If inequality hadn't exploded after 1979, middle-income households would be making $30,000 MORE per year. That's a second income. A paid-off car. A college fund. Instead, we're turning hobbies into side hustles just to keep up. The money didn't disappear. It went to the top.

Trump tried to use a government shutdown to fire thousands of federal workers. Unions took him to court. They just won. 4,200 workers were targeted. The shutdown-firing policy is now dead. Those workers still have their jobs. This is what unions do. We fight back. And we win.

NEW UNION ALERT: 58 workers at Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter just voted 39–9 to form their union! They organized over safety, respect, transparency, and pay. They care for animals every day. Now they’re organizing to protect the people too. #MoneyPowerRespect

European unions are coming for Palantir! More than 120 unions & civil-society groups across 30 countries are demanding governments cancel ALL existing Palantir contracts & block future ones. Workers everywhere agree. Public services shouldn’t be controlled by surveillance tech!

CEO pay at the 100 lowest-paying companies jumped 41% between 2019 and 2025. Worker pay went up just 20%. Inflation was 26%. If you think you’re getting poorer despite working your ass off, this is why. It's not you. It's the system working exactly as designed.

Unions are leading the fight against AI at the bargaining table. At Bath Iron Works, workers won contract language requiring the company to notify them before AI and robotics are implemented. Organizing is how workers keep a seat at the table when technology threatens our jobs.

Trump tried to limit mail-in voting before the midterms with rules that would have stopped ballots from reaching some voters. The Supreme Court rejected it, for now. Kavanaugh said he may rule differently next time. Our voting rights are one court case away. Fight back.

MIT economist Daron Acemoglu just backed a Senate bill making AI companies pay into a federal fund for displaced workers. He warns, ”AI is on track to displace workers, not complement them.” If AI reshapes work, it needs to work for all of us, not just a handful of elites.

NEW UNION ALERT: Nurses at Central Maine Medical Center just won their union election in a landslide. Leading up to the vote, the hospital fired 15 supporters and suspended 5 more. It didn’t stop them. As nurse Katie Grinnell put it: “Their cruelty toward us just made us stronger.”

BREAKING: More than 1,000 union nurses are marching in San Francisco on Wednesday to protest Palantir's AI tools being used by ICE to identify and arrest people. Our health records are being used to deport our neighbors. Nurses will not stand idly by and watch it happen.

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Missouri Republicans drew a new congressional map designed to alter midterms. The states Supreme Court blocked it. The US Supreme Court blocked it twice! A federal appeals court is trying to revive it anyway. Our right to fair elections is on the ballot! Register. Vote. Fight back.

2,000 Philly school bus drivers, cleaners, and maintenance workers just won 9.5% raises, $2,350 bonuses, and 25 paid parental leave days, for the first time in their union’s history. Turns out respect looks a lot like getting paid what you’re worth. #MoneyPowerRespect

AutoZone has reportedly spent $210,696 on managers and lawyers fighting the first union drive in company history involving 11 workers. That's more than $19,000 per worker. The company made $2.5B last year. Apparently the company has plenty of money. Just not for raises.

592 Duquesne Light workers voted to authorize a strike. 592 to 14. Contract expires Sept 30. Wages, staffing, safety, equipment, retirement are all on the table. 98% in favor. That's not a handful of unhappy workers. That's the entire workforce telling them things need to change.

Even our healthcare workers can’t afford our healthcare. An Idaho nurse saw her family's premium jump from $700 to $1,500. A small physician’s office faced a 22% increase and canceled coverage. 10.5% of healthcare support workers are uninsured. What the hell are we doing here?

You don't have to fire someone to get rid of them. You just make their job impossible. USDA workers are being told to relocate thousands of miles or lose their jobs. 71% of one office said they'd quit. A coalition of unions just took the administration to court to try & stop it

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A U.S. citizen & Alabama construction worker has been arrested by ICE 3 TIMES. A judge blocked warrantless raids & detentions in several counties, without particularized suspicion. Agents don’t get to demand papers because someone looks Latino. Skin color isn’t probable cause.

7,000 Chicago hotel workers at 46 hotels voted 85% to authorize a strike. Cassandra Pope said it best, “They demand and demand, always rushing us, without acknowledging that we are human beings.” 1 in 3 can't afford rent. 30% can't pay utilities. Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott. Pay up

While wages have stagnated for millions of workers over the last 5 years, UCLA Teamsters negotiated a compounded 30.1% raise over the next 5 years. 5-6% per year, not some 2% below inflation slap in the face. That’s the power of collective bargaining. Workers can demand more.

What's extra wild about this $131M settlement NYC just secured for Doordashers? Its the largest single labor-enforcement action a city has taken. Any city, ever. Now imagine every city and state did this. Workers wouldn't be losing $50B a year in wage theft, that's for damn sure.

They’re finally starting to get it. A former healthcare CEO is calling for a $25 minimum wage. And a former BlackRock executive agrees: pay people more, reduce turnover, improve productivity, increase profits. Workers aren’t asking for too much. Corporations just pay too little.

STRIKE ALERT: 100’s of Cleveland Clinic workers walked off the job yesterday. They struggle to afford care at the very clinic they work at. They're assaulted on the job with no protections and offered crumbs at the bargaining table. World class care demands world class treatment!

190,000 home care workers in New York just filed for a union election. It could be the largest in US history! The record is 137,000 GM workers in 1940. They care for disabled New Yorkers in their own homes. Paid just $18hr with no benefits, no protections. Thats about to change.

DoorDash spent $1.4 million trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming NYC mayor. Mamdani just made them pay $131.5 million in wage theft settlements to 264,000 delivery workers. This is why they fear working class solidarity. It comes with accountability.

Money given to the wealthy gets hoarded. Money given to workers gets spent. On rent. On groceries. On local businesses. On their kids. It immediately cycles back through the economy and creates more growth than any tax cut for the rich ever could. Higher wages help everyone.

Marion County workers threatened to strike. The County took them seriously. They fought for affordable healthcare and won! No premium increases, & for the first time, the County absorbs future increases instead of passing them to workers! The threat of collective action is power

Lawsuits are being allowed to proceed claiming Workday’s hiring tools are using AI to discriminate against Black and other applicants based on race, age, and disabilities. As if finding a job wasn’t already a nightmare, they built an AI tool to send us straight back to the 50s.

COMMENTARY: These workers say an AI hiring platform discriminated against them. But who should pay?

A lawsuit against Workday is testing the novel question of who bears responsibility when AI-powered hiring tools allegedly discriminate against Black and other applicants.

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California law says wage theft claims must be resolved in 135 days. The actual median? 854 days. Six times the legal limit. Some cases took over FIVE YEARS. CA workers lose up to $4b a year in stolen wages. Most never see it back. Wage theft is theft. It demands immediate justice!