On Emmanuel College dining hall staff's campaign with @local26-unitehere.bsky.social for first contract:
'The work was intensive. Salazar described “meetings after meeting” as employees gathered before shifts, after work and on days off to build majority support.'
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Originally from @cosmonautmag.bsky.social, @worcdsa.bsky.social organizers lay out how they developed chapter electoral strategy around choosing candidates, chapter priorities, and investigating other chapters. working-mass.com/2026/03/03/p...
"The best case scenario is a situation where all of the workers at Lamplighter feel they can work without worrying about their job security or how they’re going to pay bills."
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As Lamplighter workers approach an imminent union vote on Friday, February 27, Working Mass spoke with one worker on the organizing drive with UFCW 1445:
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When rent control was first won, tenants built the power needed block by block. As tenants organize across the region at new complexes in the greatest wave of tenant organizing since the 1970s that won rent control originally, rent stabilization follows. working-mass.com/2026/02/17/t...
cambridge housing complex image shows two wings of housing
After the landlords finally pushed through tenant defenses ... rents in cities like Boston skyrocketed. The rent increases had nothing to do with popular will; Boston, Brookline, and Cambridge all voted against the initiative.
Thirty two years after rent control was banned in Massachusetts, housing justice advocates want to bring it back.
On the campaign for rent control 🧵
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REVIEW: "If you want to be an individual or organizational long-distance runner on the labor left, there are, in this book, some very good role models to follow."
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Review of DEFIANCE: "As she notices Kurdish shoe shiners amidst the Syrian working class not visible within segregated urban enclaves, the mass action all around her against brutal repression inspires her to imagine new creativities to contribute to the new world."
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GOLIATH: "Set at a shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts where Brandow worked for 9 years, he uses his experiences as a welder and a union officer to give Goliath an authenticity that is too often lacking in fictional depictions of labor."
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Boston rally
"It gives people all across the country a fighting chance. When ICE comes to their city, they will have heard from the people of Minnesota about what works and what doesn’t work, about the things that they need to do to get ready."
You were living it: raids, rapid escalation of enforcement, daily intimidation in neighborhoods, schools, transit stops, churches, workplaces.
The assault on immigrant communities in MPLS had been intensifying since December, weeks before the killings...
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This is what it looks like when people accept that no one is coming—and decide to stay anyway.
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Shows american flag backwards and Abolish ICE signs in front of Target in the union crowd
Many of the Boston unions leading the anti-ICE movement have faced abductions. No longer is the story of the disappeared member or client rare.
Shows man hugging in background with 32BJ signs, in foreground is a sign held by a protester saying Solidarity with Minneapolis with Renee Good's face.
By designing the general strike not only around the shut down of work, but also of consumption through shopping and social reproduction through education, Minneapolis unions aimed to shut down all of society at once. For one day, the city would stop.
READ: Boston labor issued a warning to ICE: if we can organize this in a few days with solidarity alone, imagine what happens when you come to Massachusetts?
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Communities in Minnesota & across the U.S. are mobilizing for coordinated economic blackouts as part of a “Day of Truth and Freedom”. This national moment of solidarity calls for courageous, nonviolent, lawful action against ICE’s violence. Here's 1 way to show up: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-t...
WAY BACK FROM 1934 -
"Today the whole country looks to Minneapolis. Great things are happening there which reflect the influence of a strange new force in the labor movement, an influence widening and extending like a spiral wave..."
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In Issue 7: The Ballot and the Ballot, organizers debate electoral strategy, from cadre candidates to victory infrastructures, around clocked-in shifts and picket lines of the Red Cup Rebellion.
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"We’re very disappointed the town would let these contractors not play by the rules. It takes money off everybody’s checks – union and non-union. Non-union workers are the ones working for these contractors, and they’re getting cheated."
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A journey-level carpenter and 5-year member of the union told Working Mass that union carpenters weren’t being “prioritized” by City Hall , despite their best efforts to support ostensibly pro-labor candidates.
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"The perspective of socialists today is not so different to that of early Russian revolutionaries... believing that socialist revolution would be won by the people themselves, they sought to embed themselves among the ‘rank and file’ of the Russian population."
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So often, when the mainstream media remembers Martin Luther King Jr., they quote him about dreaming, but not about doing. And they definitely don't remember him as the democratic socialist he was. In his own words:
We've been saying it for years: Martin Luther King Jr. was a democratic socialist. www.dsausa.org/blog/saving-...
"Trump’s regime would rather dump hundreds of billions of dollars into paying for war in other nations and tens of billions into expanding ICE operations, instead of helping working class people afford their rent, their groceries, or their utilities."
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OPINION: "The point is to work in BIPOC communities, to build trust through praxis, to prove that DSA is an organization that will stand up for the right of self-determination for all oppressed nations."
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@demsocialists.bsky.social:
"This is a nakedly imperialist war to install a US puppet government that will give Venezuela’s oil resources over to US corporations and to force US hegemony over Latin America — the new “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine."
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The US military Southern Command had violated the most basic principles of state sovereignty. Less than twelve hours later, outraged protests erupted in every major city across the United States - including on the Boston Common.
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Before Christmas, the @ueunion.org officers released a statement: "War with Venezuela would be a disaster for the working people of both countries, and we as a labor movement must do our part to prevent it."
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Carlos, chef and organizer of @sbworkersunited.org solidarity kitchens:
"When a crisis arrives, kitchens appear. They appear because eating every day is a fundamental human need, and because the ability to feed each other is one of the oldest acts of resistance."
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OPINION ✍️ "Paying a few dozen dollars a year to the organization is important, but far more important is a willingness to represent our platform and organization while in office." working-mass.com/2025/12/17/o...
