@union-brandes.bsky.social
Your local German union organizer, organizing Europe's biggest land port in Duisburg | formerly a historian
1 year, some great organizers, a plan to win = hope
03.11.2025 23:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Zohran, Tish James and Brad Lander lead a procession of hundreds walking across the Brooklyn Bridge at dawn.
Tish James, Brad Lander, Tony Simone and Rita Joseph wait for the march on the bridge.
Zohran at a packed press conference outside city hall, Tish James and others raising their hands in the air.
Early this morning, our city still plunged into darkness, I set off to walk the Brooklyn Bridge.
As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, and working people — a movement to bring a new day to our city.
Tomorrow, we win it together.
Großküche der #Uniklinik #Bonn: Die fristlose #Kündigung des Vorsitzenden des Betriebsrats vom Catering der UKB muss zurückgenommen werden!
03.11.2025 17:07 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street. People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization. As Figuero tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show. Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away. Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.
In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
03.11.2025 18:34 — 👍 4735 🔁 2596 💬 214 📌 242"But it’s not hard for our peers to see how they can pressure employers, companies, churches, media, schools, and risk-averse unions. Nothing dissipates despair like a clear plan to win with easy, actionable steps for involving millions of ordinary people." 2/3
02.11.2025 16:23 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Wie kann man die Lust am Zerstören soziologisch verstehen? Mit Till Schmidt habe ich für das @philosophiemagazin.bsky.social über unsere Forschung und über unsere Lektüre von Erich Fromm gesprochen.
@onachtwey.bsky.social
www.philomag.de/artikel/caro...
The task of trade unionists in this conjuncture is to connect the crisis of the workplace with the overlapping crises that unfold outside it & to highlight the closure of other imagined roads to change.
There is no external political force that can help. They’ve all been defeated.
It’s just us.
Very excited to listen to this. Following the election of Trump, Berlin tech workers started to fight for power through the initial step of the Works Council. Years later it’s more clear than ever a WoCo isn’t enough as most WoCos are confronted by employer union busting. Social partnership is dead.
04.02.2025 08:59 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Erster Streik von Social-Media Beschäftigten in Deutschland!
Die Kolleg*innen leisten Widerstand gegen TikTok Germany. Der Arbeitgeber will die Arbeitsplätze automatisieren.
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/t...
🚨 Streik bei TikTok Berlin
150 Kolleg*innen sollen durch KI & Outsourcing ersetzt werden. Das lassen wir nicht zu!
‼️ Es geht nicht nur um Arbeitsplätze – sondern um Demokratie, Regulierung & Plattformverantwortung.
Mehr Infos: www.verdi.de/themen/arbei...
#wirsindverdi #tiktokstreik
Mitbestimmung bei Amazon: Erster Betriebsrat in Bochum gewählt!
Erstmals wurde an einem Amazon-Delivery-Standort in NRW ein Betriebsrat gewählt. In Bochum Riemke setzen sich Beschäftigte aktiv für bessere Arbeitsbedingungen ein ✊
👉 zur Pressemitteilung:
nrw.verdi.de/presse/press...
yo could you send me this article so I can work it into the Wikipedia article? follow me back and i can send you my email
27.10.2025 16:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Erschreckende Zahlen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit: In einem Drittel der sanktionierten Haushalte leben Kinder. Die Bundesregierung plant trotzdem weitere Verschärfungen.
23.10.2025 13:15 — 👍 590 🔁 283 💬 32 📌 27
"Black organizers had noticed gaps in the campaign’s strategy for reaching Black voters. To address them, they led canvasses in working-class Black neighborhoods...By early October, Mamdani had taken a commanding lead over Cuomo among Black voters"
hammerandhope.org/article/zohr...
Leviathan-Sonderband "Politische Theorien öffentlicher Finanzen" wird ausgepackt
Da ist der endlich: Der neue Leviathan-Sonderband "Politische Theorien öffentlicher Finanzen - Zur (De-)Politisierung von Geld, Eigentum und Steuern" ist ausgepackt! @nomosverlag.bsky.social www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/politis...
24.10.2025 09:41 — 👍 58 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 1This is what I've had the privilege to watch happening in Chicago:
A genuine social moment, so new and spontaneous (though not without antecedents and seedbeds) it doesn't even yet have a theory or "ideology." Just: people doing....
Union win! ✊
Dockers from ITF affiliate FNV Havens brought Europe’s biggest port — Rotterdam — to a standstill and won:
✅ 17–20% pay rise
✅ Stronger safety protections
✅ Commitment to attract young workers
Solidarity works — dockers won’t be taken for granted. 💪
www.itfglobal.org/en/news/rott...
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
05.10.2025 09:08 — 👍 38089 🔁 17041 💬 817 📌 2400this was a really fun convo w/ @vanjackson.bsky.social , a great host & one of the sharpest analysts of international politics in the game
10.10.2025 21:40 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.
10.10.2025 20:14 — 👍 4442 🔁 939 💬 29 📌 57CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
The worst aspect of liberalism is its self-defeating nature
02.10.2025 06:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wer krank ist, bleibt daheim und wird ganz normal weiter vom Arbeitgeber bezahlt. Was für viele Arbeitnehmer*innen in Deutschland eine Selbstverständlichkeit ist, wurde erstritten und erstreikt.
#streik #krankheit #arbeit #igmetall #ottobrenner
A collage of hundreds of canvassers from dozens of canvass launches.
Last week, thousands of volunteers knocked on more than 100,000 doors across the five boroughs — the first time we've crossed that single week milestone since June.
We can't stop now: zohranfornyc.com/sixweeks
Today is publication day!
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green?
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
Über die Synthese von Neoliberalismus und Rechtspopulismus:
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
New Dig: @socialists.nyc co-chairs Gustavo Gordillo & Grace Mausser on how DSA & @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social campaign won this historic victory. A behind scenes look at how DSA built most powerful socialist org in USA—and how we replicate the victory everywhere. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/how-...
01.07.2025 17:43 — 👍 74 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 6Over the last five years we built
Reclaim Rhode Island into a potent housing justice, tenant organizing, left political organization. We’re hiring:
- tenant organizers to be supervised by SEIU 1199 NE
- an executive director to build Reclaim up into a powerhouse cadre org. Details below!
For a deeper look, check out this interview with @jamiemerchant.bsky.social on @beautifulidea.bsky.social here: itsgoingdown.org/trump-the-te...
29.08.2025 17:26 — 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
