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Colorado After 3-Week Strike, JBS Concedes to Meatpacking Workers

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Colorado After 3-Week Strike, JBS Concedes to Meatpacking Workers [Labour Notes] 23-04-2026


Union Now Is America’s New Strike Fund [The American Prospect] 20-04-2026


Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders termination of union contracts [Gov Exec] 17-04-2026


‘Power in the hands of people’: union leaders push to revive ailing US labor movement [The Guardian] 15-04-2026


New York Sanders and Mamdani back launch of nonprofit to support union organizing and strikes [amNewYork] 13-04-2026



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Mississippi MS employers open to hiring formerly incarcerated workers, study finds 2026-04-26 [WLOX]

Treat Violence As a Workplace Safety Issue 2026-04-26 [The Progressive]

From child laborer to union leader: Too-relevant story of 20th-century immigrant Pauline Newman 2026-04-26 [The Times]

New York Mamdani vetoes buffer zone bill opposed by unions 2026-04-25 [The Chief]

Louis O. Kelso, the corporate lawyer who handed labour a critical tool 2026-04-25 [GLC]

Writers Guild members approve four-year contract with motion picture studios 2026-04-25 [AP]

California Twin Rivers United labor union plans to go on strike, the first time in school district's history 2026-04-25 [MSN]

VIDEO California Challenge To UAW Region 6 & UAW 4811 Endorsement Of Scott Wiener At Mahmoud Khalil Panel At SFSU For more info 2026-04-25 [LVP]

New York One Worker Dies Every 1 Hr 45 Min As Trump Cuts Labor-Law Enforcement For more info 2026-04-25 [Work-Bites]

VIDEO California The Price of Safety: The Case Of Three Whistleblowers & Workers Memorial Day 2026 For more info 2026-04-25 [LVP]

N.C. Largest School Districts to Close for May Day Strike - NJ Unions w/ 1 Million Members Back May Day - 85 Cities Holding May Day Actions 2026-04-24 [Payday Report]

New York Black Harlem Workers Have Historically Helped Lead the Labor Movement 2026-04-24 [The Indypendent]

Labor Rights Leader Dolores Huerta Accepts TIME100 Impact Award 2026-04-24 [Time]

Autoworkers at Tesla, BMW and more move to join UAW, union says 2026-04-24 [ABC]

Costco's unionized workers vote to authorize nationwide strike 2026-04-24 [ABC]

Colorado After 3-Week Strike, JBS Concedes to Meatpacking Workers 2026-04-23 [Labour Notes]

Oregon Being Irish American shapes my commitment to international labor solidarity 2026-04-22 [Street Roots]

USA IAM Union, Steelworkers Stand in Solidarity with Eaton Workers in Aguascalientes, Mexico 2026-04-22 [IAM Union]

New York LanguageLine interpreters unionzation push backed by lawmakers 2026-04-21 [The Chief]

New York Home healthcare aides launch hunger strike to end 24-hour shifts 2026-04-21 [The Chief]

New York Unions urge veto of buffer zone bill 2026-04-21 [The Chief]

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigns as ethics and corruption probe deepens 2026-04-21 [The Guardian]

New York Home care workers launch hunger strike as 24-hour work shifts persist 2026-04-21 [The Eagle]

IAM Union Supports Congressman Norcross’s Discharge Petition to Advance Faster Labor Contracts Act 2026-04-21 [IAM Union]

AFL-CIO on resignation of labour secretary Chavez-De Remer 2026-04-21 [AFL-CIO]

Trump's labour secretary resigns amid claims she drank on the job, had affair 2026-04-21 [Stuff]

Union Now Is America’s New Strike Fund 2026-04-20 [The American Prospect]

New York Why Attaboy Workers Are Unionizing 2026-04-20 [PunchDrink]

Domestic workers live in fear of their employers who they say are now more likely to use their immigration status to exploit them 2026-04-20 [19thnews.org]

USA Trade Unionists and Political Activists from the U.S. Travel to Cuba for May Day 2026-04-20 [Trabajadores]

To Stop Trump, the Pro-Democracy Movement Must Center Workers 2026-04-19 [Common Dreams]

Federal Employee Unions File Lawsuit to Block Unlawful FLRA Rule 2026-04-19 [AFGE]

Connecticut Solidarity Action with Union Workers at PetSmart - April 19th 2026-04-19 [CWA 1298]

New York NYC building workers strike averted, tentative contract deal reached 2026-04-19 [Bklyn Eagle]

New York Tentative contract deal holds off strike by New York City apartment doormen 2026-04-18 [AP]

New York Union Strong Podcast: Breaking Their Silence After 17 Years 2026-04-18 [NYS AFL-CIO]

VIDEO California SF Mayor Lurie & DPH Threaten To Close 3 Healthcare Centers Including For Seniors For more info 2026-04-18 [LVP]

VIDEO California Justice 4 For All! CFA & The Acquittal Of CSU Channel Island CFA Professor John Caravello For more info 2026-04-18 [LVP]

Tell Congress: Pass the Working Americans' Tax Cut Act! 2026-04-18 [AFT]

VIDEO California Teachers go on strike in school district with campuses in Santa Fe Springs, Downey and Norwalk 2026-04-18 [ABC 7]

N.Y.C. doormen and building owners reach an agreement to avert a strike 2026-04-18 [NYT]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders termination of union contracts 2026-04-17 [Gov Exec]

Labor rights activists navigate what César Chávez sexual abuse allegations mean for their movement 2026-04-16 [Prism Media]

Labor Dept. investigates texts among Secretary's family and staff; department workers ordered to bring her wine, check on family members; women ordered to 'pay attention' to men 2026-04-16 [New York Times]

United Farmworkers' Complex and Contradictory History 2026-04-16 [Labour Notes]

Ohio Doctors and nurses at Metrohealth, Cleveland's second-largest hospital, seek to form a union 2026-04-16 [WCPN]

VIDEO California SEIU1021 & IFPTE21 City Workers Rally At SF Gen Against Mayor Lurie's Union Busting Layoffs & Prop D For more info 2026-04-16 [LVP]

New York New York apartment building workers authorize a possible strike as contract talks stall 2026-04-16 [Stuff]

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