On strike! Members of the Harvard Graduate Students Union — UAW Local 5118 — are fighting the world’s richest university. Solidarity is the answer. 💪 @uawregion9a.bsky.social | Harvard Graduate Students Union - UAW Local 5118

Real talk: If the Knicks get bounced by the Hawks, Mike Brown has to go.

The Illinois Federation of Teachers seeks a Director of Communications. This position will work at IFT’s Westmont and Chicago, IL offices. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @iftaft.bsky.social @aft.org

This May Day, higher ed workers and students stand up for the country that we want and deserve – one where we fund education, not war and deportation. Share that dream? Join us next Friday. www.labor4highered.org #HandsOffHigherEd

University of Illinois Springfield Chancellor Janet Gooch is paid $329,000/yr. PLUS a housing allowance. PLUS two country club memberships. But admin is offering support staff only a .16/hour raise this year... Something needs to change! #AcademicSky

Thursday! The Debt Collective and HELU bring you College for All Jubilee School: Erosion of Academic Labor debtcollective.org/event/colleg...

This #MayDay, working people are saying “enough.” We’ll fight to protect ALL workers from the attacks on our jobs, our unions, our contracts, our union siblings and our freedoms. Find a May Day event near you: https://www.mobilize.us/aflcio/?q=May%20Day

Join Rutgers AAUP-AFT and members of other unions May 1 in Jersey City for a May Day Strong march in a demonstration of solidarity and union power. Details/register here: bit.ly/41pQaNc

Dawg the Mets are never going to win another game ever.

“St Louis”, Joe Jones #slam

Wednesday, April 22 at 8pm ET: Join HELU, @sanders.senate.gov, @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social, @ydsa.org, @aaup.org, @ueunion.org, and more to gear up for May Day. Hear how students and workers are organizing for freedom, affordability, and safety all across the country. www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovem...

I'm already livid that I can't watch Game 1 of Knicks v. Hawks on TV, but apparently it's not on the radio either. So wrong. This'll never happen after we nationalize Amazon and make it a part of the USPS. Also gotta expropriate Jimmy D. while we're at it.

Tuesday night, April 21. 8 pm ET. Workers.fyi/labor-call #mayday #maydaystrong #workersoverbillionaires

On May 1, higher ed workers & students rise up together! Join HELU, @sanders.senate.gov, our partners @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @ydsa.org @aaup.org & others for a MASS MEETING on 4/22 at 8pm ET. Get the tools you need to host a May Day action at your school on May 1st! www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovem...

Sign up for the “May Day Strong: Students and Workers Rise Up on May Day” organizing call next Wednesday at 8 ET. It'll be rad.

Wrote a piece about Martha and the Vandellas, civil rights, and their place in the history of Black women R&B groups. I also created a YouTube playlist (in the comments) with some of their hits

Sign up for the “May Day Strong: Students and Workers Rise Up on May Day” organizing call next Wednesday at 8 ET. It'll be rad.

On Friday, May 1 at 4PM we will take to the streets to make our voices heard! Join us in Washington Square Park! 🔗 www.mobilize.us/aflcio/event... #MayDay2026

Random radio station playing in the bodega just billed itself as "completely human" during station identification.

This May Day, join higher ed workers across the nation and fight for an affordable and safe education that serves the common good. Learn more and register at www.labor4highered.org #HandsOffHigherEd #MayDayHigherEd #HigherEdOverBillionaires #DefendHigherEd

One of the biggest labor battles in the US is happening right now in Los Angeles, at USC, where our faculty-union campaign with majority support is being met by nasty, corporate-grade administrative resistance, and national press won't cover it.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

About ready to fight someone I *do* know for someone I don't know.

Is Tom Steyer seriously gonna back that azz up into the California Governor's Mansion?

Which is worse: the national president of my union pushing collaborations with AI scammers to wreck education and nuke 100Ks of members' jobs, or the national president of my union pushing slopulist tax cut schemes that will wreck any chance for a post-fascism reconstruction of public services?

Shame on Apple for closing their only unionized store. We stand with @acoreunion.bsky.social members! www.wbaltv.com/article/appl...

Today, the AAUP & @aft.org launched our national policy platform to win back an American higher education system that protects the freedom to teach & learn & strengthens our democracy. Read it in full here: www.aaup.org/blueprint-st... 🧵

"Unfortunately, the types of people for whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—and whose career trajectories might be most dramatically shifted given freedom from their usual constraints—are infrequently their beneficiaries."

The other thing is that in a gig economy there is no degree that promises a good career anymore, not because you should have studied computer science or social media management instead of history or Russian literature, but because there are no careers

Big news out of Maryland! Beginning July 1st, thousands of non-tenure-track faculty in Maryland will have collective bargaining rights. www.aaup.org/news/collect... Huge thanks to @aaup.org, @aft.org, & @aftmaryland.bsky.social for helping us pass this historic legislation!

Los Angeles teachers have a tentative agreement but will strike if the district doesn't settle w/ two other unions currently negotiating, according to LA Times report Also of note, UTLA contract will run just 2 years, setting up the next potential strike for spring of 2028

I wrote about Eric Swalwell, why he's been abandoned so quickly, why a political class that surely knew about his antics didn't do anything about it and continued to support him, and what that says about accountability in America. prospect.org/2026/04/12/e...

Smoked trout on a poppy bagel: the real breakfast of champions.

For this month's issue of Artforum, I wrote about how Jacob Lawrence's art meets our present moment www.artforum.com/features/jac...

National Center Executive Director Bill Herbert has published a new article on student employee unionization. It appears in the current issue of the @nysba Bar Journal, which is available here: nysba.org/wp-content/u...

#ICYMI: Members of Contract Faculty United-UAW at NYU overwhelmingly ratified their contract this week, with 98% in favor and 81% of all contract faculty participating. The successful ratification came two weeks after a 3-day strike that began March 23rd.

Adams should get some kind of public recognition for being utterly corrupt in the most bizarre ways conceivable:

@rweingarten.bsky.social and @aaup.org @proftwolf.bsky.social issued a statement on the faculty strike at UIS: “Stop hiding from… faculty and students and come to the table with a fair contract that reflects the value of their work and the needs of the campus community.” www.aft.org/press-releas...

HELU's Vice Chair Jenna Chernega is, "excited to see working people join together on May Day to build power and solidarity. This is how we overcome the authoritarianism in our government and also create a new and better world for tomorrow." 👀 Watch this space for May Day resources, coming soon!

Schumer is pro the war on Iran and I think that in and of itself is disqualifying. It seems imperative that Democrats demand that he resign or be replaced as Senate minority leader because he is actually working to support the fascist in chief. It's untenable.

No Work No School No Shopping Chicago unions getting ready for May Day! are you?

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

NYC Sunday 2 pm at Terminal 5. New York is a union town Come through

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

Listening to "If There's A Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" while I finish my 2025 taxes.

WE DID IT! Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.

the student loan issue is something that I am deeply invested in/keeps me up at night, even so I have had a hard time parsing where things are right now, how we got here, and what the fights ahead look like, so REALLY appreciated this post by @lookheron.bsky.social !! lpeproject.org/blog/the-stu...

all solidarity to the striking faculty at University of Illinois Springfield

My nerves are completely fucking shot, but I did get a free black-and-white cookie as lagniappe from the bagel place this morning, so at least I have that. It cannot happen soon enough.