The largest convening of Amazon workers in the world is happening at the June 2026 Labor Notes conference. Garfield Hylton is an Amazon worker in the UK who built a union with his co-workers through a series of wildcat strikes.

Former WashPost reporter @ashleyrparker.bsky.social wrote a piece this week for The Atlantic headlined, "The Murder of the Washington Post." Turns out, that was no exaggeration. Here you have a group of people offering to save the victim that Bezos was threatening. And he's killing it off anyway.

DM me if you participated. How was turnout ?

How to Debunk Anti-Immigrant Myths at Work - important piece by @nataschaelena.bsky.social

A looming deportation purge in Springfield, Ohio is on pause. But Haitians there are still hiding at home and making plans for who will take care of their kids if they are snatched by ICE and disappeared. A report from the ground: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/waiting-fo...

The @uaw.org has won a tentative agreement from VW nearly two years after workers voted to unionize in Chattanooga. Over 3,000 workers will get: - A 20% raise - Better healthcare - A bonus of about $6,550 per worker upon ratification And much more.

Assaulted as we are by propaganda priming us to hate, conversations around immigration can often feel loaded—and much more so in the workplace. How can misinformation be challenged in a way that builds solidarity with your co-workers? labornotes.org/2026/02/how-...

The Twin Cities strike began in solidarity with immigrant workers and pushed a political demand: ICE OUT OF MN! It’s estimated 75,000 to 100,000 people marched through downtown Minneapolis. The conditions were ripe for an upsurge. labornotes.org/2026/01/twin...

Sign up here to join May Day Strong's call this Sunday, February 1: www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

BREAKING: Tenants across Minneapolis and Saint Paul have just launched a Twin Cities tenant union, citing the fact that their cities are under siege, and saying they need to band together to protect one another. linktr.ee/twincitieste...

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

This is a serious escalation. This is very grim and must be loudly opposed. Also, noting she says in this video “my children are here.”

Breaking: Educators at bilingual schools in Minneapolis did a sickout today. Federal agents continue to kidnap children. Two more students have been taken from Liam Ramos’s Columbia Heights School. Educators are saying enough! Message below is from the district to parents.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Independent journalist Todd Miller says the Trump administration’s immigration operations in U.S. cities are an “extension” of “policies and practices that we’ve been seeing in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands now for decades,” characterizing Border Patrol culture as one of rampant abuse and impunity.

Potential homebuyers canceled more than 40,000 purchase agreements in December. That's 16.3% of all homes that went under contract, the highest rate since Redfin started tracking it in 2017.

“This is a call to every healthcare worker, to every union member, to every American, to continue these acts of bravery, to confront ICE, to confront Border Patrol where they show up." Important reporting by Amie Stager. workdaymagazine.org/we-will-not-...

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

Pointing out the bravery and decency of Alex Pretti is not about finding the perfect victim. It’s relevant because he was attacked and killed for being decent. People all over Minnesota are engaging in this kind of everyday, ordinary heroism and they know they are taking risks when they do so.

This record of the Twin Cities' Day of Truth and Freedom last Friday has something for everyone: for those of us who watched from afar, a substantive account from the ground; for those who were there, a memento of their herculean efforts; and for students of strikes, a word on how this one was done.

ICYMI: Icicles hung from the beards of men in union beanies. The lobbies of large commercial buildings in downtown Minneapolis opened to the public for respite filled with people rubbing each other’s sore feet. labornotes.org/2026/01/twin...

Grateful to @hammerandhope.bsky.social for recognizing the importance of Dr. King's work with Chicago gangs. Blackstone Rangers leader Jeff Fort stressed what a good listener King was —and how he saw their potential for community leadership & organization. hammerandhope.org/article/mart...

Secret police add unknown number of agents to new office in undisclosed Atlanta-area location. “College Park Mayor Bianca Motley Broom said in a statement that federal immigration agencies have not contacted city officials.” www.wabe.org/ice-opens-sa...

Spoke to @wdet.bsky.social about the resistance in Minneapolis. An impressive city with many righteous people. wdet.org/2026/01/27/t...

READ THIS! Excellent overview of Jan 23 by @lfelizleon.bsky.social. These are times of extreme treachery and extreme solidarity, and it's captured here beautifully. "If they think they're going to ship people out in the middle of nowhere, we’re still going to go there and fight for them."

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

Up one flight in a commercial building & across a passageway leading to a dining area, workers found the metal grates of restaurants pulled down, their chairs on top of tables. It was a brief moment of basking in the exuberance of what they had pulled off. labornotes.org/2026/01/twin...

On January 23, what looked like more than 50,000 people marched in downtown Minneapolis in a protest dubbed “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth and Freedom.” @lfelizleon.bsky.social reports labornotes.org/2026/01/twin... 🧵 1/9

CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”

"We can write more than obituaries. We can tell fuller stories, full of heartbreak and courage." Beautiful piece by @lfelizleon.bsky.social - please read it.

A union’s job is to stand firmly and unequivocally against the brutal murder of one its members by the state—an injury to one is an injury to all.

Yesterday, we joined tens of thousands to march. This am, ICE responded with violence. Alex was an ICU nurse, a union sibling, & an observer who stepped in to help. This is a union state. We will continue to show up, to watch, to document, and fight ICE is not welcome here.

Hundreds of people gather for a vigil at the site where 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse and member of AFGE 3669, was shot and killed by federal agents.

AFGE Local 3669 statement:

It’s a tragedy that a significant chunk of the country hasn’t woken up to the horror of a federal government throwing tear gas at people pushing a walker. The people standing up to these federal agents are regular people fed up with living under a military occupation.

A nurse. A 37-year-old man who devoted his time to healing the sick and the injured, who came outside in the cold to protect his neighbors, gunned down in the street by bloodthirsty blackshirts

‪Update: Federal agents murdered ICU nurse Alex Pretti. ‬That’s the name of the legal observer federal agents executed in Minneapolis today. He was a union member.

Federal agents are throwing tear gas canisters at protesters following the shooting of a legal observer. They tackle a man to the ground. You can hear me coughing from the tear gas. A local restaurant took me in until I could recuperate.

Breaking: One day after tens of thousands of Minnesotans hit the streets to peacefully protest and demand ICE leave their state. An ICE agent shot another observer.

SEIU has really stepped up to meet the moment without fanfare.

Union estimates put the figure at 100,000 people. All I can say is I haven’t seen a mobilization as large as the one today in Minneapolis. Lots of lessons. Will have a story in LN on Monday.

Scenes of civil disobedience outside the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, where protesters, including religious readers, blocked the road on a statewide day of “no work (except for emergency services), no school, and no shopping” on January 23. Photos by @lfelizleon.bsky.social

Thousands come out to Minneapolis ICE leave the state. Clergy are arrested in a civil disobedience calling for ICE out of Minnesota.

On Jan. 21, construction workers marched on the offices of housing developer D.R. Horton in Lakeville, Minnesota to demand the company keep ICE off their property. At least four construction workers have been detained while working jobs for D.R. Horton.

ICYMI: Here's my op-ed in the NYT today about Trump's occupation of Minneapolis and other American cities, and why it's uniquely dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

This is unbearable

New York City stands in solidarity with Minneapolis!

Momentum continues to build nationwide. labornotes.org/2026/01/will...

What sparks a General Strike? As ICE violence escalates in Minnesota, @lfelizleon.bsky.social reports on the unions and community groups calling for a statewide pause to economic activity on Jan. 23—bringing the U.S. closer to a coordinated stoppage.