“You’re fired” is not good policy. Trump has granted himself the power to fire civil servants if they get in the way of his agenda. Power grab after power grab, it’s disgusting. www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

In 2025, Tesla, Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet successfully avoided over $50 BILLION in taxes. Because of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” these corporations paid their lowest tax rate in YEARS. They dine & dash while working people are left to foot the bill.

In 2023, the Boeing CEO got a 45% raise, bringing his pay to $32.8 million. His workers? Over 8 years they only saw a 1% raise. #GreedyCEO

They said “unions couldn’t win in the South.” Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga said, watch this. A first-ever union contract. 20% raises. Better healthcare. Real protections. That’s worker power. ✊🏿 newrepublic.com/article/2062...

Federal minimum wage has been $7.25 since 2009. Y’all, that’s the price of a LATTE nowadays. It’s not radical to believe an hour of work is worth more than a latte.

Every day in Minneapolis, deportation flights are taking off, sometimes twice a day. People in chains, rushed out of our communities with no transparency and often no due process. KEEP WATCHING, KEEP SPEAKING UP. KEEP THE PRESSURE ON. #ICEOut www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

Bad Bunny is in a union btw #UnionsForAll

And JOY 🙌🏿

Don't think ICE is a worker issue? This asylum-seeking, gig driver with no criminal record was held without reason for 5 weeks. He was forced to abandon his car after being shackled by masked ICE agents.

Every year, the US immigrant population generates more in taxes than they receive in benefits. In just the last 30 years, they have created a fiscal surplus of $14.5 TRILLION dollars. No matter which way you look at it, immigrants are ESSENTIAL to our economy.

108,000 jobs cut in January. The most for this month since 2009. This is what an economy wobbling on the backs of workers looks like. Employers panic. Workers pay the price…. And somehow billionaires are still doing just fine.

WNBA players are mid union negotiations and I want to drop some facts for y’all. NBA players make ~50% of league revenue. WNBA players make ~9.3%. These women aren’t asking for the same salary as their male counterparts, they are just asking for the same PERCENTAGE. Come on y’all.

Starbucks baristas are fighting for a fair contract and we’re standing with them. If Starbucks won’t respect workers at the bargaining table, they don’t deserve our clicks or orders. Our call to action is simple: 📱Delete the Starbucks app seiu.co/deleteApp

Powerful people fear joy and love because it creates a world in which they can no longer divide us. Come together. With joy, with love, with community. It’s a powerful form of resistance.

Jeff Bezos is cutting a THIRD of the Washington Post’s workforce. We are seeing a public good be hollowed out in front of our eyes. Journalists are workers. They need protection, not pink slips. #UnionsForAll

Do y’all remember when the American Dream used to include buying a home? The median age for a homebuyer is now 59 years old.

Say it louder for the people in the back. #UnionsForAll

Portland families showed up to protest ICE and federal agents tear-gassed KIDS. Let that sink in. Children. In daylight. At a “family friendly” march organized by unions. This is what state violence looks like when they think nobody will stop them. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

The wealthiest 20 Americans increased their net worth by $1.7 trillion in just the last five years. Not by “hard work” not through “determination.” By exploiting working people and increasing prices for American families.

Trump’s Labor Department wants to “solve” the cost of care by taking minimum wage and overtime away from the people doing the work. More than 3 million home care workers could lose basic wage protections. It’s cruel and it’s anti-worker. www.npr.org/2026/01/29/n...

This #BlackHistoryMonth, join me at Georgetown University for a talk about the Civil Rights Movement, unions, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. RSVP below y’all. www.eventbrite.com/e/a-black-hi...

It’s Black History Month, and I’m thinking about the Black women who raised me. I’m a South Side Chicago girl, raised by my grandmother, steeped in the kind of faith and fierceness that teaches you how to survive and how to fight. I carry her with me. ✊🏿 #BlackHistoryMonth

Trump is about to rip work permits away from Haitian caregivers who keep our parents and grandparents safe, fed, and alive. That’s not “border security.” That’s sabotaging care. #CareIsEssential

We’re paying for ICE. With our tax dollars. Money that should be funding healthcare and schools is being poured into a regime of fear. You’ve got every right to be furious.

Unions are working-class power. Period. That’s why Trump has cut 300,000 federal jobs and stripped collective bargaining from over a million workers. If he can silence the people who keep the country running, he thinks he can silence all of us. Not happening. #UnionsForAll

Amazon says it’s cutting about 16,000 roles to “remove layers.” That’s boardroom language for real working people losing stability overnight. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Your reminder that Starbucks baristas are still ON STRIKE. Keep your solidarity strong. #NoContractNoCoffee

At least 50 people have died in the wake of this week’s winter storm, with hundreds of thousands still without power in the freezing cold. This is exactly when government is supposed to show up fast, competent, and fully staffed. THREAD (1/3)

Working people see what ICE is doing in Minneapolis and still show up for each other. We’ve been counted out, stepped over, and still we rise. March 28, we gather in Minneapolis and across the country to protect our people and demand what we need. #NoKings

Our neighbors are being hunted, intimidated, punished, jailed. This is an unprecedented time - our democracy is being dismantled in front of our eyes. Now is not the time for isolation or silence. Now is the time for resistance, community, & making sure our voices can’t be ignored.

I’m horrified by what’s happening in Minnesota. My full thoughts won’t fit here. I wrote a deep dive on Substack about how this moment is unprecedented and how our democracy is being dismantled in front of our eyes. Read, share, then let’s organize & fight back. open.substack.com/pub/aprilver...

Love over hate. Joy over terror. Peace over chaos. Right over wrong.

Workers with @seiuhcmnia.bsky.social picketed outside HealthPartners picket in St Paul 6 am this morning, in NEGATIVE 21 degrees weather. Justice doesn’t wait for a sunny day.

Today. National Day of Solidarity with Minnesota ICE out for good. Join an action 👇🏿 iceoutforgood.org

This is what momentum looks like: workers who've been written off decide they're ready to build their union. I'm proud that my home state of Illinois is next in line to create a pathway for rideshare drivers to unionize & move toward the bargaining table. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/20/u...

Millions are staring down higher premiums after enhanced ACA tax credits expired. Instead of lowering healthcare costs, Trump’s pushing a vague framework and veto threats. Congress: do your job. Extend the credits, protect coverage, and bring down drug costs for real. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Y’all…. my first Substack piece is LIVE. Let me call a thing a thing: Trump didn’t break the system. He’s what the system was built to produce. So we’re not just fighting a man. We’re confronting a machine. Read more of my thoughts here: aprilverrett.substack.com/p/with-radic...

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.” Martin Luther King

Imagine serving a meal… and hours later the very people you served are waiting outside to arrest you & your coworkers. That’s what was reported in Willmar, Minnesota: ICE ate lunch in a family owned Mexican restaurant, waited until close, & then detained 3 of the workers. Cruel.

Poverty is not a personal failure. Poverty is a systemic failure.

Did y’all know that NBA players receive around 50% of league revenue? Guess what percent WNBA players get? 10%. That’s why WNBA players just voted 98% to authorize a strike. If they strike, it would be the first strike in WNBA history. And these women are ready to make history.

I’m a South Side girl from Chicago. I learned early: survival is a rhythm. But so is building. Today I’m launching my Substack: With Radical Imagination. If you’re done surviving and ready to remake the world, come with me. substack.com/@aprilverrett

Once, just once, I would like to wake up in the morning and not be HORRIFIED at a headline.

Working a full time job means you shouldn’t have to choose. Rent or groceries. Prescriptions or utilities. Childcare or car payments. This is not radical.

I'm heartbroken to learn two SEIU Local 1989 members were killed while working for the Maine DOT on I-95 in Waterville. My love is with their families & their union siblings. We honor them by demanding real safety on the job, and I’m begging drivers: slow down, stay alert, & respect every work zone.

Your reminder that we need to stop framing issues as left versus right. We ALL know it’s actually up versus down. The greedy elite versus working people.

They told us immigration “takes jobs.” But communities are already feeling what happens when you kick workers out: hospitals short-staffed, construction slowed, small businesses hurting. Working people build America and that includes immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...

Nearly 15,000 nurses in New York City are 🚨ON STRIKE🚨. They’re fighting for safe staffing, workplace safety, and limits on hospitals using AI to cut corners on care. WE STAND WITH THESE WORKERS. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

A 22-year-old in Wisconsin couldn’t afford his daily asthma inhaler after the price jumped from about $66 to $539. He left the pharmacy without it. Days later, he died from an asthma attack. When we put a price tag on breathing, we have lost the plot. abcnews.go.com/US/wisconsin...

Find a moment for joy, and my joy is watching the Bears beat some Packer butt!