Welcome, Danielle!
Our newest staff writer/organizer, Danielle Smith, joined the Labor Notes staff in October. Danielle is a dynamo—a skilled journalist and organizer.
As a labor reporter for the legal news website Law360.com, she was a member and shop steward of the NewsGuild of New York. Later she joined the union staff as a full-time organizer, and worked on strikes at Business Insider and Law360.
These Teamsters Don’t Buy Trump’s Lies
By the time Teamsters President Sean O’Brien finally announced in September that the union would not be endorsing anyone for U.S. president—an outcome that had been looking more and more likely—an independent grassroots network called Teamsters Against Trump was ready to step into the breach.
Viewpoint: Migration Isn't Going Away. Unions Have to Get Sharper on It.
The Trump campaign is doing a great job of stirring up anti-immigrant sentiment. Maybe you’re getting an earful from co-workers. Maybe you’re worried yourself.
Sixty-two percent of voters, including two-thirds of white people and even a majority of Latinos, an Axios poll found in June, now say they support what Trump is promising: mass deportations.
Pulsing with Life: 2024 Labor Notes Conference
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North Pole Elves Win Big with Escalating Strike
NEW: Listen to a wonderful radio version of this story (including additional quotes from Vixen), created by the good folks of Labor Radio on WORT in Madison, Wisconsin.
“Yes, Virginia, there is a S.A.N.T.A. clause!” shouted Elves, Reindeer, and Candy Stripers Local 1224 President Cindy Lou Who to whoops and cheers as North Pole workers celebrated their new contract, ending a two-month strike.