Highlights

June 7, 2024
Glenstone museum workers vote to form union

April 25, 2024
University of Maryland Medical Center doctors push to unionize

April 4, 2024
Austin Pets Alive! workers file to become nation’s largest animal shelter union

March 5, 2024
Nurses’ union at Austin’s Ascension Seton Medical Center ratifies historic first contract

February 6, 2024
Workers at Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park Are Unionizing

December 27, 2023
Board Game Cafe Workers Went on a Quest for a Union and Won
2024
June
- Austin Pets Alive workers create the largest animal shelter union in the U.S. (KUT Radio)
- Workers at Bruegger’s Bagels in Iowa picket for community support (Des Moines Register)
- Glenstone museum workers vote to form union (Washington Post)
May
- University of Maryland Medical Center doctors push to unionize (Baltimore Banner)
- The Truth about Blue Bottle Coffee (More Perfect Union)
- Owners’ Rep Told Workers To ‘Burn in Hell’, UES Game Cafe Says (NY Patch, by Vianella Burns)
- Rose Brooks Union holds rally for better working conditions (The Pitch)
April
- Workers at Chicago Trader Joe’s file for union election (Chicago Tribune)
- San Antonio Workplace Organizing Committee to support local union efforts (Texas Public Radio)
- Austin Pets Alive! workers file to become nation’s largest animal shelter union (KXAN Austin)
March
- Nurses’ union at Austin’s Ascension Seton Medical Center ratifies historic first contract (KUT)
- Teachers at Private Preschools in Denver Pushing to Unionize (Westword)
February
- Student dining hall workers form union, gain recognition from PERB (The Daily Nexus)
- Workers at Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park Are Unionizing (Jacobin)
- “We hope we can be a part of something greater”: An Interview with the Nitehawk Workers Union (Screen Slate)
- Now Playing at Nitehawk Cinemas Prospect Park: Unionized Workers (Hell Gate)
- ‘Victimized by Barbenheimer’: Brooklyn movie theater workers to unionize after box office phenomenon (New York Post)
- Workers at Nitehawk Cinema in Prospect Park move to unionize (Brooklyn Paper)
January
- Denver Art Museum workers will vote on a union in March. Here are the details. (The Colorado Sun)
- Workers at Labyrinth Books file unionization petition, likely to unionize (The Princetonian)
- Board Game Cafe Workers Went on a Quest for a Union and Won (New York Times)
- 5 NYC board game cafés now unionized (The Chief)
- This local group will help you organize your workplace (East Bay Majority)
2023
December
- Coming Full Circle: Retired Labor Organizers Advise a New Generation of Unionizing Workers (The Indypendent)
- Barboncino Workers United: Interview with Alex Dinndorf (CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute)
August
- How to unionize your pizza shop (The New York Groove)
July
- Barboncino, a Brooklyn Pizza Restaurant, Becomes a Union Shop (The New York Times)
June
- Unions, strikes, and the labor movement with Alex Press (The Response)
May
April
January
- Union from The Start (You Don’t Have to Wait) (Labor Notes)
2022
November
- Organizing for the Long Haul (Dissent)
September
- You Should Join a Union. Yes, You (The.Ink)
May
- Labor of Love: EWOC is Pioneering a New Model for Empowering Workers (The Indypendent)
- Socialists Are Trying to Revive the American Labor Movement (Jacobin)
February
2021
August
- Redstone 8 Cinemas Staff Willing to Strike for a $15/hr Wage (KPCW)
- Graduate Workers at UT Austin Are Undervalued, Underpaid, and Demanding Answers (The Nation)
June
- How Colorado State Graduate Workers Got Organized During the Pandemic (Jacobin)
- Reflecting on Labor’s Efforts to Defend Democracy (Labor Notes)
May
- Workers left in lurch as Food Emporium closes Union Square store (The Village Sun)
- “Unions Are a Pain in the Ass. Yet We Have No Choice but to Build Good Unions” (Jacobin)
- Trader Joe’s increased ‘thank you’ pay to $4 in February. Now it wants to cut that by half. (SFGate)
March
- New Yorker article by UW–Madison’s Schirmer reports on ‘fight for $15’ at an Orlando McDonald’s (University of Wisconsin School of Education)
- Service Industry Professionals Demand Vaccine Prioritization (Spectrum News 1)
- Service industry workers schedule rally after Governor Abbott announces Texas will reopen (CBS Austin)
January
- Good Vibrations strike brings change for Boston workers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic (The Huntington News)
2020
November
- Meet the volunteer organizing team helping non-union workers during the pandemic (Waging Nonviolence)
- Marquette University employees protest potential layoffs amid COVID-19 pandemic (WTMJ-TV)
- “We Won’t Let Him”: Unions Nationwide Are Planning a General Strike If Trump Tries to Steal the Election (In These Times)
October
- Ohio State increases minimum graduate stipends by $4,000 over two years (Ohio State News)
- Labor Prepares for Last-Minute General Strike If Trump Tries to Steal Election (Truthout)
- Unions Are Beginning to Talk About Staving Off a Possible Coup (Labor Notes)
August
June
- I’m back at work and I don’t feel safe. What can I do? (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
- Field Museum Workers Say It’s Time for the CEO to Start Making Sacrifices, Too (In These Times)
- Something Is Stirring in the Labor Movement (Jacobin)
- Chicago Field Museum workers band together, fight to get jobs back amid pandemic (FOX32)
- An atmosphere of ‘fear and despair’ at Field Museum as staff await news of possible job cuts (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Field Museum workers petition management to try to fend off COVID-19-related layoffs (Chicago Tribune)
May
- Local Jimmy John’s employees create petition for safer working conditions (ABC4)
- Jimmy John’s employees protesting due to working conditions (FOX13)
- Jimmy John’s employees seek — and obtain — better safety measures in Salt Lake City store (The Salt Lake Tribune)
- With a Little Help from My Friends: How Taco Bell Workers and Many More Are Self-Organizing in the Pandemic (Labor Notes)
- Bernie’s army redeploys to support COVID-19’s frontline workers (Salon)
- Will Grocery Workers Still Be ‘Heroes’ When COVID-19 Subsides? (Texas Observer)
April
- Bernie’s army redeploys to support COVID-19’s frontline workers (In These Times)
- Sprouts employees create petition to protect against COVID-19 (The Rider)
- “It’s Time to Engage in as Much Class Struggle as We Can” (Jacobin)
- We Need the Labor Movement To Organize Worker Fightback in the Face of the COVID-19 Crisis (In These Times)
- Grocery workers fight for safety gear and hazard pay (KRGV)