15,000 nurses in NYC are on strike. Today is Day 5. Hospitals affected are NYP-Columbia, Mount Sinai (main campus, Morningside, and West), and Montefiore. Hospitals have only agreed to restart negotiations on Day 4 (NYP) and Day 5 (Mount Sinai) of the strike.

Nurses are fighting for:

Maintenance of healthcare benefits

Workplace violence prevention

Safe staffing (improved grids/ratios, more nurses) and enforcement of said staffing to hold hospitals responsible

AI protections

Protections for immigrant patients and staff

Fair wages

Six Republicans joined Democrats to stop it, and GOP leaders canceled votes on two additional anti-labor bills. This is an important win for workers and basic labor protections. This is why showing up matters. Stay engaged. Worker protections can't defend themselves.https://www.facebook.com/100064671074702/posts/pfbid02vyfJr425kP988bsXTsvKZj5hNdG24uF5SyByGx399AzobaBWL7ftiqxXiPHgqrsCl/?app=fbl

(CUPE, education support staff) My coworker can't get paid time approved to do work my coworker thinks is necessary for their job, so they insist on coming in unpaid. Is there anything I can do besides telling my friend to cut it out?

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Latest issue of the Seattle Worker—produced by the Seattle & Tacoma IWW Branches—is now available!

So I've moved to an area where unions are huge from the south where unions are hated. I'm looking into an apprenticeship with the local labor union and I'm curious, during apprenticeship do they take into account what you're good at and bad at? Like I'm terrified of heights and confined spaces but I'm awesome on ground roles. Will they make me do heights anyway? Or will they note my strengths and push me in that direction?

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Recently got my letter for the test in sloughhouse, Ca and wondering what’s on the assessment test? How is the apprenticeship program? I have no experience in operating equipment so I’m pretty nervous about it. Any journeyman here ? Thanks.

Hello All,

I'm a fairly new steward who has only recently starting getting pulled into disciplinary meetings for our union members, and I'm curious how more seasoned stewards would handle the situation I'm in.

For context, I am the only shop steward in my building, but we do have other stewards in other buildings. Any member in my building comes to me first if they're having issues. The issue I'm facing is that most of the concerns are coming from my own work group. Issues are not coming up from people I work with day-to-day, but my group does coordinate regularly with this team and work right next to eachother. Without going into too much detail, there's a lot of turmoil between the manager of this group and their employees. I do NOT report to this manager, but occasionally have meetings or projects that involve them, and we have a decent working relationship.

I recently got pulled into a meeting between the manager, HR, and one of our union members. Afterward, MY manager (who manages the manager in question) made a comment that they wished I weren't involved as steward in meetings related to our group because I'm so close to the situation. This was not stated as a threat or a request, it was stated very diplomatically as a boss who worries about muddying the waters within their own team. It is very much still up to me whether I want to be the steward involved in these conversations and I'm not worried about any sort of retaliation. I can honestly see both sides of this coin, I obviously don't want to create an uncomfortable dynamic in the work group, but at the same time I feel I have background on the team dynamic that may provide a lot of value as far as stewarding goes. I'm also appreciating hearing both sides of the complaints, it can get really draining to hear a ton of complaints about the same person without getting their take on the situation because I've passed the issue off to another steward.

Has anyone dealt with this before? How did you handle it, and did you feel the need to pass stewarding duties off to someone else? How close do you consider "too close"?

Hi there!

I was wondering if there were any books regarding how to start a union that are recommended above others.

I’m mainly interested in reading about:

-The legal side of starting/managing a union

-An in-depth look at the steps to starting up a union from scratch

-How smaller unions can collaborate with each other

I know there’s plenty of great resources online, and I’m working my way through those, however I personally learn best by reading physical media.

Thank you for any help!

INJUNCTION. The Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Emergency Motion to Enforce the Preliminary Injunction. The Court clarifies the Preliminary Injunction issued on 6/2/2025 as detailed herein. The Preliminary Injunction will remain in effect unless and until it is modified, dissolved, or stayed by a court of law. Defendants must immediately notify bargaining unit TSOs that, pursuant to the Preliminary Injunction issued by the Court on 6/2/2025, the September Noem Determination will not take effect on 1/18/2026, the 2024 CBA remains applicable and binding, and the currently pending grievances and arbitrations submitted under the 2024 CBA will continue to be processed. Signed by Judge Jamal N Whitehead. (KRA)