Jeff Schuhrke
@jeffschuhrke.bsky.social
Author of No Neutrals There (Haymarket, 2025) and Blue-Collar Empire (Verso, 2024).
This Is How We Win is a guide to building a bolder, more militant labor and working-class movement, and to how working people can effectively use economic disruption to fight the billionaire class. Read the UE NEWS review here: www.ueunion.org/ue-news-feat...
Delegates at #TUC26 have passed a wide-ranging BDS policy which calls for the UK government end to all military cooperation with Israel
TUC calls for end to all UK military cooperation with Israel in wide-ranging BDS policy
The TUC has called for the government to "impose wide-ranging sanctions on Israel until it complies with international law"
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The U.S. government is criminalizing a campus labor union at the University of Michigan for supporting Palestine. We are calling on fellow labor organizers to resist this dangerous act of repression mondoweiss.net/2026/09/the-... #Palestine #Israel
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For a bigger impact, we’ll need to go even further than Twin Cities workers did: preparing for open-ended & full workplace strikes, not one-day partial strikes, and hitting the big capitalist firms nationally, rather than a handful of name-brand companies in one state. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
Persecuted by Trump, Will Unions Build Towards May 2028?
Three years ago the United Auto Workers, glowing with confidence after a successful strike at the Big 3 and pledging ambitious new organizing drives, put out a call for a national strike on May 1, 202...
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"What we did in Minnesota ... was a big test of our community’s willingness to nonviolently disrupt the economy. By taking this action together, we expanded people’s conception of what we are capable of when we’re under federal assault." — SEIU Local 26 President Greg Nammacher
The book, edited by Sarah Lazare and Amie Stager, has a bunch of great stuff from labor activists in Minneapolis and elsewhere. It comes out this week and you can order it here: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2966-t...
This Is How We Win
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Really good story here that highlights the role of labor unions in allowing workers to publicly debate whether they want to produce weapons, including for Israel. (As opposed to at-will non-union workers in the US, who just risk getting fired for dissenting speech) cc @sarahlazare.bsky.social
Inkstick Media@inkstickmedia.com · 3mo agoFrom Volkswagen to Mercedes, Germany's struggling auto industry is embracing defense production — even as workers question what they're being asked to build. inkstickmedia.com/as-germany-r...
"Groups like @notechforapartheid.bsky.social are organizing from within Amazon + Google, while groups like #purgepalantir are building external pressure against the company, often in concert with workers in other industries who don’t want their companies to contract with #Palantir."
In These Times@inthesetimes.com · 3mo ago“I didn’t sign up to help kill people.” In a new piece co-published with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social, @sarahlazare.bsky.social looks at tech workers confronting the military uses of their own labor, from Microsoft to Google to Cisco to Palantir.
“I didn’t sign up to help kill people.” In a new piece co-published with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social, @sarahlazare.bsky.social looks at tech workers confronting the military uses of their own labor, from Microsoft to Google to Cisco to Palantir.
AI’s Rise is Being Fueled by the Sprawling U.S. Military State
Can an increasingly precarious tech workforce be a site of antiwar resistance?
inthesetimes.com
UAW delegates voted to divest the union’s reported $400,000 in Israel Bonds, making it the first major U.S. union to do so. Organizers say it’s a victory for international solidarity and a sign of the working class's growing rejection of Israel. mondoweiss.net/2026/07/uaw-... #Palestine #Israel
UAW becomes the first major U.S. union to vote to divest from Israel Bonds
UAW delegates voted to divest the union’s reported $400,000 in Israel Bonds, making it the first major U.S. union to do so. Organizers say it’s a victory for international solidarity and a sign of...
mondoweiss.net
Very proud to have co-edited this book with Amie Stager, in partnership with May Day Strong. This tells the story of how, by striking, refusing, and SHUTTING IT DOWN, workers can resist an ICE invasion and go toe to toe with the most powerful people on earth. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2966-t...
Hi all, @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social is teaching a class on the history of general strikes in the United States. It's online, there's a free option, and it's obviously extremely topical to our current moment. Sign up here.
LBR X1025 A History of General Strikes in the United States
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In South Carolina, a May Day Picket of Israeli Weapons Company Supplying Munitions Used in Lebanon The International Workers’ Day protest targets Elbit America, a subsidiary of the largest weapons company in Israel. My report.
In South Carolina, a May Day Picket of Israeli Weapons Company Supplying Munitions Used in Lebanon - Workday Magazine
LADSON, S.C. — Angela Washington stands on a busy road nestled in pine and live oak trees, shaking her fists as she shouts into a bullhorn. “We don’t want you here,” she yells in the direction of an ...
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A Starbucks manager left this comment on one of our posts 👀
Five whole blocks of Park Ave are shut down for a @32bjseiu.bsky.social rally ahead of a possible strike. Guess you better give them a contract!!!!
Workers in the US are obviously not the primary victims of US imperialism, but they are abandoned and fleeced by the same war state that kills countless people abroad. From blood banks to food pantries, a snapshot of a country whose raison d’etre is increasingly open sadism and violence. My latest.
In These Times@inthesetimes.com · 6mo agoWhile millions struggle to eat, Washington keeps pouring billions into war. @sarahlazare.bsky.social traces the connection between permanent militarism, gutted social programs and working-class precarity in the U.S. inthesetimes.com/article/perm...
Candace Owens, Alex Jones, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib Agree: Genocidal Trump Has to Go ‘A whole civilization will die tonight’: the president’s insane threat in advance of his 8pm deadline for blowing up Iran’s power plants and bridges. zeteo.com/p/trump-iran...
Candace Owens, Alex Jones, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib Agree: Genocidal Trump Has to Go
‘A whole civilization will die tonight’: the president’s insane threat in advance of his 8pm deadline for blowing up Iran’s power plants and bridges.
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“What President Trump is describing as the destruction of ‘a whole civilization’ would be a war crime, plain and simple.”
With Trump Threatening a Genocide, Military Must Disobey His Orders, Former Pentagon Officials Say
“What President Trump is describing as the destruction of ‘a whole civilization’ would be a war crime, plain and simple.”
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This is not a normal moment, and it does not call for timid journalism. We need to raise $50K by Friday to support reporting on picket lines, in neighborhoods, in the streets, and everywhere people are fighting for each other. Become a sustainer today: bit.ly/3PQZjMc
Next @night school-dc.bsky.social session! Labor, Imperialism, and Zionism with Jeff Schuhrke. (Hybrid)
Labor, Imperialism, and Zionism: Socialist Night School with Jeff Schuhrke
What role has the US labor movement and its institutions played in global struggles for liberation? We'll be speaking with Jeff Schuhrke, the author of Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor...
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United Airlines and the flight attendant union have reached a tentative labor agreement that will take top pay to $100/hr by the end of the contract. Flight attendants will also finally be paid during boarding if this agreement is ratified.
On strike, shut it down! New York is a union town! The solidarity is massive on the Contract Faculty United picket at NYU! @uawregion9a.bsky.social
For years, Palestinian trade unions have been calling on global counterparts to stand in solidarity. Now, activists are asking Canada’s largest labour body to do just that. pressprogress.ca/labour-for-p...
The Labour Push to Declare Israeli Goods Untouchable
'Answering the call' from Palestinian trade unions, Labour For Palestine is gearing up for a vote by the Canadian Labour Congress
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers say they'll change name of César Chavez Day to Farmworkers Day following sexual abuse allegations.
Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...
The Cesar Chavez story discussed yesterday is out, in the New York Times. Two women say that he sexually assaulted them as children, beginning when they were 12 and 13. And Dolores Huerta says he raped her in 1966.
Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years
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We stand opposed to the war of choice that the Trump administration is waging with Iran. @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social Read the full statement: https://rutgersaaup.org/statement-on-the-us-war-in-iran/
On March 18th at 1pm ET the National Labor Network for Ceasefire & In These Times magazine will host an international webinar featuring trade unionists from Italy & Britain engaged in direct action for justice for Palestinians. Learn about it during the webinar: bit.ly/palestine-la...
