You want to bring in more members to share the work of your contract action team? Win more grievances? Overcome burnout? You've probably heard the advice to, "think like an organizer" 1/4

Many workplace issues are great opportunities to get more co-workers involved—and stewards can help make that happen. Join other stewards on Monday, Aug. 10, for an online workshop on "Thinking Like an Organizer" Sign up here: labornotes.org/events/2026/stewards-workshop-thinking-organizer-0

Adapted from Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It's Hard by Ellen David Friedman. Find it at labornotes.org/keepgoing 🐦

Russell Sires and John Gasceyare, Teamsters Local 509 stewards in South Carolina, described how they organized over understaffing when management began filling gaps by having lower-paid union members handle some deliveries in violation of their contract labornotes.org/2026/08/stew...

Read it in full here: labornotes.org/2016/11/how-...

Coming to the monthly meeting is often one of the first things that a union member tries when seeking to be more involved. It’s important not to turn them off! labornotes.org/2016/11/how-...

🚨Online Workshop Tonight: You've been talking to your co-workers, and they say they feel overworked, underpaid, and increasingly pressured by quotas and the constant threat of discipline. How do you fight for better? labornotes.org/events

More than 2,000 stadium workers in Los Angeles scored a goal that no VAR could revoke: they overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike and built a credible threat to walk off the job during World Cup matches scheduled at the SoFi stadium—and won the right to strike over ICE 🧵1/4

We've assembled a resource packet for union members seeking advice on transforming their unions: how (and when) to build a union reform caucus, and how to navigate the challenges of developing a caucus. www.labornotes.org/caucus

Employers say illnesses and injuries are caused by worker carelessness. But the union realizes that it’s the hazards themselves that cause injuries, and that it’s the boss who sets up the workplace, either designing in hazards or failing to design them out. labornotes.org/2024/06/boss...

Becoming an organizer is not about selling the union, or getting your co-workers to do what you want them to do. Compliance is what the boss demands. Our organizing should be the opposite. Adapted from Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It's Hard. labornotes.org/store/keepgo...

"That's just ideology" — Luis Fernando Mora Reyes, an app worker from Mexico City, told the Labor Notes Podcast why he doesn't buy the line that gig work lets people "be their own boss." Listen to the full episode out now: labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/app-worker...

In a World Cup-fueled union win, concessions workers at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles have won the right to walk off the job, should ICE pose a threat to their safety. labornotes.org/2026/07/worl...

Have you ever been so stumped by an organizing challenge that you've wished you could just beam out a help signal to others who’ve dealt with the same thing? (episode link in thread)

Join stewards this month (Wednesday, July 15) at our upcoming online workshop on supercharging grievances and using them to organize your coworkers (sign up link in thread)

You might be in a battle of wits with a great white shark in New England and in need of a bigger boat. Or you're getting into property fights with your goth relatives (or imposters) in the Addams Family. Perhaps you're just a child's plaything, but developing power analysis 1/4

In a time when there’s real cause for fear and despair—and when the Trump administration is pushing hard to divide us—the Labor Notes Conference June 12-14 in Chicago was an oasis of inspiration and solidarity (story linked in thread) 1/10