please, PLEASE can the timeline of praising law firms for their "courage" be over now that they can resume their regular business of making millions by protecting corporate power & profits at all costs, which is exactly what got us into this mess?? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/o...
Together with @vail.bsky.social and Aaron Eisenberg, Brandon Mancilla has been leading @uawregion9a.bsky.social in its excellent efforts to realign labor with the Left, esp. in NYC, so it's quite fitting that Brandon be appointed to this high-profile public position. Smart move, great politics.
Someone noted that there's a huge difference between "calling for" a general strike and *organizing* a general strike. Last Friday, Minnesota *organized* a general strike.
the government is trying to disappear a man who can testify to torture committed at the direction and payment of the government
Wow I can’t believe that a right wing-friendly billionaire failson is not getting traction in the Boston mayoral race
Got to tell the Massachusetts legislature one of my favorite union-busting anecdotes about the time a beloved Boston retailer hired an out-of-state professional bodybuilder to recite anti-union propaganda at a captive audience meeting for its warehouse workers (spoiler alert: it didn’t work 😂💪)
Andrew Cuomo to join Harvard's Institute of Politics.
Proud to work with Brandon Mancilla for our fellow @uaw.org members: “Not only do we not support the genocide in Gaza, but we also know that it’s coming at the expense of working-class people here.” jacobin.com/2025/04/uaw-...
2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
Any union leader who endorses Andrew Cuomo, a known & unrepentant sexual harasser, will be telling members that your union doesn't care about their civil rights.
Unions are supposed to fight sexual misconduct in the workplace, not endorse it.
Between this and the Columbia stuff I hope everyone understands that when you compromise with fascists the result is the same.
The only difference in the end is, they got you to contribute to the project of your own annihilation
(Only reason this is a good story is because he got home to his family!)
Everything sucks right now—except this Alabama roofer who told ICE agents "wanna arrest me? come get me, I'll wait" and waited 6 hours without water in the hot sun until ICE ~gave up and left~ because they were too chickenshit to climb up on a one-story roof www.tiktok.com/@jaxxchismet...
Any union leader who endorses Andrew Cuomo, a known & unrepentant sexual harasser, will be telling members that your union doesn't care about their civil rights.
Unions are supposed to fight sexual misconduct in the workplace, not endorse it.
While people’s desire to defend DEI is well-intentioned, let’s be real: most corporate DEI “efforts” are just window dressing—which is especially harmful when they conceal these same corporations’ racialized exploitation of workers/consumers.
If you want equity in your workplace, unionize.
~two things can be true~
1. The NLRB has never been the source of our power: workers are.
2. If the NLRB didn't matter, Republicans wouldn’t be trying so hard to fuck it up.
Looking forward to processing the dystopian hellscape for workers we now live in with @veenadubal.bsky.social & @daveyseligman.bsky.social this Friday!
I didn’t feel the Boston earthquake because I was in the basement of the Sheet Metal Workers Union hall—that’s how solid union constructed buildings are 💪
huge football day for me as a hater (specifically of Ohio State & USC)
🧵 Abortion funds are going broke.
Meanwhile, in the last 5 years about $400 million in federal money flowed to “crisis pregnancy centers” across the country
Currently, the Board has a 2-1 Democratic majority. In June 2024, Biden renominated current Board Chair Lauren McFerran (whose term expires on Dec. 16, 2024) to a third term and nominated Joseph L. Ditelberg to fill the Board’s vacant Republican seat. The Senate, however, has not yet confirmed these nominations. If McFerran is confirmed for a third term, the Board will maintain a Democratic majority until at least August 2026, when Member David Prouty’s term expires. This extended majority could lead to the continuation and expansion of pro-labor policies and decisions. But if the nominees are not confirmed by the Senate prior to Trump taking office, they will likely be filled by Trump appointees and the Board will return to a Republican majority.
There's no way Michigan was even in play without UAW—same for Nevada & Arizona without UNITE HERE.
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Dems failing unions yet again by not acting on NLRB nominees is at their own peril. We'll still be here without you, but you won't survive without us.