Labor Notes

"Every single time that you get frustrated or you run into a wall, someone from Labor Notes is going to be there to pick you up," Nora Meek, a founding member of the IATSE CREW reform caucus, says in our new video.

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"Having cut my teeth as a political organizer on my college campus and read Secrets of a Successful Organizer, I could tell that this issue had the juice we needed to lead a workplace action—everyone cared enough to do something about it." 1/3

After 85 days, workers won the longest hotel strike in Washington state history. Their union, UNITE HERE Local 8, represents 4,000 hospitality workers in Oregon and Washington labornotes.org/2026/11/lesson…

When you first approach co-workers, you start to create the culture of the union you’re trying to build. It’s a good idea to build the kind of union that you’d actually like to have.

Adapted from Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It's Hard by Ellen David Friedman.

Do organizing conversations make you want to throw up? Us too! But by ditching the scripted ask and hearing what your co-workers have to say, you can take the pressure off and land on a strategy together.

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