Lockheed Martin Board Roll Call. The stock has been up over 45 percent in the last six months as Trump has prepped for this stupid fucking war. They're making a killing on killing.

No war with Iran. Let Cuba live. Open the concentration camps imprisoning immigrants.

The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

This blind man - a refugee from Burma - was dropped off by Border Patrol at a Tim Horton's in Buffalo, NY. In the middle of February. A mile from a home where he no longer lived. While his relatives were searching for him. Cops found his body 5 days later www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

GOAL: Bruce Springsteen 🤝 Labor Notes Conference REQUEST: Dear comrades and allies, if you know someone (who knows someone) who can make the connection, please tag/DM @lfelizleon.bsky.social! 🙏

Good morning. This might be an impossible request. But we’ve done incredible things together. Who can connect me to Bruce Springsteen’s people for him to perform “Streets of Minneapolis” at the Labor Notes conference on the night of June 12?

Breaking: Volkswagen workers have voted by 96 percent to ratify their first union contract. labornotes.org/2026/02/majo...

For four decades, a federal count of union members has been the annual physical exam for the labor movement. Did we grow or shrink, and where? Read a sober assessment of union membership numbers. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @governorwalz.mn.gov fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, this would be the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.

I reported on the past, present, and future of North Carolina's Moral Mondays, for @exposedbycmd.bsky.social in conjunction with @inthesetimes.com.

The execs pushing automation are more than happy to write the obituary of workers and their movements. But there is a long history of workers who were thought to have already been defeated, only to reappear as protagonists, face off against powerful bosses—& win. dissentmagazine.org/article/amaz...

Support the nurses! therealnews.com/nurses-ny-pr...

There’s still time. Thanks for your contribution.

Amazon's size and seemingly perpetual expansion into new markets is a threat to the labor standards that workers have achieved in different jurisdictions. To stay relevant, unions must make Amazon organizing a project of the entire labor movement labornotes.org/2026/02/amaz...

The People Who Believed that "Pro Worker Republicans" Were a Real Thing Were Massive Suckers, vol. 967: www.ft.com/content/19f8...

From a statement released today by the ICE Out of Minnesota Coalition.

"Greater reductions in depression were seen when exercise was offered in group and supervised settings, while exercise of shorter duration and at lower intensity was most associated with reductions in anxiety."

Today is my birthday and my Labor Notes work anniversary. Here’s what I want for my special day: small donation to get workers in new organizing drives at Amazon and in auto to the June 2026 conference. Will you chip in to the fundraiser? secure.actblue.com/donate/lflbi...

Excellent breakdown of the UAW’s landmark tentative agreement at VW 👇

New: Volkswagen had dangled a treat: a ratification bonus of $4,000, sweetened by $1,500 if a first contract at its assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was approved by Halloween 2025. But auto workers had a trick up their sleeves: collective action. labornotes.org/2026/02/majo...

The agreement comes with a 20 percent wage increase, equal to around a $7 wage bump for production workers, over the four-year contract. The cost-of-living adjustment is 45 cents per hour on top of the base wage, depending on inflation. @lfelizleon.bsky.social reports labornotes.org/2026/02/majo...

Remembering the Flint Sit-down Strike, from a booklet about the @uaw.org’s 1955 program for GM workers. Less than 20 years in the rear view mirror, it was clear the sit-down strike was a transformative moment for American workers. From the UAW archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

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