Powerful speeches at yesterday's rally for Union Now, which will raise money for union organizing. Collective bargaining builds democracy: people listen to each other, decide priorities, and take action together. #buildlaborpower. (Reposted with better pics.)

Powerful speeches at the rally yesterday for Union Now, which will raise money for union organizing. Collective bargaining builds democracy; people listen to each other, decide priorities, and take action together. #buildlaborpower

The implementation of AI in the workplace must be a mandatory subject of bargaining. Workers must be able to negotiate AI that enhances their work rather than devaluing it - or wiping out their jobs altogether. #buildlaborpower

WNBA Players Just Made a Record Leap: A Nearly 400% Raise In the middle of a growth spurt for women’s basketball, sparked by Caitlin Clark, the league reached a collective-bargaining agreement with record increases to the salary cap and league minimums.

Collective bargaining works! #buildlaborpower

www.wsj.com/sports/baske...

To Address Farm Labor Shortage, Trump Administration Turns to Migrant Workers

Trump response to farm labor shortage? Slash wages for immigrant workers who don't have the leverage to fight for more. #buildlaborpower. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/u...

Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.

Even a Murdoch outlet recognizes authoritarianism. "The Wall Street Journal found that the Department of Homeland Security, created in 2002 to protect Americans, has turned its force against citizens." #buildlaborpower www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

The other shoe has now dropped, as anticipated. ICE is still swarming, detaining, and deporting. DoW is still bombing. But the administration has offered up a head, hoping we will all calm down. I do not think we will do that. #buildlaborpower

As we think about Open AI slinking around the DofW let's remember that most AI corporations care far more about profit than about the devastation their products will bring to working people. Think about how they treat content moderators - instability, low pay, trauma-inducing work. #buildlaborpower

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

This is not good. Consolidation of giant media corporations is not good. Opportunistic right wing oligarchs swallowing Warners is especially not good. This is worse than Italy under Berlesconi. #buildlaborpower
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/b...

This is the time for strong leadership to ensure that workers can negotiate about how, why, and when AI might be implemented in their workplaces. Congratulations! #buildlaborpower

Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader Who Sought the Presidency, Dies at 84

I worked with Rev. Jackson and the AFL-CIO in the struggle for many thousands of Enron workers who lost their jobs in the company's collapse. Rev. Jackson brought moral force - and great organizing skills - to the fight. #buildlaborpower
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

Workers Are Afraid AI Will Take Their Jobs. They’re Missing the Bigger Danger. It isn’t whether artificial intelligence is going to replace them. It’s who will control the knowledge that companies capture from their employees.

"Concerted employee action may start to change the AI calculus." #buildlaborpower www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

ICE out of Long Island! #buildlaborpower

Soon NYC will have a new mayor. ID'd as democratic socialist and Muslim. Millennial. Mamdani is bold, pro-union, keen to make material gains for working New Yorkers. Focused on child care, transportation, and affordable housing. This is a 2026 we can get behind! #buildlaborpower

Hey, team owners, people pay you because they want to see professional athletes work their magic. Without the WNBPA's members, you have no business. Don't play games, listen to what your players demand. #buildlaborpower

‘A very hostile climate for workers’: US labor movement struggles under Trump National Labor Relations Board, the federal watchdog for workers’ rights, has been rendered toothless as employees grapple with corporations

In my upcoming book I argue that the labor movement cannot rely on the federal government, including the NLRB. We must build power from the ground up, ourselves. #buildlaborpower www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Portugal general strike stalls transport, closes schools in labour reform protest Train services ground to a halt across Portugal on Thursday, hundreds of flights were cancelled, and schools closed as unions launched a first general strike in over a decade and thousands of workers ...

If government attacks workers, Portuguese unions shut things down. #buildlaborpower www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Workers must have the right to bargain collectively about the implementation of AI in their workplaces. They know the workflow and the risks, and by exercising their bargaining power through the union, they can ensure AI enhances their work rather than destroying or devaluing it. #buildlaborpower.

Opinion | To Understand America’s Border Surge, You Have to Look Elsewhere

Wallace-Wells notes that most politics "take a pretty narrow view of the appropriate scope of state action". To achieve progress, we must be bold enough to reject these limits on what is possible, politically. #buildlaborpower. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

We need an @bsky group to discuss collective bargaining strategies on AI. Working people are in the best position to figure out how AI can devalue or eliminate their jobs - or maybe even to enhance them. #buildlaborpower

No Kings in our little town (which is pretty close to Queens) #buildlaborpower

Support Earth Day - send Musk to Mars! #buildlaborpower

Boom! From the article: Like a boxer who has not been told he is now in a street fight, organized labor finds itself waiting for a referee who no longer exists, as his opponent attacks him with a brick. #buildlaborpower

‘Trump and Musk are setting the example’: how companies are becoming emboldened to be more anti-union As the White House carries out an anti-worker agenda, labor leaders fear corporate America could also grow more hostile

Not a surprise, but a call to action. #buildlaborpower

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hands off! #buildlaborpower

Thousands out in the cold rain in Mineola today. Hands Off! #buildlaborpower

Trump hates unions because they bring the power working people need. #buildlaborpower

Why does Trump hate collective bargaining? Because it works. Because unions are the true representatives of working people, not these phony MAGA bros. #buildlaborpower

As a former union lawyer, I have mixed feelings about the corporate Big Law firms that Trump is trying to destroy. They mostly prop up an anti-worker legal system, but Trump's petty retribution agenda is pretty scary. I'm amazed by how spineless these firms turn out to be. #buildlaborpower

I love the idea of finding common ground, but how can that happen when the other side is doing everything possible to wipe you off the map? To destroy the foundations on which your program is built (unions, Medicare/aid, Social Security, environmental protection, inclusion)? #buildlaborpower