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The Labor Notes Podcast: Live! At the 2026 Conference

Your Favorite Summer Blockbuster Is Really About Organizing

Still Having Bad Meetings? Take Another Listen

We *Are* on a Break

Keep Going: A Guide To Organizing When It’s Hard (w/ Ellen David Friedman and Carlos Pérez)

How to Build a List to Expand Your Reach with Co-Workers

The Antidote to Organizing Burnout (w/ Teamsters Local 804 Organizer Antonio Rosario and Sarah Slichter, Movement of Rank-and-File Educators)

Four Union Strategies to Fight on A.I.

Massachusetts Teachers Taxed the Rich and Brought in $3B Last Year

How to Have an Actually Good 1:1 Conversation

Secret: Use the Issue Your Co-Workers Really Care Most About To Build the Union

Secret: Your Workplace is Already Organized and Leaders Are Waiting to Step Up!

Secret: Your Co-Workers Actually Care About Making Your Workplace Better

Why Your Favorite Soup Movie is about Organizing, Actually

The First Major Meatpacking Strike in 40 Years Extends into Third Week

So You’ve Been in Reform Organizing for a While. What Next?

Your Union Isn’t Working Like it Should. Now What?

One Year of the Labor Notes Podcast

Three Reasons to Feel Hopeful about the Labor Movement Right Now

Steward's Corner: Just About Anyone Can Be a Good Steward

How to Talk About Immigration with Your Co-Workers

Your Favorite Rom-Com is About Organizing, Actually

How Workers Pulled Off a Mass Strike in Minnesota

How Contract Fights Can Help Build Labor Power in 2026

15,000 Nurses are on the Largest Nurses Strike in New York City in Decades

Why Don't We Have More Labor Films? (w/ director Chris Sessions and Working Films)

Part 3: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Under Trump 2.0.?

2026 is OUR Year (w/ Labor Notes staff)

All Holiday Movies Are About Organizing, Actually: The Labor Notes Pod Holidaypalooza

Casino Dealers Brought Back the Recognition Strike and Won (w/ Horseshoe Indianapolis Casino dealer Tera Arnold)

Part 2: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Under Trump 2.0.?

Canadian Postal Workers Have Had Enough of Government Backed-Management Stonewalling

Part 1: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Under Trump 2.0.?

Notes on the USMCA: The Real Solution to Offshoring and Union-Busting is Cross-Border Solidarity

Starbucks Workers are on a Nationwide Strike for a First Contract (with Starbucks Workers United member Sabina Aguirre)

How Do We Build Worker Power Under Trump 2.0? (with guest Eric Blanc)

All Horror Movies Are About Organizing, Actually: The Labor Notes Hallowepisode

Are the Democrats F*cking Up the Shutdown?

Stewards’ Corner: Workplace Safety Is Not a Game

Wells Fargo Workers Push to Bring A Union to the Banking Industry

May 2028 Could Be the Push the Labor Movement Needs to Survive, Grow, and Build Power

The Labor Notes Pod will be back next week on Friday, 10/3

How Beauty Salon Workers Built a Groundbreaking Union

Turn a Disciplinary Meeting into an Organizing Opportunity

Air Canada Flight Attendants Didn't Let the Government Ground Their Strike

Under Trump's Anti-Worker Landscape, Employers are Testing the Limits of What They Can Get Away With

Labor Notes Beach Reads: How Starbucks Workers Took On a Behemoth and How To Find What Your Boss is Hiding From You

Stewards' Corner: Acting Like A Union When Meeting With Management

Zohran’s NYC Primary Win Shows People Are Ready to Organize

Build Power By Coordinating Your Bargaining

Construction Unions Face a Choice: Cave or Defend Members?

Fight Ice. Build The Union.

What Makes Trump's Big Beautiful Bill So Ugly

How to Win a Strong Contract

How Grocery Workers in Indiana Said No to a Crappy Contract, and More from Our July Issue

Mexico’s independent auto union has bosses scared

77,000 California Educators Are Joining Forces

Grocery Workers at the UFCW are Organizing for a Fighting Union

Stewards’ Corner: What if Union Meetings Were Actually Good?

Beyond May Day, Part 2: Organizing in the Authoritarian Whirlwind

Beyond May Day: Part 1

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

Everything Sucks! Here’s What We Can Do About It

Mexican Autoworkers Faced Down Tariff Threats and Won Double Digit Raises—Plus, Labor Notes May Issue Preview!

Union Members are Leading the Defense of Immigrant Workers

Facing Privatization And DOGE Attacks, Postal Workers Are Fighting Back

Mexico City’s Trolleybus Workers Took on Austerity and Won

How TSA Agents and Federal Workers are Fighting a Hostile Administration

How Workers Are Fighting for a Liveable Planet

What the Tariffs Debate Is Missing: Workers’ Voices