Kilmar Abrego Garcia describes being tortured in the El Salvador mega prison, where Trump sent him without due process — admittedly by mistake. As un-American as it gets. And others are still there.

Good.

Teachers will be laid off. Class sizes will grow. And students with the fewest resources and greatest needs will pay the highest price. www.foxnews.com/opinion/rand...

💡New article out on strikes! I draw on interviews with ever inspiring Starbucks union activists and data from the @laboraction.bsky.social to demonstrate how workers and union activists organize different types of strikes in the United States. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Oh, okay. Thank goodness, I was getting a bit worried.

The momentum we continue to build in opposition of Trump’s reckless policies and in support of economic opportunity for all Americans continues to grow. bsky.app/profile/aftu...

SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit. While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall. Hello?

Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head. He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison. Bring them back!

Get up, get down! NY is a UNION TOWN! #HandsOff

Being able to heat your home in the winter is not a luxury. It is a matter of life and death. Trump and Musk’s decision to arbitrarily fire every worker in the office that helps working class and low income people heat their homes is outrageous.

The fact that this atrocity isn't the main headline of this news cycle just shows what a clusterfuck we're living through

Who’s standing up and speaking out on April 5? The people who work for a living.  Across all 50 states, we’re saying Hands Off our jobs and our unions. Find an event near you: handsoff2025.com

Who would have thought. An anti-union rich guy gets elected president and appoints an anti-union labor secretary who supports anti-union laws. I'm shocked.

.@AFGENational has its members’ backs. We stand with them. This is an appalling, illegal abuse of power by a billionaire who gets $$ of federal largesse. A billionaire who doesn’t need federal services. Should Presidents try to make things more efficient? Yes. This is not that. It’s evisceration

NEW: 2,400 Grocery store workers for Tony's Fresh Market across 22 stores throughout Chicagoland are unionizing with @ufcw.bsky.social Local 881.

WHY IS MUSK GETTING AMERICANS PRIVATE FINANCIAL INFORMATION?

"Many of my good friends have their funding withdrawn or frozen based on the DEIA wording such as 'diverse microbes'" a scientist reliant on federal research grants told me, adding NSF proposals with terms including 'disabilities' and 'female' have been put on hold

Next step: firing the rest of the education department employees because they know how to read

Republicans came up with a strategy: every time they want to take down a part of public education, they repeat the magic words "Marxism," "transgenderism," and "green new deal." Not sure if it's a winning strategy, but it's a strategy.

If there were only two genders, homeboy wouldn't have to sign executive orders against all the other genders 🤷‍♂️

Let’s be clear: not in schools. The anxiety this has caused all parents, educators & children is cruel & counterproductive . That’s why we wrote the President & asked him to change course. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Our @aftunion.bsky.social members have a responsibility to all children. We don’t question the immigration status of our students or patients. We're respectfully asking President Trump to restrict ICE arrests at sensitive locations such as hospitals and schools. www.aft.org/press-releas...

Welcome back home 🎗 #BringThemHome #Israel

Good. Do it. We're all waiting.

At this point, SCOTUS is just trying to turn the US into a parody of how other nations view the US. Also, they're a cult of death eaters.

“The corporatization of health care has left many Providence employees frustrated and burnt out as they are being told to spend less ..time with patients and more time trying to drive up profits."5,000 Oregon doctors, RNS & caregivers will be on strike starting Jan 10 www.wweek.com/news/2024/12...

Progress like this would not have been possible without the tireless advocacy of the labor movement, and by groups like Fight For 15. We have work to do, but this is great progress in the right direction. www.axios.com/2024/12/30/m...

Yesterday in Tel Aviv: "Yes, deal. Yes, peace." Standing Together is a Jewish-Arab peace movement. #Israel #GazaWar #Peace Photo credit: Aviv Atlas

70% of Americans who receive food stamps and Medicaid work full time, with Walmart one of the worst offenders as the country’s single largest employer. Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to subsidize corporations who get away with paying poverty wages, especially not while raking in record profits.

Teachers are, in most cases, decent human beings. They don't want to out LGBTQ children. They do want to respect children of queer families. State legislators around the country are attacking this decency, which they refer to as "gender ideology," because they lack any decency themselves.

A win for librarians is a win for all 📚✌️

In the Santa Cruz California area? Joanna and her coworkers invite you to head on over to Swanton Berry Farms in Davenport CA and buy union made fruit pies, strawberries, pumpkins and strawberry jams for your holiday gatherings. #WeFeedYou

The best reason to visit the motherland.

Of course her last act as governor is against teachers. That's just what the GOP is about at this point.

"And in this election, voters overwhelmingly supported both public schools and workers’ rights when they were on the ballot, including in places where Trump won"

Striking NUHW health worker: "It was clear to me that as an ethical clinician, I couldn’t continue to work within this broken system. So I decided that I had to do what we are taught to do as social workers: advocate for myself and my patients." labornotes.org/blogs/2024/1...

Go and organize/support unions! An additional year of #union membership reduces the odds of #mortality by 1.5%. This magnitude is about half that of consistent attachment to paid employment. Details in this great paper by @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social & colleagues: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

"Are you for or against ending the war in Gaza in exchange for bringing back all the hostages?" For: 72% Against: 15% Don't know: 13% #Israel #War #GazaWar

It was never about "parental rights"

Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67. Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Also sharing this starter pack of class analysts again for the folks who are new here: go.bsky.app/VTirGYT

Every time I read the local news and see a teacher who was awarded a $250 grant for her classroom, I understand that she spent hours of her own time applying for it. Writing it. Going through a submission process. For $250. For her classroom…

The labor movement-including our own Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond-were out in force on Capitol Hill today to tell the Senate to vote on the Social Security Fairness Act! Over 2 million retirees have had their Social Security checks unfairly cut, and this bipartisan bill would put a stop to it.

I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat

“The union has demanded a $2 hourly raise in their first year of the contract, followed by $1.50 per hour raise in each of the second and third years. Strand Books' management has offered 50 cents less for each year, according to Bermeo.”

An interesting read on how the media covers strikes

Airport worker Living in Storage Unit. Airport worker Living in Storage Unit? Airport worker Living in Storage Unit! Meanwhile... @americanair.bsky.social CEO made over $31 million in 2023.

In case you missed it, a Wisconsin judge this week struck down former Gov. Scott Walker's Act 10 law. The move will restore public sector workers' collective bargaining rights. This is a moment of celebration and hope in these troubled times.

If it's upheld, workers will be able to create and join unions and fight for stronger public education, higher education and stronger communities. www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...