Amazon keeps pouring money into the coffers of anti-union persuasion firm RoadWarrior Productions, which recently helped the corporation defeat an organizing drive in North Carolina.

Radicals across the country are joining the labor movement and building shop-floor power. Hear from salts and worker-organizers about how YOU can join the fight! Whether you want to organize your job or get one to organize, the labor movement needs you. actionnetwork.org/events/lets-...

The Federal Trade Commission asked a judge in Seattle to delay the start of its trial accusing Amazon of tricking customers into signing up for Prime. The FTC says resource constraints led to this request to delay. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/12/f...

Prisons function as anti-labor institutions, with guard unions advocating for increased prison funding while public services like education face austerity. A growing movement argues that labor organizing must include an anti-carceral stance.

Rebuilding a powerful labor movement is THE key to defeating Trumpism & the billionaires Had a great conversation about the stakes & potential of widescale worker-to-worker organizing with @gabrielwinant.bsky.social on the new episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social thedigradio.com/podcast/work...

NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox has been welcomed back to the board after a judge reversed her illegal firing by the Trump administration and ordered her reinstatement. The board now has a quorum again and can resume its work.

BREAKING: The Senate just voted 67-32 to confirm Lori-Chavez-DeRemer as Trump's Labor Sec, w/ support from 17 Dems. She previously co-sponsored the PRO Act but has since called the bill "imperfect" opposing its ban on right-to-work laws Trump picked her after lobbying from the Teamsters

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Right-to-repair legislation has now been introduced in all 50 states. The movement to require companies to make their products repairable and give people the tools to do repair work is immensely popular across the country. Via @404media.co: www.404media.co/all-50-state...

For those in the Lehigh Valley. Screening today at 5 pm! @unionthefilm.bsky.social

"There is now an opening to create a radically different media landscape — one where independent cinema can flourish." Thanks to @TheIndypendent for this interview with UNION producer Mars Verrone. Read the full piece here: indypendent.org/2025/02/inte...

Federal Workers Are Fighting Back Against DOGE Attacks Trump's and Musk's cut to federal agencies are facing resistance from the workers within. We spoke with two of them.

Here are some reasons for optimism about organized labor's ability to defeat Trumpism www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/l...

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Organizers describe fear tactics, amped-up security, and daily town halls as workers vote on whether to unionize.

Four notable developments regarding anti-union “persuaders” were documented by LaborLab last week. Read about them here.

if you too want to know the joys of walking around in a circle, talking **** about your biggest opps, a picket line might be the place for you

Kill the doomer in your head. And long as we’re here there’s hope. And as long as we’re here there are opportunities to act. People, both in the U.S. and around the world, have always organized and struggled through seemingly impossible conditions. www.jphilll.com/p/kill-the-d...

How Do You Organize in a Remote Workplace? Organizing in remote workplaces is based on the same principles of in-person organizing, but it can be daunting to reach out to people you’ve never met.

“It’s a really stupid business decision that already is impacting the quality of service in this theater and all of the Alamos that got cut across the country. Hopefully, they’ll see the light.” --VP of UAW Local 2179 William Bobrowski brooklyneagle.com/articles/202...

I know there are endless five alarm fires, but the NLRB accepting being sued out of existence by Elon Musk is atrocious.

UPDATED STORY: 32BJ SEIU, which represents security workers at shelters, blasts the new City Hall guidance memo, first reported on by Hell Gate, as undercutting sanctuary laws. "This policy is inhumane and contradicts the laws of our city and state." hellgatenyc.com/new-memo-ice...

🚨NEWS: A temporary order has been issued blocking the Labor Dept. from sharing any data with DOGE, after a group of unions, including AFGE, sued DOGE and held a major protest outside DOL yesterday. Here's the union's email:

Last year Elon Musk and SpaceX claimed the NLRB is unconstitutional after being accused of labor violations. Now under Trump, the NLRB is dropping its opposition to this claim. The labor board will no longer fight in court against the charges that it shouldn't exist.

Gwynne Wilcox has sued Trump over her firing last week, describing it as an “unprecedented and illegal” attempt to strip the agency of its independence.

Read history. Oligarchs have owned and controlled our government before. They’ve attacked oppressed groups, gone after migrants, and enacted mass violence against workers who dared resist. But people kept fighting. They organized. They built power. What we need to do is not unprecedented.

Musk is leveraging IT chokepoints for reactionary goals, but tech workers could potentially lean on these same levers of data power to defend working people & democracy — defeating Musk's attempted coup, winning first union contracts at Amazon and beyond, etc.

🚨🚨 The Labor Dept is the next target on DOGE's list, per union email. If you know more please contact me securely on Signal @ 201.897.2109

I do not believe in doomerism but we're about to go through the hardest time the labor movement has seen in a century and it's gonna get a lot worse before it gets better I think. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dark-times...

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"How Amazon, Starbucks, and Trader Joe’s crushed dynamic grassroots worker organizing campaigns."

Insanely amazing news Whole Foods went completely scorched earth — full on intimidation, firing a worker leader, depriving the whole store of a raise, etc — and the still workers voted in the union anyways Working-class heroes

Big NEWS: Whole Foods workers at a Philly location just voted 130 to 100 to unionize with the UFCW, per NLRB. They are the first at the Amazon-owned chain's 500+ locations to do so.

NEWS: The Trump admin has terminated NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, widely considered one of the most union-friendly people in modern U.S. history to serve in the role. From Abruzzo:

Hearing from reliable sources that Trump has fired Democratic NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox, an unprecedented move that could bring cases filed by SpaceX, Amazon challenging NLRB constitutionality to SCOTUS Board members are shielded from presidential removal so this appears illegal

I was on CBC radio yesterday to discuss Amazon's decision to close it's only unionized workplace in Canada and what we learned making @unionthefilm.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Thanks to Nicole LaPorte at @theankler.bsky.social for featuring UNION in this great piece "Docs Under MAGA: Stranded, Abandoned & Hollywood 'Kryptonite'" Read the full piece here: t.co/2ouDTuWIJu

Thank you to @alissawilkinson.bsky.social at @nytimes.com for including us as one of your "Best Picture" picks for Academy nominations! t.co/juxfhqqGZv

Check out our new short film LOCAL ONE (dir. Stephen Maing, @brettstory.bsky.social) following the historic holiday Amazon strikes led by the Amazon Labor Union & @teamsters.bsky.social. Watch now on @fieldofvision.bsky.social! fieldofvision.org/shorts/local...

Thanks to @kylebuchanan.bsky.social at @nytimes.com for including UNION as one of your picks for Best Feature Documentary! Read more: "Could the Oscars Be this Cool?" www.nytimes.com/.../oscars-2...

Reminder that you have 10 days left to stream the fantastic @unionthefilm.bsky.social, shortlisted for an Oscar but still without a distributor.

Thanks @naomiaklein.bsky.social! Watch UNION now: unionthefilm.com ✊✊

"An indelible portrait of the modern American labor struggle." UNION is one of the "21 Best Documentaries of 2024" according to @indiewireofficial.bsky.social ! Read more: indiewire.com/gallery/best...

"As much a portrait of a struggle as it is a win." UNION is #4 on the "Top 10 Best Documentaries of 2024" list according to @rollingstone.com ! Read the full review here: t.co/E8vylorjKZ

"Stylistically haunting, politically urgent..." Thanks to Allison Willmore at @nymag.com for including UNION in the top ten for @vulture.com "Best Movies of 2024!" Read more: t.co/7pRGsT5twL

Steve and I talk about @unionthefilm.bsky.social on the Adam Conover podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcM_...