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"Every single time that you get frustrated or you run into a wall, someone from Labor Notes is going to be there to pick you up," Nora Meek, a founding member of the IATSE CREW reform caucus, says in our new video.
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An insurgent slate is challenging longtime incumbents in Local 8-Golden State, one of the largest locals in the United Food and Commercial Workers, in what may be the local’s first competitive election in decades 1/2
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But the slate had to first fend off a dubious attempt to merge the local with another union—which members were notified would have blocked the election if the merger went through by the end of the year.
@l_l_xu reports: labornotes.org/2026/10/ufcw-… 2/2
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CWA Local 1168, a 4,800-member health care union based near Buffalo, NY, was placed into trusteeship by its parent union at the request of the local’s president and seven of the nineteen executive board members 1/3
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But members are concerned that the trusteeship was a nuclear option to address what they consider to be an internal financial matter. And they worry it's torn apart relationships at the local, weakened opposition to management’s schemes, and undermined democratic processes 2/3
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Read the story by @sarah0kay labornotes.org/2026/10/membe… 3/3
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"The day I showed up on the Marriott construction site in downtown Detroit, everyone warned me about the state of our bathrooms," writes IBEW Local 58 member Kevin Szczesny, in this piece on how he and other electricians organized for clean Porta-Johns: labornotes.org/blogs/2026/10…
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State workers went on a one-day unfair labor practice strike across California October 21, with picket lines in Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other cities labornotes.org/2026/10/first… 1/2
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In Mexico, at the world’s largest Volkswagen facility outside of Germany, workers are weighing the risks of a possible strike 1/2
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The 6,500 workers build the Jetta, Tiguan, and Taos at the company’s Puebla plant. Their union, SITIAVW, is one of Mexico’s most storied independent unions, and is in the midst of the plant’s annual wage reopener negotiations. @nataschaelena reports: labornotes.org/2026/10/mexic… 2/2
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Fighting the boss is no easy feat—especially when he’s feasting on your blood!! But you don’t have to do it alone: you and your co-workers are stronger together. 🎃🕸️🥀
ALT Picture of thermometer with text reading: Turn up the heat through escalating actions. drive a stake through his heart HAND OUT GARLIC AT WORK TRY TO MAKE HIM MEET DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS MARCH ON HIS COFFIN WEAR A CRUCIFIX DAY adapted from our hit labor notes guide: how to fight the boss when your boss is a vampire
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🚨Tonight, Monday, Oct. 26: The first of three sessions of this month's Secrets of a Successful Organizer series (online) starts at 7 p.m. ET.
There's still time to sign up! labornotes.org/events/2026/s…
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on my way to Cleveland for first convention of Carpenters Rank and File Together: the new national caucus to transform one of the least democratic building trades to a 400k+ member-led union & fight bosses for worker solidarity. to me, one of the most hopeful developments in yrs
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🚨 TONIGHT, Thursday, Oct. 22, 8 p.m. ET, Online 🚨
If you're trying to
-Build and sustain a stewards network
-Hold regular steward meetings
-Recruit and train new stewards (and developing existing ones) 1/2
ALT Graphic that reads: October Stewards' Workshop TONIGHT: Building a Stewards Network. Thursday, Oct. 22, 8 p.m. Eastern Online via Zoom. Build a Strong Steward Structure that helps workers use their on-the-job power to fight the boss. The graphic features imagery of bees, a honeycomb and a pleasantly faded bouquet of flowers
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...join union members at our online Stewards’ Workshop TONIGHT, Thursday, Oct. 22, at 8 p.m. Eastern! There's still time to sign up here labornotes.org/events/2026/s… 2/2
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"The people who have the most stake in protesting ICE’s actions and what happened to Fatou aren’t safe to do it—they aren’t safe as private citizens. That is why the hospital and so many organizations in Iowa need to be standing up and saying: This is wrong." 1/3
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"Fatou’s detention and deportation is an abomination. We need her back home," phlebotomy tech Sara Gilmore writes about Fatou Traore, a custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, who was deported to Sierra Leone (a place she has no connection to) 2/3
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Fatou has legal immigration status here and no criminal record, and yet she was accosted by ICE last month on the way to work: labornotes.org/blogs/2026/10… 3/3
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New York City unions representing 1 million members launched a new coalition October 15 to defend the right to vote ahead of the midterm elections November 3 1/2 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/10…
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