COVID-19 sweeps the nation and our government stands idly by while the working class struggle to afford basic human needs. They speak calmly, assuring us of a light at the end of the tunnel despite thousands of deaths and millions losing their jobs.
We know that there’s no hope if we can’t house our children, our loved ones, ourselves. As renters and workers, we cannot allow the powers that be to continue to exploit us during this time of crisis.
For these reasons and more, we are asking you to organize, participate in, and support labor strikes, workers’ unions, and movements for improving worker conditions and compensation in your local businesses and beyond. United in solidarity, we’ll show the elite class, CEOs, and managers that we will not accept the exploitation of our labor and lives in the name of short-term profit.
Resources
Articles & Manuals:
- Organizing in a Pandemic: Labor Notes Resources
- Organizing without a Union During the Coronavirus
- Strike University
Union Locators:
- IWW Branch Locator
- Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union
- The United Food and Commercial Workers Union Branch Locator
- Laborers’ International Union of North America Branch Locator
- Service Employees International Union Branch Locator
- American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Branch Locator
Unions (US):
AFL-CIO / American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
- Air Line Pilots Association
- Amalgamated Transit Union
- American Federation of Government Employees
- American Federation of Musicians
- American Federation of School Administrators
- American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
- American Federation of Teachers
- American Postal Workers Union
- American Train Dispatchers Association
- Associated Actors and Artistes of America
- Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union
- Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
- California Nurses Association
- California School Employees Association
- Communications Workers of America
- Farm Labor Organizing Committee
- Federation of Professional Athletes/National Football League Players Association
- Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union
- International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
- International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers
- International Association of Fire Fighters
- International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers
- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
- International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
- International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers
- International Longshoremen's Association
- International Plate Printers, Die Stampers and Engravers Union of North America
- International Union of Allied Novelty and Production Workers
- International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers
- International Union of Elevator Constructors
- International Union of Operating Engineers
- International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
- International Union of Police Associations
- Laborers' International Union of North America
- Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
- National Football League Players Association
- National Air Traffic Controllers Association
- National Association of Letter Carriers
- National Nurses United
- National Taxi Workers' Alliance
- Office and Professional Employees International Union
- Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association
- Professional Aviation Safety Specialists
- Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union
- Seafarers International Union of North America
- Sheet Metal Workers International Association
- Transport Workers Union of America
- UNITE HERE
- United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing, Pipefitting and Sprinkler Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada
- United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America International Union
- United Food and Commercial Workers
- United Mine Workers of America
- United Independent Technology Technicians of America
- United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union
- United Transportation Union
- United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers
- Utility Workers Union of America
- Writers Guild of America, East
Change to Win Federation / originally formed in 2005 as an alternative to the AFL-CIO
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters
- Service Employees International Union
- United Farm Workers of America
Independent
- Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association
- Allied Pilots Association
- Association of Professional Flight Attendants
- Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions
- Directors Guild of America
- Dramatists Guild of America
- Fraternal Order of Police
- Independent Pilots Association
- Industrial Workers of the World
- International Longshore and Warehouse Union
- International Union of Journeymen and Allied Trades
- International Union Security * Police * Fire Professionals of America
- Jockeys' Guild
- Major League Baseball Players Association
- Mechanics Educational Society of America (1933-1958)
- National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees
- National Education Association
- National Emergency Medical Services Association
- National Rural Letter Carriers Association
- National Treasury Employees Union
- National Weather Service Employees Organization
- Philadelphia Artists Equity
- Southwest Airlines' Pilots Association
- Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
- United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
- United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
- United Independent Technology Technicians Of America
- World Umpires Association
- Writers Guild of America, West
Organizations:
Updates
MAY 1, 2020
- Work Safety Strike, Virus Lockdown Protest Set for May Day
- Retail Workers at Amazon and Whole Foods Coordinate Sick-Out to Protest Covid-19 Conditions
- Essential Workers to Strike May 1 over Working Conditions
- Frontline Workers Call for May Day Strike over Working Conditions
APRIL 30, 2020
- Get Ready for Mass Strikes Across the U.S. This May Day
- Essential Worker Groups Plan Nationwide Strike for May Day
APRIL 29, 2020
- Coronavirus Has Caused More Than 150 Strikes. This Map Is Tracking Them All
- Workers Plan May Day “People’s Strike” to Demand Safer Workplaces
- Workers to protest conditions at Amazon, Instacart and other retailers Friday
- Amazon, Whole Foods and grocery delivery workers to strike Friday
- Workers From Whole Foods, Instacart, Amazon, and More Plan May Day Strike
- Coronavirus Strikes Mirror Labor Actions During Spanish Flu, Great Depression
- Portugal Port Workers Strike
APRIL 28, 2020
- As Amazon, Walmart, and Others Profit Amid Coronavirus Crisis, Their Essential Workers Plan Unprecedented Strike
- High Death Toll in Transit Jobs From Coronavirus Prompts Union Militancy
APRIL 27, 2020
APRIL 24, 2020
- Columbia Graduate Students Are Going on Strike
- Amazon Tech Workers are Calling Out Sick in Protest over COVID-19 Response
APRIL 23, 2020
- Front-line Workers in the Covid-19 Fight Need Unions
- Unions in France Threaten to Strike in May over Lockdown Lifting
- Unions Promise to Protect Workers, and the Coronavirus is Demanding They Prove it
APRIL 22, 2020
- SEPTA workers demand safety changes amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Coronavirus at Meatpacking Plants Worse than First Thought, USA TODAY Investigation Finds
- The Essential Worker Revolution of 2020 Will Not Wait
APRIL 21, 2020
APRIL 18, 2020
APRIL 16, 2020
- The Coronavirus Strike Wave Could Shift Power to Workers—for Good
- Service workers strike at two luxury Manhattan buildings
- Hudson-Bergen Light Rail workers will strike if more masks and gloves aren’t provided, union says
APRIL 15, 2020
APRIL 14, 2020
APRIL 13, 2020
APRIL 11, 2020
APRIL 10, 2020
APRIL 9, 2020
- Building Picket Lines When We Can’t Stand Together
- Inside the Union Where Coronavirus Put 98% of Members Out of Work
- Pandemic sparks tech workers' interest in unions
- Fear of inadequate work safety measures prompts California fast food workers to strike
APRIL 7, 2020
- Pandemics Can Mean Strike Waves
- The Gig Workers Of America Tell Us Why They Are Going On Strike During Coronavirus
- Detroit hospital nurses refuse to work without more help, ordered to leave
- After a labor strike and a pandemic, Swedish Hospital nurses have a contract
APRIL 6, 2020
- Facing covid-19, low-wage service workers are striking across the country. Here\'s why - and why it matters.
- Employees at Chicago Amazon, Food Processing Plants Among Rising Worker Actions Amid Pandemic
- Carpenters\' Union Says Roughly 10,000 Mass. Members Refuse To Work Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
- Belabored Stories: The Dangers of Sanitation Work
- ‘DON’T WANT TO DIE FOR FRIES’ McDonald’s staff walkout over lack of coronavirus protection after worker tests positive
- Target’s Delivery Workers Are Staging a Walkout
- Chicago Amazon Workers Picket with Supporters—and Their Cars
- Amazon faces another NYC warehouse strike as dozens of workers have coronavirus
- Defiant Amazon workers are planning to strike again at the same warehouse where a strike organizer was fired last week
APRIL 4, 2020
- We asked scholars how a general strike might play out in the United States
- Despite Threats From Management, Amazon Warehouse Workers in Chicago Strike to Demand Better Coronavirus Precautions
- Turkish workers strike as bosses keep them at work despite COVID-19
APRIL 3, 2020
- State’s largest construction union calls for a Monday walkout over coronavirus concerns
- Latina Workers in Chicago & Poultry Workers in Virginia Strike Over COVID-19
- ‘We Will Not Sit Back and Let Transit Workers Be Treated Like Cannon Fodder’
- 13,000 Carpenters to Strike in Massachusetts
- Myanmar Faces Workers Strike, Price Gouging as Coronavirus Fears Mount
APRIL 2, 2020
- Coronavirus Is a Labor Crisis, and a General Strike Might Be Next
- Amid Pandemic, Workers Walk Out, Building Momentum Toward General Strike
- Every Food and Delivery Strike Happening Now
- Amazon execs labeled fired worker \'not smart or articulate\' in leaked PR notes
APRIL 1, 2020
- The Coronavirus Is Radicalizing Workers
- A General Strike is on the Horizon in the US — But What Happens After Could Change Everything
- Wildcat strikes across the US as pandemic spreads
- So You Want a General Strike? Here’s What It Would Take.
- Bangladesh: Garment workers strike over safety amid COVID-19 crisis
- Thousands of Renault Workers Strike in Turkey
MARCH 31, 2020
- The Gig Workers Of America Tell Us Why They Are Going On Strike During Coronavirus
- Instacart, Amazon Workers Strike as Labor Unrest Grows During Coronavirus Crisis
- With strikes and a ‘sick out,’ some grocery and delivery workers take defiant stance: One-time bonuses, temporary pay hikes aren’t enough
MARCH 30, 2020
- Macy’s, Gap to Furlough Most Workers as Coronavirus Crisis Keeps Stores Closed
- “Instacart Workers Shouldn’t Be Risking Our Lives for $7”
- Amazon warehouse workers walk out in rising tide of COVID-19 protests
- Whole Foods Employees Are Staging a Nationwide ‘Sick-Out’
- Triangle Fast-Food Workers Go on Digital Strike to Protest Unsafe Conditions
- ‘Papua New Guinea is not prepared’: 4,000 nurses to strike over Covid-19 readiness
MARCH 29, 2020
- Amazon workers plan strike at Staten Island warehouse to demand coronavirus protections
- 500 workers walk out of Asos factory after company fails to enforce social distancing