Center for Innovation in Worker Organization (CIWO)

Want to work in social justice & labor but don't know where to start? Join a virtual info session for the WILL Empower Apprenticeship Program! Tuesday March 10th - 4pm ET More detailscan be found at https://bit.ly/4b5mysB RSVP to willempower.labor@gmail.com

⚡️📢 Want to work in social justice & labor but don't know where to start? Join a virtual info session for the WILL Empower Apprenticeship Program!

🗓️ Tuesday March 10th - 4pm ET
🌐 More details: bit.ly/4b5mys
⚡️ RSVP to willempower.labor@gmail.com

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2025 Edna Berger Young Courageous Leader Award - Claudia Quiñones Torrico, Organizing Director
@unitedwedream.org
🎉🎉

Claudia has been described as "the courageous fire of the movement" and we could not agree more! Thank you Claudia!🔥🎉

Join Dr. Naomi R Williams in a discussion of their new book A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity on October 21st at 6pm ET!

This virtual event is co-hosted by CIWO and LEARN at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations.

📘REGISTER: bit.ly/1021NW

LAST CHANCE TO NOMINATE! One young courageous leader will be awarded $15,000! go.rutgers.edu/sf3j15y3

Nominations EXTENDED to SEPTEMBER 1st for the WILL Empower Edna Berger Young Courageous Leader Award - $15,000!
✨ Do you know a young courageous leader (age 30/under) committed to worker, racial, and gender justice?
🔥 Nominate here by 9/1: go.rutgers.edu/sf3j15y3

The Edna Berger Young Courageous Leader Award is $15,000 for a leader who demonstrates exceptional commitment to racial, gender, and worker justice.

🚨Nominations are open now through August 25th!

➡️Link to nominate: go.rutgers.edu/sf3j15y3

Nominations are NOW OPEN for the WILL Empower Edna Berger Young Courageous Leader Award ($15,000)‼️

✨ Do you know a young courageous leader (age 30/under) committed to worker, racial, & gender justice?

✅ Learn more + nominate: go.rutgers.edu/sf3j15y3

📅 Nominations are open NOW through August 25th!

Nominations are NOW OPEN for the WILL Empower Edna Berger Young Courageous Leader Award ($15,000)‼️

✨ Do you know a young courageous leader (age 30/under) committed to worker, racial, & gender justice?

✅ Learn more + nominate: go.rutgers.edu/sf3j15y3

📅 Nominations are open NOW through August 25th!

Arrest of Union Leader Highlights Link Between Workers’ and Immigrants’ Rights David Huerta, the president of the Service Employees International Union of California, was arrested while protesting immigration raids on work sites in Los Angeles.

The arrest and apparent injury of David Huerta, a prominent California union leader, at an immigration protest has drawn condemnation from across the labor movement.

NIH scientists have been angry for months. Now some are rebelling. More than 90 NIH scientists sign their names to the “Bethesda declaration” in protest of Trump administration policies they say are harming people’s health.

More than 90 scientists at the National Institutes of Health signed a letter in protest of Trump administration policies they say are harming people’s health, in a rare sign of open resistance by career government employees.

Common-Sense Measures Could Curb Heat-Related Deaths Extreme heat is becoming more prevalent. We need to protect people who work and play outside

Providing access to basic cooling measures is an inexpensive way to keep people safe, with the added benefit of economic efficiency. “It’s not just the decent thing to do but the smart thing to do.” @sharblock.bsky.social in @sciam.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/comm...

Since the attacks on federal workers continue, so do the Workers' Rights Board Hearings with Jobs With Justice!

Join us for Civil Servants: Speak Out! ft. HUD workers on May 12 and learn about and discuss the impacts of DOGE’s inhumane handling of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Immigration One in five workers in America wasn’t born here. Immigrants are America’s workers, vital to the fabric of our communities, our economy and our labor movement.

An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers.

Immigrants are vital to the fabric of our communities, our economy and our labor movement. They are America’s workers.

Learn your rights, from @deptofworkers.bsky.social:

Unions = better pay, safer jobs, and real respect.
It’s that simple.

🚨 HAPPENING NOW: EYES ON ICE!

We’re out this morning to tell ICE and GEO Group that New Jersey is for immigrant families, not immigrant detention 💥‼️

Your voice matters.
Join us.

Lockheed Martin reported $24 BILLION in profits since 2022, but refuses to give the workers who make that profit possible the pay, dignity and respect they deserve.

We stand in solidarity with @uaw.org workers in Orlando and Denver as they strike for the strong contract they deserve!

“Taking Our Power Back”: Immigrants & Workers Plan for May Day Protests as Trump Marks 100 Days Organizers across the United States are planning a massive day of May Day protests against the Trump administration. Organizers say that they have broad support from groups targeted by the administrat...

“We are taking our power back,” says Georgia Flowers Lee,
@neatoday.bsky.social vice president for United Teachers Los Angeles (and WILL Empower Emerging Leader for 2025-2026! 👏) #MayDay2025
www.democracynow.org/2025/4/29/tr...

"I ain't got nothing to say to Donald Trump": May Day organizers say their message is for Americans Organizers say their goal for May 1 protests is to remind regular Americans that they have numbers on their side

Build the Bench Leader Rigo Valdez of @mlklabor.bsky.social: "we have to come together... to defend things that we took for granted... If we don't unite, first they'll come for immigrants, and then they'll come for workers, and then they'll come for you." ✊ #MayDay2025
www.salon.com/2025/04/30/i...

"I ain't got nothing to say to Donald Trump": May Day organizers say their message is for Americans Organizers say their goal for May 1 protests is to remind regular Americans that they have numbers on their side

🧵"Don't be afraid to organize. You have power and you have numbers. You have somebody to back you up." -
WILL Empower Awardee Jamila Allen @raiseupthesouth.bsky.social ✊ #MayDay2025
www.salon.com/2025/04/30/i...

"I ain't got nothing to say to Donald Trump": May Day organizers say their message is for Americans Organizers say their goal for May 1 protests is to remind regular Americans that they have numbers on their side

🧵@stacydavisgates.bsky.social, President @ctulocal1.bsky.social: "make a fair wage...have universal healthcare...in homes that they can afford, where they can walk their children to a fully-resourced school... That's the America that we're building." ✊ #MayDay2025
www.salon.com/2025/04/30/i...

"I ain't got nothing to say to Donald Trump": May Day organizers say their message is for Americans Organizers say their goal for May 1 protests is to remind regular Americans that they have numbers on their side

🧵It's #MayDay2025 and some amazing CIWO, Build the Bench, and WILL Empower leaders shared messages for fellow workers @salonnewsroom.bsky.social:
www.salon.com/2025/04/30/i...

⏰ UPCOMING next Friday!
📗 Prentis Hemphill will be with us virtually to talk learnings from their book What It Takes to Heal! Co-hosted by CIWO and Transformative Leadership for Change
➡️ Register now: bit.ly/4hv3vtW

The survey is from the @aflcio.org in partnership with @uclalabor.bsky.social @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social @cunyslu.bsky.social @georgetownkilwp.bsky.social & @rutgersciwo.bsky.social, who are mapping the landscape of academic labor centers and their relationships with the labor movement.

'We Don't Have to Live This Way,' Says Teachers Union Leader After Florida Shooting | Common Dreams American Federation of Teachers vows to push for gun safety reform following deadly shooting at FSU. Urgent action needed to prevent tragic events.

"We should remove weapons of war from our streets and communities, fund community violence intervention programs, enforce background checks and safe-storage laws, ban high-capacity magazines, and pass more risk-protection laws." - @rweingarten.bsky.social

Inside a Union’s Fight Against Trump’s Federal Job Cuts Leaders of the union representing government workers say their battle is galvanizing but also alarming. “It’s insulting to say,” one said, “that we are lazy.”

The President’s executive order eliminating collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal workers is union busting.

AFGE and all of America’s unions are fighting this outrageous attack with everything we’ve got.

Mourn for the dead, fight for the living. Workers Memorial Day.

Monday, April 28, 11:30AM-12:30PM: Join the NYCCLC and NYCOSH for our annual Workers’ Memorial Day commemoration to honor those who have died or suffered injuries or illnesses while on the job.

University-affiliated labor studies/research programs/centers working with unions & worker centers on applied & community-engaged projects, we want to hear from you! bit.ly/SURVEYLC 📊

@aflcio.org @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social @cunyslu.bsky.social @georgetownkilwp.bsky.social @rutgersciwo.bsky.social

Activists fear Union County jail could become new migrant detention center • New Jersey Monitor Union County is taking steps to sell its unused jail at a time federal officials say they want increased immigrant detention capacity in N.J.

NJ has made it clear, private prisons and detention centers have no place in our community. I stand with those pushing back against an increased ICE presence in Union County—it does nothing to make us safer.
newjerseymonitor.com/2025/03/27/a...

One job should be enough. ✊