Heat The Ground Up, a new oral history of #StarbucksWorkersUnited is out today on Haymarket Originals. Hear from workers about their transformative experience organizing across hundreds of stores around the U.S. and building toward a public escalation in their fight for a first contract with fair wages, adequate staffing, reliable hours, and safe working conditions. | Labor Notes

Ahead of the statewide day of action in Minnesota on Friday, January 23, (no work, no school, no shopping), Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants–CWA, joined a community briefing via Zoom and described the current moment in Minneapolis as a political landmark similar to Memphis in the 1960s. She drew from the final speech that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered in support of striking sanitation workers before he was killed in 1968. “The question is not,

Rank-and-file nurses on strike in New York City at an action on Monday criticized state governor Kathy Hochul for "taking the side of management" by allowing, through executive order, for hospitals to hire scab nurses who are not licensed in New York. Video by Labor Notes Organizer Sarah Hughes. | Labor Notes

Labor Notes on Reels

Labor Notes on Reels

Labor Notes on Reels

Labor Notes on Reels

This is the moment no one prepares you for. Not the pain. �The uncertainty. Most moms aren’t afraid of labor. �They’re afraid of not knowing what’s normal, what matters, and when to act. And that’s where confidence disappears. There are clear signs. �There is a way to read your body. �And you don’t have to Google your way through the middle of the night wondering if you’re doing this wrong. I teach moms the exact labor secrets I used as a labor nurse so you can stay calm, grounded, and confident

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