UPS & Amazon represents an epic battle of two work systems: one offering protections for workers and good jobs and one that undermines them. Guess whose winning? share.google/wrWucVQJshXU... @danielschneider.bsky.social @juliesulabor.bsky.social @bruey

UPS with its unionized workforce is hiring more gig workers. Wonder why? How about the pressure from Amazon that directly hires no one. We discuss that below. www.wsj.com/business/log...

Remember that the lowest quartile of the income distribution grew faster than the top quartile during the Biden administration (meaning decreased inequality)? Guess what is happening now? Yep. We are back to widening earnings gap. Just in time for the holidays...

He tears down the WH East Wing without any warning, plan or approval. He pardons hucksters like George Santos and now an individual who committed crimes with direct connections to his family. Democrats: Where the hell are you? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Fresh for Prime Day, my report with @dschneider.bsky.social @juliesulabor.bsky.social and Kevin Bruey shows how the rise of Amazon depresses wages, benefits and protections for their drivers compared to union drivers @ UPS. This is how good wages and protections unwind. @shift-project.bsky.social

Intimidating workers because of their immigration status weakens rights and protections for ALL workers. A disturbing report in @prospect.org . prospect.org/labor/2025-1... @nelp.org @aflcio.org @shift-project.bsky.social

@hiltzikm.bsky.social on the challenges of a post-Trump era in terms of labor, health, and science. It's not a pretty picture, but important to think ahead... www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Seema Nanda, Solicitor of Labor in the Biden administration, lays out the high costs of Trump's effort to end essential labor protections for millions of homecare workers who provide critical services. msmagazine.com/2025/08/20/t... @domesticworkers.bsky.social @nelp.org @rdnayak.bsky.social

@hiltzikm.bsky.social explains the outrageous, scurrilous and groundless claims made against Lisa Cook, Adam Schiff and Leticia James by this administration. These actions make Nixon's enemies list look benign. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

A very important essay by @elizabethwilkins.bsky.social that insightfully lays out the long term challenge ahead for progressives. thehill.com/opinion/whit... @rdnayak.bsky.social

@juliesulabor.bsky.social has it right: Trump holds the record as the most anti-union POTUS since Grover Cleveland used federal troops to break the Pullman strike in 1894. Union-Buster in Chief prospect.org/labor/2025-0... @ddayen.bsky.social @prospect.org

Anyone who thinks that this administration has the slightest concern for working people need only look at what the "Labor" Secretary has been up to. A great summary of where we stand by LA Times columnist @hiltzikm.bsky.social. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Please, please read these excerpts from a bi-partisan collection of federal judges regarding the lawless and unconstitutional grounds of countless administraion actions. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @rdnayak.bsky.social @politicsprof.bsky.social @nytimes.com

An inspirational and essential July 4th interview by @nytimes.com great @jamellebouie.net of @ztameez.bsky.social on his new book about Charles Sumner. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/o...

I was pleased to join Jim Braude and Margery Eagan on ther wonderful Boston Public to discuss the Trump record on work. Starts at 1 hour 17 minutes. www.youtube.com/live/ydc1QRy... @gbhnews.bsky.social @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social

The sad and preventable return of black lung. And Trump just paused enforcement of a rule that would address it. A friend of coal miners? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w... @jbarab.bsky.social @aflcio.org @rdnayak.bsky.social

As the Trump DOL once again opens up the question of who is an employee, let's start with the basics: What’s a ‘gig’ job? How it’s legally defined affects workers’ rights and protections theconversation.com/whats-a-gig-...

This is how it’s done! 👊🏿👊🏾👊🏽👊🏼👊🏻

There is simply nothing to add to @nickkristof.bsky.social piece today: This administration's policies result in the death of innocent children around the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

A unique and powerful perspective on blending faith and pro-democracy work from @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social Heller School's Jarvis Williams. sojo.net/magazine/jun...

Thankfully, Harvard moved quickly in court and the administration order revoking Harvard's ability to have international students and scholars in the community has been stopped (for now) by a TRO. www.reuters.com/world/us/har...

BREAKING: Judge blocks President Trump’s unconstitutional campaign to radically restructure and dismantle the federal government. This ruling is one of many that prove Elon Musk, DOGE, and even the president himself are not above the rule of law and the will of the American people.

We are a nation of laws. A federal court has halted the unconstitutional and unconscionable reorganization of OUR federal government. democracyforward.org/updates/omni... @democracyforward.org

This is how collective action works: More than 250 college and university leaders standing by the Constitutional principles of free speech and freedom of thought. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

Standing up and speaking out: This statement by President Alan Garber and action by Harvard University should be a model for all higher education. If not now, when? www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

A good moment to call upon the past.

Construction was one of the original fissured industry. It's only getting worse as shown by this important article by Marcela Valdes. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/m...

And if dissolving the FMCS is not enough to see the deep hostility this administration has to worker voice, witness this announcement that strips federal workers of union representation. Have you no shame? www.npr.org/2025/03/28/n... @aflcio.org @cornellilr.bsky.social @dol.gov

Shuttering FMCS reveals what this administration thinks about worker voice. Not surprising given Elon's record at Tesla. www.theguardian.com/business/202... @cljeharvard.bsky.social @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

And another stunning (but not surprising) figure from the Budget Labor Report. Lowest bottom 20% would lose an average of $1,125 (i.e. the group with income well below $10k per year). And the top 0.1% (aka Elon, Jeff and Mark): a net gain of $180,910 annually.

This analysis by the Yale Budget Lab says it all: Here are the distributional effects of proposed Republican House budget bill. Can you say "regressive taxation" with me?

And speaking of deliberately harming working people: Trump signs an Executive Order rescinding the $15 minimum wage requirement for federal contractors enacted by President Biden and upheld by the courts. Trump's mantra: Make Working People Poor Again.

Eliminating the FMCS is yet another statement of contempt for worker voice and the law of the land. The Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) has it right:

Another example that the house (aka 7ber, Lyft, DoorDash...) always win because they have sole control over the algorithms. www.businessinsider.com/uber-eats-gi...

This is the definition of a self-inflicted wound.

The scamming continues. This is not about efficiency. It's about avarice and insider dealing.

Same story: Someone could make a fortune off insider knowledge of tariff plans...Check out volatility from March 3 to March 5.

Has anyone looked into whether billionaire insiders made a fortune taking positions on auto stock options knowing that the administration would impose 25% tariffs on March 3 with "no room for delay" and then same tariffs were delayed on March 5?

BREAKING: Trump's NIH Cost-Cutting Measure Blocked By Judge www.law360.com/technology/a...

Breaking Down OPM’s ‘Fork in the Road’ Email to Federal Workers www.lawfaremedia.org/article/brea...

Lots more details on GAO, ICA, the role of the Comptroller, etc. here. These memoranda directing depts & agencies to stop everything while POTUS decides whether these $ are consistent w/Pres'l policy goals don't even attempt to defend their legality. They really can't. /7 www.gao.gov/products/118...

I abandoned Twitter after it became X (@profsheena)and am now back here as profsheenalives.