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“It’s like hitting a fly with a mallet,” said Michael DiGuiseppe, vice president of Local 259. “At the first whiff of a union, they had their corporate executives in the store the next day.”
A new calculator from workers’ rights watchdog LaborLab estimates that the parts retailer AutoZone has paid $257,943 to managers and lawyers to crush a union drive by 11 workers in one store in White Plains, New York 1/2
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A new calculator from workers’ rights watchdog LaborLab estimates that the parts retailer AutoZone has paid $257,943 to managers and lawyers to crush a union drive by 11 workers in one store in White Plains, New York 1/2
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Want to keep your co-workers safe *and* build your union? Join workers at our online workshop tomorrow, Tuesday, September 22, 8 p.m. Eastern. Sign up here! labornotes.org/events/2026/o…
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Workers who make some of the world’s most popular video games, including World of Warcraft and Diablo, won their first union contracts in early September, in an important step forward for organizing in the tech industry. @danieldamage reports labornotes.org/2026/09/video…
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🚨 Tonight (Monday, September 21, 8 p.m. ET): Online Steward's Workshop on 'Dealing with Difficult Supervisors' — there's still time to sign up! labornotes.org/events/2026/s…
Dealing with a difficult supervisor? We can fix that (by preparing, setting clear goals, and acting with our co-workers)! Learn more at our next online Stewards' Workshop on Monday, Sept. 21, at 8 p.m. ET! Sign up here: labornotes.org/events/2026/s…
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Our archetypal villainesses—Amy Dunne of Gone Girl, sisters Sally and Gillian Owens of Practical Magic, and Merricat Blackwood of We Have Always Lived in the Castle—have some positively devilish organizing tactics (not all of which we endorse!) up their trumpet sleeves 1/2
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Dealing with a difficult supervisor? We can fix that (by preparing, setting clear goals, and acting with our co-workers)! Learn more at our next online Stewards' Workshop on Monday, Sept. 21, at 8 p.m. ET! Sign up here: labornotes.org/events/2026/s…
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The new contract also prevents Walmart from raising wages at other warehouses without doing the same at this one. The unionized workers have received a matching raise and back pay for the months when other warehouse workers received raises that they didn’t labornotes.org/2026/09/canad…
Eight hundred workers at a Walmart distribution center in Canada succeeded where others have not: they are now working under a two-year contract with North America’s largest logistics giant labornotes.org/2026/09/canad…
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Labor Notes retweeted
“While on the surface this fight seemed to revolve around a single person, members saw that this injury to Genesis was a threat to us all, and acted accordingly.” Read this @labornotes article written by two UE Local 255 members!
“Workers at Hunger Mountain Co-op, a consumer-owned grocery store in Vermont, won a five-month fight to enforce seniority, beat back bias, and win a promotion for a beloved co-worker. We did it not just by filing a grievance, but also by mobilizing union members and the public”
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“Workers at Hunger Mountain Co-op, a consumer-owned grocery store in Vermont, won a five-month fight to enforce seniority, beat back bias, and win a promotion for a beloved co-worker. We did it not just by filing a grievance, but also by mobilizing union members and the public”
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Labor Notes retweeted
“Who Moves America” chronicles the Teamsters’ 2023 near-strike at UPS. It’s a rare and moving portrait of a diverse group of workers building themselves into a fighting force, who then must wrestle with a different version of victory than they expected. jacobin.com/2026/09/document…
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May Day 2028 wasn’t initially about fighting Trump’s billionaire power grab. But since Trump took office, the terrain has shifted. Mass protests have become more frequent, and more urgently needed to stem the volley of attacks on workers and on democratic elections.
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Some are. Labor Notes has found 830,000 workers with contracts planned or expected to expire from March to July 2028 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/09…
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You may have little to no power individually, but you have immense power collectively. Adapted from Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It's Hard.
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