My piece exploring one of the themes of my upcoming book from Cornell University Press: Working People Need Power, Not Promises www.commondreams.org/opinion/work...

Here's what happens when union density plummets. #buildlaborpower. www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

This is like Bill Clinton saying how smart he was to deregulate the financial industry while corporate American continued to pummel organized labor. Thanks, no thanks. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I guess this means the labor movement needs to spend $1.5 billion on new organizing . . . www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Collective bargaining works. #buildlaborpower www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

My article takes up a theme from my upcoming book: Bargaining to Save Our Jobs from Artificial Intelligence www.commondreams.org/opinion/unio...

The Tricky Path to a Left Wing Candidate in 2028 open.substack.com/pub/howthing...

A well-researched piece about job destruction, but there is an alternative: empower workers to bargain for AI that enhances their jobs rather than replacing them. #buildlaborpower www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...

We are in Portugal. 51 years ago yesterday was thecarnation revolution that overturned the fascist dictatorship here. Unions were essentially illegal on April 24; they organized and built power in a matter of weeks after the revolt. It is always possible to #buildlaborpower.

I recommend reading Capitalism: A Global History by Sven Beckert. It's a lot of pages for people on the front lines but worth the time and effort. Comprehensive, clear, insightful. #buildlaborpower

I recommend reading Capitalism: A Global History by Sven Beckert. It's a lot of pages for people on the front lines but worth the time and effort. Comprehensive, clear, insightful. #buildlaborpower

Powerful speeches at yesterday's rally for Union Now, which will raise money for union organizing. Collective bargaining builds democracy: people listen to each other, decide priorities, and take action together. #buildlaborpower. (Reposted with better pics.)

Powerful speeches at the rally yesterday for Union Now, which will raise money for union organizing. Collective bargaining builds democracy; people listen to each other, decide priorities, and take action together. #buildlaborpower

Union Now: Building the Labor Movement with Bernie Sanders and Sara Nelson act.berniesanders.com/signup/rsvp-...

There's an important new group launching tomorrow, that will channel money directly into building union power. We're having a big ass launch rally in Manhattan tomorrow with Bernie, Zohran, Sara Nelson, and a bunch of union people and you should come. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-put...

"Mission accomplished!"https: //www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/free-seas-iran-strait-hormuz-toll-3404b2e1?st=RpMvjk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Trump's budget is old-school Imperial: a huge military that can exert power over others' resources (oil) He trivializes child care spending, Medicare, Medicaid, food aid, education - programs which arose not from the kindness of elites but from militant social disruption. Let's bring that back!

Does anyone believe that Pam Bondi did anything without Trump's approval? She withheld the Epstein files, decimated the attorney corps, politicized prosecutions - not because it came to her in a dream, but because her boss demanded it. Authoritarians create puppets, and destroy them.

Vacation resistance. As many as a thousand at No Kings in St. Augustine today.

Collective bargaining works! #buildlaborpower www.wsj.com/sports/baske...

It is good that NYS leaders are pressing employers to disclose the impact of AI on the workforce. More important: empower the affected workers to bargain how AI is implemented, to ensure it enhances their work and doesn't destroy their jobs. www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2026/...

They stood on business and stood up for the dignity and respect they deserve—and won. Congrats to the WNBPA players on reaching a historic agreement on a new contract. Women’s basketball is #BetterInAUnion!

Trump response to farm labor shortage? Slash wages for immigrant workers who don't have the leverage to fight for more. #buildlaborpower. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/u...

Even a Murdoch outlet recognizes authoritarianism. "The Wall Street Journal found that the Department of Homeland Security, created in 2002 to protect Americans, has turned its force against citizens." #buildlaborpower www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

As we think about Open AI slinking around the DofW let's remember that most AI corporations care far more about profit than about the devastation their products will bring to working people. Think about how they treat content moderators - instability, low pay, trauma-inducing work. #buildlaborpower

This is not good. Consolidation of giant media corporations is not good. Opportunistic right wing oligarchs swallowing Warners is especially not good. This is worse than Italy under Berlesconi. #buildlaborpower www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/b...

Workers keep organizing because we know collective power is how we win better pay, safer conditions, and a real voice on the job. The system might try to slow us down, but it WILL NOT stop us. prospect.org/2026/02/19/t...

“We made many important gains — better raises, higher wage floors, and an improved 401k match — for members of our unit with this contract. We also know there is still a great deal of work to be done to make Hearst Magazines a place we can all be proud of.” - @hearstunion.bsky.social ✊

Throughout his life, Rev. Jackson fought tirelessly for workers, both at home and around the world. At every turn, he reminded us that the fight for good jobs, living wages, and union rights is inseparable from the fight for justice and equality. May he rest in power.

I worked with Rev. Jackson and the AFL-CIO in the struggle for many thousands of Enron workers who lost their jobs in the company's collapse. Rev. Jackson brought moral force - and great organizing skills - to the fight. #buildlaborpower www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

"Concerted employee action may start to change the AI calculus." #buildlaborpower www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

This is how authoritarians insulate themselves from political responsibility: sacrifice a lackey. Note this article is in a Murdoch publication. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

As the brutality of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown grows, so does the resistance of the US labour movement. ✊ #ICEOUTNOW https://uniglobalunion.org/news/u-s-unions-push-back-as-trump-escalates-attacks-on-immigrants-and-cities/#ICEOUTNOW

ICE has become such a band of violent extremists that even Rupert Murdoch's newspaper calls them out. www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

In Minneapolis I saw a vision for an alternative American ethos, which is love and also the willingness to fight to protect that love. Niceness, not weakness. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-t...

A day to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was killed while standing up for the collective bargaining rights of sanitation workers. #buildunionpower

United Airlines made over $3.1 billion last year. Instead of reaching a fair deal with its flight attendants, United paid its CEO almost $34 million and provided over $162 million in stock buybacks to shareholders. United must respect its flight attendants and reach a deal NOW.

ICE out of Long Island! #buildlaborpower

We join the international labor community in condemning President Trump’s unconstitutional actions in Venezuela. www.ituc-csi.org/ituc-tuca-ve...

Soon NYC will have a new mayor. ID'd as democratic socialist and Muslim. Millennial. Mamdani is bold, pro-union, keen to make material gains for working New Yorkers. Focused on child care, transportation, and affordable housing. This is a 2026 we can get behind! #buildlaborpower

“We’re organizing as we speak,” said Shuler. “We can move actual people, in workplaces, in every city, in every state, across the country.”

In my upcoming book I argue that the labor movement cannot rely on the federal government, including the NLRB. We must build power from the ground up, ourselves. #buildlaborpower www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If government attacks workers, Portuguese unions shut things down. #buildlaborpower www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Wallace-Wells notes that most politics "take a pretty narrow view of the appropriate scope of state action". To achieve progress, we must be bold enough to reject these limits on what is possible, politically. #buildlaborpower. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

We need an @bsky group to discuss collective bargaining strategies on AI. Working people are in the best position to figure out how AI can devalue or eliminate their jobs - or maybe even to enhance them. #buildlaborpower

Today in NYC #LaborHistory: Some 400 New York City photoengravers working for the city’s newspapers, supported by 20,000 other newspaper unionists, begin what is to become an 11-day strike, shutting down the papers - November 28, 1953

Check out this upcoming event with @profwolff.bsky.social & C. G. Beck on #Labor, #Capitalism, #Architecture & the economy at the Peoples Forum based on Beck's new book! @democracyatwork.bsky.social @archworkersunited.bsky.social RSVP here: tinyurl.com/bde8atx7

One day longer! www.wsj.com/business/boe...

Big Dem victories, but not in Nassau County LI, where the Dems tried to run on the GOP agenda. Voters will always choose the real thing not the generic substitute. Nassau Dems need an agenda, not a mimic. Maybe not the DSA agenda in the suburbs, but one that moves people forward not backward.

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