Luis Feliz Leon

Unions and international labor federations argue that it's the same billionaires that want to run Venezuela who keep us working longer hours for less pay, without health care, job security, or stable housing.

Unions and international labor federations argue that it’s the same billionaires that want to run Venezuela who keep us working longer hours for less pay, without health care, job security, or stable housing.

Above photo: American Axle workers in Three Rivers, Michigan, who supply the Big 3, kicked off their contract campaign with a rally. Their strike deadline is May 31. Jim West.

“We are also doing this to demand freedom. We’re not treated like people. We’re treated like animals.”

En un tramo de acera en un corredor industrial de Newark, agentes federales con fusiles, porras metálicas, chalecos antibalas y balaclavas se enfrentaron con activistas desarmados que portaban carteles de cartón y un megáfono. Desde el campo de fútbol detrás de las paredes de la prisión, se podía oir a los trabajadores detenidos gritar: ‹‹¡Libertad!››

Protests are exploding outside of a New Jersey immigrant detention center after detainees say they are being “treated like animals” and are engaged in a work stoppage and hunger strike.

In a time when there's real cause for fear and despair—and when the Trump administration is pushing hard to divide us—the Labor Notes Conference June 12-14 in Chicago was an oasis of inspiration and solidarity.

Yesterday news broke of a sweeping undercover investigation by the Department of Homeland Security in Minnesota early this year to infiltrate and surveil meetings and obtain the financial records of nonprofit groups and two of the country's largest unions, the Communications Workers (CWA) and the Service Employees (SEIU). This investigation was behind the indictments of 15 people in June.

United Auto Workers members are now voting by mail ballot for their top officers. The election will decide whether President Shawn Fain, who led 2023's stand-up strike against the Big Three automakers, will continue the effort to reform the UAW.

On an overcast Sunday in August, when my daughter turned seven, we visited my father in Corona, Queens. He filled an inflatable pool in the parking lot of the three-story apartment where he rents, and the kids played, his young daughters and their neighbors, a riot of giggles and splashing. Next to them adults chatted about the camps and the masked agents. As we went around taking turns in conversational roulette, pausing to take swigs of beer from a bottle, a neighbor swung in his portable rocking chair, throwing cursory glances at every car trundling past. The expressions in his eyes semaphored signals to his wife about the degree of danger, should she need to bolt into hiding.