by Justin | Sep 25, 2021 | Labor Notes
A tree is only as strong as its roots, and a union is only as strong as its actively involved members. Just as unions couldn’t function without stewards, unions also need member-volunteers to work on all sorts of committees, petition campaigns, direct actions, and...
by Justin | Sep 16, 2021 | Labor Notes
After a long absence, the strike seems to be making a comeback in the U.S. The teacher strike wave of 2018-19 caught everyone off guard—but showed that workers’ most powerful tool can still win. We decided to put together this special expanded issue of Labor Notes—a...
by Justin | Sep 8, 2021 | John Deere, Labor Notes
Ten thousand production and warehouse workers for the farm equipment manufacturer John Deere will take a strike authorization vote September 12 across nine Auto Workers (UAW) locals in Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas. Strike authorizations at bargaining time are not...
by Justin | Jul 14, 2021 | Labor Notes, TDU, Teamsters
This was a Teamsters convention like no other—and not just because it was held online, avoiding the usual Las Vegas spectacle where a few brave reformers run a gauntlet of booing red-vested delegates.Even in person, the 2021 convention wouldn’t have gone down that...
by Justin | Jul 12, 2021 | Dublin Volvo Truck, Labor Notes, UAW Local 2069
Auto Workers (UAW) officials are fed up with their striking members at Volvo Trucks in Virginia and are helping the company get them back to work under a contract members have rejected—three times. The strike has been running on and off, through three ratification...
by Justin | Jun 7, 2021 | Dublin Volvo Truck, Labor Notes, UAW Local 2069
Auto workers at Volvo’s truck plant in southwest Virginia have just voted down a concessionary contract by 90 percent—for the second time. Now they’re back on strike. “The International union has been down here twice for town halls,” said Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2069...
