Highly recommend this exchange on political strategy and climate change by @matthuber.bsky.social — It sharply contrasts socialist strategy-rooted in working-class organization as the key to moving beyond a carbon economy-w/ the issue-focused coalition politics of liberal environmental NGOs

"At least $8 billion annually" gets spent on "internal anti-union infrastructure". "Employers are not confused or irrational. They are acting like a class of people who understand exactly what is at stake." jacobin.com/2026/05/unio... via @chactivist.bsky.social & @jacobinmag.bsky.social

The chant “When we fight, we win” can hide the daunting fact that employers spend billions a year to maintain robust anti-union infrastructures. To build and maintain the unity of action required to beat it, workers need clarity of purpose, which in turn requires honesty on how stacked the deck is.

My latest. It’s a deep dive into the real cost of unions busting - which possibly runs into the hundreds of billions annually - and why employers are willing to go so far and spend so much to keep workers from having a voice on the job.

America’s top corporate execs are paying enormous piles of billions to maintain internal anti-union operations designed to suppress organizing before it spreads and then intervene once workers start in motion. #labor @chactivist.bsky.social @jacobinmag.bsky.social

The employer class has constructed a command-and-control management structure to maximize profits in a cutthroat market.

My latest piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social takes a deep look into how much employers spend on union busting, why they’re willing to spend so much to keep workers from having a voice at work, and how honesty, clarity, and unity are key to winning. jacobin.com/2026/05/unio...

Solidarity with comrade Claude andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm

Happy May Day! Jacobin is offering $1 digital and $10 print subscriptions today, their biggest sale of the year, don’t sleep on it: jacobin.com/subscribe/?type=personal&level=standard-digital&code=MAYDAY2026X

Happy May Day friends! Really excited to be publishing this interview with outgoing Mass Teachers Association President Max Page on International Workers Day. jacobin.com/2026/05/page...

🚨LABOR PODCAST CONTENT🚨 What can we learn from the UAW’s efforts to organize in higer ed and manufacturing? @micahuetricht.bsky.social and I talked to @chactivist.bsky.social for @cunyslu.bsky.social’s Reinventing Solidarity to find out on.soundcloud.com/GGU59U6ge3LS...

Meta laid off 1/3 of their employees in 2023. Now they’re laying off another 8,000. The media fails to report that Meta made $162 billion in profits over the last 3 years and funneled $86 billion to shareholders through buybacks & dividends. That’s equal to 53% of their profits!

Chris Brooks for @jacobinmag.bsky.social “Unions Are Going to Die Unless Something Big Changes Soon” www.instagram.com/reel/DW7D6fe...

is it too soon to say that @chactivist.bsky.social has another 🔥 piece for Jacobin

I analyzed Kimberly-Clark’s SEC filings. Between 2015 & 2025 the company paid out the equivalent of 106% of their profits in buybacks & dividends. The company owned the 1.2 million sq ft warehouse a worker allegedly burned down in retaliation for low wages jacobin.com/2026/04/cali...

A California logistics worker allegedly burned down a 1.2-million-square-foot warehouse in anger over low pay. The billionaire class may have to learn the hard way: you can only pack so much pressure into a deeply unequal system before it blows.

🚨ATTN: Labor People 🚨 we’ve got a nice debate going at @cunyslu.bsky.social’s New Labor Forum on the UAW’s recent efforts to scale up new worker organizing. First up is @chactivist.bsky.social with his take on organizing in higher ed and Southern auto (1/2) newlaborforum.cuny.edu/2026/01/15/s...

A California logistics worker allegedly burned down a 1.2-million-square-foot in anger over low pay. My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social connects the dots between financiaization, extreme inequality, the affordability crisis, and the desperation many are feeling. jacobin.com/2026/04/cali...

CWD Senior Research Fellow Teresa Ghilarducci is featured on “Democracy at Work” ! Tune in as she discusses “the Great U.S. Pension Crisis” with host, Richard Wolff. youtu.be/ySjzlmyVSe0?...

"Democratic unionism is essential to union strength. The lack of democratic organization not only gave Chavez immunity in his abuse of girls and women, but is also what caused the downfall of the UFW." Read more from longtime labor activist Frank Bardacke: labornotes.org/2026/04/lack...

Congratulations, Webasto Workers, on winning your union! Welcome to the UAW family!

Ben Fong and Paul Prescod have just released a new collection of writing from Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin, with commentaries from contemporary writers on the left. Buy your copy of “Rustin’s Challenge” here. shop.damagemag.com/products/Rus...

Lil Monday pick me up from 1978: “Anybody tries to bust my union they’re in for a fight… one helluva fight!”

Chris Brooks is back in @jacobinmag.bsky.social with reflections on the current wildcat strike being undertaken by TSA employees after working for weeks without pay, an action that he refers to as a "brown-bag strike. Read more: jacobin.com/2026/03/tsa-...

Look at that. Illegal wildcat strikes work.

I love an intelligent thread on how to use the grievance process to fight for dignity on the job. Top notch. Highly recommend 👇

The UAW winning COLA back at the Big Three (which many people said was impossible) & then winning it in heavy truck, aerospace, higher education, etc continues to be a massive deal. Hundreds of thousands of workers will have their wage gains protected. That’s the power of a union

Members of Contract Faculty United, a @uaw.org local at NYU, have won a tentative deal for their first contract that includes— ✅ 95% of members will get >$100,000 ✅ Lowest-ranked faculty will get $91,000 ✅ Every member will get a raise of ≥$14,000 starting the next academic year #ShareGoodNewsToo

Thousands of TSA agents are calling out sick in an organic, bottom-up wildcat partial strike that defies the government and the law. My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social 👇 jacobin.com/2026/03/tsa-...

Thoughtful response to my recent @jacobinmag.bsky.social article on first contracts here from @dskamper.bsky.social — a smart guy with smart things to say! 👇

This is a really excellent piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social by @chactivist.bsky.social, and I've been really excited by what he's been writing for them. He's upending a lot of conventional wisdom with smart, strategic analysis. jacobin.com/2026/03/chip...

Good piece and it's true a lot of unions would be better off going for slimmer and shorter first contracts, focused on winning union security. Caveat is if a company sees you walk in with this modest goal, they'll fight it just as hard as any first contract. We must conceal our modesty with threats.

This is a thoughtful piece by @chactivist.bsky.social that merits your attention if you're a labor person. I'll have more to say about it later today or tomorrow, but this is good thinking and I hope folks talk about this within their unions.

Each @chactivist.bsky.social labor-strategy piece is a jewel, and this one's no exception. Here, Chris argues that new unions should consider seeking first contracts that don't turn into all-or-nothing fights but rather help— • Sustain their existence and • Improve their power to scale.

My latest for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social explains how labor’s approach to 1st contracts is contributing to labor’s terminal decline & asks: how can unions structure 1st contracts to expand the power needed to win more over time? Are shorter 1st CBAs sometimes better? jacobin.com/2026/03/chip...

Reuters: A record 129 journalists were killed in 2025. Two-thirds were killed by Israel.

Interesting read. After 3 years of bargaining, only union Chipotle store in the US has called it quits on push for a first contract. That’s not a moral failing, it’s a structural one. 1st contracts require leverage & a single shop of 12ish workers simply didn’t have it jacobin.com/2026/02/chip...

It is done

"Learning From the UAW’s National Organizing Push," by Chris Brooks (Feb 16, 2026). bsky.app/profile/chac...

Union density, the most important measure of worker power in America, was stagnant for another year. We can start turning this around whenever the labor movement is ready to put on its ass-kicking shoes. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/labor-move...

Five great, action-oriented questions by Hamilton Nolan. The entire piece is excellent, highly recommended—especially when read in conjunction with the two most recent pieces in Jacobin by @chactivist.bsky.social (linked below).

Which form of organizing is more effective: one based more on momentum or on structure? As @chactivist.bsky.social shows in this carefully crafted piece on UAW's Stand Up 2.0, it depends. Click through for a summary of outcomes; read through for an analysis that organizers will truly appreciate.

This is amazing. Solidarity with the Twin Cities Tenants!

If the labor movement hopes to survive, we have to organize the private sector at scale. I was one of the central architects of the UAW’s Stand Up Strike and our national auto organizing push. I shared some of what I learned in this new @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social piece 🧵 jacobin.com/2026/02/uaw-...

I have been made aware of reports of an ICE agent firing a gun into a car in Roxbury this week. Whenever ICE is around, you can expect violence. It's time to ABOLISH ICE. Until then, NJ must use its full might to pass laws protecting us from ICE.

Excellent breakdown of the UAW’s landmark tentative agreement at VW 👇

The labor movement isn’t just weak, it’s approaching an event horizon: the point at which unions become so small they lose the political, cultural, and institutional mass to successfully reverse their own decline. 🧵 jacobin.com/2026/02/unio...

First article as a new columnist for @jacobinmag.bsky.social 👇