Natascha Elena Uhlmann

Indiana Casino Dealers Are Bringing Back the Recognition Strike There are no clocks in a casino, so the dealers all set their phone alarms for noon. Everyone was a bundle of nerves. Before work, a couple of people threw up. But when the cacophony of alarms sounded...

After the government shutdown indefinitely postponed their union election, Indiana casino workers took matters into their own hands. An important story on an underutilized tactic: labornotes.org/2025/11/indi...

May Day 2028 - MAY 2028 CONTACT US Resource Library Ready to take action? Working towards alignment in your local? We’ve compiled sample resolution language, organizing tips from people who have done it, and other resources....

Attacks on working people are growing at a dizzying pace. But we have a key point of leverage: The billionaire class depends on our labor.

@labornotes.bsky.social has just released a new resource on May Day 2028 filled with contract alignment FAQ's and resources. www.may2028.org

Fight ICE. Build the Union. It was the morning of June 9, and Genie Kastrup, president of Service Employees Local 1, stood in front of Chicago’s Daley Plaza and bellowed into a microphone. “What is happening right now is about s...

“Anybody who thinks we have to ignore certain issues or avoid certain political conversations in order to grow the base, they don’t understand what it means to grow the base.”

How fighting ICE terror can help build the union—@sarahlazare.bsky.social and I report: labornotes.org/2025/07/figh...

Fight ICE. Build the Union. It was the morning of June 9, and Genie Kastrup, president of Service Employees Local 1, stood in front of Chicago’s Daley Plaza and bellowed into a microphone. “What is happening right now is about s...

From rallies to free David Huerta, to rapid response networks that unite communities and unions, to a successful battle to protect street vendors in NYC, Labor is mobilizing to fight ICE. @nataschaelena.bsky.social and I report on how.

Fight ICE. Build the Union. - Workday Magazine It was the morning of June 9, and Genie Kastrup, president of Service Employees Local 1, stood in front of Chicago’s Daley Plaza and bellowed into a microphone. “What is happening right now is about s...

Fight ICE. Build the Union.

How Labor is mobilizing to defend workers from federal raids.

by @nataschaelena.bsky.social and @sarahlazare.bsky.social, published in collaboration with @labornotes.bsky.social

Mexican GM Workers to Vote Next Week on Union at Second Plant Workers at a second General Motors assembly plant in Mexico will vote June 25 to 27 on whether to join SINTTIA (the National Auto Workers Union), the independent union that won a landmark election to ...

Workers will vote next week on whether to join Mexico's independent auto union SINTTIA at a second GM plant. A win would mark a major breakthrough for Mexico's labor movement.

The union is asking for messages of solidarity from workers and their unions: labornotes.org/mexican-gm-w...

Will Mexican GM Workers Get a Fair Union Election? Workers at a second General Motors assembly plant in Mexico are campaigning to join SINTTIA (the National Auto Workers Union), the independent union that won a landmark election to represent workers a...

Days after Mexico's independent auto union SINTTIA filed to represent GM workers, a second union jumped in the ring.

Organizers say the Carlos Leone union—which some allege has ties to organized crime—is getting preferential treatment from GM. labornotes.org/will-mexican...

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Warehouse Workers Power NYC’s Fashion Industry. Now, They’re Unionizing Minutes from the high-end boutiques of SoHo in Manhattan sits Bergen Logistics’ fulfillment facility in North Bergen, New Jersey, where workers sort, package, and ship hundreds of packages a day for l...

After a union drive at a Bergen Logistics warehouse went public, the company began handing out gifts: earrings, luxury pillows, and even raffled TV's.

“It was shameless,” one worker said. “It was like they wanted to buy off part of our conscience.” labornotes.org/2025/05/ware...

Attacks on immigrants are fundamental affronts to human dignity and safety, and they undermine our strength as workers.

How union members are fighting back:

Must-read reporting on how the recent ICE raids terrorizing New Bedford are targeting immigrant workers in the city’s all-important fishing and seafood industry

Unmoved by Tariff Threats, Mexican GM Workers Win a Double-Digit Wage Hike Mexican General Motors workers in the Silao, Guanajuato, factory complex clinched record raises after staring down company scaremongering about tariff threats. “They said, well, we’re offering 6 perce...

Mexican GM workers stared down tariff threats and won a double-digit raise.

They're forcing company unions to deliver record raises for workers at other plants, to preempt a union election they'd likely lose.

This is how you transform the auto industry.
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Ten National Unions Call for Anti-Trump Resistance Ten national unions and dozens of locals representing more than 3 million members have issued a joint statement demanding the release of immigrant workers recently snatched by Immigration and Customs ...

Some good news today: 10 national unions are jointly demanding the release of immigrant workers detained by ICE, in what could be a prelude to more coordinated and direct action. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

What do you do when neoliberal ghouls are set on privatizing services you love and rely on?

For Mexico City’s trolleybus workers, the answer was building a coalition of public transit riders, climate activists and labor allies prepared to fight back.

NEW: Ep. 4: How Mexico City's trolleybus workers have been fighting against decades of disinvestment.

They built an effective public pressure campaign by bringing riders into the fight... 🧵1/7

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Don’t Panic—Organize! The Trump administration has swept into office with a volley of attacks: Gutting programs that acknowledge race and gender inequality. Freezing funding for a wide swath of programs (though that order ...

The Trump administration's volley of attacks is right out of the boss' playbook. It’s never been more important for organizers to remember: workers have the power to fight back.
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Watch The Valley Labor Report interview with @nataschaelena.bsky.social which mentions UE Local 115 contract language that protects immigrant workers. ✊ Check it out here: youtu.be/XUiNmEyHuC8?...

A screenshot from a clip posted today by The Valley Labor Report, which features Labor Notes writer and organizer Natascha on a graphic of a television box with TVLR and Labor Notes stickers on the frame.

"ICE wants to project far more strength than it has and hopes people will remove themselves from public life or self-deport. A lot of organizers I'm talking to are saying, 'spread power, not panic,'" @nataschaelena.bsky.social said today on The Valley Labor Report:
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February cover: @nataschaelena.bsky.social and @sarahlazare.bsky.social report on the unions and worker centers organizing immigrant workers against threats of raids and deportation (w/ @workdaymagazine.bsky.social): labornotes.org/2025/01/how-...

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This Union-Owned Vegas Hotel is Hiring Scabs to Break a Strike In her 17 years as a guest room attendant, Isabel Gonzalez has scarcely had a moment’s rest. Gonzalez is responsible for cleaning 15 hotel rooms per day—stripping dirty linens, taking out the trash, m...

Room attendants at Virgin Hotels LV clean 15 hotel rooms per day—stripping dirty linens, emptying trash, making beds, cleaning toilets—all in 30 to 45 minutes per room.

For their trouble, Virgin has proposed a raise of about 30¢ per year, said @culinary226.bsky.social labornotes.org/2024/11/unio...