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"Every single time that you get frustrated or you run into a wall, someone from Labor Notes is going to be there to pick you up," Nora Meek, a founding member of the IATSE CREW reform caucus, says in our new video. Help us build a fighting labor movement! labornotes.org/donate
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on my way to Cleveland for first convention of Carpenters Rank and File Together: the new national caucus to transform one of the least democratic building trades to a 400k+ member-led union & fight bosses for worker solidarity. to me, one of the most hopeful developments in yrs
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🚨 TONIGHT, Thursday, Oct. 22, 8 p.m. ET, Online 🚨 If you're trying to -Build and sustain a stewards network -Hold regular steward meetings -Recruit and train new stewards (and developing existing ones) 1/2
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ALT Graphic that reads: October Stewards' Workshop TONIGHT: Building a Stewards Network. Thursday, Oct. 22, 8 p.m. Eastern Online via Zoom. Build a Strong Steward Structure that helps workers use their on-the-job power to fight the boss. The graphic features imagery of bees, a honeycomb and a pleasantly faded bouquet of flowers

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...join union members at our online Stewards’ Workshop TONIGHT, Thursday, Oct. 22, at 8 p.m. Eastern! There's still time to sign up here labornotes.org/events/2026/s… 2/2

Stewards' Workshop: Building a Stewards Network

This workshop has limited capacity and is for stewards and elected officers who work with stewards—not staff. Please register only if this applies to you. Stewards are the backbone of the union!

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"The people who have the most stake in protesting ICE’s actions and what happened to Fatou aren’t safe to do it—they aren’t safe as private citizens. That is why the hospital and so many organizations in Iowa need to be standing up and saying: This is wrong." 1/3
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"Fatou’s detention and deportation is an abomination. We need her back home," phlebotomy tech Sara Gilmore writes about Fatou Traore, a custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, who was deported to Sierra Leone (a place she has no connection to) 2/3
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Fatou has legal immigration status here and no criminal record, and yet she was accosted by ICE last month on the way to work: labornotes.org/blogs/2026/10… 3/3

Iowa Hospital Workers Demand Return of Deported Co-Worker

Fatou Traore was on her way to work as a custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) on the morning of Thursday, September 24, when ICE agents detained her. Despite having legal

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New York City unions representing 1 million members launched a new coalition October 15 to defend the right to vote ahead of the midterm elections November 3 1/2 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/10…

Labor Goes on Election Defense

New York City unions representing 1 million members launched a new coalition October 15 to defend the right to vote ahead of the midterm elections November 3. A thousand members rallied outside the

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A thousand members rallied outside the city’s main post office, pledging to mobilize the labor movement to defend the elections from Trump administration interference 2/2
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The workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in NYC, under legislation that Teamsters and Amazon workers are organizing alongside the DSA to pass 1/3 labornotes.org/2026/10/amazo…

Amazon Package Drivers Rev Up Organizing to Become Direct Employees

The workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in New York City, under legislation that Teamsters and Amazon workers

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The Delivery Protection Act would require Amazon, alongside FedEx and other companies, to directly employ drivers rather than rely on third-party subcontractors. It would also establish safety, training, and labor standards for delivery drivers 2/3
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As of October 3, workers and allies had knocked on 11,446 doors across the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, according to the Teamsters 3/3
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"When I first heard the news of Fatou Traore's detention, I was upset that ICE had taken someone from the very hospital where I worked. Many of the workers at the hospital weren’t aware of her detention or were afraid to speak up." 1/3
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"I wrote to all of the inpatient phlebotomists I used to work with at main campus, some of whom had also been custodians and worked with Fatou," writes Sara Gilmore, a phlebotomy technician at the University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center, and an AFSCME Local 12 member 2/3
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Read the story 3/3 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/10…

Iowa Hospital Workers Demand Return of Deported Co-Worker

Fatou Traore was on her way to work as a custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) on the morning of Thursday, September 24, when ICE agents detained her. Despite having legal

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Union strength or weakness is often seen only through the light of a strike or lockout. Phil Cohen’s memoir, Maximum Leverage: From the Street to the Picket Line, tells a different story labornotes.org/blogs/2026/10…

Book Review: Maximum Leverage: From the Street to the Picket Line

Union strength or weakness is often seen only through the light of a strike or lockout. Phil Cohen’s memoir, Maximum Leverage: From the Street to the Picket Line, tells a different story. Union

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Tonight, Sunday, Oct. 18, 7.30 p.m. Eastern: Postal Workers Edition: What to Do When Your Union Breaks Your Heart There's still time to sign up here! labornotes.org/events/2026/w…
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ALT A blue and green graphic that reads, "Labor Notes Workshop: What to Do When Your Union Breaks Your Heart" and "Hear from Members of the National Association of Letter Carriers." The online workship is tonight, Sunday, Oct. 18, from 7.30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern.

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Fatou Traore was on her way to work as a custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics on the morning of Thursday, September 24, when ICE agents detained her 1/3
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Despite having legal immigration status in the United States and no criminal record, she was deported to Sierra Leone (a place she has no connection to) on October 12. Traore is a beloved member of the Iowa City community and of AFSCME Council 61, Local 12 2/2
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She is also the mother of four children, the youngest of whom is three years old labornotes.org/blogs/2026/10… 3/3

Iowa Hospital Workers Demand Return of Deported Co-Worker

Fatou Traore was on her way to work as a custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) on the morning of Thursday, September 24, when ICE agents detained her. Despite having legal

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