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"Fed up" Los Angeles County workers set to hold two-day strike over contract negotiationsSeveral Los Angeles County services could experience temporary interruptions when tens of thousands of workers represented by the Service Employees International Union go on strike starting Monday night.

About 55,000 L.A. County workers go on strike, disrupting servicesThe strike is set to last until 7 p.m. Wednesday. Libraries and some health clinics will be closed, though hospitals will remain open. Wildfire beach debris cleanup may be paused.

Oakland Teachers Are Set to Strike This Week, Union Tells School District | KQEDOUSD officials told families that schools would remain open during the single-day strike on Thursday, the fourth walkout by Oakland teachers since 2019.

Thousands of county workers march through downtown LA on day 2 of planned 48-hour strikeThe workers are accusing Los Angeles County of failing to fairly negotiate a new labor contract.

Microsoft’s Bargaining Delays Leave Video Game Workers Without Union Contracts Two Years LaterVideo game workers at Microsoft subsidiary ZeniMax Media—represented by CWA Locals 2100, 2108, and 6215—are calling out Microsoft for the lack of progress toward a union contract.

UAW Local 291 remains on strike in OshkoshMembers of the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 291 line High Avenue in front of the cream colored brick Cummins factory holding signs declaring “UAW on strike” for unfair labor practices. The strikers, bundled up to beat the spring cold snap, mill up and down the road waving at passing cars and cheering when someone...

Workers complain that MGM is refusing to negotiate with union; Springfield City Council might add voice to outcryThe table games and poker dealers officially formed a union 13 months ago.

Huntsville Starbucks workers file for a union electionAPR spoke with two baristas about their experiences at the Huntsville Starbucks location and why they want to unionize.

Frustrated Berkeley REI workers accuse co-op of union busting, straying from valuesREI’s Berkeley employees claim the company has stalled contract negotiations and harmed unionized workers by excluding them from bonuses and pay raises.

Every week, we bring you a roundup of the top news and commentary about issues and events important to working families. Here’s the latest edition of the Working People Weekly List.aflcio.org/2025/4/28/fundamental-right-come-home-safe-working-people-weekly-list

May Day call to action: Free unionist Kilmar Abrego GarciaUNI Global Union General Secretary Christy Hoffman is issuing the following urgent call to action for International Workers’ Day, 1 May: On May Day, we come together to march, to inspire and to take stock of our collective power. This year, as we celebrate working-class solidarity, I have an urgent request: Stand with Kilmar Abrego

Grocery Workers VS GoliathKroger and Albertsons tried to merge; union organizing stopped them. But the fight for grocery workers is just beginning.

The Indispensability of the Labor OrganizerWhy the work of the 2025 Labor Organizers of the Year is so critical.

Government & Politics

‘Trump and Musk are setting the example’: how companies are becoming emboldened to be more anti-unionAs the White House carries out an anti-worker agenda, labor leaders fear corporate America could also grow more hostile

In Just 100 Days, Trump Has Already Achieved One-Third of Project 2025 Agenda - Ms. MagazineA new Project 2025 tracker reveals how the Trump administration is advancing policies that erode civil rights, healthcare access and worker protections.

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100 Days Into Trump's Second Term: What's Changed With Tariffs, Immigration and MorePresident Trump has wielded the presidency as an instrument of blunt power, ignoring the howls of outrage from Democrats and daring largely docile Republicans to challenge the limits of his authority.

What If It Is Fascism?Discussions of whether Trumpism is fascist often lose sight of the political stakes of the issue. But like Italian and German fascism, MAGA reflects a political system failing to address capitalist crisis.

Trump administration’s attempt to nix the labor rights of thousands of federal workers on ‘national security’ grounds furthers the GOP’s long-held anti-union agendaIts actions are in keeping with Project 2025, which questions whether any public-sector unions should exist.

Trump Sued by Labor Unions Over Workforce Reduction EffortsPresident Donald Trump is exceeding his constitutional authority by ordering mass workforce reductions across federal agencies, a coalition of labor unions and local US governments alleged in a new lawsuit Monday.

DOGE Was Bad. Schedule F Will Be Worse.An executive order will convert 50,000 government employees into de facto political appointees who serve only at the president’s pleasure.

Trump Recasts Mission of Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Office, Prompting ‘Exodus’Hundreds of lawyers and other staff members are fleeing the arm of the agency that defends constitutional rights, which appointees intend to reshape to enact President Trump’s agenda.

In the States

KDP Statement on the Toll of Trump’s First 100 Days Back in Office KENTUCKY DEMOCRATIC PARTYFRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky Democratic Party (KDP) Chair Colmon Elridge released the following statement on President Trump’s first 100 days in office, which have proven to be historic for all the wrong reasons:

NLRB News & Decisions

NLRB Petitions & Charges for Monday, April 28, 2025Total Entries filed Friday, April 25, 2025: 55

Democrats in Congress warn cuts at top US labor watchdog will be ‘catastrophic’Musk’s Doge targets National Labor Relations Board with cuts and terminated leases as union speaks out

US House Democrats demand answers after DOGE's alleged NLRB data breach - WDET 101.9 FMSubscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts.

Amazon must negotiate with Teamsters at San Francisco warehouse, NLRB saysA regional office of the National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint against the e-commerce giant over its alleged illegal refusal to bargain.

News & Commentary: April 29, 2025 ✦ OnLaborIn today’s news and commentary, CFPB mass layoffs paused again, Mine Safety agency rejects union intervention, and postdoctoral researchers petition for union election. A temporary pause on mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been restored. After a trial court initially blocked the administration from mass firings, the appeals court modified that […]

Jobs, Business & Economy

How Trump’s mass firings could quickly hollow out the Black middle classThe president has gone nuclear against federal union jobs—historically African Americans’ ladder to economic equality.

Upcoming Events & Useful Links

National Day of ActionThey want to erase labor rights, break our unions, and silence immigrant voices. This May Day we are fighting back. Stand with us.

50501 — 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movementJoin the movement to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach. 50 protests, 50 states, 1 day: #50501.

Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger<sup>®</sup> Food DriveThe Letter Carriers’ “Stamp Out Hunger” Food Drive—the nation’s largest all-volunteer one-day food collection effort—is held annually on the second Saturday in May and is a community outreach effort of the National Association of Letter Carriers.

2025 UAW-Union Built Vehicle Guide - UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of AmericaThese vehicles are made in the United States or Canada by members of the UAW and Canada’s Unifor union, formerly the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW). Because of the integration of vehicle production in both countries, all of the vehicles listed as made in Canada include significant UAW made content and support the jobs of UAW members.

Form a Union!

Organizing a union in your workplace is about getting more rights and more power. Thousands of working people—all across the country and in all kinds of jobs—organize unions every year because unions are the best way to secure the things you care about.

Labor History in 2:00

April 29 - The 1963 Bristol Boycott | Labor History in 2:00When you stand up for Civil Rights and Workers Rights you never know how far the struggle may travel. This was the caseon this day in Labor History the year was 1963

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