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With 300 workshops and panels, and almost 5,000 registered attendees, the Labor Notes Conference June 12-14, 2026 in Chicago was an oasis of inspiration and solidarity.

Chanting, “We are not partners, we are workers,” hundreds of workers across Mexico who provide rides and deliveries through apps held a two-hour work stoppage on May 15 demanding fair rates and improved conditions

In a speech marking the country’s 250th anniversary, socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani lays out his vision of a United States of America for the many, not the few.

Nursing in the US is highly unionized, well-paid, and increasingly central to the economy. Rank-and-file nurses are well-positioned to fight for common good demands and for a broader revival of the labor movement.

We want to keep our seniority, our overtime rights, and it’s important we keep the medical benefits. You put in all of these hours with the Company, and you think they would respect you. The Company doesn’t run without us. The workers make it happen.

Three years after Florida enacted sweeping restrictions on public-sector unions, AFSCME Florida continues to post lopsided recertification victories across the state.

In Atlanta, nearly 1,000 labor union members and community allies gathered at the Jobs With Justice national conference, where one of the themes was linking immigrant, worker, and tenant struggles to build community power.

Shawn Fain’s reform administration in the United Auto Workers now finds itself locked in conflict with a federal anti-corruption monitor that Fain says is overstepping his bounds — including in opposing the union’s stance against Israel’s genocide

Nurses say they are walking to demand competitive wages, affordable health insurance, and stronger protections for patient care.

It is necessary to put the capital-labor relation back at the center of left politics, says Costas Lapavitsas.