Capitalism #LabourMovement #NoKings #Organize #Solidarity #Trumpland

Fighting for CoLA: the Roar of the North vs. the Whimper of the South - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Cyprus

In a recent article, we showcased how after years of negotiating and lukewarm general strikes, our social partners (state, employers, unions) in the south reached an agreement on the Cost of Living Adjustment (CoLA); a much-delayed compromise that leaves much to be desired, in an effort to restore a right that should have never been

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Cyprus - Join the One Big Union

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein is a freelance journalist and author of Tyranny at Work: Unfreedom and the American Workplace.
https://newrepublic.com/article/208726/mutiny-review-college-educated-labor-unions

Mutiny college educated working class revolt.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/mutiny-the-rise-and-revolt-of-the-college-educated-working-class-noam-scheiber/6ba69b0f3f0f959d?

#labourMovement #Organize #Solidarity #Unions

The Disillusioned College Grads Turning to the Labor Movement

At workplaces from Starbucks to Apple, highly educated downwardly mobile young people are organizing for better conditions.

The New Republic
NewsGuild president writes to ProPublica management: Get serious on AI — ProPublica Guild

Artificial intelligence is guaranteed to shake up journalism in varied and unexpected ways. This could be a moment in which experienced journalists leverage a powerful new tool to produce even bigger and better investigations. Or it could be one in which management pivots to yet another new technolo

ProPublica Guild
Confronting #Capitalism podcasters Vivek Chibber and Melissa Naschek speak with Benjamin Y. Fong about the challenges and opportunities to #organize #Amazon presents to the #labourmovement (transcript)
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/amazon-labor-movement-organizing-unions
Amazon Will Be This Century’s Biggest Labor Battle

With its vast logistics empire deploying robotics, surveillance, and AI to block worker power at every turn, Amazon now sits atop the throne of American capitalism. Organizing it will define the future of the labor movement.

Sam Wallman at Australian National Maritime Museum on Thursday 4 December 2025 launched exhibition “View from the Docks”. The exhibit sits directly opposite the historic “Wharfies Mural”, the main focus of the talk. The entry is free at 2 Murray street, Darling Harbour, Sydney, #Gadigal Country.

https://overland.org.au/2026/04/peering-into-the-docks-a-conversation-with-the-wharfies-mural/

#art #illustration #LabourMovement #Organize #Wharfies #SamWallman

Peering into the docks: a conversation with the Wharfies Mural - Overland literary journal

People are deeply curious about the docks. The port is right there, the cranes are giant shapes looming, so often visible, stretches of landscape inviting reflection and curiosity. But the docks are also completely inaccessible. They are non-spaces really, to most people. Exclusion zones.

Overland literary journal
New York Is Closing In on Amazon’s Shady Delivery System

Amazon has long exploited subcontracting to avoid taking responsibility for its delivery drivers. A bill introduced by socialist New York City Councilor Tiffany Cabán would force the e-commerce giant to directly employ its drivers.

An injury to one is an injury to all.
There are no jobs on a dead planet - transition away from deadly industries save livelihoods & lives.
Climate movements need collective organizing power of working-class people with a wide array of identities, work experience.
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old; through real #solidarity we protect one another from the flames.

https://orionmagazine.org/article/all-for-one/

#ClimateChange #LabourMovement #Organize

Interview https://labornotes.org/2026/04/lack-democracy-united-farm-workers-gave-chavez-immunity

Trampling Out the Vintage:
Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers (2011)
( Frank Bardacke was a farmworker in the fields of the Salinas Valley for six seasons in the 1970s. )
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2213-trampling-out-the-vintage?

Cleofas Guzman & Mario Bustamante

#farmworkers #labourmovement #UFW

Lack of Democracy in United Farm Workers Gave Chavez Immunity

In 2011 Frank Bardacke published an 800-page history of the Farm Workers union: Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers. It opened many eyes to the reasons the UFW became a shadow of its former self. Bardacke starts the book with an epigraph, a quote from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “O what a fall was there, my countrymen! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down...” Bardacke was a farmworker in the fields of the Salinas Valley for six seasons in the 1970s.

Labor Notes

Jane Latour’s oral history interviews with predominantly male building service employees, painters, carpenters, utility workers, maritime union members, as well as Teamsters in the construction industry.

https://newyorklaborhistory.org/resources/book-reviews/backroom-bargaining-racketeering-and-rebellion-in-new-york-citys-labor-unions/

AUD
https://uniondemocracy.org/

Sisters in the Brotherhoods (2008)
https://www.talkinghistory.org/sisters/

#FromBelow #LabourMovement #NYC #Organize #RankandFile #Solidarity #Unions #WorkingClassHistory

Backroom Bargaining: Racketeering and Rebellion in New York City’s Labor Unions – New York Labor History Association