proud as hell to share: i'm joining @labornotes as first ever Labor-Climate Organizer🌞 troublemakers in construction, manufacturing, energy, transit – hit me up with your stories of fighting the boss, esp. to lead a green transition your way. we'll help you fight ✊

labor notes conference really about to become real utopia again, we moved a few thousand lbs of shirts and books on pallet jacks today before the thunderstorm hit

At a bus manufacturing plant in Alabama, longtime worker Stevie Joe Thornton said a manager tried to force workers into overtime daily, despite clear limits in the contract. Thornton walked out during the forced overtime, and persuaded others to join. 1/2 labornotes.org/2026/05/bus-f…

I've seen "union contract first, organize later" approaches fail to build a living union in construction and home care. I was skeptical of that approach for bus factories. glad to say the badass welders and assembly line organizers of Alabama and Kentucky proved me wrong

Jacobin published my review of Les Leopold's new book on why labor should power campaigns by independent populists. There are big opportunities in parts of the country where the Democratic Party brand is toxic. Plus what that means for DSA and where the effort can go long term.

“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

in March I went on strike for 3 weeks. several of my coworkers joined DSA after. one of them co-wrote this article with me 🌹 Jane Slaughter is calling it "One of the most useful articles for rank-and-filers and union leaders ever."

The rush to adopt A.I. is often sold to us as progress, but for workers it can mean job cuts, tighter surveillance, and less control over how their work gets done. @TRAILSANDWAYS outlines some concrete strategies unions can take to push back. labornotes.org/2026/03/four-…

RT @EW4Democracy: 3,800 workers are ON STRIKE at JBS in Greeley, CO. It’s the first major meatpacking strike in the US in 40 years. This is…