In the past few days @afadelta.bsky.social Flight Attendants have swapped stories w/ Amazon workers and @uaw.org VW workers. Different workplaces, but same union busting. Same struggle to break through fear. Same awakening to power in our workplace by owning our #UnionNow Not so different after all.

Big first-contract win for Mississauga Walmart workers, but to truly transform conditions longterm, unions will have to scale up, organize across multiple sites, and build real sectoral leverage. www.mississauga.com/news/mississ... #canlab

New on Academe Blog: @heavyredaction.bsky.social @cfaunited.bsky.social

I got through a bit of this already notorious report, written by very prominent philosophers about the “decline of the humanities.” Everyone on this report is smarter than I am, yet none of them seems to understand what it’s been like to navigate the academy since the late 1990s.

They arrived & they are beautiful! @prisonculture.bsky.social www.blackbirdletterpress.com/limited-edit...

NEWS: SoFi Stadium cashiers, dishwashers, cooks, bartenders, concessions workers, and food attendants voted 96% to authorize a strike, just a week out from when the stadium is set to host its first World Cup game www.huffpost.com/entry/unite-...

"My students taught me that they are terrified of the deskilling they are experiencing in real time & the relief they feel in an analogical space as the rest of the world forces them into technology." Read this careful reflection by @isanchezprado.bsky.social on his notebook assignment leisurely...

Massachusetts is now the first state to certify a rideshare driver union after granting Lyft and Uber drivers' collective bargaining rights. This is the largest new private-sector union in over 85 years. 70,000 workers are now represented by the App Drivers Union.

"We are glad that Governor Newsom is acknowledging the potential harm of AI on workers, but it's not enough to just study the issue, we have to take action now," said @californialabor.bsky.social President @lorenagonzalez.bsky.social, in response to Gov. Gavin Newsom's May 21 EO on AI and workers.

Just sharing one of my videos from one of my scuba dives in Saint Lucia this past week. This is a Green Sea Turtle. These turtles as of 2025 are no longer endangered because of years of conservation efforts & grow up to 3 feet long with their main diet being sea grass. They are so beautiful to watch

Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...

Faculty at Pennsylvania State University voted to unionize by a 75% margin. The unit has both tenure and non-tenure system faculty. Campaign is affiliated with SEIU radio.wpsu.org/2026-05-14/p...

found a new NOAA gallery that has terrible metadata but also this guy

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

I was lucky to write the lead article for a special issue of Academe on AI in the Corporate University. In "What does AI do?" I offer a provisional balance sheet of this technology's effects on our work, our finances, and our management, in a moment of rising fascist attacks on higher education.

Really good post from Ben on the masks falling off the “edu” division of OpenAI.

Cool new broadsheet for Los Angeles friends: veralistcenter.org/publications...

go go go! congrats to Tulane Workers United on the first higher ed academic union contract in Louisiana, hard won after three years ideas are for everybody, unions are for everybody

Oh how I need this.

Please join us on Wednesday May 6 at 7pm on Zoom for this important discussion, (Re)Defining the American Working Class.

Young workers don't trust AI generated work. Survey asked, Which would you trust more? Work completed with AI only (4%); work someone completed using AI (28%); work someone completed without using AI (69%).

AFT College Staff Guild, Local 1521A seeks an Executive Director to be based in Los Angeles, CA. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @aft.org

Our newest book is out now! Out of the Lab, Into the Streets tells the story of how academic workers built the largest strike in the history of US higher education at the University of California in 2022. Available now in the US and preorder elsewhere: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/out...

The Stevie Wilson DIY Young Artists Residency will award $2,500 grants to 14 artists. Creative projects can take place between July to Dec, 2026. Applications are due by May 11. Help us to spread the word to young artists (ages 16-24) impacted by the criminal punishment system.

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

SEIU 99 saying they reached a deal to avert a strike in LA. LAUSD committed to 24% wage increase & minimum hours for part-time workers

📢 @utlanow.bsky.social's tentative agreement includes landmark wins for the salary scales, Special Education, student support staffing and more! ⁠ Members: check your email to read the summary of all wins.

Replace every how-to-publish panel with one on the material realities of publishing. This is where I’m at.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

BREAKING: JURY FINDS PROFESSOR CARAVELLO NOT GUILTY! While some justice was restored by the jury’s decision, the beatings, the surveillance, and the trauma that John and others across the state and nation have had to endure cannot be ignored. #ICEOUT

California’s $20 an hour fast food minimum wage, instituted in 2024, did not reduce employment. It led to only the most modest of price increases—barely noticeable to a consumer. It significantly improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of workers. capitalandmain.com/despite-apoc...

This is propaganda.

The Hollywood executive dream that AI will revolutionize how movies are made or that they can lean on user generated AI slop to drive costs down is not going to work and is already a disaster www.404media.co/disneys-open...

I am about 40 minutes in and I recommend this to every student, faculty member, and person who cares about the future of higher ed

19th-century counterfeiters of paper money made their most reliable profits selling counterfeit detectors. Legitimization of their counterfeits was merely a serendity. They made legal revenue selling a supposed solution to the problems their own illegality created. Detection is a humbug.

#OtD 27 Mar 1942 France's Vichy govt issued a decree demanding barbers to collect cut hair and donate it to the war effort. The Zazous (rebellious anti-fascist youths) refused and grew their hair long. More info in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-e...

Approximately 950 non-tenure track faculty at New York University walked off the job on Monday, after their union and the university failed to reach agreement on raises and better job security. www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/23/n...

Even in a world of extremes, some events still stand out to me. This is one. All-time monthly records are being shattered. The size of this ridge across the western U.S. is truly striking for March, and we see a very clear climate change connection. Explore: csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

Heads up movement-based researchers. Applications for the UCLA Strategic Labor Research Conference open April 1. Great opportunity to hone skills and network with folks who leverage research for worker justice

"AI is not simply a discursive formation that stands as a ‘common sense’ foregone conclusion, it also obfuscates large-scale, transnational coordination of resources, labor & people who make up the infrastructures that are required for artificial intelligence." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sign and share this call on CSU to cancel its multimillion dollar OpenAI contract. CSU is in a budget crisis, OpenAI wants to reduce us all into tools of AI, and our public money should be invested in humans! actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

The number of #Parkland survivors sharing that they have survived yet another shooting at #FSU breaks my heart to the core. Only in America. As we await verified reports of the tragedy at Florida State, let’s hold the entire community in our thoughts.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

S is for SOLIDARITY—let’s help the Sesame Street workers as they fight the expropriation of kid’s media! Sign the below and spread the word! @kimkelly.bsky.social @ericblanc.bsky.social @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/soli...

Potential revised Muslim Ban coming. @aaup.bsky.social

ALLIES: You may have heard about stores hosting "sip-ins" to show union solidarity with baristas. Now, we're asking for your help in spreading the sip-in love to your communities from March 8th-11th! Learn more + Sign up here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...