I spoke with @lizshuler.bsky.social about the labor movement's fight against Trump and the year ahead www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Elon Musk's DOGE was a failure in achieving its claimed objectives, but did succeed in sowing chaos and breaking things they ideologically opposed www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Elon Musk's DOGE was a failure in achieving its claimed objectives, but did succeed in sowing chaos and breaking things they ideologically opposed www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

2025 was rough, but this was my favorite fan letter of the year

2025 was rough, but this was my favorite fan letter of the year

I spoke with @lizshuler.bsky.social about the labor movement's fight against Trump and the year ahead www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

she's just doing what she was hired to do

I spoke with workers at the NLRB about the impacts of a year long lack of quorum, at least 100 staff leaving an already underfunded agency, and corporations like SpaceX trying to gut labor law www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I spoke with the wife of a federal worker who has been battling breast cancer during the Trump administration's war on federal workers www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

During a recent podcast appearance, Dr. Marty Makary promoted lab origin conspiracy theories involving HIV, Lyme disease, and one dead raccoon. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/trump-admini...

The Trump admin is not enforcing labor laws as strongly as they should be. Workplace health and safety penalties are down 45%, while Wage and Hour Division penalties are down 94%. President Trump is putting workers’ health, safety and wages at risk. https://bit.ly/490IB2U

Workers at Chicago’s Mauser Packaging Solutions say they were harassed by Bovino and ICE on their strike picket line today. The workers have been fighting for immigration protections in their union contract www.teamsterslocal705.net/mauser-teams...

Workers at Chicago’s Mauser Packaging Solutions say they were harassed by Bovino and ICE on their strike picket line today. The workers have been fighting for immigration protections in their union contract www.teamsterslocal705.net/mauser-teams...

I spoke with the wife of a federal worker who has been battling breast cancer during the Trump administration's war on federal workers www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

H-2A farm workers from Jamaica were working on NY farms during apple season when Hurricane Melissa hit their homes. Many returned to find their homes destroyed. United Farm Workers is fundraising to help them rebuild www.gofundme.com/f/help-jamai... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

H-2A farm workers from Jamaica were working on NY farms during apple season when Hurricane Melissa hit their homes. Many returned to find their homes destroyed. United Farm Workers is fundraising to help them rebuild www.gofundme.com/f/help-jamai... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I spoke with workers at the NLRB about the impacts of a year long lack of quorum, at least 100 staff leaving an already underfunded agency, and corporations like SpaceX trying to gut labor law www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We have $ for a dozen ICE agents to hang around for hours trying to arrest 2 roofers working in MN. Meanwhile, the agency that investigates and prosecutes violations of Americans' right to organize is shedding staff again. Now down to like 1 agency staff per 145,000 workers.

This is a great piece on Trump's near-destruction of the National Labor Relations Board. (And I'm betting they don't let the Acting GC go on-the-record about anything after his performance here. Kudos to @msainato.bsky.social for a very effective interview.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.

Congratulations to every House Democrat and 20 Republicans for voting to restore the constitutional right to a union for over a million federal employees. The Senate must pass this bipartisan provision immediately. All workers, including federal employees, have the right to be in a union.

NEW: The FDA’s new top drug regulator is “utterly unqualified” say experts. Tracy Beth Høeg is a physical medicine doctor who became a right-wing star for her opposition to COVID-19 mitigation measures and questioning of the mRNA vaccines. More here: www.importantcontext.news/p/utterly-un...

Hello! I am excited to finally announce the details of my new podcast. Introducing The Union Bug—a podcast by workers, for workers. Premiering Jan 2.

Starbucks workers across the country are taking action, and they’re not backing down. Their message is the same in every city: fair pay, stable hours, and meaningful progress at the bargaining table. Workers and supporters are showing up loud and strong on the picket line! https://seiu.co/3Xyu09q

I spoke with @sbworkersunited.org @juliesulabor.bsky.social about their ongoing strike for a first contract at Starbucks and the four long years they've been fighting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I am looking to speak with individuals about their affordability concerns and issues they're experiencing this holiday season and the impact on their families. Please reach out to me at [email protected] or direct message me here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

I am looking to speak with individuals about their affordability concerns/issues they're experiencing this holiday season and the impact on their families Please reach out to me at [email protected] www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

I am looking to speak with individuals about their affordability concerns and issues they're experiencing this holiday season and the impact on their families. Please reach out to me at [email protected] or direct message me here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

We’re 👏 Not 👏 Going 👏 Anywhere 👏 Starbucks knows where we stand. We’ve been clear and consistent on what we need to succeed: more take-home pay, better hours, resolving legal issues. Until then, you’ll see us and our allies on the picket line. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Starbucks workers deserve a first contract. Companies delay “to punish workers for unionizing, to undermine the effort, or to send a message that there is no benefit to joining a union because nothing changes at work for years. Usually all of the above. This is unacceptable.”

My colleague @msainato.bsky.social has spent the past few years covering the union drive inside Starbucks stores. With thousands of baristas now on strike across the US, he filed this big read on how the world's largest coffee chain got here — and what might happen next. Read on @theguardian.com:

I am looking to speak with individuals about their affordability concerns/issues they're experiencing this holiday season and the impact on their families Please reach out to me at [email protected] www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

The president is a lunatic

2023 included Starbucks workers posting videos around the US of their store's pride decorations being removed, Red Cup Day strikes, and losing the Memphis 7 case before Scotus overruled www.theguardian.com/business/202... www.theguardian.com/business/202... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

In early 2024, Starbucks finally agreed to bargain with the union and agreed to a framework to reach a first contract by the end of 2024 www.theguardian.com/business/art...

But then in late 2024, Starbucks fired their CEO and brought in Brian Niccol from Chipotle, who presided over union busting there www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... www.reuters.com/business/ret... www.cbsnews.com/news/chipotl...

By 2023, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz testified in front of the Senate after being threatened with a subpoena to appear. The NLRB had begun issuing rulings/complaints against Starbucks, which had denied and disputed all allegations of violating labor laws www.theguardian.com/business/202...

As the union organizing campaign grew across the US, dozens of Starbucks workers involved were fired across the company, racking up the hundreds of unfair labor practice charges filed against Starbucks since www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022...

Starbucks responded with flooding local stores with managers from around the country, trying to bust the union drive. Workers persevered, won their first union elections in December and the campaign took off from there www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A few months later, a group of Starbucks workers in Buffalo, New York went public with their union organizing campaign www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

In the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Starbucks workers kept working as digital orders expanded. I spoke with Starbucks workers back in early 2021 about what they were being put through www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I spoke with @sbworkersunited.org @juliesulabor.bsky.social about their ongoing strike for a first contract at Starbucks and the four long years they've been fighting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.

No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer

By me: ‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival www.theguardian.com/environment/...