{"id":356,"date":"2026-06-17T22:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2026-06-17T22:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:12:18","slug":"the-troublemakers-of-the-labor-movement-are-still-fighting-and-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"The Troublemakers of the Labor Movement Are Still Fighting\u2014and Winning"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Today\u2019s labor movement faces headwinds both immediate and existential, from the threats posed by AI, to federal attacks on workers\u2019 rights, to assaults on communities by ICE. This past weekend, organizers working to revitalize unions had to contend with another urgent threat: a swarm of 17 tornadoes that touched down across the Midwest on the eve of the Labor Notes conference, a biennial gathering of the \u201ctroublemakers\u201d of the labor movement. As 4,700 attendees across the country prepared to convene in Chicago, group chats began lighting up with unfortunate updates: flights delayed, rerouted, or canceled altogether. But just as quickly, organizers mobilized. People volunteered spots in their cars to drive hundreds of miles, hunkered down in storm shelters together mid-journey, and braved eternal layovers.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=354\">The Framework for the Iran Peace Deal Means Total Humiliation for Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Xavier Villerol, a worker at Amazon\u2019s JFK 8 warehouse in Staten Island, drove 12 hours with his coworkers to make it to the conference by Friday. When I asked what he was hoping to get out of being here, he told me, \u201cCourage.\u201d He had already met Delta flight attendants fighting for unionization and spoken on a panel with other Amazon workers from across the country. \u201cMeeting people who\u2019ve been in the fight longer than me will help me strive to become a better organizer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Labor Notes\u2019 Barbara Madeloni said at the conference\u2019s opening plenary, the weather was almost \u201ctoo apt an analogy\u201d for the tumultuous and often dangerous conditions workers are currently organizing under. The last conference was held in spring 2024, before President Trump was elected for a second time and launched a barrage of attacks on the organized left\u2019s funding sources, rights to expression, and physical safety. That year, the conference was enlivened by the recent contract victory of UAW workers who struck the Big Three automakers, and waves of new organizing at Amazon and Starbucks. The workers at Labor Notes have long known that they need to build shop-floor power to guarantee their rights, regardless of who\u2019s in office. But an openly hostile administration creates more obstacles for organizers to overcome, from a neutered NLRB that stalls union elections to the active targeting of union activists by the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s conference made clear that workers\u2019 responses to this moment of crisis are anything but passive. \u201cIt\u2019s about how to defend our rights but not be on the defense,\u201d said Judy Gonzalez, a nurse at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx and the former president of the New York State Nurses Association, whose members went on a historic 41-day strike this winter. \u201cThe very act of coming together, sharing our knowledge, nurturing relationships, and acting toward the world we want\u2014we\u2019re not simply resisting,\u201d said Madeloni. \u201cWe are creating the world that bosses and capital try to deny us.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>More by Ella Fanger<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>Meet the Immigrant Workers Who Launched the First Major Meatpacking Strike in Decades<\/h5>\n<p><span>April 3, 2026<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>The Underground Movement to Spark Union Organizing From the Inside\u00a0<\/h5>\n<p><span>March 10, 2026<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>Chris Smalls Speaks Out After His Journey to Gaza<\/h5>\n<p><span>August 15, 2025<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>This year\u2019s conference featured reflections and calls to action from a host of organizers driving victories on the shop floor and in the streets, from federal workers fighting DOGE austerity to Twin Cities teachers defending their students from ICE to immigrant meatpacking workers who recently launched the first major strike in their industry in decades. The fighting spirit of the Labor Notes conference, and its host publication and organizing outlet, long predates the current political moment. Labor Notes has worked to \u201cput the movement back in the labor movement\u201d since 1979, when socialist organizers saw a need to reinvigorate their unions after decades of corrupt or weak leadership that sold out workers. The organization works to build unions led by rank-and-file workers, where decisions are made democratically about how to fight the boss. \u201cIf you don\u2019t deal with the shop floor\u2026people are not going to have faith in the union because you\u2019re not resolving their day-to-day misery,\u201d said Gonzalez, adding that she wished the gathering were a month-long.<\/p>\n<p>Over the marathon weekend, workers attended and led nearly 350 workshops and meetups, bringing to life the idea that workers are the experts on their own conditions and how to improve them. Sessions tapped into the trove of knowledge built by worker organizers over campaigns and careers spanning decades, covering topics from contract bargaining \u201cwhen the boss says they\u2019re broke\u201d to identifying supply chain chokepoints. According to Labor Notes, this year\u2019s event included the largest gathering of Amazon workers in history, from facilities across the United States, Germany, Spain, and beyond. Thirty-eight interpreters provided translation in eight languages to workers from over a dozen countries.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Lumpkin, an electrical worker from West Virginia, said on stage during Sunday\u2019s keynote session that she felt disillusioned with her union, the IBEW, until she attended the last Labor Notes conference. Hearing workers from reform caucuses in other unions like Teamsters for a Democratic Union and UAW Member Action describe how they transformed their unions from the inside to restore power to the members, she realized that rank-and-file leadership can \u201cturn apathy, grief, and anger into action.\u201d Lumpkin is now a leader of the Caucus of Rank-and-File Electrical Workers (CREW), which began organizing in 2023 and has members across 40 IBEW locals in every corner of the United States. \u201cWe have the blueprints, and you can build it too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a moment when the federal government is colluding with corporations to scare workers out of taking action, organizers at Labor Notes see their unions as a critical vehicle to exercise their collective power and transform not just their workplaces, but the world. Just as the Covid-19 pandemic laid bare the gulf between the interests of workers and bosses and spurred a wave of organizing by essential workers, the current crisis creates an opportunity to galvanize mass action. \u201cRepression generates militancy,\u201d said Gonzalez, when workers are organized and can help their coworkers overcome their fears. \u201cYou have to translate demoralization into militancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>More on Labor Notes<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>The \u201cTroublemakers\u201d of the Labor Movement Gather in Chicago<\/h5>\n<p><span><br \/>\nElla Fanger <\/span>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Federal workers are currently facing the largest union-busting campaign in American history, with over a million workers losing their collective bargaining rights in 2025 by executive order. The heart of the campaign to fight back is the Federal Unionists Network, which formed at the 2022 Labor Notes conference after federal workers from different agencies met and were inspired to \u201cwake up a lot of the sleepy locals,\u201d said Paul Osadebe, a former HUD attorney who was fired after speaking out about the defanging of the Fair Housing Act. Labor Notes gave them the language and tactics to prepare for the assault on their rights that was to come. \u201cThe attack on federal workers is an attack on all working people. They\u2019re doing it to us so that they can get to all of you,\u201d said Osadebe at the opening session. \u201cBeing here at this time of crisis is a once in a lifetime opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=352\">Claire Valdez Is Making All the Right Enemies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Federal workers\u2019 fight is just one example of how workers at this year\u2019s conference are strategizing around the central role of the labor movement in fighting fascism. \u201cWhen Ren\u00e9e Good was murdered by an ICE agent on January 7th, our community was galvanized into action,\u201d said Mara Solis, a teacher with the Saint Paul Federation of Educators (SPFE). \u201cWe modeled our ICE Out work similarly to how we structure a strike.\u201d Teachers unions used a tiered communication structure developed for strike communications to organize school patrols, grocery delivery, rides to medical appointments and immigration court, and other services for their immigrant community members sheltering at home amid Operation Metro Surge.<\/p>\n<p>In coalition with other local unions and community groups, Solis and her coworkers organized a day of mass disruption, when an estimated 100,000 people across the state marched in the street and abstained from work, school, or shopping. \u201cJanuary 23rd would not have happened without labor,\u201d she told me. This year\u2019s conference gave organizers the opportunity to share tactics with workers from other cities, and strategize about how to coordinate action across the country in the future. \u201cWhat we saw in the Twin Cities and the incredible overreach of federal agents and violating local and national laws\u2026we believe we have not seen the last of that,\u201d said Greg Nammacher, president of SEIU Local 26, a union of janitorial and security workers. \u201cWe, both in the labor movement and in communities, need to be ready to defend our rights.\u201d Just days after the conference, SPFE and the Minneapolis Federation of Educators reported that the Department of Justice had arrested union members, which they believed to be in connection with their organizing during Operation Metro Surge.<\/p>\n<p>One image of striking defiance to ICE\u2019s terror campaign came out of the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colorado, where workers launched the industry\u2019s first major strike in four decades in March over pay and safety-equipment issues. Employees there speak over 50 languages, hailing from Mexico, Somalia, Myanmar, and elsewhere. \u201cThey use the vulnerable workers to keep the system going,\u201d said Tchelly Moise, a representative for UFCW Local 7, which represents workers at the Greeley plant. Workers overcame fears of retaliation from management to launch a historic work stoppage led by over 90 strike captains. \u201cA strike is not just people standing outside holding picket signs,\u201d said Moise. \u201cA strike is a school. It teaches workers who they are. It teaches workers that the company has lawyers, money, managers, but workers have something too. What we have is each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nathaniel Mann, who works on the cleaning team at JBS, said he\u2019s seen the plant transformed since the strike. Workers won a new contract with wage increases 33 percent higher than JBS\u2019s initial offer, and guarantees that the company will pay for personal protective equipment that employees said they had their wages garnished to cover previously. \u201cIt\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve seen people smile there,\u201d he told me. Just a few months after learning about his union for the first time during the strike, Mann made his first trip to a major city for the conference. \u201cI\u2019ve always got something to say, and I usually can articulate what I\u2019m feeling pretty well,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve never had such an eye-opening experience.\u201d After meeting meatpacking and grocery workers from other states, Mann is already thinking ahead to the next contract campaign and how to coordinate bargaining timelines across different locals. \u201cThat would be huge,\u201d he said. \u201cYou could shut down the country if you got everyone coordinated enough to have contracts in around the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Workers gathered this year at the dawn of a new industrial revolution driven by AI. The working class is vulnerable at this moment of rupture, but it also has an opportunity to galvanize collective action across both blue- and white-collar industries, given how universal the destabilizing effects of automation are likely to be. At the conference, Amazon warehouse associates, software engineers, and entertainment crew members discussed how automation is being used by their managers as a threat to demobilize and disorganize workers. On panels focused on workplace surveillance and the threat of job replacement, workers insisted that they cannot wait for legislative action around AI\u2014they need contract language to address these issues now. \u201cThis is the burning question of the labor movement,\u201d said Juan Mereles, a worker at Amazon\u2019s KSBD air hub in the Inland Empire. Amazon has already begun testing and deploying AI-powered machinery to sort packages and algorithmic management systems to move workers throughout the warehouse. Workers discussed how to use AI as an agitational issue in discussions with coworkers, pointing out how it sharpens the difference in interests between workers and management. Mereles said workers have to learn from the industrial revolution of the 19th century, which \u201cled to a concentration of wealth and worker hyper-exploitation,\u201d and fight for democratic control of the work process.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond any one lesson from a workshop, workers come to Labor Notes to be fortified by the sense of community and solidarity, reaffirming their collective values to steel themselves for the fights ahead. \u201cWe don\u2019t always win,\u201d said NYSNA\u2019s Gonzalez. \u201c[But it\u2019s about] getting that mentality for workers that they\u2019re obligated to be committed to the struggle in order to survive.\u201d The packed ballroom at the conference\u2019s Sunday closing ceremony indicates that, despite weather woes, the fighting wing of the labor movement appears to be outgrowing its current space.<\/p>\n<p>Mann said he didn\u2019t fully realize the impact the JBS strike had until he came to Labor Notes. \u201cIt really gave hope to a lot of people,\u201d he said. Talking to them, he realized, \u201cI\u2019m not just a worker at JBS. I\u2019m part of something that spans the whole country and across the whole world.\u201d At Labor Notes, workers have a platform to share how they\u2019re fighting\u2014and winning\u2014providing a critical reminder of their collective potential. Alfonso Mart\u00ednez Valero, an organizer of Amazon workers in Spain, said he learned something from the workers\u2019 series strikes in the past year. \u201cThe most powerful company in the world still has a problem: They need us,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd while they need us, we have power.\u201d Naming this power helps workers meet the relentlessness of their struggle with a relentlessness of spirit. As CREW\u2019s Lumpkin declared to a standing ovation at the closing ceremony, \u201cThere are no permanent victories and there are no permanent defeats, but there is always a way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=350\">At This Year\u2019s World Cup, Make Way for Autocrats<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nation Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Troublemakers of the Labor Movement Are Still Fighting\u2014and Winning - Atlas Living Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=356\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Troublemakers of the Labor Movement Are Still Fighting\u2014and Winning - 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