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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
A Valentine's day themed pink and red graphic with clouds and hearts that reads, "We heart our Nurses Virtual Rally." It's on February 14, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET
February 14, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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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...
Graphic for our Valentine's Day podcast episode, which features photos of pod co-hosts Danielle Smith and Natascha Elena Uhlmann, and pod producer Sindhu Sundar. They're set up against a background of characters from Mamma Mia, The Princess Bridge and Wuthering Heights. A white mug in the back has the text, "So if you get AMC Stubs A-List you can see 4 movies a week so even if you only see 2 a month, it pays for itself."
February 13, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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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
Cut out photos of pod co-hosts Danielle Smith and Natascha Elena Uhlmann are set against a backdrop of protesters holding pictures of signs that read "Neighbors say ICE Out!" In the foreground of the graphic on the bottom right is the episode title: "Dispatch from Minneapolis."
February 9, 2026 at 4:19 AM
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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
A graphic for the May Day Solidarity School on Saturday, Feb. 21, at Murry Bergtraum HS: 411 Pearl St. The program is billed as an all-day training and strategy planning event.
February 6, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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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
Nurses, captured from a slightly slanted, ground level perspective, appear to soar in the frame of the picture as they march with raised fists, yelling chants and holding aloft a large red banner. Nurses march in Manhattan along a busy street. One of them holds up a sign that reads "Patients Over Profits."
February 6, 2026 at 4:16 AM
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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
Nurses wearing red hats, scarves and jackets hold up signs and raise their fists in front of a cream-colored building. Its address, 555 West 57 is emblazoned on the lip of the entrance. Workers stand at the entrance steps to a building, holding up a large banner that reads, "New York State Nurses Association." A person in a large inflatable pig costume has the the message "CEO$ stop pigging on nurses" written on the costume's belly. Nurses line the street as two NYPD police vans are pulled up, with the back doors open. One of the visible picket signs reads, "Solidarity with NYSNA nurses."
February 6, 2026 at 4:16 AM
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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
A long procession of nurses clad in red hats and scarfs march across the Brooklyn Bridge on a cold and cloudy day. Several nurses within the march hold up signs that read "Union Busting Is Disgusting!" and "Hospital Execs Literally Make Us Sick" Nurses clad in red hats and scarfs form a line outside City Hall in Manhattan. One nurse in front holds up a sign that reads "In Solidarity!" Hundreds of nurses gather at a rally in Foley Square. One nurse stands above the rest, articulating their demands through a green megaphone.
February 4, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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🗞️ 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
A stack of magazines fanned out against a rumpled-looking deep purple background, with the February cover on top. The headline on the cover reads, "Fifteen thousand Nurses Strike," and the lead photo is a black and white image of workers outside holding up signs at a rally.
February 4, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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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.
Flyers that publicize NYSNA members' demands, including safe staffing at hospitals, and a call to New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani to help mobilize more support for striking nurses. A long line of marchers clad in red beanies and jackets walk on the Brooklyn bridge toward City Hall in Manhattan.
February 4, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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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
A graphic for the May Day strong webinar on Thursday, February 5, from 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. ET, organized by the May Day Strong coalition in NYC. The graphic has a yellow and black color scheme, and features photos of speakers in small circular frames. The description text reads, "JOIN US! Hear reports from Minnesota, learn about May Day and how to get involved in NYC organizing!"
February 3, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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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
Workers hold up a sign that reads, "Necesitamos Mas Enfermeras, Menos Millonarios." Workers hold up a sign that reads, "Mount Sinai, we find a way to pay our execs, but we can't find a way to fund health insurance!" It features pictures of executives with their multimillion dollar salaries displayed below each. Workers hold up a sign that reads: Hochul betrayed nurses! No License? Hochul Yes! Workers hold up a sign that reads, "Se Necesitan Mas Enfermeras para la Atencion Segura del Paciente."
February 3, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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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...
A title card featuring a photo of workers at a large demonstration, carrying signs that read "UAW Says: Fight For Our Future" and "Kill The Cuts, Save Lives." In the foreground are cut-out photos of Labor Notes pod co-hosts Danielle Smith and Natascha Elena Uhlmann. The title reads, "2026 Contract Fights."
January 30, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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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
in labor notes workshops, we often ask union members to make a list of why their co-workers don’t get involved. their answers often include: FEAR CONFLICT UNWINNABLE NO TIME
January 29, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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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
Protesters kneeling on the pavement as police walk behind them Protesters bundled up in parkas and holding up a large banner sign over yellow barriers. Faith leaders standing together wearing colorful patterned scarves protesters kneeling
January 23, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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🎙️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
A graphic featuring a photo of nurses on strike, with the title, "NYC's Largest Nurse Strike In Decades." Cut out photos of pod co-hosts Danielle Smith and Natascha Elena Uhlmann are superimposed in the foreground.
January 23, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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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 ✨
Special Spanish-language edition of Labor Notes featuring Labor Notes Organizer Luis's cover story on union members organizing against ICE raids and building toward a statewide day of action of "No work. No School. No Shopping" in Minnesota on Friday, 1/23.
January 22, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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Under siege, Minnesotans are leaning on organizations at work and in their neighborhoods to end the terror.

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“The attack on immigrants is not new, but the intensity we are seeing is just extreme, and so many more people are stepping up right now to meet the moment,” said Jason Rodney, an assistant special education teacher at Anishinabe Academy in Minneapolis Public Schools.
January 21, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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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
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"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.'"
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Title card with a background image of Starbucks baristas on strike, and foreground image of pod co-hosts Danielle Smith and Natascha Elena Uhlmann. The title reads, "Why Don't We Have More Modern Labor Films?"
January 16, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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“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.”
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Fifteen Thousand New York City Nurses are on an Open-Ended Strike It's the city's largest nurse strike in decades. The biggest hospitals are trying to roll back safe-staffing enforcement language and, ironically, health care benefits.
January 14, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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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
A large group of workers gathered outside in red hats and scarves a sign that reads, "Sinai Spent $100M+ for AI bots but nurses with real life expenses cost too much??" Workers gathered outside carrying signs that read, "Fair Contract, For Patients and Nures," and "Stop Threatening Nurses," among others. A worker in navy blue scrubs holds up a sign with an illustration of the "everything is fine" meme of a dog sitting at a table with a cup of coffee while the room is on fire, except the dog is wearing a nurses hat and the caption reads, "everything is not fine."
January 13, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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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...
“we had whistles. they had guns.” Federal agents are armed with military-style weapons. In ICE Watch networks across the country, everyday people have whistles, courage, and a love of their neighbors.
January 12, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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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...
The Trump administration has unleashed a maelstrom of attacks against immigrant workers. Who benefits? Trump and his CEO pals do. A fearful workforce won’t stand up for safety or demand fair treatment on the job.
January 8, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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The conditions are ripe for brilliant, courageous leaders to emerge in every workplace and every town.
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The working class is in the fight of our lives, and the battle lines are stark.
January 7, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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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
Employers never let a crisis go to waste. Financial hardship or not, bosses look for opportunities to weaken the union, and concessions are a good place to start.
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM