The Tower Climbers Union (TCU)/Communications Workers of America (CWA) has reached a new milestone with the launch of their new Local, CWA Local 9424. The Local also has a National Charter for all Tower Hands. The launch follows a series of powerful actions by TCU/CWA Members who’ve been actively mobilizing to fight for improved safety standards and more»

(COLUMBUS, OHIO) - The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) has successfully filed a representation petition at the State Employment Relations Board (SERB) in Columbus, Ohio for 980 Patient Care Associates (PCAs) and Psychiatric Care Technicians (PCTs) employed at the Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center. The more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Parking Ambassadors employed at the MGM National Harbor Hotel & Casino in Maryland have voted unanimously to join Teamsters Local 639. “Congratulations to the MGM National Harbor Hotel and Casino Workers on their successful organizing victory,” said Bill Davis, President of Teamsters Local 639 in Washington, D.C. more»

(DENVER, COLORADO) – They came to the 2023 Organizing Summit in Colorado with the same goal: to expand their Union. A total of 225 Volunteer Member Organizers gathered this month in The Mile High City to sign up new American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employee (AFSCME) Members and learn the latest organizing techniques. And they more»

(LANDER, WYOMING) – Earlier this year, Employers of Frontier Ambulance voted 22-to-2 to form a new Union with United Steelworkers (USW) in Lander, Wyoming, after a brief, hard-fought Union Campaign. It took nearly four months for Wyoming State AFL-CIO’s Executive Director Tammy Johnson to find a Union to try to organize them. When Will more»

Jake Moore at Willamette Week reports more than 700 formerly unrepresented City Employees have voted to form the City of Portland (Oregon) Professional Workers Union. The newly-formed Union represents Financial Analysts, Multimedia Specialists, Hearings Officers and others from nearly every bureau in the City, and is now the second-largest Independent more»

(PHOENIX, ARIZONA) - The Actors, Stage Managers, Bartenders and Servers of Phoenix’s Drunk Shakespeare have become the second company of the theatrical franchise to Unionize as Drunk Shakespeare United. Following just weeks after their fellow Workers in Chicago, they too have organized with Actors’ Equity Association, the National Labor Union more»

(CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA) – Workers in the Manufacturing Distribution Unit at the American Red Cross facility in Charlotte have unanimously voted to join Teamsters Local 71. “I voted to join the Teamsters so I could have a voice and feel more secure with my job,” said Patricia Adams, a Manufacturing Distribution Technician employed at more»

Curtis Brodner at 1010 WINS reports Projectionists at an Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn, the movie theater chain known for serving food and drinks during screenings, have filed a petition for a Union Election with the National Labor Relations Board. But two days after the petition was filed - and one day after the NLRB sent official notice to the company, more»

(PHOENIX, ARIZONA) - Organizing is often described as a marathon. It takes time to build relationships and establish trust. For Phoenix International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 640, that long effort has come to fruition and the Local's rolls are swelling. "This is the culmination of a lot of things that we've been trying for a long more»

(LAWRENCE, KANSAS) – Kansas Holistic Public Defenders has voluntarily recognized Teamsters Local 696 as the exclusive Bargaining Agent for their Public Defenders, Client Advocates and Social Workers, the Union announced. Kansas Holistic Defenders work to prevent unnecessary and wrongful incarceration, while addressing the root causes of involvement more»

Holly McDede at KQED.com reports Graduate Workers at Stanford University have voted to form a Union. If their campaign succeeds, thousands of Graduate Students who provide teaching and research duties could represent one of the Nation’s largest Bargaining Units among Graduate Workers at a Private University. The vote comes months after Academic more»

Demand for Union Representation has surged in recent years with the COVID-19 Pandemic certainly playing a key role in exposing disparities and accelerating the push by White Collar Workers and other Workers to organize. Labor shortages gave workers a rare leg up, which Workers are using to seek higher pay and better benefits from employers. Stagnant more»

(PASADENA, CALIFORNIA) – Workers at the Kidspace Children’s Museum have launched their campaign to become the first Unionized Children’s Museum in Los Angeles County. The Workers are organizing as Kidspace United and are seeking to build power through AFSCME District Council 36. The new Union would include 60 Workers, such as Play more»

(BETHESDA, MARYLAND) – Forty-eight hundred Early-Career Researchers employed at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have filed to form their Union, NIH Fellows United-United Auto Workers (UAW). This is the first Union within the U.S. Government for Research Fellows, which includes Post-Baccalaureate, Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Researchers. more»

Shoshy Ciment at Footwear News reports on REI’s grassroots Unionization efforts that are spreading across the Outdoor Retailer’s stores across the U.S. Employees at a Boston REI store recently voted in favor of Unionizing their location. “The pandemic seems to have sort of changed the Labor Environment in a way that sort of opened up an more»

Willa Glickman an Assistant Editor at The Review who has written extensively about Workers on the margins of formal Labor Protection gave an interesting interview to The New York Review of Books. Glickman shared her thoughts on the National Labor Movement and on its representatives in New York. In her interviews with Service Workers in New York City, more»

Jael Goldfine at The Nation reports the COVID-19 Pandemic and the turmoil it created - including an acute hardship for Musicians, also generated something else: The will to fight back against the hyper-consolidated, increasingly Tech-run Industry that appears determined to rob Musicians of a sustainable career. Since 2020, a small but powerful Labor more»

(LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA) – 300 Workers employed at Smart & Final Distribution Center in Riverside, California have voted overwhelmingly, by a 4-to-1 margin, to join Teamsters Local 630 in Los Angeles. The California Warehouse Workers are seeking consistent standards, better health care, a path to retirement, an end of favoritism, job security, more»

(PLYMOUTH, MICHIGAN) - Nearly 200 Workers employed at Webasto Roof Systems in Plymouth, Michigan have voted to join United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 3000. The Workers - who make convertible tops for the Mustang, Jeep, Bronco and Corvette, launched their Organizing Drive in November, and faced an intense Anti-Union Campaign from management. more»

(PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA) – The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) has announced Workers employed at the Philadelphia Ballet Wardrobe Shop have voted unanimously to join IATSE Local 799. The shop, which is responsible for building, fitting, and repairing costumes used in Philadelphia Ballet productions, will now benefit more»

(RICHMOND, VIRGINIA) – Workers employed in the Custodial and Plant Services Department in Richmond, Virginia’s Public Schools have voted overwhelmingly to join Teamsters Local 322. Prior to May 2021, Public Sector Workers in the Commonwealth of Virginia were not able to collectively bargain. In February 2023, Local 322 filed a petition with more»

(WICHITA, KANSAS) - Registered Nurses (RNs) employed at Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph Hospital in Wichita, Kansas have voted by 62% - 179-to-108, to join National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC), an affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU), the Nation’s largest and fastest-growing RN union. The Secret Ballot Election was conducted by the more»

(MACON, GEORGIA) – Workers employed at Blue Bird Corporation’s Fort Valley, Georgia facility have voted to join the United Steelworkers (USW), seeking a voice on the job so they can address urgent concerns, including workplace health and safety, work-life balance and fair pay. USW President Tom Conway welcomed the 1,400 Workers to the USW and more»

Clio Chang at Curbed.com reports Workers at Snøhetta, the Global Design Firm behind the renovation of 550 Madison and its lush public garden as well as One Vanderbilt’s mildly hallucinogenic Summit, are filing to form a Union. If their drive to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers succeeds, Snøhetta more»

(KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI) – More than 400 Workers employed at the Yanfeng USA Riverside Facility located outside Kansas City, Missouri have voted to join United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 710 following a final vote of 310-to-26. This is the sixth UAW-organized Yanfeng facility, joining more than 1,000 Members working at the Supplier’s operations more»

(SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH) – Workers across the Salt Lake City Public Library (SLCPL) System officially announced their Unionization efforts with American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1004 - and requested voluntary recognition of their Union during the Library’s Board of Directors meeting. The Library more»

(LANSING, MICHIGAN) – The Michigan AFL-CIO has voluntarily recognized Teamsters Local 243 as the exclusive Bargaining Agent for their Staff in three key departments: Campaigns, Communications and Legislative. “We commend the Michigan AFL-CIO for voluntarily recognizing their Staff’s desire to become Teamsters,” Local 243 Business more»

(CORNWALL, NEW YORK) – Workers employed at the Storm King Art Center (SKAC) in Cornwall have voted to Unionize with the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA). The Workers are now part of the Cultural Workers United Coalition, which is headed up by CSEA’s International Union – the American Federation of State, County & Municipal more»

Alicia Santiago at The DailyEmerald.com reports the University of Oregon Student Worker Union (UOSW) has filed its petition for certification - and, if the process is successful, the group expects to be the largest Undergraduate Union in the United States. To Directly Access This Organizing Labor News Story, Go To: UO Student Workers files its petition for more»

Associate Editor Sean Buckley at Yahoo News reports Workers at Sega of America have announced plans to form a Union. A super-majority of Workers based out of the company's headquarters in Irvine, California say they are forming a Union with the Communication Workers of America - calling themselves the Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega, or AEGIS-CWA. more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – In a historic first, Amazon Drivers and Dispatchers in Palmdale, California have joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and reached a strong tentative agreement containing a multitude of workplace improvements. Rajpal Singh, an Amazon Driver in Palmdale, said: “We want fair pay and safe jobs, to be able to more»

John August is the Scheinman Institute’s Director of Healthcare and Partner Programs at Cornell University’s School of Industrial Labor Relations, whose expertise in health care and Labor relations spans 40 years. He previously served as the Executive Director of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions from April 2006 until July 2013. In a more»

91.7 WVXU’s John Kiesewetter reports that in Cincinnati, Ohio, five Staffers who direct Channel 9 programs want to join the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET)-Communication Workers of America (CWA) Unit that already represents WCPO-TV Engineers and Production Technicians. "There was no specific issue that raised our more»

(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Starbucks Workers United has won its 300th election as Partners employed at the 7th & K location in Sacramento, California voted to Unionize - winning Union Representation by a vote of 11-to-2, Union Officials announced. “I am overjoyed that despite Starbucks using every dirty trick to deter us, we were able to become true more»

(CHICAGO, ILLINOIS) - Employees of the National Public Housing Museum (NPHM) in Chicago have won their Union vote and are now represented by the International Association of Machinists (IAM). “I’m proud to be lining up with a history of empowered Workers, from all sorts of different fields of work,” said new Member and NPHM Employee Mark more»

(PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA) – Workers at Philadelphia’s Please Touch Museum have formed a Union, announcing an overwhelming election victory in March, with 85% voting yes to Unionize as Please Touch Museum United (PTM United) through American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME)Local 397 (District Council 47). The more»

(CARY, NORTH CAROLINA) – Workers at the American Red Cross in Cary, North Carolina have voted – unanimously, to join Teamsters Local 391. This is the fourth organizing victory at a Red Cross Facility in North Carolina in the last month and this group of Workers joins three Units of Red Cross Durham workers who also recently voted to join Local more»

Josh Eidelson at Bloomberg reports Barnes & Noble Employees at a New Jersey store are petitioning to make theirs the company’s first Unionized location, extending a wave of organizing in the U.S. Retail Sector. Workers say they’ve signed up most of the roughly 70 Employees at the store on Rutgers University’s Campus. Employees are more»

Amanda Silberling at Portside reports Employees at Bandcamp, an On-Line Audio Distributor, have announced their formation of a Union. Last year, the platform was acquired by Epic Games, the multibillion-dollar company behind games like Fortnite and the Unreal gaming engine. According to the Union - known as Bandcamp United, a super-majority of Workers more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - After unanimously voting to join International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 22 in 2020, the 19 Stagecraft Professionals of the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia will finally be working under a Union contract. Founded in 1989, the Signature Theatre is a League of Resident Theatres member known for more»

Alex Gatley at FreePressOKC.com reports a group of six Kaiser’s Grateful Bean Cafe Employees have Unionized - with the support and blessings of their management to become the only full-service restaurant to Unionize in the State of Oklahoma in recent years. By Unionizing, the Workers gained paid vacation, sick leave and insurance (medical, vision, more»

(CHICAGO, ILLINOIS) – Workers employed at the Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Lincoln Park and its off-site collections facility in Ravenswood have decided to Unionize as Chicago Academy of Sciences Workers United (CASWU) with American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME Council 31). The Workers more»

(MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN) – Teachers and Support Staff employed at Rocketship Public Schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin are making public their intent to Unionize with International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) District 10. Staff Members at Rocketship Transformation Prep and Rocketship Southside Community Prep formed an more»

(NORTH PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND) - Thirty-five Corrections Workers employed at the maximum-security Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility are now part of the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees’ (AFSCME) Family. Rhode Island Council 94/AFSCME announced Maintenance Workers, Counselors, IT technicians and more have voted in a more»

(MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA) - Workers at Bobcat’s Rogers, Minnesota Production Facility have voted for Union Representation in a Secret Ballot Election that was overseen by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the United Steelworkers (USW) said. After the election, USW International President Thomas M. Conway welcomed nearly 200 Bobcat Employees more»

(CLEVELAND, OHIO) – The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), announced that, by an overwhelming majority vote, Workers employed at REI, Incorporated in Beachwood, Ohio - a suburb of Cleveland and the only REI location in the Greater Metropolitan Area, have voted to join the RWDSU, making this the third Unionized REI store in the more»

(PHOENIX, ARIZONA) – Workers at Republic Services have voted overwhelmingly for representation with Teamsters Local 104 in Phoenix. The 60 Workers - which include Full-Time and Part-Time Drivers, Operators, Compactors and Scale Clerks at the Cave Creek Transfer Station in North Phoenix, had been seeking higher pay, affordable health care, better more»

Jonathan Mattise at Fortune Magazine and the Associated Press are reporting a group of 75 Employees out of the thousands who work at a Nissan Assembly Plant in Smyrna, Tennessee finally voted on Thursday (March 16th) on whether to form a Union. Those leading the Union Drive hope for an elusive win at a foreign-owned Auto Assembly Plant in the traditionally more»

(CHICAGO, ILLINOIS) – Nearly 300 Employees of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago have voted to Unionize with American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 31. Votes were counted earlier this month in a Union Election administered in February by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). An overwhelming more»