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Author Archives: Luis Feliz Leon

Luis Feliz Leon is a staff writer and organizer with Labor Notes. Follow him on Twitter @Lfelizleon.

Elon Musk speaks as US President Donald Trump looks on in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2025. Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US

It’s time for a united front to take on billionaire rule

by Luis Feliz Leon February 20, 2025February 20, 2025

The super rich are in command, as Donald Trump and Elon Musk run a rampage on the working class. To stop them, the labor movement needs to lead.

US President Joe Biden departs after speaking after his Republican opponent Donald Trump was injured following a shooting at an election rally in Pennsylvania. Photo by SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US

As Biden bows out, Labor begins to coalesce around Harris and sets sights on defeating Trump

by Luis Feliz Leon July 22, 2024July 22, 2024
Chris Smalls, a leader of the Amazon Labor Union, leads a march of Starbucks and Amazon workers and their allies to the homes of their CEOs to protest union busting on Labor Day, September 5, 2022, in New York City, New York. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US

Amazon workers affiliate with the Teamsters, next up electing top officers

by Luis Feliz Leon June 18, 2024June 20, 2024
Activists, New York City politicians, and union members hold a press conference on the steps of City Hall to voice their opposition to a tax break deal given to Amazon, on December 12, 2018 in New York City. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US

Teamsters and Amazon labor union announce affiliation, member vote still ahead

by Luis Feliz Leon June 7, 2024June 7, 2024
A manager wearing a T-shirt supporting the new CEO waited in the plant cafeteria for results from the vote count. The company's winning move was to fire its U.S. CEO and replace him with a vice president who promised to care about the “team members.” Photo: Luis Feliz Leon
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US

Alabama Mercedes workers lose first union election, vow to fight on

by Luis Feliz Leon May 21, 2024May 20, 2024
Kelcey Smith displays UAW buttons in Chattanooga, Tennessee on April 10, 2024. Photo by Kevin Wurm for The Washington Post via Getty Images
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US

Tennessee Volkswagen workers vote union

by Luis Feliz Leon April 22, 2024April 22, 2024
A UAW worker in a red shirt holds up a picket sign with both arms outstretched and a joyous expression on his face. Around him are other red-shirted UAW workers.
Posted inEconomy and Inequality

‘No Justice, No Jeeps!’ scenes from the auto workers strike

by Keith Brower Brown, Luis Feliz Leon and Jane Slaughter September 18, 2023March 13, 2024
The Lordstown Motors factory where GM once operated, in Lordstown, Ohio on October 16, 2020. The old GM factory has been acquired by Lordstown Motors, an electric truck startup that wants to build a full-size pickup called Endurance. Photo by MEGAN JELINGER/AFP via Getty Images
Posted inEconomy and Inequality

Will the clean energy auto economy be built on factory floors riddled with toxic chemicals and safety hazards?

by Luis Feliz Leon August 31, 2023August 31, 2023
Members of Auto Workers Local 862 rallied on Thursday in Louisville, Kentucky. They work at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant building Ford Super Duty Trucks, Ford Expeditions, and Lincoln Navigators, and at the Louisville Assembly Plant where they build Ford Escapes and Lincoln Corsairs. A second rally was held on Friday. Photo: Luis Feliz Leon
Posted inEconomy and Inequality

Kentucky Auto Workers at Ford are preparing for a strike

by Luis Feliz Leon August 29, 2023March 13, 2024
When kitchen workers walked out, protesting a racist manager along with unfair firings and wage theft, they were joined by wait staff who had been abused by the same manager. “When we found out back of the house was on strike, everyone in the front of house was communicating with each other saying, ‘Oh my gosh, we’ve been experiencing the same thing,’” one server said.
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Workers at Hooters-style restaurant strike, protesting racist sexist manager

by Luis Feliz Leon January 25, 2023March 14, 2024

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