⚡️📢 Want to work in social justice & labor but don't know where to start? Join a virtual info session for the WILL Empower Apprenticeship Program! 🗓️ Tuesday March 10th - 4pm ET 🌐 More details: bit.ly/4b5mys ⚡️ RSVP to [email protected]

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2025 Edna Berger Young Courageous Leader Award - Claudia Quiñones Torrico, Organizing Director @unitedwedream.org 🎉🎉 Claudia has been described as "the courageous fire of the movement" and we could not agree more! Thank you Claudia!🔥🎉

Join Dr. Naomi R Williams in a discussion of their new book A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity on October 21st at 6pm ET! This virtual event is co-hosted by CIWO and LEARN at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. 📘REGISTER: bit.ly/1021NW

LAST CHANCE TO NOMINATE! One young courageous leader will be awarded $15,000! go.rutgers.edu/sf3j15y3

Nominations EXTENDED to SEPTEMBER 1st for the WILL Empower Edna Berger Young Courageous Leader Award - $15,000! ✨ Do you know a young courageous leader (age 30/under) committed to worker, racial, and gender justice? 🔥 Nominate here by 9/1: go.rutgers.edu/sf3j15y3

The Edna Berger Young Courageous Leader Award is $15,000 for a leader who demonstrates exceptional commitment to racial, gender, and worker justice. 🚨Nominations are open now through August 25th! ➡️Link to nominate: go.rutgers.edu/sf3j15y3

Nominations are NOW OPEN for the WILL Empower Edna Berger Young Courageous Leader Award ($15,000)‼️ ✨ Do you know a young courageous leader (age 30/under) committed to worker, racial, & gender justice? ✅ Learn more + nominate: go.rutgers.edu/sf3j15y3 📅 Nominations are open NOW through August 25th!

Nominations are NOW OPEN for the WILL Empower Edna Berger Young Courageous Leader Award ($15,000)‼️ ✨ Do you know a young courageous leader (age 30/under) committed to worker, racial, & gender justice? ✅ Learn more + nominate: go.rutgers.edu/sf3j15y3 📅 Nominations are open NOW through August 25th!

The arrest and apparent injury of David Huerta, a prominent California union leader, at an immigration protest has drawn condemnation from across the labor movement.

More than 90 scientists at the National Institutes of Health signed a letter in protest of Trump administration policies they say are harming people’s health, in a rare sign of open resistance by career government employees.

Providing access to basic cooling measures is an inexpensive way to keep people safe, with the added benefit of economic efficiency. “It’s not just the decent thing to do but the smart thing to do.” @sharblock.bsky.social in @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/comm...

Since the attacks on federal workers continue, so do the Workers' Rights Board Hearings with Jobs With Justice! Join us for Civil Servants: Speak Out! ft. HUD workers on May 12 and learn about and discuss the impacts of DOGE’s inhumane handling of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. Immigrants are vital to the fabric of our communities, our economy and our labor movement. They are America’s workers. Learn your rights, from @deptofworkers.bsky.social:

Unions = better pay, safer jobs, and real respect. It’s that simple.

🚨 HAPPENING NOW: EYES ON ICE! We’re out this morning to tell ICE and GEO Group that New Jersey is for immigrant families, not immigrant detention 💥‼️ Your voice matters. Join us.

Lockheed Martin reported $24 BILLION in profits since 2022, but refuses to give the workers who make that profit possible the pay, dignity and respect they deserve. We stand in solidarity with @uaw.org workers in Orlando and Denver as they strike for the strong contract they deserve!

“We are taking our power back,” says Georgia Flowers Lee, @neatoday.bsky.social vice president for United Teachers Los Angeles (and WILL Empower Emerging Leader for 2025-2026! 👏) #MayDay2025 www.democracynow.org/2025/4/29/tr...

🧵It's #MayDay2025 and some amazing CIWO, Build the Bench, and WILL Empower leaders shared messages for fellow workers @salonnewsroom.bsky.social: www.salon.com/2025/04/30/i...

⏰ UPCOMING next Friday! 📗 Prentis Hemphill will be with us virtually to talk learnings from their book What It Takes to Heal! Co-hosted by CIWO and Transformative Leadership for Change ➡️ Register now: bit.ly/4hv3vtW

The survey is from the @aflcio.org in partnership with @uclalabor.bsky.social @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social @cunyslu.bsky.social @georgetownkilwp.bsky.social & @rutgersciwo.bsky.social, who are mapping the landscape of academic labor centers and their relationships with the labor movement.

"We should remove weapons of war from our streets and communities, fund community violence intervention programs, enforce background checks and safe-storage laws, ban high-capacity magazines, and pass more risk-protection laws." - @rweingarten.bsky.social

The President’s executive order eliminating collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal workers is union busting. AFGE and all of America’s unions are fighting this outrageous attack with everything we’ve got.

Monday, April 28, 11:30AM-12:30PM: Join the NYCCLC and NYCOSH for our annual Workers’ Memorial Day commemoration to honor those who have died or suffered injuries or illnesses while on the job.

University-affiliated labor studies/research programs/centers working with unions & worker centers on applied & community-engaged projects, we want to hear from you! bit.ly/SURVEYLC 📊 @aflcio.org @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social @cunyslu.bsky.social @georgetownkilwp.bsky.social @rutgersciwo.bsky.social

NJ has made it clear, private prisons and detention centers have no place in our community. I stand with those pushing back against an increased ICE presence in Union County—it does nothing to make us safer. newjerseymonitor.com/2025/03/27/a...

One job should be enough. ✊

Are you a lawyer watching what’s happening to America’s federal workers and wondering how you can help? This is the moment to join the fight. Learn more about how to join Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network. workerslegaldefense.org

On International Workers' Day, the Labor Movement & our allies across NYC will march together as one. Join us in Foley Square, Thursday, May 1, at 5:00 PM. 👉 www.mobilize.us/nysaflcio/ev... #MayDay2025

Stoking fear about immigrants, raiding schools and hospitals, and mass deporting people whose labor makes our country prosper is a betrayal of our values and a recipe for economic disaster. The real threat workers face is corporate greed, not immigrants.

As Trump & Musk push tax breaks for billionaires by gutting key programs, we’re fighting back to #ProtectOurKids and communities. @rweingarten.bsky.social explains how in the Spring 2025 #AmericanEducator: www.aft.org/ae/spring202...

Have you signed up yet? On May 9th, CIWO and Transformative Leadership for Change are co-hosting author Prentis Hemphill to speak about their book "What It Takes to Heal"📗 Register here: bit.ly/4hv3vtW

Do you know who laid the foundation for the FDA? President Theodore Roosevelt. Do you know why? Because he read a great piece of literature that exposed the mistreatment of immigrant workers and the disgusting, unsanitary practices in meatpacking plants… The book is called “The Jungle.”

Trump has destroyed a federal system of labor relations that helped contain conflict for decades. The move could have unintended consequences. New online by @josephamccartin.bsky.social: www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

We have been fighting for working people for 125 years. Click on the link to check out a timeline of our union's union's victories going back to 1900, and learn more about how we plan to win the future!

Have you signed up yet? On May 9th, CIWO and Transformative Leadership for Change are co-hosting author Prentis Hemphill to speak about their book "What It Takes to Heal"📗 Register here: bit.ly/4hv3vtW

This is a gross violation of all of our rights to due process and the right to remain silent: "Alvaro Juarez said his brother was exercising his right to remain silent when pulled over by ICE agents who then smashed his window and pulled him from the car as his wife watched in horror."

🤦The agency saves half a billion dollars a year by preventing, minimizing and resolving work stoppages and labor disputes in the private sector and across the federal workforce. federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...

Shoutout to the rideshare drivers, striking healthcare workers, & education professionals who united in Minnesota and TOOK OVER the Capitol, so much so that @governorwalz.mn.gov felt compelled to come out & join. Yet another example of worker power when we stick together in our union! #UnionsForAll

“Do you really think that they’re going to want to deliver one piece of mail to you all the way up a holler in West Virginia, versus concentrate on the inner city[?]” - Tim Holstein, Charleston Local 133 VP. Postal privatization is bad business for rural communities:

In the 7th blogcast of @poweratwork.bsky.social’s series “What Could Happen Under Trump?”, @mrsethharris.bsky.social is joined by Ambassador Katherine Tai, the 19th U.S. trade representative, to make sense of Trump's trade policies and their implications on workers: poweratwork.us/tariffs-trad...

A message from President Mills— "The right to assemble and to peacefully protest is fundamental to who we are as a country and to the power of the labor movement."

Social Security is a lifeline for millions of seniors. Mistakes like this mean people can’t buy groceries or pay the electricity bill. Elon Musk and DOGE need to stop playing political games with taxpayers’ Social Security checks.

Today's #WomensHistoryMonth spotlight is Cat Hutchinson! An IATSE member for 17 years & Local B-192’s Secretary/Treasurer for nearly 4, Cat says being in the union has shaped her as a working mom—showing her daughter the power of a forward-facing labor movement! Cat, you rock!

A woman's place is in her union! For #WomensHistoryMonth we're celebrating the incredible union women who have always fought for workers’ rights, dignity and respect in the workplace, and are doing the work to stand up for workers today.

The working class is fed up with a system where greedy CEOs make 238x what the average worker does. We don’t have to accept the current state of our country, where billionaires take more and more while workers live paycheck-to-paycheck.

TODAY! Our next Civil Disobedience teach-in will center around the legacy of ACT-UP! ALL Starbucks workers are invited to attend! Make sure you RSVP asap so we can send you the Zoom link before the teach-in starts at 3pm PT / 6pm ET! bit.ly/TrainSBWU

Today, 55 years ago, the Great Postal Strike of 1970 began. Thousands of NYC postal workers walked off of the job and hundreds of thousands later followed suit around the country. Let's honor this pivotal moment in our history as we defend what they fought so hard to earn.

@pkrugman.bsky.social's great Social Security explainer on @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy is no longer behind a paywall. The takeaway? "We could raise enough money to sustain Social Security...simply by not letting Republicans cut taxes for the rich." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-clean-...