Workers at Wells Fargo are organizing the first union at a major U.S. bank—in one of the least-organized industries in the country.
The first branch where workers won a union vote, in 2023, was in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Since then, workers have have voted to join the Communications Workers (CWA) at 29 more branches from Apopka, Florida, to Casper, Wyoming. So have 35 workers who review customer and employee complaints at the bank.
— Sep 23
Braving retaliation, thousands of federal workers across six agencies have signed open letters charging that their workplaces are being hamstrung or dismantled by the Trump administration. They join federal unionists at dozens more workplaces who have been sounding the alarm to Congress and the public.— Sep 23
Environmental groups and unions representing construction workers found common ground this summer over President Trump’s blocking of offshore wind projects.
The Revolution Wind offshore turbine farm off the coast of Rhode Island is 80 percent complete, but its fate remains uncertain after the Department of Interior issued a stop-work order on August 22.
“The full thing was finally getting put together, and having it stopped like that was out of nowhere,” said Antonio Gianfrancesco, a Laborer from Local 271 who has been working the project for more than two years.
— Sep 22
On September 6, flight attendants at Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge rejected a proposed tentative agreement by a resounding 99.1 percent, with nearly 95 percent of bargaining unit members voting.
It was the latest act of defiance by the 10,000 Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) flight attendants at Canada’s premiere airline. Several weeks before, the union had struck the airline—facing down a government back-to-work order (probably unlawful) under Section 107 of Canada’s Labour Code.
— Sep 18
Can a worker be fired simply for expressing an opinion that the boss or a political group finds objectionable? These days online attackers often campaign to pressure employers to fire workers for political speech—even speech that took place on their private social media pages. Stewards have a number of tools at their disposal to defend members from these attacks.— Sep 18
