Higher ed workers in Virginia are fighting to be included in VA’s historic collective bargaining legislation.
@aaupmason.bsky.social’s Tim Gibson makes it clear why faculty & all those who teach deserve this right.
@aaupvirginia.bsky.social
@ucwva.bsky.social
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
Sacrifices. Maybe we could sacrifice masks on our secret police.
The SAVE Act: people who vacation in the Caribbean or Europe should have an easier time voting than people who vacation in the US or can’t afford to vacation at all.
The SAVE Act: only by making it as hard and time consuming as possible to update your voter registration each time you move because your landlord jacked up your rent will we have a democracy.
The SAVE Act summed up: we must disenfranchise millions of working class US citizens from being able to vote so that we can ensure 20 (TWENTY) noncitizens who somehow ended up registered in Georgia and who are no longer registered don’t somehow get registered again.
At every USL game this weekend, USL players paused play for 60 seconds in a powerful show of solidarity.
They’re united and ready to fight for the fair contract they deserve.
As the players stand still, America’s unions stand with them.
#StandUpForStandards
A Starbucks manager blows up after being called out by customers for barista harassment and union-busting 😳
THIS is what solidarity looks like!
The Department of Labor was created to protect all working people. Weakening labor enforcement that protect wages and safety on the job because they are union members is a blatant and outrageous attack on *all* workers’ rights.
That vest didn't get dirty sitting on the sidelines. Shoutout to every woman in the trades who earns her place every single day. We see you. We stand with you. #WIC2026 #WomenInConstruction #LIUNASister #UnionStrong
SCOTUS stands up against POTUS on issues where capital opposes POTUS (Fed independence, arbitrary tariffs...).
Anywhere else?
“One protesting strategy has been shown time and again to be most effective in the US: nonviolence.”
@owasow.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Call US Senators and tell them to vote against the SAVE Act. It has already passed the US House. In its current form, it means that 100 years after women earned the right to vote, we are facing down the implementation of a 21st century poll tax for women.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
Can you check my math? If those 47,000 people sued the IRS for improperly disclosing their tax info with the same damage claim as Trump ($10B), is that $4.7 hundred quadrillion in damages?
Walmart just became a trillion-dollar company, joining the ranks of corporate giants at the very top.
Meanwhile, some Walmart workers start as low as $14/hour, and thousands still rely on SNAP & Medicaid to get by. That gap isn’t accidental. It’s a choice about who this economy is built to reward.
GERMANY: Verdi announces more public sector strikes www.yahoo.com/news/article...
New: UAW reaches landmark tentative contract deal with Volkswagen in Chattanooga Tennessee, including 20% across-the-board pay hikes www.bloomberg.com/news/article... "This contract is proof that if you stand up and stick together, you can win a better life”
graph tracking democratic backsliding is occuring more quickly in the US than elsewhere.
New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION "Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.
Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
A vision for the future: a 13-member Supreme Court and 4 new nominees who understand the take care clause limits the presidential pardon power, as no founding father would have countenanced a lawless dictator.
Trump is as easy as they come. Nursing home firms donated $4.8M to Trump's super PAC in Aug.
Their executives got a lunch in Aug. at Trump's golf club where they asked him to revoke a rule to increase staffing to prevent patient neglect.
His administration revoked the rule. https://seiu.co/3Mgepcx
I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
The latest from NY Magazine shares what NYSNA nurses have known all along – travel nurses can't replace the care that NYC staff nurses provide. Hospitals must settle fair contracts with their dedicated nurses!
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/nurses-strike-nyc-hospital-safe-union.html
This is how we should honor #AlexPretti … by sharing this video of him with a veteran who had died at the VA Hospital where he worked…
@katiecouric.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @rbreich.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/tCa-r...
Good news: reports say HHS is restoring funding to NIOSH, the agency that researches workplace safety.
The labor movement led the fight to restore this critical funding. We made it clear: worker safety isn’t optional.
Restore NIOSH workers!
The corollary of this is that many far-right groups have gotten less militant: they know ICE is doing the dirty work of terrorizing minority communities, so they don't have to.
Alongside their own propaganda, Patriot Front members put up posters encouraging readers to call the ICE tip line.
No warrant presented. Breached the door. Children present. Guns pointed. Tasers threatened. Hands on the resident. Masks covering faces. Dressed in camo fatigues. Terrorized family.
Donald Trump’s America.
Anyone’s home could be next.
Rene Good was not engaged in hateful rhetoric. Her last words were “dude, I’m not mad at you.” Even when you talk like that, you might get shot in the face by ICE. So - no - it’s not the rhetoric.
