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"Every single time that you get frustrated or you run into a wall, someone from Labor Notes is going to be there to pick you up," Nora Meek, a founding member of the IATSE CREW reform caucus, says in our new video. Help us build a fighting labor movement! labornotes.org/donate
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"When I first heard the news of Fatou Traore's detention, I was upset that ICE had taken someone from the very hospital where I worked. Many of the workers at the hospital weren’t aware of her detention or were afraid to speak up." 1/3
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"I wrote to all of the inpatient phlebotomists I used to work with at main campus, some of whom had also been custodians and worked with Fatou," writes Sara Gilmore, a phlebotomy technician at the University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center, and an AFSCME Local 12 member 2/3
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Iowa Hospital Workers Demand Return of Deported Co-Worker

Fatou Traore was on her way to work as a custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) on the morning of Thursday, September 24, when ICE agents detained her. Despite having legal

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Union strength or weakness is often seen only through the light of a strike or lockout. Phil Cohen’s memoir, Maximum Leverage: From the Street to the Picket Line, tells a different story labornotes.org/blogs/2026/10…

Book Review: Maximum Leverage: From the Street to the Picket Line

Union strength or weakness is often seen only through the light of a strike or lockout. Phil Cohen’s memoir, Maximum Leverage: From the Street to the Picket Line, tells a different story. Union

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Tonight, Sunday, Oct. 18, 7.30 p.m. Eastern: Postal Workers Edition: What to Do When Your Union Breaks Your Heart There's still time to sign up here! labornotes.org/events/2026/w…
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Fatou Traore was on her way to work as a custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics on the morning of Thursday, September 24, when ICE agents detained her 1/3
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Despite having legal immigration status in the United States and no criminal record, she was deported to Sierra Leone (a place she has no connection to) on October 12. Traore is a beloved member of the Iowa City community and of AFSCME Council 61, Local 12 2/2
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She is also the mother of four children, the youngest of whom is three years old labornotes.org/blogs/2026/10… 3/3

Iowa Hospital Workers Demand Return of Deported Co-Worker

Fatou Traore was on her way to work as a custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) on the morning of Thursday, September 24, when ICE agents detained her. Despite having legal

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United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has won a second four-year term, winning 68 percent of the vote in member balloting for the union’s top officers. Luis Feliz Leon and @janesla report: labornotes.org/2026/10/uaw-p…

UAW President Shawn Fain Wins Reelection Victory

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has won a second four-year term, winning 68 percent of the vote in member balloting for the union’s top officers. The election was a referendum on the new

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A custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics was deported to Sierra Leone (a place she has no connection to) on October 12, despite having legal immigration status in the U.S. and no criminal record labornotes.org/blogs/2026/10…

Iowa Hospital Workers Demand Return of Deported Co-Worker

Fatou Traore was on her way to work as a custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) on the morning of Thursday, September 24, when ICE agents detained her. Despite having legal

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Kelly Clarkson drove all the way to Brooklyn again and is demanding we sell her our "Keep Honking: I'm listening to the Labor Notes Podcast" bumper sticker even though we already told her you can just get it online at labornotes.org/store??
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Join workers at the Denver Troublemakers School on Saturday, October 17, and hear from JBS meatpacking workers, newly organized Denver Public Library workers, and the teachers and federal workers fighting attacks on their rights. Sign up! labornotes.org/events/denver…
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Amazon workers at four delivery and sorting warehouses in Germany are organizing to make every minute count. They want Amazon to pay them for all their work, saying in a petition that the company is stealing their time labornotes.org/2026/09/germa…

German Amazon Workers Organize to Get Paid for Every Minute

Amazon workers at four delivery and sorting warehouses in Germany are organizing to make every minute count. They’re demanding that Amazon pay them for every minute of work, saying in a petition that

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“For years, Amazon has relied on a convoluted subcontracting system that denies last-mile drivers the protections other workers get, while maintaining extraordinary control over their schedules, workloads, and uniforms.” -Julie Su, NYC's deputy mayor for economic justice 1/2
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The workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in NYC, under legislation that Teamsters, Amazon workers, and the Democratic Socialists of America are organizing to pass labornotes.org/2026/10/amazo…

Amazon Package Drivers Rev Up Organizing to Become Direct Employees

The workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in New York City, under legislation that Teamsters and Amazon workers

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Luis Feliz Leon reports 2/2 labornotes.org/2026/10/amazo…

Amazon Package Drivers Rev Up Organizing to Become Direct Employees

The workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in New York City, under legislation that Teamsters and Amazon workers

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"Not every artist has as large a platform as rapper Macklemore, children’s TV star Miss Rachel, or country singer Zach Bryan but there’s plenty that artists and art workers can do to end complicity in Israel’s ongoing atrocities." labornotes.org/blogs/2026/10…

Palestinian Arts Workers Call for Solidarity

Palestinian cultural workers living through apartheid, occupation, and genocide are calling for solidarity from their counterparts abroad. Not every artist has as large a platform as rapper

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Read the piece by Mona Abhari, the North America labor organizer for the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment Movement: labornotes.org/blogs/2026/10… 2/2

Palestinian Arts Workers Call for Solidarity

Palestinian cultural workers living through apartheid, occupation, and genocide are calling for solidarity from their counterparts abroad. Not every artist has as large a platform as rapper

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While some expected Fain’s strongest support to come from the higher education and legal aid locals on the East Coast, turnout there was down by more than half from 2022, with fewer than 2,000 ballots counted 1/2
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United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain looks poised to win a second four-year term, with an overwhelming lead in member balloting for the union’s top officers. Luis Feliz Leon and @janesla report labornotes.org/2026/10/uaw-p…

UAW President Shawn Fain Wins Reelection Victory

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has won a second four-year term, winning 68 percent of the vote in member balloting for the union’s top officers. The election was a referendum on the new

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Turnout was up in Local 4811 at the University of California, which went 75 percent for Fain, but still only 2,500 of 60,000 members there voted. As in the last election, it was members in the big manufacturing locals that were key to Fain’s victory 2/2 labornotes.org/2026/10/uaw-p…

UAW President Shawn Fain Wins Reelection Victory

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has won a second four-year term, winning 68 percent of the vote in member balloting for the union’s top officers. The election was a referendum on the new

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