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📺 Starting soon at 4:30 p.m. Central / 5:30 p.m. Eastern: Watch live from the 2026 Labor Notes Conference: Opening Up Bargaining
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📺 Starting soon at 2:15 p.m. Central / 3:15 p.m. Eastern: Watch live from the 2026 Labor Notes Conference: The Soul in the Machine: Resisting A.I. Pressure on the Character and Quality of Our Jobs
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Our latest issue, seen here at #LaborNotes2026, features stories on open bargaining, organizing at American Axle, a strike wave among California educators, and more. Get our monthly magazine for $30/year and share your own organizing stories! labornotes.org/store/labor-n…. 1/10
ALT A copy of Labor Notes' June issue next to a program for the 2026 Labor Notes conference and a shirt reading "Solidaridad para siempre"
“Now that people have the contract, they’ve been fighting back,” said Stevie Joe Thornton, a longtime worker at a New Flyer plant in Alabama. 9/10
Do you have an organizing story to share? Think about writing about it for Labor Notes! Here's what we're looking for: labornotes.org/writerguideli… 10/10
#LaborNotes2026 continues with panels on some of the most pressing issues facing workers, from defending our immigrant siblings to pushing back against employer-driven A.I. schemes and boosting labor's political power. A thread on related stories from our coverage: 1/7
ALT Conference attendees at gather for a panel on "The Hidden Impacts of A.I.: Building Power In The Semiconductor Supply Chain"
Les Leopold's latest book, The Billionaires Have Two Parties, We Need a Party of Our Own, challenges folks to rethink how labor is organizing politically, and whether we are actually building the independent working-class power this moment demands. 6/7
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"One important lesson organizers can take from this book is that unions’ political power is not bestowed upon us by whoever happens to be in office. It is created by worker solidarity," wrote Steve Lawton, former president of CWA Local 1102. 7/7