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Design your strategy of how to come together based on the insights that come up

The most difficult part of unionism is coming together as coworkers. It's also the most powerful part.

Do this thought experiment:

You and your co-workers are organized, you've done it. What dynamics among the coworker base did you make use of to make that happen?

You always do what you can within the big picture around you. Work in the tougher times is necessary to minimize harm and to seed the work when conditions ripen.

Union-builders build in good times. In bad times. And in the in-between times.

What a gift.

I’m still waiting for Dave to break decisively to radical unionism haha. But I trust that he shares his copious wisdom honestly and insightfully.

I’ll be reading the hell out of this book with my notepad at hand.

The current total of those arrested last Thursday in Ventura County is in the mid-300s, according to KTLA. An absolutely devastating raid that has shattered scores of families.

Vital piece. One working class, solidarity for all.

sexism is alive and well in the labor movement! always fun to be reminded, right!

Basque unions have used the power they have in their workplace to cut off large steel shipments to an Israeli weapons manufacturer equipping the genocide in Gaza. In response to the solidarity call of Palestinian unions.

This is the unionism we need. 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥

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Not so long ago, labor was ignored in media or discredited by corporate PR. Not that good people weren't doing what they could.

But a world of @kimkelly.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social @jamieson.bsky.social @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social @melbuer.bsky.social etc is not one to take for granted.

The material gains of unionism are obviously essential and the foundation.

But the community you make and the people you do it with are the most moving in the end.

Enjoy the journey.

📣 Call to action for Portland-area folks! New Seasons Markets is stalling progress on a fair contract with New Seasons Labor Union, insisting on cutting wages and benefits. Even worse, they announced raises for non-union stores ONLY, a blatant union-busting tactic. Follow @nslu_pdx on IG for more.

tfw when the spreadsheet hits just right, the real organizing nerds know...haha.

We need a labor movement that is not about mitigating AI but about worker and community control of it. Including disposing of what shouldn't exist and equitably managing the gains of what should.

Some bosses are being more candid that AI, robots, and the like are about destroying jobs.

But they say not too worry, we'll all be rich and free.

Does that ring true to you? A few capitalists will have total control of production and distribution and they'll give us paradise in return? 🤔

3) Do engage in larger mobilizations and spaces via groups critical to your day-to-day. Such as with tenants in your building, coworkers at your job, neighbors in your community

4) Do work to ultimately set a city-wide and national strategy with other similarly rooted groups (instead of #1 and #2)

Iron clad rules to avoid being duped and disappointed in a movement:

1) Don't allow yourself to be herded by giant non-profit or other large institutions that you have no say in

2) Don't be herded by non-rooted influencers, content creators, or movement entrepreneurs

Socialism will earn some new adherents over fascism as the material impacts of the raids inevitably hit all workers. In a country so split, those incremental gains are important on the path to a super majority.

These evil raids unintentionally offer good dynamics for movement building.

In that rapid response has more of a decentralized, local, and organized character. Then you can mobilize big nationally or take national direction action but via the local organized clusters.

Solidarity and safety to Iranian workers and their families 🥹💔

The starting point for the union effort you might be thinking about is your problems at work. Making your job as you imagine it should be.

But union is also a powerful platform to engage in broader social struggles. Those fights also help determine our life on and off the job. Get started. 🇲🇽🏴🚩

Recall, or be aware if not familiar, that the protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor catalyzed anti-racist union organizing.

Union-builders should move with the energy emerging in this current rising and make sure the on-the-job piece nourishes the street action too.

Movimiento Cosecha—Press Release: “A Day Without Immigrants” May Day Strike Announced Immigrant Rights Organizations, Workers Centers and Unions launch a national strike billed as a “day without immigrants” to demonstrate that the country depends on the labor of immigrants and working ...

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Momentum Builds for May Day Strikes Shop steward Tomas Mejia sensed something was different when 600 janitors streamed into the Los Angeles union hall February 16—far more than for a regular membership meeting. Chanting “Huelga! Huelga!...

“The president is attacking our community,” said Mejia, a member of his union’s executive board. “Immigrants have helped form this country, we’ve contributed to its beauty, but the president is attacking us as criminal.”

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"The janitors of SEIU United Service Workers West felt driven, Mejia says, “to strike with the community” against the raids, threats, and immigrant-bashing hate speech that the Trump administration has unleashed."

Let me state this as clearly as possible: David Huerta and his co-leaders at USWW were at the very top of the traditional union leaders who rose to the occasion to take on Trump's immigration attacks from the very beginning. They went so far as to carry out a brief general strike at their shops.

Let's rise with David now in his time of need as he has done courageously for so many others.

Let's rise with every single worker, no matter their title, where they born, or their mother tongue.

A dignified life for all working people requires it.

Let me state this as clearly as possible: David Huerta and his co-leaders at USWW were at the very top of the traditional union leaders who rose to the occasion to take on Trump's immigration attacks from the very beginning. They went so far as to carry out a brief general strike at their shops.

Working with @foodchainworkers.bsky.social and others, a big piece of that was to up the ante and to sound the alarm about anti-immigrant worker attacks in the lead up to, day of, and aftermath of May Day 2017. We sought out allies to work hand in hand with.