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The nurses are having a Valentine’s Day virtual rally from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, February 14, here: bit.ly/4kOv1Fn

Supporters can also contribute to a fund for striking nurses via Paypal to @NYPNurses 5/5
February 14, 2026 at 4:39 PM
We bet when *you’re* watching Mamma Mia, Wuthering Heights, or The Princess Bride, you’re thinking not just about yearning, intrigue and some gloomy hills, but also about collective action, the campaign mountain, and building power from the ground up! labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/your-favor...
February 13, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Workers in Minneapolis are experiencing the escalation of ICE raids there since December as an immediate threat upending their lives, and have been organizing within their workplaces and communities to defend themselves and one another: labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/how-worker... 🧵1/4
February 9, 2026 at 4:19 AM
If you're in/around New York City and want to develop your organizing capacity and strategy with co-workers, neighbors, and others in your community, join the May Day Solidarity School together this month on Saturday, February 21. Learn more: bit.ly/MayDaySchool
February 6, 2026 at 5:32 PM
More scenes from a rally outside Mount Sinai West held later in the afternoon. Chants included, "Sinai, Sinai, you can't hide! We can see your greedy side!"

Photos by A.J. Schumann 2/3
February 6, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Several dozen members of @nynurses.bsky.social at an action on Thursday afternoon outside the Greater New York Hospital Association in Manhattan. NYPD reportedly arrested some nurses who had gathered at the building's entrance.

Photos by A.J. Schumann 1/3
February 6, 2026 at 4:16 AM
On Tuesday, hundreds of nurses and supporters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in the freezing cold to demand safe staffing levels, reliable health benefits, and fair wages. 1/3
February 4, 2026 at 9:48 PM
🗞️ Out now: Our February issue on the ongoing open-ended strike by @nynurses.bsky.social; workers rising up in Minneapolis; logistics workers' fight for a first contract in Tacoma, WA, and more! $30/year for 11 issues. Subscribe by Tuesday, 2/17, to get the March issue labornotes.org/subscribe
February 4, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Hundreds of striking New York City nurses and their supporters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday, the latest escalation in week 4 of the open-ended @nynurses.bsky.social strike. Photos by Labor Notes Organizer Danielle Smith.
February 4, 2026 at 4:23 AM
The group is also organizing Solidarity Schools around the country. You can attend one with co-workers and practice skills like organizing conversations and strategizing on escalation.

If you're in NYC, learn more at a webinar on Thursday, Feb. 5: bit.ly/454ACRb 3/3
February 3, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Rank-and-file nurses, now on week 4 of their historic open-ended strike in New York City, organized an action on Monday targeting state governor Kathy Hochul over the executive order that's allowed hospitals to bring in scab nurses from out-of-state. Photos by Labor Notes Organizer Sarah Hughes
February 3, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Workers are increasingly seeing union contracts as a means to win the basic needs and protections being snatched away. They're also recognizing how robust contract campaigns can build up the labor movement to resist the Trump admin's broadside attacks labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/how-contra...
January 30, 2026 at 3:34 PM
When you’re assessing why more people haven’t stepped up to take on the boss, it’s important to find out the actual reasons. You have to diagnose the problem before you can write the prescription.

It’s not apathy—but what is it?

Read more: labornotes.org/secrets
January 29, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Scenes of civil disobedience outside the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, where protesters, including religious readers, blocked the road on a statewide day of “no work (except for emergency services), no school, and no shopping” on January 23. Photos by @lfelizleon.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 7:09 PM
🎙️New on the Labor Notes Pod: “We desperately want to be at the bedside taking care of our patients, that’s why we chose this profession. Our patients become our families, our co-workers become our families—this is more than just a job to us.” labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/15000-nurs... 1/5
January 23, 2026 at 3:56 PM
A special Spanish-language edition of Labor Notes is making the rounds in Minneapolis this weekend, where @lfelizleon.bsky.social is on the ground 🧵1/2

Spanish edition translation and design credit: @nataschaelena.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Under siege, Minnesotans are leaning on organizations at work and in their neighborhoods to end the terror.

labornotes.org/2026/01/will...
January 21, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Ahead of the statewide day of action in Minnesota on Friday, January 23, (no work, no school, no shopping), @flyingwithsara.bsky.social, international president of the @afacwa.org, described the current moment in Minneapolis as a political landmark similar to Memphis in the 1960s 🧵1/5
January 19, 2026 at 10:51 PM
"Starbucks was saying, 'Buffalo's a particularly bad market, we'll replace carpets in the backrooms and get you new espresso machines,' and the workers were saying, 'That's great, but that doesn't get at the core issue that we don't have agency.'"
labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/partners-a... 1/3
January 16, 2026 at 5:11 PM
“We need the safe staffing. We need to feel safe in the workplace,” said bargaining committee member Rhonda Middleton-Roches, a nurse who works across a number of community clinics. “This right here is us saying we need what we need to take care of this community.”
labornotes.org/2026/01/fift...
January 14, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Scenes from the first day of the @nynurses.bsky.social strike on Monday, at pickets lines outside Mount Sinai and at Washington Heights. Photos by Labor Notes Organizers Danielle Smith and @lfelizleon.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 4:07 AM
At trainings across the country, rapid responders are continuing a proud American organizing tradition, stretching a history of struggles that abolished slavery, established big unions, and won the democratic revolution in civil rights. labornotes.org/2026/01/rene...
January 12, 2026 at 4:37 PM
The bosses fear our collective power, so they try to pit us against each other. But where they stoke divisions, we can draw on shared values to unite us. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
January 8, 2026 at 11:57 PM
The conditions are ripe for brilliant, courageous leaders to emerge in every workplace and every town.
labornotes.org/2025/12/2025...
January 7, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Financial hardship or not, bosses look for opportunities to weaken the union, and concessions are a good place to start. But there are ways to fight back.

Learn more: labornotes.org/concessions
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM