Press

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)

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

• The Fight to Unionize Restaurants Heads to the New York Pizzeria (Eater)

April

• There Is No Future for a Labor Movement That Fails to Organize at Amazon (The Nation)

January

• Union from The Start (You Don’t Have to Wait) (Labor Notes)

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

• Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee Is Helping Workers During COVID (Teen Vogue)
• How Socialists and Trade Unionists Built a New Labor Organizing Model During the Pandemic (Jacobin)

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)

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

• Bringing Bernie 2020 Organizing Tools to the Workplace (The Forge)

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)