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![Trader Joe’s employees and union activists hold a rally at a Trader Joe’s in lower Manhattan in support of forming a union at the grocery store on April 18, 2023, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_0830-trader-joes-400x300.jpg)
Trader Joe’s Union Files to Force Company to Recognize Union Under New NLRB Rule
The union is likely the first to seek a bargaining order under the groundbreaking new rule.
![10 people, 9 of whom are wearing matching orange shirts, and the last of whom is not, pose for a photo with bicycles](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/08/WAWL7bZr-400x300.jpeg)
New Orleans Workers Organize First E-Bike Ride Sharing Union in US
Led by trans mechanics, Blue Krewe United received union recognition this month.
![Unionized nurses hold a rally during a day-long strike at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on June 23, 2022, in Los Angeles, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_0829-kaiser-400x300.jpg)
Kaiser Permanente Workers Begin Strike Authorization Vote
The union representing 40% of the company's health care workers cited unfair labor practices and unsafe staffing levels.
![Members of the pro-union group Workers Strike Back look on as Amazon employees and supporters gather during a walk-out protest against recent layoffs, a return-to-office mandate, and the company's environmental impact, outside Amazon headquarters in Seattle, Washington, on May 31, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_0825-amazon-union-400x300.jpg)
Union-Busting Bosses Handed Major Loss in New Labor Board Decision
The decision is a compromise version of Joy Silk, a doctrine championed by the labor movement.
![United Automobile Workers (UAW) members and their supporters gather for Solidarity Sunday at the UAW Region 1 office in Warren, Michigan, on August 20, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_0825-uaw-400x300.jpg)
97 Percent of UAW Workers at Big 3 Automakers Vote to Authorize a Strike
"The Big Three have been breaking the bank while we have been breaking our backs,” said the UAW's new president.
![Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders speaks during a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 29, 2023, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_0825-bernie-sanders-400x300.jpg)
Sanders Demands Fair Contract for Nearly 2,000 Nurses on Strike in New Jersey
Nurses went on strike earlier this month in protest of what they say are dangerous staffing levels.
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UPS Teamsters Vote 86.3 Percent to Approve New Contract
The final contract vote means a massive strike will be avoided.
![Pro-union demonstrators march on Fifth Avenue on September 5, 2022, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_0822-amazon-400x300.jpg)
NLRB Accuses Amazon of Illegally Calling Cops on Workers to Crush Union Campaign
Amazon “has been interfering with, restraining, and coercing” workers exercising their rights, the official wrote.
![A United Parcel Service driver makes a delivery along the coast of Cape Cod on July 24, 2023, in Orleans, Massachusetts.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_0821-UPS-400x300.jpg)
UPS Labor Contract Is Historic, But Is It Enough? Some Workers Say No.
Even with the potential new wage increase, the 60 percent part-time workforce at UPS would still make “poverty pay.”
![Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis takes questions from the media after signing three education bills on the campus of New College of Florida in Sarasota, Florida, on May 15, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_0819-desantis-florida-400x300.jpg)
I Moved to Florida to Teach Despite Right-Wing Censorship. Here’s Why.
I’m confident our union can organize sufficiently to fight back against Gov. Ron DeSantis’s war on public education.