Y’all, Black women in unions earn about $9,150 more a year than Black women without one. That is not charity. That is not luck. That is worker power. When we organize, we change the rules. That’s the union difference. 💜✊🏿
Jody Calemine
@guerino.bsky.social
Director of Advocacy, AFL-CIO Work wise: Fighting for a government that’s responsive to working people Also: Waiting impatiently for the next great vowel shift Views my own
Chris Cooper, director John Sayles, David Straithairn, Gordon Clapp, Joe Grifasi, and Maggie Renzi
Michael Sainato@msainato.bsky.social · 4w agoAt the Matewan film reunion in Williamstown, MA
Read this. The cruelty is the point. Thank you @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social for synthesizing and humanizing the data being returned from the impact of the Trump Regime and its enablers' catastrophic and existential policy choices.
When the One Big Beautiful Bill comes due
Real people are losing SNAP. Medicaid will be next
open.substack.com
USA: Thousands Of Google Employees Petition Sundar Pichai For Layoff Protections indiawest.com/thousands-of...
Google Employees Petition Pichai For Layoff Protections
More than 4,500 Google employees petition CEO Sundar Pichai for stronger layoff protections as the company boosts AI investment amid job cuts.
indiawest.com
“By making it harder and harder for workers to organize and bargain collectively, the rich seized more and more income and wealth, destroying the US middle class,” @rbreich.bsky.social writes in the foreword of the report. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Tripling US union membership would shift $1.2tn to workers annually – report
More density would also narrow racial pay gaps, while a decline in density correlated to surges in wealth inequality
theguardian.com
🌟 NEW 🌟 First-of-its-kind analysis from @cmcnich.bsky.social, @jensherer.bsky.social, and @benzipperer.org measures how expanding union membership would boost wages, lower inequality, and benefit communities and democracy. A teaser of what that would mean for workers 🧵 1/
The case for tripling union membership: How rebuilding union power would strengthen workers, the economy, and our democracy
Foreword Imagine union membership tripling in the United States. It may sound radical—if you’ve forgotten history. In fact, more than 1 in 3 private-sector workers belonged to a union in the 1950s. Th...
epi.org
Imagine if 1 in 3 private-sector workers belonged to a union. What would wages, benefits, + working conditions look like? If the labor movement beat back billionaires + big corporations, what would it mean for our economy + democracy? Find out Jul 15 at 1p EST us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Congress could soon pass a “crypto regulation” bill that would do nothing about Trump’s corruption or money laundering loopholes.
Nominal wages are flatlining and even declining. In the same period that the planet announced its first trillionaire.
Elise Gould@elisegould.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe won't get the inflation data for June until July 14, but recent price data suggest year over year real wages likely fell in June. Workers and their families are finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet and real wages are most surely now below where they were in January 2025. #EconSky
Heartbroken by the loss of our union sister Vonda McDaniel. She was a fearless leader, a tireless advocate for working people and a cherished member of our AFL-CIO family. Her legacy will live on in every worker she inspired and every fight she helped lead.
Trump's NLRB dismissed 34.7% of unfair labor practice charges by unions between January 1, 2025 and April 29, 2026. In the same period, the NLRB also dismissed 67.4% of charges filed by workers against their employers.
Dismissals of Unfair Labor Practice Charges Have Surged Under Trump
A new report has found that the NLRB has been far more likely to dismiss charges of unfair labor practices under Trump.
truthout.org
In the legislative history of the NLRA, members of Congress worried explicitly about ensuring the independence of the NLRB and endeavored to make it so under the Supreme Court’s Humphreys Executor decision. Words were meticulously debated to meet the requirements the court had communicated.
Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.
The Reflecting Pool is a perfect reflection of Trump’s America - a monument to vanity, corruption, incompetence, filth. Please, everyone, tell Trump it is perfect so we can stop wasting taxpayer dollars trying to scrub the slime away. It’s like we are demanding he sweep all the sand off a beach.
Thousands have turned out for an Anti-Racism rally in Belfast city centre, organised by United Against Racism and supported by Trade Unions
Far too often, employers refuse to bargain in good faith w/ workers when they win a union, significantly delaying a first contract. Today, the U.S. House could pass the Faster Labor Contracts Act, which would make it easier for workers to secure a first union contract w/o unnecessary delay. 1/4
This is a devastating interview. Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good. Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.
We couldn’t be in the legendary Prince’s hometown for the #AFLCIO26 Constitutional Convention and NOT celebrate or honor him. America’s unions wish Minneapolis legend and our @afm-union.bsky.social and @sagaftra.org union brother Prince a happy birthday ✊
I do get emotional at this speech every time I read it
Do we have a spending problem? I argue no. Short 🧵 Here's a graph of all program spending EXCEPT Social Security and Medicare from 1950-present (with projections through 2056). It's already way below average, moving towards historic lows. So clearly that part of the govt isn't a "problem."
Inequality is costing middle class households tens of thousands of dollars
A new @epi.org report found that US companies are spending more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting consultants and lawyers. They’ll spend unlimited money crushing workers’ voices and then claim there’s no money for better conditions.
US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report finds
Critics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers
theguardian.com
Spanberger insists she’s OK with collective bargaining in theory, just not in practice. buff.ly/8zHe3WS
How Gov. Spanberger Betrayed Virginia’s Workers
After failing to gut a bill that legalized collective bargaining for state and local government workers, she opted to veto it.
buff.ly
Thanks to NYHTC, the essential work of housekeepers — so often ignored or demeaned — pays enough in NYC to lead a life of dignity. That’s the power of a union. At this moment of staggering inequality, we need more of it.
N.Y.C. Hotel Housekeepers Will Earn Over $100,000 Under New Contract
nytimes.com
LIRR workers struck and won. Strikes work. If you want to learn how to fight and win better pay for you and your co-workers too, contact us.
New York Attorney General Letitia James@newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe LIRR strike is over, and service will resume at noon tomorrow. The MTA and the LIRR unions have agreed on a fair deal that will protect both workers and commuters.
If you’d like to forego retirement and instead use your deferred wages to fund the lifestyles of the creators of Trumpcoin, Whalepanda, Asspennies, and Poocoin, Senate Banking is working hard on a bill to make your dream (others might call a nightmare) a reality.
Crypto Doesn’t Belong In Retirement Plans
Why cryptocurrency fails ERISA's fiduciary standard and doesn't belong in 401(k) retirement plans despite the Trump executive order.
forbes.com
A pyramid scheme always needs new marks. The final frontier for crypto is trillions of dollars in workers’ deferred wages. Senate Banking may move a bill this week to grease the skids for the crypto bros to slide right into your pension and walk off with your money.
Trump Adviser Says Regulatory Clarity Will Unlock 'Trillions of Dollars' Waiting To Enter Crypto
Significant institutional capital is being hindered from entering the cryptocurrency sector by the delay in passing the Clarity Act, according to White House crypto policy adviser Patrick Witt. "There...
finance.yahoo.com
CONGRATS: We are incredibly proud of our members who won or were finalists for 2026 Pulitzer Awards. Democracy depends on their journalism and it’s why we fight for – and win – strong contracts to protect our members’ ability to do their work.
UPDATE: VA Central Office is instructing facilities to return to the status quo for all AFGE-represented employees. This includes EVERYONE covered by the Master Agreement before the August 6, 2025 Termination.
