Troublemakers Blog

Punto de vista: ¿Serán buenos los aranceles de Trump para los trabajadores del sector automotriz?

La captura de pantalla muestra a Israel Cervantes, a la izquierda, con una chaqueta de cuero marrón, estrechando la mano de Sean Crawford, a la derecha, con una camiseta roja de la UAW y una gorra de béisbol, mientras otros activistas con carteles hechos a mano observan con aprobación. Están de pie en un estacionamiento después de llover.
April 09, 2025 / Sean Crawford
Durante la huelga de General Motors de 2019, mientras mis compañeros de trabajo y yo estábamos en la calle, algo inspirador estaba sucediendo al sur de la frontera: el trabajador automotriz mexicano Israel Cervantes, junto con muchos otros en una planta de GM en Silao, Guanajuato, se negó a trabajar horas extras en solidaridad con nosotros. »

Viewpoint: PATCO’s Lessons for this Crisis

A crowd of people hold red and white signs saying “Delete Doge”
April 09, 2025 / Joseph A. McCartin
Donald Trump’s March 27 executive order revoking the collective bargaining rights of more than 700,000 federal workers is the largest act of union-busting in U.S. history. »

Ten National Unions Call for Anti-Trump Resistance

Workers gather in a March 27 protest holding signs reading "Shame" and "Melt ICE!"
April 08, 2025 / Natascha Elena Uhlmann
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 Enforcement. »

Viewpoint: Why Oligarchs Want a Recession

Marchers walk away from the camera with a giant orange on black sign, “Benefits over Billionaires”
April 07, 2025 / Van Jackson
A recession is looming. Trump himself recently affirmed that his economic plans would induce a recession in the near term. He remarked when asked as much by an interviewer, “There is a period of transition because what we’re doing is very big.” »

Viewpoint: Will Trump’s Tariffs Be Good for Auto Workers?

Screenshot shows Israel Cervantes on the left, in a weathered brown leather jacket, shaking hands with Sean Crawford, right, in a red UAW T-shirt and a baseball cap, while a few other activists carrying handmade signs look on approvingly. They're standing in a parking lot after a rain.
April 02, 2025 / Sean Crawford
During the 2019 General Motors strike, while my fellow workers and I were pounding the pavement, something inspirational was happening south of the border: Mexican auto worker Israel Cervantes, along with many others at a GM plant in Silao, Guanajuato, refused overtime in solidarity with us. »

Setting the Pace in Auto: Thinking Bigger than Tariffs

At least a dozen activists crowd up to the door of a VU Manufacturing office, where a company flack is gesuring widely and trying to fend them off. One activist is holding a camera aloft, others holding signs or wearing UAW or Labor Notes gear. A woman
March 28, 2025 / Andrew Elrod
President Donald Trump’s infatuation with tariffs dates back to the 1980s, when he first said tariff was “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” On March 26 he announced “a 25 percent tariff on all cars not made in the U.S.,” but exempted auto parts that »

Trump Goes Nuclear on the Federal Workforce

A group of worried-looking protesters hold signs about government cuts
March 28, 2025 / Joe DeManuelle-Hall
In his broadest attack on federal workers and their unions to date, President Donald Trump on Thursday announced an executive order that claimed to end collective bargaining rights for »

Three Ways to Support Detained Farmworker Organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez

Supporters gather at a rally demanding Alfredo's release with signs reading "ICE Hands off Lelo", "Chinga la Migra" and other statements in solidarity with Lelo.
March 27, 2025 / Natascha Elena Uhlmann
Longtime farmworker organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents this week in what many believe to be retaliation for his organizing. Juarez was pulled over while driving his wife to work. »

Union Pins and T-shirts On Sale to Benefit Labor Notes!

A collection of labor pins.
March 20, 2025 / Natascha Elena Uhlmann
Do you enjoy collecting old union buttons and pins? Want a vintage labor T-shirt? Longtime organizer and labor activist Rand Wilson is donating to Labor Notes all proceeds from the sale of his collection of labor swag! »

Concurso: Canciones y cantos para la huelga

A group of people stands outside a building, singing. Edwin, a young man with guitar, has his head leaned back shouting into the sky. Several other people have fists in the air, one wears a big smile, and some hold big paper on which lyrics are written out: "Sign me up for the union, bring me my union card, We can work better with decent pay, health care, childcare, and more of a say..."
March 14, 2025 / Kira Yeversky y Edwin Everhart
La música tiene el poder especial de levantar nuestra moral en tiempos de temor y duelo. En el Coro de trabajadores de Pittsburgh, el Pittsburgh Labor Choir, hemos aprendido que las canciones alcanzan su mayor fuerza cuando todas las personas se unen a cantarlas y no solo las escuchan. »

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