Thanks for circulating this @jacobinmag.bsky.social friends. jacobin.com/2026/04/trum...

"[A] specter haunts the labor movement at this crucial juncture: the magical thinking that if unions can just survive the Trump era they can help restore a kind of pre-Trump normalcy after he leaves office." @stephenlerner.bsky.social @josephamccartin.bsky.social's strategy has 3 key elements (👇).

"...a specter haunts the labor movement at this crucial juncture: the magical thinking that if unions can just survive the Trump era they can help restore a kind of pre-Trump normalcy after he leaves office." @stephenlerner.bsky.social & @josephamccartin.bsky.social on expanding labor’s power.

In this the master organizer and strategist @stephenlerner.bsky.social and I argue that the deepening crisis we face also offers an opportunity -- if we seize it -- to not only turn back encroaching authoritarianism, but to build a stronger and larger-visioned union movement.

Thanks to @billfletcherjr.bsky.social for this incisive analysis and call to action. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

tl;dr: more people should watch this gentleman's speech and think seriously about what he is saying bsky.app/profile/slcl...

“America’s labor movement has been going through a transition over the last decade that is far more layered and nuanced — and that holds more potential for future growth — than the BLS annual membership survey reveals.” New leaders & organizational forms having an impact— @lanewindham.bsky.social

Looking below the recent union membership numbers @lanewindham.bsky.social finds signs of hope for a union movement that is battling considerable headwinds. inthesetimes.com/article/unio...

Activist & historian Bob Bussel on his 102yr old father, who fought Hitler, saw his B-17 crew mates killed, & ended up in a POW camp, & how the children, grandchildren & great grandchildren of those who fought fascism in the 1940s are carrying on the fight today. eugeneweekly.com/2026/02/05/m...

It was a labor of love to collaborate with my friend Bob Bussel the former director of U of Oregon's Labor Education and Research Center (LERC) on this remembrance of Nick Salvatore, Eugene Debs's biographer, and a mentor and dear friend to us both. Nick's story has special meaning in this time.

What we're seeing from the people of Minnesota didn't come from nowhere - it comes from an organized/empowered working class supported by unions and community orgs sharing goals for the common good! Check out the KI's report on the recent history of labor/community in MN! #minneapolis #minnesota

Let’s support workers in MN! Contribute $20+ to Unite HERE Local 17 Solidarity Fund to support mutual aid for MN union members. Send us a copy of your receipt and we'll mail you a special HELU postcard & sticker! workingpartnerships.betterworld.org/campaigns/un... #ICEOUT #ICEOUTMN #ICEOutofMN

Nurses like Alex Pretti at the MN VA Hospital were represented by AFGE Local 3669. What is AFGE going to do about the blatantly false statement about Pretti issued today by its affiliate union, the National Border Patrol Council? If the NBPC won't disavow those lies, AFGE should disaffiliate them.

To understand the deep roots of the heroic resistance unfolding in Minnesota today, read this: georgetown.app.box.com/s/kxsmj8lkmp...

As clergy pray, arrests begin

To understand the deep roots of the heroic resistance unfolding in Minnesota today, read this: georgetown.app.box.com/s/kxsmj8lkmp...

On this Martin Luther King Day I'm proud to join former AFL-CIO general counsel and National Labor Relations Board member Craig Becker on this article calling out Trump's actions harming Black federal workers & claiming exemption from anti-discrimination law contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-ass...

Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly.  We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."

i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.

Here @anandwrites.bsky.social brilliantly explains what email reveals about the "Epstein class," showing how the mores of today's version of what C.Wright Mills once called the power elite suggest that their "highest commitment is to their own permanence" as an elite. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Universities spend gazillions on EdTech software that doesn’t serve faculty or student interests and often doesn’t work well. But what if we got off that path and leveraged internal resources to produce non-profit systems? Here’s a proposal to leverage the CUNY systems platforms.

Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work. Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.

It was predictable that many liberal Zionists would oppose anti-Zionism’s “political normalization” in the NYC mayoral race. The more surprising story of the campaign is not liberal Zionist opposition to Mamdani, but their support, @peterbeinart.bsky.social writes. jewishcurrents.org/mamdani-crea...

“The 21st-century algorithmic gaze dissolves both patient and doctor alike into never-ending streams of automated data.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

NYC electing Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is a reminder that 1) Socialism has a long history in the US and 2) Americans actually LOVE socialism. #ushistory #americanhistory #Mamdani #socialism #eugenedebs www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DVac7w/

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Ogoni Nine who were executed by the Nigerian military government in November 1995 after campaigning against widespread oil pollution in the Niger Delta. @amnesty.org calls for the Ogoni Nine to be fully exonerated. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

“Democrats are uncomfortable exercising power and because they lack a coherent or compelling vision for their party or how it would run the country.”

Tonight was a very bad night.

Because who's more qualified to direct air traffic? A "true patriot", or a trained air traffic controller? Are Laura Loomer or Hershel Walker going to be directing aircraft over New York? There will be no need to limit air travel if that happens. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

More Trump madness as he urges any controllers who took sick time during the shutdown to quit. Imagine the impact that would have on a system that is already having to reduce traffic this week. Fortunately, very few people take anything this man says seriously. www.newsweek.com/faa-flight-d...

Trump would rather let 42 million Americans go hungry than admit he broke the law.

An important study with very encouraging results. Cities and states should pay attention to these findings and give workers a break.

New research from @aaronsojourner.org (Upjohn Inst.) and Joseph Pickens (USNA) finds that NYC’s Fair Workweek Law gave fast-food workers more predictable schedules without costing jobs. #LaborLaws #NYC #FairWorkWeek #EconSKy

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

NJ #MADC is here! Will definitely be sharing and discussing with my CUNY and SUNY partners…. senate.rutgers.edu/wp-content/u...

Big #NoKings turnout in downtown Los Angeles. Marched with my UCLA Faculty Association colleagues and thousands of others. Groups from unions, churches, and schools marching together. Civil society waking up. @uclafa.bsky.social @aaup.org

Not content with the pace at which he’s destroying the country, Trump shifted into a higher gear at the White House today, beginning physical demolition. Sadly, the other things he’s breaking will be even harder to restore than this historic house.

Kent Wong was a unique figure: scholar, organizer, educator, and leader. The entire community of those who care about workers, immigrants, and people struggling for rights is bereft at his loss. May his memory and example long inspire us. @lawcha.bsky.social and its members celebrate Kent's legacy.

LAWCHA President @josephamccartin.bsky.social shared more reflections on last week's Unmasking Union Antisemitism hearing on the Labor History Today Podcast. laborhistorytoday.podbean.com

#tdih 1858, 18-yr-old John Price was arrested by a federal marshal in Oberlin, Ohio under Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Group of local residents (Black & white) stormed hotel, found Price, & took him to freedom in Canada. Abolitionists were arrested. Read ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ob...

“The trend in recent years has been for the great majority of extremist-related murders to be connected to some form of right-wing extremism. That is also true for 2024: for the third year in a row, all the murders identified were tied to right-wing extremism.” www.adl.org/resources/re...

Merely raising the name of AFT president @rweingarten.bsky.social triggered the "ire" of Rep Tim Walberg (R-MI) to such an extent that he couldn't resist making the malicious and obviously dishonest statement that she "has not said anything, anything, about antisemitism." Her response is priceless.

It was an honor to join KALW's Rose Aguilar and Johanna Miyaki, John Logan of SF State, and Victor Narro of UCLA for a discussion of the enormous rollback of union rights that's been instituted by the Trump administration and its frightening implications for all working people. tinyurl.com/hy3zarhj

I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.' Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...

Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

Veteran labor organizer/scholar Bob Bussel explains why we need to put efforts at labor law reform aside to focus on what unions themselves can do to revive the labor movement. nwlaborpress.org/2025/07/unha...

this shouldn't just prompt a resignation, it's almost like negligent homicide if any of those people died

#FusionVoting incentivizes what D.C. fears most: cooperation. On issues like immigration—where 60%+ of Americans agree—we get gridlock because the two parties are locked in combat. Fusion lets coalition-minded voters back candidates across parties who support real solutions. #ElectionReform

#OtD 10 Jul 1949 Black @IWW dockworker activist Ben Fletcher died at his home in Brooklyn, aged 59. He had been the leading organiser who organised the Philadelphia docks in the early part of the 20th-century, and was imprisoned during World War I. More: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e73-...