Breaking: The Laborers are endorsing Andrew Cuomo tomorrow, a source tells me.

🎙️New on the Labor Notes Pod: Explore the new Labor Notes resource May2028.org, which has materials like templates for contract alignment resolutions, and guides for getting workers together in your area to build more democratic organizing spaces labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/may-2028-c... 1/2

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

Chicago, Illinois, 2025:

"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."

"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."

"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Nearly half of big businesses say they've raised prices in the last six months due to tariffs, and more say they'll do so in the next few months.

NEWS: The federal govt is sending NYC’s top disease control official to Arizona for a months-long stint at an Indian Health Service facility.

That could complicate local infectious disease response efforts.

“If we have an outbreak, then we’re fucked,” a city health department staffer told me.

Can’t wait to May 2028? To build a strong coalition from the bottom up, consider organizing a Fightback School, a new effort Labor Notes is helping support around the country. labornotes.org/content/figh...

YouTube video by UAW It takes grit to win a fight | Volkswagen PDC

When we stand together, united as one, we are not alone

🎥 youtu.be/8eT9PU1ZtQk?...

20-Story Public Housing Building in the Bronx Partly Collapses

"A correction was made on Oct. 1, 2025: An earlier version of this article misstated the estimated cost of repairs and improvements needed in the New York City public housing system over the next 20 years. It is $80 billion, not $80 million."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/n...

May Day 2028 - MAY 2028 CONTACT US Resource Library Ready to take action? Working towards alignment in your local? We’ve compiled sample resolution language, organizing tips from people who have done it, and other resources....

Attacks on working people are growing at a dizzying pace. But we have a key point of leverage: The billionaire class depends on our labor.

@labornotes.bsky.social has just released a new resource on May Day 2028 filled with contract alignment FAQ's and resources. www.may2028.org

Agreeing to a May 1 contract deadline season means you and your co-workers are joining the fight for each other and workers everywhere. Will you take the leap into action?

On May2028.org, you can find:
* Practical resources, like sample resolutions and articles
* Talking points on why lining up contracts makes sense
* Steps you can take right now whether you’re a union member or officer, or even if you’re not currently in a union!

Breaking: Labor Notes has put together a new resource to help you organize with rank-and-file members in your local to build toward a nationwide show of power & a season of escalating labor action that could harness the momentum from May 2028 to spin a whirlwind of class struggle across the country.

We Who Believe in Democracy Must Fight to Make It Real We wake daily to new spectacles of violence and humiliation: kidnappings in broad daylight, attacks on unions, LGBTQ people, women, and immigrants, the erosion of long-cherished rights. It’s no longer...

Fear is the fuel of authoritarianism. Democracy is its antidote. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

North Carolina AFL-CIO Convention Backs May Day 2028 Plans The North Carolina AFL-CIO passed a resolution at its September convention backing the call from the United Auto Workers for mass action on May 1, 2028. The resolution directs the state AFL-CIO to cre...

“Imagine what kind of leverage we could have if we stood in solidarity and talked about the things that are on everybody’s mind. We have a lot more in common with each other than we think we do—we’re just being divided by rich politicians on both sides.”

labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

Gaza’s Nightmare Gaza is becoming a graveyard without the luxury of graves.

"Gaza is becoming a graveyard without the luxury of graves."

what does an "unconstitutional DEI principle" mean in the context of a tunnel project? what, a black person is going to use it?

Trump vs. the building trades

How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.

Before Laura Murillo, a street vendor, was detained by ICE, she had saved for a year to take her daughters on a four-day trip to Wisconsin; they took the trip in late June.

I spoke with one of her daughters, 19, who said, “My sister needs her. We need her."

Art from UAW newspaper that says, "Quit trying to carry the ball alone. Join The International Union, United Automobile Workers of America." Shows drawing of footballs players carrying the ball or tackling.

🏈"Quit trying to carry the ball alone."🏈
As we enter the heart of football season, a call to unionize from the newspaper of the @uaw.org, 1937. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

AI Data Centers Use a Lot of Energy. You May Be Paying for It AI data centers are pushing up energy costs all over the US. On today’s Big Take podcast: an investigation into who's footing the bill.

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers.

In Virginia, it’s 37%.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

for those of y'all not as plugged in to labor, the NLRB ordering union recognition is like the nuclear option for a board that otherwise can't do very much

Breaking:

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here.

The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.

How? 1/

Construction job openings dropped sharply in August, falling to the lowest level since 2017, even lower than during Covid.

Note: Industry-level JOLTS data is very volatile month-to-month, but construction job openings are clearly sharply lower than their late-2023 peak.

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Trump defends use of U.S. military against 'enemy within' Earlier, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the purpose of the department would exclusively be "war fighting."

JUST IN: President Trump has told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against "enemy within."

Billionaire Wealth Concentration Is Even Worse than You Imagine The share of U.S. wealth held by the top 0.1 percent has grown nearly 60 percent since 1989.

NEW: Since 1989, the share of U.S. wealth owned by the top 0.1% has grown nearly 60%.

In the same time, the share owned by the bottom 50% of households has declined 26%.

This is wealth concentration.

IPS scholars @chuck77.bsky.social and @ocampomar.bsky.social in @inequality.org:

The Trump administration plans to furlough 41% of Health and Human Service workers in the event of a shutdown.

The administration also plans to furlough 64% of the CDC, 75% of the National Institutes of Health, and 47% of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this