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Mamdani declined to relinquish mayoral control so the responsibility is now his to carry out his campaign promises to reign in big money, including the tech bros' efforts to control our kids and schools. I signed this petition and hope you do too, to push our Mayor to do what's right.

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@sarahlazare.bsky.social reports on the deportation of a union worker in Iowa, distilling the cruelty of Trump’s widening deportation machine. It doesn’t matter if you have legal status or have committed no crime. Immigrant workers are targets. workdaymagazine.org/iowa-city-co...

I’m a phlebotomist and she’s a custodian, so we’re kind of in a similar role where we’re coming in and out of patient rooms, mostly doing our work behind the scenes, and very underappreciated. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/1...

Charles Denby, a fake name, real name Simon Owens, was a sharecropper in Alabama who later worked in Detroit auto. He was part of a Trotskyist group and edited paper called News and Letters. Historians, anything else I should read about him? I first learned about him in Jason Resnikoff’s book.

Rough week. My computer died. I got Covid. Read my latest article on the UAW top officer election. It was reported with an impaired brain. But it’s still great, thanks to my co-author Jane. labornotes.org/2026/10/uaw-...

It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse group of workers building themselves into a fighting force, who then must wrestle with a different version of victory than they expected, writes @lfelizleon.bsky.social labornotes.org/blogs/2026/1...

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain looks poised to win a second four-year term, with an overwhelming lead in member balloting for the union’s top officers. @lfelizleon.bsky.social and Jane Slaughter report labornotes.org/2026/10/uaw-...

Amazon doesn’t legally employ the workers who drive vans with the company’s logo. But that could change in New York City, under legislation that Teamsters and Amazon workers alongside the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are organizing to pass. labornotes.org/2026/10/amaz...

Brazilian economist Claudio Ferraz today: The big question for political scientists, economists, and psychologists is—why do corruption accusations affect left-wing candidates much more than right-wing ones?

Supreme Court rules in our favor. Struggling to find words. newsguild.org/post-gazette...

Tech CEOs had lunch with Trump in D.C. this week. Workers were on the menu. lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/book-revie...

The techies have been stripped of their halos; “once millionaires in waiting,” they are today no longer insulated from the ravages of capitalism and are reduced to the vagaries of wage labor like management control and layoffs. lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/book-revie...

Almost 1 in 10 jobs in the Bay Area is in the manufacturing sector. But are these good jobs? For most blue-collar workers the answer is no: their median wage is only $24.50, and less than a third of production workers in the Bay Area are paid a living wage. laborcenter.berkeley.edu/making-it-in...

"Amazon workers at four delivery and sorting warehouses in Germany are organizing to make every minute count. They’re demanding that Amazon pay them for every minute of work, saying in a petition that the company is stealing their time." Important reporting by @lfelizleon.bsky.social

Amazon workers in Germany say they are organizing to take back every minute the logistics giant has stolen from them. labornotes.org/2026/09/germ...

“Why does a corporation like Amazon need to steal a few euros from me every day?” Carrara asked. labornotes.org/2026/09/germ...

The powerful generally do not want a free press to exist. This is not a matter of political partisanship so much as it is an observation of reality. And a more urgent one to acknowledge today, because they are closer to winning. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...

"Journalists may not have much. But we retain the right to call the frauds and bootlickers masquerading as the pillars of the media industry a bunch of scumbags."

Breaking: AutoZone workers won their union in 6-4 vote to join UAW Local 259. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

It’s funny how long the left has been arguing about the PMC… “Early in the twentieth century, commenting acerbically on the appeal of the Socialist Party of America to professionals, Leon Trotsky called it a party of dentists.“ dissentmagazine.org/article/muti...

When workers file for a union election, it’s like a Bat-Signal goes off: a column of light cuts through the night sky, summoning not Bruce Wayne but a swarm of anti-union managers and consultants who reap tens of thousands of dollars from sowing fear and doubt. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

Three years ago, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain called for American unions to line up contract expirations for May Day 2028 to set the stage for a potential mass strike. How are the prospects of this coordinated action looking now? jacobin.com/2026/09/fain...

Some 11,000 Teamster mechanics at United Airlines voted down a TA by 53 percent. These Teamsters have been trying to reach a deal for two years. Why was it voted down?

"She *lived* for her job. "For 40 years. "And now it’s gone." -- Dave Barry, writing about how his wife, longtime Miami Herald sportswriter Michelle Kaufman, just got laid off by "two corporate guys she did not know, who did not know her." davebarry.substack.com/p/michelle

we are on track to be pretty similar to 2023. notes.labordata.bunkum.us/2021/12/11/p...

@unionelections.bsky.social how would you characterize election filings under Trump 2.0 compared to highs in 2023?

Eight hundred workers at a Walmart distribution center in Canada succeeded where others have not: they are now working under a two-year contract with North America’s largest logistics giant labornotes.org/2026/09/cana...

Who Moves America chronicles the Teamsters’ 2023 near-strike at UPS. It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse group of workers building themselves into a fighting force, who then must wrestle with a different version of victory than they expected.

Who Moves America chronicles the Teamsters’ 2023 near-strike at UPS. It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse group of workers building themselves into a fighting force, who then must wrestle with a different version of victory than they expected. jacobin.com/2026/09/docu...

Yael Bridge’s new documentary “Who Moves America?” about the UPS contract fight offers a window into the the class culture of one of the country’s largest unions. inthesetimes.com/article/team...

How does it always get worse?

I wrote a review of the documentary Who Moves America, which chronicles 2023 UPS contract fight. lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/the-teamst...

“Until coverage of new technologies, from AI developments to automation to robotics, returns to its proper domain of the labor-and-capital relationship, I fear we’ll be fed a steady diet of doomsday scenarios.”

For a bigger impact, we’ll need to go even further than Twin Cities workers did: preparing for open-ended & full workplace strikes, not one-day partial strikes, and hitting the big capitalist firms nationally, rather than a handful of name-brand companies in one state. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

applying "Make ___ Great Again" to Germany really does kinda give the game away

Essential reading…

Workers around the country experienced brutal heat this summer, and yet U.S. employers still face no national heat safety regulation! The good news is that where workers have fought for and won heat safety regulations, they work: labornotes.org/2026/08/will...

"How Minnesota Unions and Community Groups Stood Up to an ICE Occupation" - by Greg Nammacher, president of SEIU Local 26. Really glad to see @labornotes.bsky.social reprint this excerpt from This Is How We Win.

President Donald Trump's administration has asked the Supreme Court to give the US Postal Service sweeping power to withhold delivery of mail ballots, setting up an extraordinary showdown over voting at the high court less than two months before the November midterm election. https://cnn.it/4qWnfwb

How are CA unions faring in the face of an unfriendly federal administration, a militarized deportation campaign, and a continuing cost-of-living crisis? Check out this new report from UCLA IRLE, with contributions from 7 UC labor centers (including us). laborcenter.berkeley.edu/state-of-the...

12/ This is the railroaded future that US tech oligarchs want. Trump says popular opposition to data centers is from those who “want to end up backwards and poor.” And suggests that slowing down the frenetic buildout of data centers in the US would benefit China. @katemac.bsky.social

Again, I can’t sleep. I emptied the brain on the page. lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/on-looking...