Labor Notes
Labor Notes is a U.S.-and Canada-focused non-profit organization and network for rank-and-file union members and grassroots labor activists. Labor Notes is best known for its monthly magazine of the same name. The magazine reports news and analysis about labor activity or problems facing the labor movement.
Labor Notes is based out of Detroit, Michigan with an East Coast office located in Brooklyn, New York.
Following the mass movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Labor Notes (founded in 1979) was the product of a strategy by labor activists seeking to make grassroots connections across unions and industries. At that time, Labor Notes sought to bridge the gap between isolated rank-and-file caucuses and reform groups in major unions such as the Teamsters [[1]], the Steelworkers , the United Auto Workers, the Communication Workers of America, the American Federation of Teachers, and others.
Labor Notes has published a number of books on labor-related themes. It’s most well-known book is A Troublemaker’s Handbook: How to Fight Back Were You Work and Win by Dan La Botz, in 1991 and its sequel in 2005 A Troublemaker’s Handbook 2 by Jane Slaughter.
Another popular book is Democracy is Power, by Mike Parker and Martha Gruelle, printed 1999 and re-released in 2005.