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Rhode Island Blood Center workers seek union election over staffing and pay concerns
November 10, 2026 // Two employee groups — those who work in hospital services and the call center — are currently excluded from the union’s proposal, Teamsters organizer Virginia Tavares said in a Nov. 5 phone interview and follow-up email. Tavares said management wants those groups included and the union is disputing their inclusion.
What the Met museum’s union victory reveals about nonprofit governance
November 6, 2026 // According to UAW, workers cited long-term pay inequalities, lack of job protection, and increasing workloads as reasons for organizing. Alison Clark, a collections manager in the Asian Art department, explained more about the decision to unionize: “The museum often makes decisions without considering or consulting staff, such as changes to our work from home policy and erosion of our health and other benefits,” said Clark, who has worked at the Met for more than 20 years. “Right now, we’re contending with several large-scale capital projects that displace people and create a lot of additional work for the staff. Unionizing is the only way for us to have a strong collective voice to address concerns with the museum.”
Commentary: What happens when environmental justice nonprofit workers unionize?
October 19, 2026 // OVECU filed an unfair labor practice claim with the NLRB, which ruled that OVEC had unlawfully suspended and discharged one employee and discharged another because of their unionizing efforts, which was a protected concerted activity. In July 2021, workers voted in an NLRB-supervised election to certify the union. Four months later, in November, OVEC’s board voted 10-1 to dissolve the 34-year-old organization
Eric Carle Museum Staff Seek Union Vote
August 5, 2026 // Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers has petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to allow employees at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass., to vote on whether to unionize. The local represents museum, university, publishing, and nonprofit staff in New York and New England.
Union Now Is America’s New Strike Fund
April 20, 2026 // The American labor movement will soon have something it’s never had before: a centralized strike fund. Union Now, the new nonprofit and brainchild of Association of Flight Attendants-CWA International President Sara Nelson, began officially fundraising at a kickoff rally on Sunday, April 12th, in Manhattan. National leaders of the Democratic left were there in support; both Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani made rousing speeches, which suggests that the supporters Union Now hopes to enlist will go beyond those who are already union activists.
The Baltimore Banner’s parent nonprofit acquires the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April 15, 2026 // The Post-Gazette is a beleaguered, historic metro daily whose union completed a divisive 1,133-day strike over health benefits last November. The NewsGuild technically won in court, but in January, Block Communications announced the newspaper’s financial losses were untenable and that it would print its final edition May 3. RELATED ARTICLE Nonprofit news site The Banner expands beyond Baltimore September 15, 2025 The Banner, meanwhile, is a national poster child for nonprofit news success. Since its founding in 2022, when Maryland businessman and Venetoulis chairman and founder Stewart Bainum pledged $50 million over about five years to the news outlet, it has won a Pulitzer, grown into the state’s largest newsroom, and rebranded from The Baltimore Banner to The Banner, even expanding coverage into D.C.’s suburbs after Washington Post layoffs. (The Banner has not yet broken even.)
Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages
April 9, 2026 // Unionized staff at ProPublica, one of the country’s leading nonprofit newsrooms, are walking off the job for 24 hours beginning Wednesday and asking the public to honor a digital picket line. The roughly 150 members of the ProPublica Guild are in the midst of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement after unionizing in 2023. The union says key issues are still in contention, including protections around the use of AI, “just cause” provisions around disciplining or firing an employee, layoff protections, and wages.
ProPublica’s unionized staff vote to authorize strike: ‘We are ready to walk off the job’
March 22, 2026 // The unionized staff at ProPublica voted to authorize a strike Thursday evening, declaring they were "ready to walk off the job" in order to send a message to management.
ARIZONA: City High, Paulo Freire teachers say union vote stalled by board
February 26, 2026 // Tuesday’s lesson took place during a rally of about three dozen parents, teachers, staff and students aiming to generate support for a unionizing effort. Teachers at the CITY Center for Collaborative Learning, a nonprofit that includes City High and two middle schools: Paulo Freire Freedom School, University and Downtown campuses voted with a supermajority in December to form a union.
Wage Disagreements: Workers at homeless services nonprofit join DTLA-based union
February 24, 2026 // The union is one of the largest in Southern California, with more than 100,000 members. It represents employees in sectors such as foster care, mental health and law enforcement, including workers with Los Angeles County, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority and Step Up on Second.