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Natascha Elena Uhlmann @nataschaelena.bsky.social · 7d

Attacks on working people are growing at a dizzying pace. But we have a key point of leverage: The billionaire class depends on our labor.

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Natascha Elena Uhlmann @nataschaelena.bsky.social · Jul 10

“Anybody who thinks we have to ignore certain issues or avoid certain political conversations in order to grow the base, they don’t understand what it means to grow the base.”

How fighting ICE terror can help build the union—@sarahlazare.bsky.social and I report: labornotes.org/2025/07/figh...

Fight ICE. Build the Union.

It was the morning of June 9, and Genie Kastrup, president of Service Employees Local 1, stood in front of Chicago’s Daley Plaza and bellowed into a microphone. “What is happening right now is about s...

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · Jul 8

From rallies to free David Huerta, to rapid response networks that unite communities and unions, to a successful battle to protect street vendors in NYC, Labor is mobilizing to fight ICE. @nataschaelena.bsky.social and I report on how.

Fight ICE. Build the Union.

It was the morning of June 9, and Genie Kastrup, president of Service Employees Local 1, stood in front of Chicago’s Daley Plaza and bellowed into a microphone. “What is happening right now is about s...

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Workday Magazine @workdaymagazine.bsky.social · Jul 9

Fight ICE. Build the Union.

How Labor is mobilizing to defend workers from federal raids.

by @nataschaelena.bsky.social and @sarahlazare.bsky.social, published in collaboration with @labornotes.bsky.social

Fight ICE. Build the Union. - Workday Magazine

It was the morning of June 9, and Genie Kastrup, president of Service Employees Local 1, stood in front of Chicago’s Daley Plaza and bellowed into a microphone. “What is happening right now is about s...

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Natascha Elena Uhlmann @nataschaelena.bsky.social · Jun 18

Workers will vote next week on whether to join Mexico's independent auto union SINTTIA at a second GM plant. A win would mark a major breakthrough for Mexico's labor movement.

The union is asking for messages of solidarity from workers and their unions: labornotes.org/mexican-gm-w...

Mexican GM Workers to Vote Next Week on Union at Second Plant

Workers at a second General Motors assembly plant in Mexico will vote June 25 to 27 on whether to join SINTTIA (the National Auto Workers Union), the independent union that won a landmark election to ...

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Natascha Elena Uhlmann @nataschaelena.bsky.social · May 23

Days after Mexico's independent auto union SINTTIA filed to represent GM workers, a second union jumped in the ring.

Organizers say the Carlos Leone union—which some allege has ties to organized crime—is getting preferential treatment from GM. labornotes.org/will-mexican...

Will Mexican GM Workers Get a Fair Union Election?

Workers at a second General Motors assembly plant in Mexico are campaigning to join SINTTIA (the National Auto Workers Union), the independent union that won a landmark election to represent workers a...

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Natascha Elena Uhlmann @nataschaelena.bsky.social · May 12

👀 you’re probably entitled to more info than you think.

Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · May 9

NEW 🎙️: Stewards' Corner: Did You Know You're Allowed to Read Your Boss' Emails?

As unit members themselves, stewards are in a position to organize coworkers—and demand info from the boss to do it!—not just play de facto legal defense in individual grievance cases 🧵 1/5

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Natascha Elena Uhlmann @nataschaelena.bsky.social · May 6

After a union drive at a Bergen Logistics warehouse went public, the company began handing out gifts: earrings, luxury pillows, and even raffled TV's.

“It was shameless,” one worker said. “It was like they wanted to buy off part of our conscience.” labornotes.org/2025/05/ware...

Warehouse Workers Power NYC’s Fashion Industry. Now, They’re Unionizing

Minutes from the high-end boutiques of SoHo in Manhattan sits Bergen Logistics’ fulfillment facility in North Bergen, New Jersey, where workers sort, package, and ship hundreds of packages a day for l...

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Natascha Elena Uhlmann @nataschaelena.bsky.social · Apr 18

Attacks on immigrants are fundamental affronts to human dignity and safety, and they undermine our strength as workers.

How union members are fighting back:

Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · Apr 18

NEW 🎙️: Union Members are Leading the Defense of Immigrant Workers

Workers, unions, and community groups have been organizing rallies and strategic defense of its immigrant members well before this election

labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/union-memb... 🧵 1/7

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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · Apr 17

Must-read reporting on how the recent ICE raids terrorizing New Bedford are targeting immigrant workers in the city’s all-important fishing and seafood industry

lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · Apr 17

This week, ICE snatched an immigrant seafood worker in Massachusetts at an employer whose workers have engaged in nationally celebrated collective action for years — the kind of collective action that, on a mass scale, would be a major threat to Trump. jacobin.com/2025/04/migr...

ICE Sets Its Sights on Massachusetts Immigrant Workers

This week, ICE snatched an immigrant seafood worker in Massachusetts at an employer whose workers have engaged in nationally celebrated collective action for years — the kind of collective action that...

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Natascha Elena Uhlmann @nataschaelena.bsky.social · Apr 17

Mexican GM workers stared down tariff threats and won a double-digit raise.

They're forcing company unions to deliver record raises for workers at other plants, to preempt a union election they'd likely lose.

This is how you transform the auto industry.
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Unmoved by Tariff Threats, Mexican GM Workers Win a Double-Digit Wage Hike

Mexican General Motors workers in the Silao, Guanajuato, factory complex clinched record raises after staring down company scaremongering about tariff threats. “They said, well, we’re offering 6 perce...

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Natascha Elena Uhlmann @nataschaelena.bsky.social · Apr 8

Some good news today: 10 national unions are jointly demanding the release of immigrant workers detained by ICE, in what could be a prelude to more coordinated and direct action. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Ten National Unions Call for Anti-Trump Resistance

Ten national unions and dozens of locals representing more than 3 million members have issued a joint statement demanding the release of immigrant workers recently snatched by Immigration and Customs ...

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Natascha Elena Uhlmann @nataschaelena.bsky.social · Apr 4

What do you do when neoliberal ghouls are set on privatizing services you love and rely on?

For Mexico City’s trolleybus workers, the answer was building a coalition of public transit riders, climate activists and labor allies prepared to fight back.

Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · Apr 4

NEW: Ep. 4: How Mexico City's trolleybus workers have been fighting against decades of disinvestment.

They built an effective public pressure campaign by bringing riders into the fight... 🧵1/7

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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · Apr 4

NEW: Ep. 4: How Mexico City's trolleybus workers have been fighting against decades of disinvestment.

They built an effective public pressure campaign by bringing riders into the fight... 🧵1/7

labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/mexico-cit...

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Natascha Elena Uhlmann @nataschaelena.bsky.social · Mar 31

The Trump administration's volley of attacks is right out of the boss' playbook. It’s never been more important for organizers to remember: workers have the power to fight back.
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Don’t Panic—Organize!

The Trump administration has swept into office with a volley of attacks: Gutting programs that acknowledge race and gender inequality. Freezing funding for a wide swath of programs (though that order ...

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Natascha Elena Uhlmann @nataschaelena.bsky.social · Mar 14

🚨LABOR NOTES POD🚨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mx8...

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UE @ueunion.org · Feb 27

Watch The Valley Labor Report interview with @nataschaelena.bsky.social which mentions UE Local 115 contract language that protects immigrant workers. ✊ Check it out here: youtu.be/XUiNmEyHuC8?...

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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · Feb 20

"ICE wants to project far more strength than it has and hopes people will remove themselves from public life or self-deport. A lot of organizers I'm talking to are saying, 'spread power, not panic,'" @nataschaelena.bsky.social said today on The Valley Labor Report:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUiN...

A screenshot from a clip posted today by The Valley Labor Report, which features Labor Notes writer and organizer Natascha on a graphic of a television box with TVLR and Labor Notes stickers on the frame.

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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · Feb 22

February cover: @nataschaelena.bsky.social and @sarahlazare.bsky.social report on the unions and worker centers organizing immigrant workers against threats of raids and deportation (w/ @workdaymagazine.bsky.social): labornotes.org/2025/01/how-...

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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · Feb 17

A look inside the Labor Notes February Issue: mailchi.mp/labornotes/f... 1/2

Four issues of the Labor Notes Magazine are spread out on top of each other, against a blue background.

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Natascha Elena Uhlmann @nataschaelena.bsky.social · Nov 22

Room attendants at Virgin Hotels LV clean 15 hotel rooms per day—stripping dirty linens, emptying trash, making beds, cleaning toilets—all in 30 to 45 minutes per room.

For their trouble, Virgin has proposed a raise of about 30¢ per year, said @culinary226.bsky.social labornotes.org/2024/11/unio...

This Union-Owned Vegas Hotel is Hiring Scabs to Break a Strike

In her 17 years as a guest room attendant, Isabel Gonzalez has scarcely had a moment’s rest. Gonzalez is responsible for cleaning 15 hotel rooms per day—stripping dirty linens, taking out the trash, m...

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