Press
Highlights
March 5, 2024
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)
September
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)
- Local Taco Bell workers demand safer working conditions, hazard pay, paid sick time (Macomb Daily)
- 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)