Lockheed Martin Board Roll Call. The stock has been up over 45 percent in the last six months as Trump has prepped for this stupid fucking war. They're making a killing on killing.

No war with Iran. Let Cuba live. Open the concentration camps imprisoning immigrants.

The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

This blind man - a refugee from Burma - was dropped off by Border Patrol at a Tim Horton's in Buffalo, NY.

In the middle of February.
A mile from a home where he no longer lived.
While his relatives were searching for him.

Cops found his body 5 days later

www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

GOAL: Bruce Springsteen 🤝 Labor Notes Conference

REQUEST: Dear comrades and allies, if you know someone (who knows someone) who can make the connection, please tag/DM @lfelizleon.bsky.social! 🙏

Good morning. This might be an impossible request. But we’ve done incredible things together. Who can connect me to Bruce Springsteen’s people for him to perform “Streets of Minneapolis” at the Labor Notes conference on the night of June 12?

In Major Breakthrough, Volkswagen Auto Workers Reach Tentative Deal Volkswagen had dangled a treat: a ratification bonus of $4,000, sweetened by $1,500 if a first contract at its assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was approved by Halloween 2025. But auto worker...

Breaking: Volkswagen workers have voted by 96 percent to ratify their first union contract.

labornotes.org/2026/02/majo...

Unions Held the Line in 2025 Membership Numbers For four decades, a federal count of union members has been the annual physical exam for the labor movement. Did we grow or shrink, and where? The tally just came out for 2025. At face value, the numb...

For four decades, a federal count of union members has been the annual physical exam for the labor movement. Did we grow or shrink, and where?

Read a sober assessment of union membership numbers. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @governorwalz.mn.gov fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, this would be the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.

What We Can Learn From North Carolina’s “Moral Mondays” As Trump intensifies his anti-democratic crackdown, North Carolina’s Moral Mondays movement offers a roadmap for organizers looking to fight back.

I reported on the past, present, and future of North Carolina's Moral Mondays, for @exposedbycmd.bsky.social in conjunction with @inthesetimes.com.

Amazon's Robot Revolution - Dissent Magazine While the introduction of robotics at Amazon is still in an early phase, the technological transformation underway continues existing practices of work intensification, degradation, and displacement.

The execs pushing automation are more than happy to write the obituary of workers and their movements. But there is a long history of workers who were thought to have already been defeated, only to reappear as protagonists, face off against powerful bosses—& win. dissentmagazine.org/article/amaz...

NO DEAL: Nurses at NY-Presbyterian overwhelmingly vote to stay on strike “This has always been about getting a fair contract. We never wanted to go on strike… We want to do our jobs, we love our jobs, but we can only return when our patients are being cared for safely… wit...

Support the nurses!

therealnews.com/nurses-ny-pr...

There’s still time. Thanks for your contribution.

The Amazon Imperative: Unions Must Join Forces The tentacles of the global logistics juggernaut Amazon reach into every corner of the economy, gripping the planet and workers. Amazon dominates retail e-commerce with a 40 percent market share. It i...

Amazon's size and seemingly perpetual expansion into new markets is a threat to the labor standards that workers have achieved in different jurisdictions. To stay relevant, unions must make Amazon organizing a project of the entire labor movement labornotes.org/2026/02/amaz...

Donald Trump’s top antitrust enforcer Gail Slater pushed out as turf war deepens Departure comes after months of turmoil in Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice

The People Who Believed that "Pro Worker Republicans" Were a Real Thing Were Massive Suckers, vol. 967:
www.ft.com/content/19f8...

“These masked agents leaving our state can be spun any way people want, but history will show what this was: regular people, clergy and teachers, janitors and soccer moms, people across all of our complicated differences, simply refusing to let our neighbors be attacked and abducted without a fight. The level of solidarity shown by Minnesotans should be an example for everyone and we couldn’t be more proud of our state.

From a statement released today by the ICE Out of Minnesota Coalition.

"Greater reductions in depression were seen when exercise was offered in group and supervised settings, while exercise of shorter duration and at lower intensity was most associated with reductions in anxiety."

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Today is my birthday and my Labor Notes work anniversary. Here’s what I want for my special day: small donation to get workers in new organizing drives at Amazon and in auto to the June 2026 conference. Will you chip in to the fundraiser? secure.actblue.com/donate/lflbi...

Excellent breakdown of the UAW’s landmark tentative agreement at VW 👇

In Major Breakthrough, Volkswagen Auto Workers Reach Tentative Deal Volkswagen had dangled a treat: a ratification bonus of $4,000, sweetened by $1,500 if a first contract at its assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was approved by Halloween 2025. But auto worker...

New: Volkswagen had dangled a treat: a ratification bonus of $4,000, sweetened by $1,500 if a first contract at its assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was approved by Halloween 2025. But auto workers had a trick up their sleeves: collective action. labornotes.org/2026/02/majo...

In Major Breakthrough, Volkswagen Auto Workers Reach Tentative Deal Volkswagen had dangled a treat: a ratification bonus of $4,000, sweetened by $1,500 if a first contract at its assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was approved by Halloween 2025. But auto worker...

The agreement comes with a 20 percent wage increase, equal to around a $7 wage bump for production workers, over the four-year contract. The cost-of-living adjustment is 45 cents per hour on top of the base wage, depending on inflation. @lfelizleon.bsky.social reports labornotes.org/2026/02/majo...

Booklet, “in GM Forward in ‘55.” From the UAW CIO.

Booklet, “in GM Forward in ‘55.” From the UAW CIO. Pages remembering the Flint Sit-down Strike.

Booklet, “in GM Forward in ‘55.” From the UAW CIO. Language of the original UAW GM contract from 1937.

Remembering the Flint Sit-down Strike, from a booklet about the @uaw.org’s 1955 program for GM workers. Less than 20 years in the rear view mirror, it was clear the sit-down strike was a transformative moment for American workers. From the UAW archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Journalist Luis Feliz Leon and Amazon worker Hylton Garfield pose for a photo. Luis holds a brochure for June 12-14 Labor Notes conference.

The largest convening of Amazon workers in the world is happening at the June 2026 Labor Notes conference. Garfield Hylton is an Amazon worker in the UK who built a union with his co-workers through a series of wildcat strikes.

Former WashPost reporter @ashleyrparker.bsky.social wrote a piece this week for The Atlantic headlined, "The Murder of the Washington Post."

Turns out, that was no exaggeration.

Here you have a group of people offering to save the victim that Bezos was threatening.

And he's killing it off anyway.

DM me if you participated. How was turnout ?

How to Debunk Anti-Immigrant Myths at Work Anti-immigrant myths flood our airwaves. They dominate news cycles and our online feeds. And now they’re amplified from the highest halls of power. President Donald Trump has asserted, for example, th...

How to Debunk Anti-Immigrant Myths at Work - important piece by @nataschaelena.bsky.social

Waiting For Judgment in Springfield, Ohio Harsh times for America's most famous Haitian community.

A looming deportation purge in Springfield, Ohio is on pause. But Haitians there are still hiding at home and making plans for who will take care of their kids if they are snatched by ICE and disappeared. A report from the ground:

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/waiting-fo...

The @uaw.org has won a tentative agreement from VW nearly two years after workers voted to unionize in Chattanooga.

Over 3,000 workers will get:

- A 20% raise
- Better healthcare
- A bonus of about $6,550 per worker upon ratification

And much more.

How to Debunk Anti-Immigrant Myths at Work Anti-immigrant myths flood our airwaves. They dominate news cycles and our online feeds. And now they’re amplified from the highest halls of power. President Donald Trump has asserted, for example, th...

Assaulted as we are by propaganda priming us to hate, conversations around immigration can often feel loaded—and much more so in the workplace. How can misinformation be challenged in a way that builds solidarity with your co-workers? labornotes.org/2026/02/how-...

In The Twin Cities, A Massive Strike Against ICE Icicles hung from the beards of men in union beanies. The lobbies of large commercial buildings in downtown Minneapolis opened to the public for respite filled with people rubbing each other’s sore fe...

The Twin Cities strike began in solidarity with immigrant workers and pushed a political demand: ICE OUT OF MN! It’s estimated 75,000 to 100,000 people marched through downtown Minneapolis. The conditions were ripe for an upsurge. labornotes.org/2026/01/twin...