Workers at Chicago’s Griffin Museum of Science and Industry announced Tuesday that union members have overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike, if necessary.

More union-busting at wine-bistro chain Cooper's Hawk, this time an "ongoing" basis from 9/4 targeting "All employees at the Brookfield Wisconsin location excluding general manager and all Assistant managers, office/clerical, guards and supervisors": olmsapps.dol.gov/query/orgRep...

More union-busting at can/carton/etc. manufacturer Canpack last month: olmsapps.dol.gov/query/orgRep...

Absolutely shattering details in this Sun-Times piece chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

Giving in to threats has historically only ever *increased* their use as a tactic & I just genuinely cannot stress enough how badly Dems are failing to meet the demands of the moment across every metric.

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

Dems advertising that they are capitulating to threats of violence is not an especially smart plan even on narrow selfpreservation concerns

Great article by @josheidelson.bsky.social on how Trump and RFK, Jr., have gutted NIOSH, an absolutely essential health agency. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

Uline is the work of members of the Uihlein family, known more commonly as the owners/ancestors of what was Schlitz beer. Ancient history to many of you. Beer money, in short. Now directed to magaish causes that the founders likely would have supported. Wierdly. (looong story.)

Updates on this front from Chicago NLG: three protestors arrested before 1 p.m. today have been cited and released; at least one more arrest confirmed as of 5 p.m.

New: We've gotten a statement from the National Lawyers Guild of Chicago, re: the status of those arrested (at least 3) while protesting outside the ICE detention/processing faciliy in Broadview, IL. Statement reflects situation as of 1 p.m.

"Mr. Jacobs, a moderate from Long Island, was so opposed to the governor’s endorsement that he told associates in recent days that he would sooner resign as chairman than back Mr. Mamdani, a 33-year-old state lawmaker and democratic socialist, according to people who spoke with the chairman."

The chair of the New York Democratic Party, Jay Jacobs, denounces Hochul's endorsement of Mamdani and says he himself will not endorse Mandani for mayor. Jacobs cites Mamdani's opinion of Israel as the main reason.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

Colorado baristas sue Starbucks over costs to meet new dress code www.courthousenews.com/colorado-bar...

The AFL-CIO seeks an Office Administrator for Union Lawyers Alliance, General Counsel to be based in Washington, DC [Headquarters]. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @aflcio.org

If this all ends with a fight over piercing the corporate veil, let alone doing so, I will be absolutely tickled.

Netherlands, Iceland, Ireland, Spain and Slovania have said they will not participate in the competition if Israel does.

yeah, they have it roughly backwards. the ideal protester isnt an armed cadre who only uses signal, its a retired teacher and grandmother of three who makes the security services decide whether they’re comfortable batoning her to get by

This Day in Labor History: September 17, 1989. 98 miners and one minister conducted a peaceful takeover of the Pittston Moss 3 Coal Preparation Plant. This was one of the few victories of the late 20th century for organized labor!

Tragic and alarming: From the states collecting data, 68% of U.S. counties and jurisdictions have immunization rates below 95% for the MMR vaccine — the level of herd immunity that is required to stop the spread of measles.

The same man seeking to complete a railroad merger that would turn his rail company into a coast-to-coast $250 billion behemoth has also been advising Trump on National Guard deployments The billionaires are laughing at us as they wield a level of influence that would make Rockefeller blush

RTA presses the CTA, Metra and Pace to share more details about looming service cuts — a nice scoop from @taliasoglin.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/15/r...

It started with Gaza under Biden. We warned you. We warned you by sacrificing with our lives and careers. You either stood up for people, en masse, who lost their job protesting genocide, or you agreed live in a society where lives could be ended for being against genocide. Now it’s anything goes.

Relatively new entrant into the Maine Dem senate primary Dan Kleban positioning himself well to the right of Angus King on Israel/Gaza...is an interesting choice. #MEpolitics

Daniel Raab, originally from the Chicago suburb of Naperville, was part of an Israeli military sniper unit unofficially known as the “ghost” squad that was found to have shot six family members in Gaza, including an apparently unarmed 19-year-old Palestinian in the head.

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

Leaders grabbing & abusing power usually start by unleashing abuse on the least popular type of person in reach. With an appeal to public order, the Nazi regime early on abused power to detain & eventually kill homeless people. Such leaders usually don't stop there. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Boeing workers have rejected another contract proposal, extending their nearly six-week strike at three Midwest plants.

In late July, Union Pacific announced their plans to merge with Norfolk Southern in a megadeal that would create nation’s first transcontinental railroad. No one's happy about it.

How Sugared + Bronzed workers won the first salon chain union in the country When the girls of Sugared + Bronzed — a salon chain specializing in spray tanning and sugaring hair removal — first heard about labor unions, we didn’t expect that workers like us could have a union of our own.

/7 Also: I’m not saying “violence has no place in America.” Violence is as American as cherry pie and has always been rampant. I’m speaking to whether it’s wise or helpful to good goals to encourage this kind of violence.

/6 Also: if a Left-wing activist even remotely as strident as Charlie Kirk had been assassinated, Charlie Kirk would have smirked and applauded, as would have many of the people who are going to be loudest about Charlie Kirk. Don’t buy the hypocrisy.

/5 Watch for the response to be, barely disguised, “they’re doing to us what we want to do to them and that’s not fair!”

/4 But it’s perfectly reasonable to point out that the people who will wave the bloody shirt over this — the people who support Charlie Kirk — are evil hypocrites who endorse and excuse violence every day. Refraining from celebrating doesn’t mean tolerating bullshit. bsky.app/profile/thre...

/3 We can also call out who has encouraged and normalized political violence and made it government policy. We can note the irony of it in many cases. But celebrating it — yelling “hooray” — is like celebrating going to war. People will die and it won’t be fun.

/2 We can, and should, discuss whether political violence is inevitable, or whether we’re fooling ourselves because we’ve been swimming in it for a long time. You can note that political violence against the Left (like Melissa Hortman) is treated differently than political violence against the right

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

As always, be careful what you say on the internet. We don’t need to go to the gulag today

Surging number of data centers around the Great Lakes could lead to water shortages. Important story from @adrianaperez.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/10/g...

The main consumer of generative AI technology is the manufacturer of "AI-powered" products: the AI "author" or the AI "artist" is exactly the same as the company replacing their customer support line or their search results with AI. They're not doing it for themselves! They want to resell it to you

Today in international fascism... www.bbc.com/news/article...

NEWS: The full Eleventh Circuit, in an 8-5 vote, held that an insurance policy excluding transgender gender-affirming surgical care does not facially violate Title VII b/c — following SCOTUS's Skrmetti reasoning — "it does not treat anyone differently based on a protected characteristic."

Hello, I didn’t check the delivery address when I ordered some Chipotle delivery just now so if you are in Chicago and would like a chicken burrito go to: The Chicago Hotel Ambassador 1301 N State Pkwy Chicago, IL 60610 It’s at the front desk. Enjoy!

BREAKING: @lambdalegal.org strongly criticizes the federal indictment of one of its lawyers in Alabama, calling it "an outrageous act of governmental overreach" that followed "unprecedented and abusive judicial proceedings." "We unequivocally stand behind Carl and all of our attorneys ...."

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday set aside a ruling that blocked New York from enforcing rules prohibiting the unauthorized practice of law against a nonprofit that provides limited legal advice to poor people in the state.