Joe McCartin joined the Valley Labor Report to talk about the way we approach the history of the United States this July 4. Interview begins at the 44 minute mark. #america250 @georgetownkilwp.bsky.social @josephamccartin.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo-U...

Talking to a Lawyer About SCOTUS Decisions Affecting Working People - TVLR 7/4/26

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Winning elections in 2026 and 2028 isn't enough, say @stephenlerner.bsky.social and @josephamccartin.bsky.social. Corporate power backing Trump will simply regroup behind newly empowered Dems. They call on unions to lead expansive coalitions to take the fight beyond the ballot box

In These Times@inthesetimes.com · 4mo ago

Surviving the Trump era is not enough. @stephenlerner.bsky.social and @josephamccartin.bsky.social argue that unions must rebuild their capacity for collective action, challenge the corporations profiting from authoritarianism and organize for a different future.

I was happy to offer a comment for this important, under-repored story. Since this measure was first taken in 1947, workers have never taken home a smaller share of the wealth they produce than they did in 2026 Q1 ... and the AI wave hadn't even hit yet. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/u-s-wor...

U.S. Workers Are Getting Record-Low Compensation Based on Their Productivity

The widening rift between the haves and the have-nots continues to be...

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Thanks for circulating this @jacobinmag.bsky.social friends. jacobin.com/2026/04/trum...

"[A] specter haunts the labor movement at this crucial juncture: the magical thinking that if unions can just survive the Trump era they can help restore a kind of pre-Trump normalcy after he leaves office." @stephenlerner.bsky.social @josephamccartin.bsky.social's strategy has 3 key elements (👇).

In These Times@inthesetimes.com · 6mo ago

"As labor leaders contemplate the conflicts that might emerge in coming months, they should consider lessons from what happened in Minnesota as well as Chicago and Los Angeles where local unions also played important roles in mobilizing resistance."

"...a specter haunts the labor movement at this crucial juncture: the magical thinking that if unions can just survive the Trump era they can help restore a kind of pre-Trump normalcy after he leaves office." @stephenlerner.bsky.social & @josephamccartin.bsky.social on expanding labor’s power.

Resisting Trumpism Can Revive the U.S. Labor Movement

The array of attacks on democracy and workers’ rights present an opportunity to expand labor’s power—if unions are willing to seize it.

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In this the master organizer and strategist @stephenlerner.bsky.social and I argue that the deepening crisis we face also offers an opportunity -- if we seize it -- to not only turn back encroaching authoritarianism, but to build a stronger and larger-visioned union movement.

In These Times@inthesetimes.com · 6mo ago

The crisis of U.S. democracy is also a test for labor. @stephenlerner.bsky.social & @josephamccartin.bsky.social argue that resisting Trumpism could help revive the labor movement if unions are willing to fight.

Thanks to @billfletcherjr.bsky.social for this incisive analysis and call to action. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

Demonstrations and Demographics

In the aftermath of the “No Kings Day” demonstrations of March 28th, there has been renewed interest—and concern—that in many cities the participation of

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tl;dr: more people should watch this gentleman's speech and think seriously about what he is saying bsky.app/profile/slcl...

Jordan aka Jirdan@slclunk.com · 7mo ago

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

“America’s labor movement has been going through a transition over the last decade that is far more layered and nuanced — and that holds more potential for future growth — than the BLS annual membership survey reveals.” New leaders & organizational forms having an impact— @lanewindham.bsky.social

In These Times@inthesetimes.com · 8mo ago

"The union membership statistics do nothing to demonstrate the new forms of worker justice organizing that have blossomed in the 21st century." @lanewindham.bsky.social lays out five things the numbers miss. inthesetimes.com/article/unio...

Looking below the recent union membership numbers @lanewindham.bsky.social finds signs of hope for a union movement that is battling considerable headwinds. inthesetimes.com/article/unio...

Five Things the New BLS Union Membership Statistics Don’t Tell You

Union membership is slightly on the rise—but the hope for U.S. labor’s future is far brighter than the numbers alone suggest.

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Activist & historian Bob Bussel on his 102yr old father, who fought Hitler, saw his B-17 crew mates killed, & ended up in a POW camp, & how the children, grandchildren & great grandchildren of those who fought fascism in the 1940s are carrying on the fight today. eugeneweekly.com/2026/02/05/m...

‘My Father Fought Fascism. Now I Have To.’

By Bob Bussel During the many protests I have attended since Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, I have noticed one sign that especially resonates with me. The sign typically reads: “My father…

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It was a labor of love to collaborate with my friend Bob Bussel the former director of U of Oregon's Labor Education and Research Center (LERC) on this remembrance of Nick Salvatore, Eugene Debs's biographer, and a mentor and dear friend to us both. Nick's story has special meaning in this time.

Dissent Magazine@dissentmag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Nick Salvatore, biographer of Eugene Debs, died at age 82 in November. Robert Bussel and @josephamccartin.bsky.social remember his work and legacy. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

What we're seeing from the people of Minnesota didn't come from nowhere - it comes from an organized/empowered working class supported by unions and community orgs sharing goals for the common good! Check out the KI's report on the recent history of labor/community in MN! #minneapolis #minnesota

Joseph A. McCartin@josephamccartin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

To understand the deep roots of the heroic resistance unfolding in Minnesota today, read this: georgetown.app.box.com/s/kxsmj8lkmp...

Let’s support workers in MN! Contribute $20+ to Unite HERE Local 17 Solidarity Fund to support mutual aid for MN union members. Send us a copy of your receipt and we'll mail you a special HELU postcard & sticker! workingpartnerships.betterworld.org/campaigns/un... #ICEOUT #ICEOUTMN #ICEOutofMN

Nurses like Alex Pretti at the MN VA Hospital were represented by AFGE Local 3669. What is AFGE going to do about the blatantly false statement about Pretti issued today by its affiliate union, the National Border Patrol Council? If the NBPC won't disavow those lies, AFGE should disaffiliate them.

To understand the deep roots of the heroic resistance unfolding in Minnesota today, read this: georgetown.app.box.com/s/kxsmj8lkmp...

Aligning for Power A Case Study of Bargaining for The Common Good in Minnesota.pdf | Powered by Box

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As clergy pray, arrests begin

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 9mo ago

Police have arrived. Arrests seem imminent. The crowd chants “let them pray” and “Minnesota nice means prosecute ICE”

To understand the deep roots of the heroic resistance unfolding in Minnesota today, read this: georgetown.app.box.com/s/kxsmj8lkmp...

Aligning for Power A Case Study of Bargaining for The Common Good in Minnesota.pdf | Powered by Box

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On this Martin Luther King Day I'm proud to join former AFL-CIO general counsel and National Labor Relations Board member Craig Becker on this article calling out Trump's actions harming Black federal workers & claiming exemption from anti-discrimination law contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-ass...

Trump’s Assertion of Power Threatens Black Workers

Supreme Court precedent dating back to the 1880s holds that Congress can restrict the president’s authority to fire federal employees.

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Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly.  We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."

i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.

Here @anandwrites.bsky.social brilliantly explains what email reveals about the "Epstein class," showing how the mores of today's version of what C.Wright Mills once called the power elite suggest that their "highest commitment is to their own permanence" as an elite. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails

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Universities spend gazillions on EdTech software that doesn’t serve faculty or student interests and often doesn’t work well. But what if we got off that path and leveraged internal resources to produce non-profit systems? Here’s a proposal to leverage the CUNY systems platforms.

Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"Christopher Newfield called for academics to 'seize the means of knowledge production' by working 'step by step ... toward direct control of universities.' ... I think the most imperative, but also the most apparent pressure point for academics looking to act upon his call is education technology."

Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work. Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.

It was predictable that many liberal Zionists would oppose anti-Zionism’s “political normalization” in the NYC mayoral race. The more surprising story of the campaign is not liberal Zionist opposition to Mamdani, but their support, @peterbeinart.bsky.social writes. jewishcurrents.org/mamdani-crea...

Mamdani Created a Left-Liberal Coalition on Israel/Palestine

The surprising story of the New York mayoral campaign is not liberal Zionist opposition to Mamdani’s campaign, but their support.

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“The 21st-century algorithmic gaze dissolves both patient and doctor alike into never-ending streams of automated data.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart

A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself

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NYC electing Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is a reminder that 1) Socialism has a long history in the US and 2) Americans actually LOVE socialism. #ushistory #americanhistory #Mamdani #socialism #eugenedebs www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DVac7w/

NYC electing Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is a reminder that 1) Socialism has a long history in the US and 2) Americans actually LOVE socialism. #ushistory #Mamdani #socialism #eugenedebs #History...

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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Ogoni Nine who were executed by the Nigerian military government in November 1995 after campaigning against widespread oil pollution in the Niger Delta. @amnesty.org calls for the Ogoni Nine to be fully exonerated. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Nigeria: Government must clear names of executed activists Ogoni Nine

Marking 30 years since the Nigerian government’s brutal execution of nine leading environmental activists – the Ogoni Nine – for fighting to protect the Niger Delta from oil giant Shell, Amnesty Inter...

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“Democrats are uncomfortable exercising power and because they lack a coherent or compelling vision for their party or how it would run the country.”

Alex Shephard@alexshephard.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I wrote about Chuck Schumer newrepublic.com/article/2029...