This is why unionization is more important in “these challenging times”, not less. Admin are going to try to claw as much power as they can and lock in a new permanent, precarious normal. This kind of position is not allowed under the UC-UAW contract, for example.

I'm glad California is not electing a sexpest Nazi for governor, just your normal corrupt politician who takes blood/oil money and tried to change the IQ test results of a black guy to get him executed

I don't remember seeing "first they came for the murderous neocons" in the poem so I'm fine with this one

Adam Gray was briefly in-unit right after he got elected and I went to a town hall he put on and got him to sign a union card. Gotta say it was really tough to sit through all the bullshit he was spewing, but a card is a card

Striking to me how little reporting there is on this rule proposal, which is maybe the biggest change to American governance in almost a century. And this reporting is … weak. www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

Oh BY THE WAY: United Faculty-UAW, the union of us non-tenure-track faculty at USC, WON our election last night in a landslide. More details to come, but USC admin is crying to Trump asking his labor board to overturn democracy. It's a scandal. You should be pissed, especially if you're a teacher.

California primary results:

Our employer, the University of Southern California, is asking Donald Trump to overturn the results of our democratic union election before the count is even finished.

Thinking back to our practice picket in March when I asked one of the World Socialist Web Site guys who was protesting our picket to join workers and walk the picket line and he refused lol

Marx: I love killing people. Some people just gotta die and when it's time, I kill them. Has to be done. Important work I'm doing Reporter: So how many people have you killed? Marx: How dare you

"UAW 4811 has added 12,000 new union members in Student Services and Advising Professionals and Research and Public Service Professionals, 1,700 of which are at UC Berkeley." UAW 4811 | UAW Region 6 📰 https://ow.ly/5NzK50Z3liu

It is "unionize or die" time in American higher ed. Yes, that means you and your special work. I don't care if you're "not political," because our enemies are very political.

"... the UC system shared data collected by automated license plate readers at multiple campuses with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and other federal agencies, in apparent violation of state law [and] could incur fines of up to $2,500 per instance." www.dailycal.org/news/uc/reco...

oh abdul going against the big 3 executives by advocating to put labor on the corporate boards is some CRAZY ball knowledge what the fuck

"If we were able to feel comfortable in the fact that we can pay rent; we can take care of ourselves... how much better would the learning environment here be - at the richest university in the world?" Harvard Graduate Students Union - UAW Local 5118 📰 https://ow.ly/J7zR50Z58MQ

Left out of the article is that UAW helped write the bill and organized a rally attended by thousands of people earlier this month!

More and more people are saying it ⬇️

Anybody who was conscious in 2024 knows the DOJ and NYPost are lying, attributing the violence perpetrated by a coalition of Zionists and Nazis to the victims they sent to the hospital. Here's what really happened: www.bostonreview.net/articles/ucl...

It took 12,000 workers threatening a strike for the university to give us these basic ass protections. But we did it, together.

You actually can stop your boss from demanding you use it. My union contract says that my employer can't force workers to substitute AI for professional judgement and we have the right to bargain over impacts of any new technology roll-out.

Massachusetts is now the first state to certify a rideshare driver union after granting Lyft and Uber drivers' collective bargaining rights. This is the largest new private-sector union in over 85 years. 70,000 workers are now represented by the App Drivers Union.

Non-union workers in Watsonville CA are picking strawberries at $6 hourly wage + $2/box. “It's unfair we are making less than minimum wage, but not all companies respect the law. If we mention this to the supervisors, we are let go from our job and we need the pay.” #WeFeedYou

Why is there a post just like this every other day

Occasional reminder that this psychopath was unanimously voted in by the Senate Dems (and Bernie)

His name is basically Ed Gein, cmon

In the past week: * Trans student murdered in WA. * PA man threatened to murder 20 "socialist" Democrats. * White supremacist in Tennessee shot Black man in attempted murder after calling him racial slurs. * Mosque attacked in San Diego mass shooting in apparent anti-Muslim assault.

Workers having and exercising a modicum of power is enough to make the average progressive liberal turn into Margaret Thatcher

These people want to strip millions of essential workers of their rights 👇

As a community we really don't talk about the mewithoutYou -> Dry Cleaning pipeline enough

Not trying to be pedantic but I think it's important not to underplay how much organizing is happening in the public sector. 12,000 workers unionized last year with UAW, so "50 years" is off by 2 orders of magnitude

"During the Jim Crow era, Virginia banned public sector collective bargaining in 1948 in response to a group of Black workers organizing a union at the University of Virginia hospital."

Largest public sector win in Pennsylvania* 😉 but congrats to them!

Disgusting news

It's like Sartre says, hell is other posters

Mallory McMorrow is making me feel cringe I haven't felt from a candidate/campaign since Pete's High Hopes dance and him asking striking workers when their strike fund was gonna run out

this is what Democrats are hawking while checkmarks on Bluesky talk about them as if theyre going to do Radical Reconstruction

UC has been stalling and we still haven't paid a cent in dues, but members of our union are already getting mailers from the Freedom Foundation about opting out of paying dues. Right wingers seething at our union win

Person in front of me at the credit union is having a full casual conversation with someone through his earbuds while interacting with the teller 🔫

Happy Aldous Harding day to all who celebrate

UIC grad workers have been on strike for a week now and we have just learned that UIC admins are considering locking out grad workers in the summer (cancelling any contracts) and not hiring any TAs in the fall

Nothing can prepare you for who's singing this National Anthem (via lpaulfranklin / TT)

Well they died. www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

Shawn Fain 🤝 UC President James Milliken calling on Gruesome Newsom to sign SB 895 to raise $23 billion for public science research.

The Cuban revolution

does kraungbin a wig

The attack on the UCLA Gaza encampment was one of the first times in my professional career where I took a look at a situation and thought, “someone might seriously die tonight” Some of the worst hours I’ve ever experienced and reported on

this is what being in UAW feels like sometimes tbh