Labor strategy canon: strike during the "busy season" Labor strategy canon: secondary targets Labor strategy canon: pressure that escalates Labor strategy canon: city-wide general strike

Workers cited wages, the erosion of jobs, and plans for ICE to be present at the games as reasons for the strike vote. Union co-president Kurt Petersen is aware of about a dozen members who have been detained by ICE since Trump returned to office, including one still in custody as of Thursday

Phenomenal. Full solidarity We need a labor movement that uses strike power to take on fascism right alongside low-ball offers from employers

sooo bummed I'll be away but don't miss this if you're around @organizeworkers.bsky.social and Brandworkers showing up up for the good folks who have formed a union at the storied Attaboy bar Wholesome solidarity 🥹: givebutter.com/attaboycomedy

Courageous truth teller @ana-exaflcio.bsky.social remains the tribune for women's leadership and safety within labor unions. In conversation here with @cgmaisano.bsky.social. We need a labor movement where class struggle is deeply interwoven with gender justice

Chicago folks and Labor Notes early arrivers: I'll be with my friends Jose Oliva of @healfoodalliance.bsky.social and former co-director of @foodchainworkers.bsky.social along with Local 8 historian @profpetercole.bsky.social Thrilled! FCWA member groups and Local 8 show up prominently in the book

The great @firestorm.coop was everything I had imagined and more. Support and defend this vital space Deeply grateful to the Asheville workers in attendance for sharing so candidly about their struggles in the economy and visions for the future

I loved this conversation 😊 All of us who believe in principled, rank and file unions owe a debt to the Industrial Workers of the World

Great service here to raise up the voices of the workers and their families

We all earn better and live better when workers are united, rather than divided All in for the Delaney Hall strikers and all workers detained by ICE

Sadistic butchery of low-wage rank & file workers, whether they work as fishermen or whatever else The “drug war” is nothing but a racist, colonial power/money grab

The great Wobbly slogan (flipped around a bit) for class war prisoners like the ones locked up in Delaney Hall and around the country: You’re in there for us, we’re out here for you

No one will mistake me for being the biggest electoral guy but Colombia is voting for president today and has a chance to show there’s a different way for Latin America and the world than Millei, Bukele, and Trump

Total solidarity with the strikers and community supporters, free them all

You know how you’re seeing more Knicks gear than ever in New York? Same is true in union campaigns. Some people wait to see who the winning team is You won’t like it. You should do your utmost to earn coworker participation early. But you’ve got to accept it and plug folks in when they come around

North NJ, we’re on in a couple hours. Hoping to organize a group to go to the strike of detained immigrant workers at Delaney Hall afterwards

Amazing organizing by @wjcny.bsky.social, Rural Migrant Ministry, Workers' Center of CNY, Alianza Agrícola, and many more. ✊ "Dolores is free today, but we don't know what will happen tomorrow. We continue to fight — not only for Dolores' case, but against the system that keeps people detained."

Strikes like this courageous one galvanize movements. We need union models that embrace strike power, rather than bargain it away. “…we are the ones serving the food, we are the ones who clean the units, we are the ones who clean the bathrooms. We are not recognized or valued for our labor.”

We'd like to welcome the newest group of workers to join the Portland IWW, the Real You Electrolysis Workers United! They are currently on strike, and multiple workers have been fired. Please consider donating to their GoFundMe! tinyurl.com/yc3b78f6 @ryeworkersunion.bsky.social #UnionStrong

New campaign Trans workers remain at the forefront of the organizing upsurge The stakes are so high for the community on the job and off Full solidarity

www.bluebottleunion.org/blog/may-bar... We are making progress at the table — read our latest update here!

One of the key and most understandable mistakes folks make in organizing: soft pedaling the inoculation of coworkers against the union-busting campaign Inoculate hard: better to scare and work through fear with a coworker in a safe setting than have them get bowled over by the real thing

Back in my day of Starbucks unionism, the company developed and deployed to all managers an anti-union training called "Creating the Environment"— a huge unreported cost @chactivist.bsky.social is spot on that measures of union-busting expenses are major under estimates jacobin.com/2026/05/unio...

To be in conversation with one of the nation's great storytellers who is also an accomplished union builder was nothing short of ideal Full stream is available to watch. Gratitude to @chenjerai.bsky.social @aaup.org @haymarketbooks.org @sununion.org www.youtube.com/live/7JnkGf9...

Tremendous piece with a lot to think about for union-builders interested in assembly-based governance structures and political transformation

If (like me) you're wondering what to make of the big news in Massachusetts about the newly certified App Drivers Union, I recommend this thoughtful thread by @dgorganize.bsky.social, whose experience and judgment I trust a great deal on matters of union-organizing and union-building.

Drivers deserve a sustainable living wage and benefits, real protection against deactivations and a fighting organization for the existential struggle against driverless cars That is all won through democratic, super-majority unions with a vision and strategy to get strike-ready🧵

Drivers in places around the world have full unions that they control and that exercise real power in their industry and society Massachusetts and all US drivers deserve nothing less Uber/Lyft is on board with this new scheme because it's about containing worker power and denying economic security

We're on in ten minutes 🔥

Love Newark, its people and lineage of struggle and culture. Solidarity to the immigrant hunger strikers and the family/community members accompanying the movement from outside

Thursday, I'll be in Montclair, New Jersey with Brandworkers, @north.dsanj.org @northjerseysp.bsky.social @sununion.org Register at: tinyurl.com/unionsofourown

Last reminder, tomorrow 5pm this will be a great online convo RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

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Thrilled to finally visit Firestorm, a revered community space I've admired from afar, and to be in conversation with the creative, rank & file organizers of Asheville Food & Beverage United (Monday, June 1st is the date) firestorm.coop/events/3603-...

In places like Colombia, the bosses' unions are more public, visible, and unmistakeable in politics and society But the US has them all the same... If for no other reason, we need workers' unions too 😊

Elon Musk, organic leader of the bosses' union

Zohran Mamdani's electoral strategy that interwove class politics with racial/ethnic justice and safety is more Hubert Harrison (of a certain era) than Eugene Debs Some Friday labor nerd content for you haha

Justice movements in the US and around the world need more organized working class power to overcome oligarchy, empire, and climate destruction Era after era, it's working people who come up with forms that work on the job and in society RSVP and learn more in what will be an amazing convo

Saturday I'll be with @bbiunion.bsky.social in Boston. They're taking on Nestlé and they're an organization with tons of stuff to be inspired for any liberation minded union builder RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/union...

Thank you Analysis and the whole @redemmas.org crew, it was truly beautiful to be back and experience the new space and the bookstore's community most of all Baltimore, use this amazing resource, eat the delicious food, and they ship books to anyone nationwide!

Trump loves to disparage the Global South but his tax evasion scheme is pulled right from the playbook of Ecuador's authoritarian president who did the same last year The indigenous, labor, and other popular movements are giving him hell over it. Let us do the same

If New York is to be a socialist town, a mass firing of workers for organizing a union cannot be allowed to stand Join me on the line today at 12:30pm with the Rose Lane restaurant workers from @rwu-str.bsky.social All working class forces should put skin in the game for a fight like this one

A great union you can now follow on here I take a look at this storied organization in the structure chapter of Unions of Our Own. With a picture from the tram system they operated in Barcelona alongside many other parts of the Spanish economy

The hard working railroad workers of the LIRR remind us that while persuasion is an important and necessary part of unionism, unions are most fundamentally about the power working people have by virtue of doing what society needs to survive and thrive

Events this week with @dgorganize.bsky.social, @gauthamrao.bsky.social, @ahjohnson.bsky.social and more.

All solidarity with the Long Island Rail Road workers If the workers are demanding a higher raise than you expect at your job, that's cause to consider how you can get there too, not drag down on their efforts This awful propaganda can even affect good people, don't let that be you 😊

The talk at @redemmas.org is tomorrow at 7pm. Thrilled to be returning to this long haul and constantly renewing community space in Baltimore Come through if you're fed up at work, ready to revitalize your union, or eager to bring organized worker power into movements redemmas.org/events/danie...

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When workers like the LIRR folks assert power and do better, we all increase our chances to do better at work Tropes from Hochul and co are not only anti a fair deal for workers but anti unionism per se The battle for hearts and minds is on All solidarity with these courageous workers

Long Island Rail Road workers are on strike as of midnight, first time in 30 years Ironically, I was set to take three LIRR trains today to present my book at an independent bookstore on Long Island Never been more ok with having travel plans disrupted Total solidarity with the rail workers 🪧🔥