Meanwhile working people are getting crushed by $4.50 gas, rising grocery prices, and rent that won’t quit.

One job should be enough. Enough to pay rent. Enough to buy groceries. Enough to see a doctor. Enough to live, not just survive.

Governor Spanberger’s decision to veto public sector collective bargaining is a betrayal to Virginia’s workers who were promised change. We’re disappointed, not deterred. We will not stop fighting until all workers in Virginia have their rights protected by law. Onward.

Democracy has to show up where workers clock in, not just where voters cast ballots. When workers organize, bargain, and win power on the job, we don’t just raise wages. We strengthen democracy itself. That’s why we say #UnionsForAll. Proud to co-author this piece. Read more below.

Billionaires want us fighting each other over crumbs while they take the whole table. Workers are setting our own table now.

Atlanta, I’ll see you in 2 days! Can’t wait to join JWJ and movement leaders at #WRD2026 to strategize, organize, and build the kind of worker power this moment demands.

Let's make something clear: ripping healthcare away from working families won’t lower costs. It won’t help workers. It won’t fix our economy. It will only make people sicker while billionaires get richer.

Working people built this country. We built the schools, hospitals, airports, cities, homes, and care systems. It is past time this country worked for the people who keep it working.

CPI Inflation in past year: 3.8% Translation: workers are running faster and still falling behind. Enough. Organize.

Tennessee Republicans just carved up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district to grab more power. A rigged map won’t silence a people who know their power. They can redraw lines all they want. Working people are still gonna organize and fight back. ✊🏿

Right now, over 600,000 people are stuck on waiting lists for home care. Congress has a choice: dignity for families and care workers, or more giveaways to billionaires.

Our government should work for all of us. Not just the CEOs. Not just the billionaires. All of us.

A woman nearly 70 years old commuting four hours a day because her Social Security check only covers a third of her living expenses is not a personal failure. It is a policy failure.

Today, the @seiu.org family, the labor movement, and the global fight for social justice have lost a giant. It is with a heavy heart and profound gratitude for his life of leadership that we mourn the passing of George Gresham, former president of @1199seiu.org

They’re not slick. They are scared.

$1 billion could change lives for working families. Instead, Senate Republicans want to spend it on Trump’s ballroom. Not healthcare. Not wages. Not workers. A ballroom. They’re playing in our faces.

76% disapprove of Trump’s handling of the cost of living. Turns out starting wars won’t lower rent, attacking workers won’t lower grocery bills, and cutting healthcare won’t make life affordable.

It’s not radical to believe workers deserve protection from deadly heat. What’s radical is allowing people to collapse on the job while rolling back safety enforcement. Workers don’t need sympathy after the fact. They need protections on the job right now.

The countdown is ON. One week until I join Jobs With Justice for #WRD2026. Because the future of democracy runs through working people. Let’s strategize. Let’s organize. Let’s go get it. ✊🏿🎤✨

CEO pay up 54%. Worker pay down 12%. In every corner of this economy, working people are doing more and getting less. This is why we build power. This is why we organize. This is why unions matter.

Money in our pockets. Power in our hands. Respect in our workplaces. That’s the floor. Not the ceiling.

“I never thought it was about abuse. I never thought it was about fraud. It’s about taking food away from hungry people,” Exactly. This is not about accountability. This is about stealing from the hungry to protect the greedy.

The fastest way to build a future that works? Bring workers in from the start. Unions know how to train, organize, solve problems, and move in formation. You want abundance? Then don’t build around workers. Build WITH us. #UnionsForAll

Patient privacy is not optional. Family contact is not optional. Legal support is not optional. Basic dignity is not optional. ICE does not get to rewrite the rules.

A ticket to the Met Gala cost $100,000 this year. Meanwhile, 91% of hourly Met staff earn less than a living wage. Make. It. Make. Sense.

The only minority destroying America is the billionaires.

This #AAPIHeritageMonth, we honor AAPI workers who keep showing us what courage looks like. Organizing through fear. Fighting through rising costs. Standing tall for immigrant families. That’s worker power.

“I’m just hoping I don’t get sick or anything.” That’s what a 63-year-old home care worker said after her premiums nearly tripled in just one month. No worker should have to care for others without care themself. No family should have to gamble with their health because Congress refused to act.

Americans voted for lower costs. Not higher gas prices. Not for another war. Not an economy that keeps billionaires cashing in. This agenda is failing working families.

“In some of the higher-cost locations of the country, more than 70% of households aren’t earning enough to cover a basic standard of living.” One👏🏿 job👏🏿 should👏🏿 be👏🏿 enough👏🏿. To live where you work. To feed your family. To get healthcare. And to breathe a little. That is not radical.

Today is a celebration of workers. But it’s also a declaration: enough is enough. Our rights, our healthcare, our jobs, and our futures are under attack. But we are not powerless. We are organized. We are united. We know how to fight, and we damn sure know how to win.

Surveillance pricing, hiding fees in fine print, rewarding executives. We’re not going to just adjust to greedflation. We’re going to organize against it.

But let it be known: we will not be silenced. We will VOTE, no matter what.

I’m headed to #WRD2026 with @jwj.org. Workers are reviving democracy by doing what we do best: organizing, strategizing, and building power TOGETHER. See y’all in the room. ✊🏿

Something different is happening this Met Gala… Not a red carpet. Not billionaires playing dress up. Workers telling the truth. 🔗 Go to the link. Add your name: laboris.art #LaborIsArt

140,000 workers killed by workplace hazards every year. 380 every day. And Trump is gutting the very agencies meant to keep workers safe. That number should haunt every lawmaker rolling back worker protections.

Today, the Supreme Court struck another blow to the Voting Rights Act. They know when Black, brown, immigrant, and working voters move in formation, we have POWER. That’s why they’re trying to silence us. Our answer is the same as always: organize, mobilize, and fight back.

This is not a series of isolated tragedies. It is a pattern. It is a crisis. We don’t build stronger communities by avoiding hard conversations. We build them by protecting Black women fully, consistently, and without excuses.

May Day is about MONEY. POWER. RESPECT. Not as a slogan. As a demand. Working people are done surviving on crumbs while billionaires try to buy our government, divide our communities, and keep us afraid. This Friday, we take that demand to the streets.

No child care = no workforce. No early educators = no stability. No safe spaces = no room for children to learn, grow, and thrive.

Poverty wages. Low staffing. No benefits. They are not “saving money”. They are squeezing workers and calling it a business plan.

Productivity grew 73% between 1979 and 2019. Middle wages grew 23%. Top 1% earnings grew 169%. Y’all see the game, right? Workers built this economy. It’s time workers got Money. Power. Respect.

Extreme heat. Dangerous machinery. Toxic chemicals. Retaliation for speaking up. No paycheck is worth a worker’s life. No corporation should get rich by cutting corners on safety. This is why we organize. #UnionsForAll

A nurse shouldn’t pay more in federal taxes than a hospital CEO. A janitor shouldn’t pay more than a corporate landlord. A housekeeper shouldn’t pay more than a hotel CEO. I can keep going.

A country this rich should not make retirement feel like a luxury.

Federal jobs helped build the Black middle class because they were union jobs that offered what too many workplaces still don’t: clear pay, real protections, healthcare, and a path to stability. Now Black women are being hit hardest by the cuts. That is not efficiency. That is an attack.

They take the credit… We do the work. They hoard the wealth… We get the scraps. Time to flip the script.

This is how intimidation works: make an example out of one civil rights group and hope the rest get quiet. We're not going to be bullied out of defending our communities.

This moment in history needs you. It needs all of us. It's time for workers to take back our power. On May 1st, join us in the streets. #MoreThanMayDay

The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 since 2009, back when there was no iPad, no FaceTime, and no Instagram. $7.25… that’s not a wage, that’s a relic.