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Shout out to the Eighth graduating class of WILL Empower Apprentices!!!! This year's class repped orgs like @powerswitchaction.org, Community Labor United, @unitehere.org and more! 💥 Check out more information on our website🖱️🌐 www.willempower.org/2026/06/23/8...
Another WILL Empower WE-lcome to Nina Tran who will be working with @powerswitchaction.org doing communications. WELCOME NINA!!!!
Congratulations to @stacydavisgates.bsky.social, recipient of the 2025 WILL Empower Nannie Helen Burroughs Courageous Leadership Award!🎉🔥 "Pres. Gates, I believe if Burroughs was alive today you two would be sister comrades in the labor movement" -Dr. Danielle Phillips-Cunningham
Congratulations to the recipient of the 2025 Edna Berger Young Courageous Leader Award - Claudia Quiñones Torrico, Organizing Director @unitedwedream.org 🎉🎉 Claudia has been described as "the courageous fire of the movement" and we could not agree more! Thank you Claudia!🔥🎉
It's time to VOTE 🗳️ Help tell a story of worker dignity by heading over to bit.ly/intrwvn and clicking celebrate 👏 to vote for Interwoven! Interwoven documents how North Carolina workers solidarity, employee ownership, and environmental care first. 📣Amplify their voices! Vote today!
Congratualtions to MI home care workers! Watch our roundtable with Mary Kay Henry and some amazing women representing the childcare, homecare, and rideshare industries, who shared their powerful stories on how they overcame challenges to organizing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElbV...
Driving Dignity: Rewriting the Rules from the Service Industry to the Gig Economy with SEIU
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SEIU_ORG@seiu.org · 10mo agoWe’re still not over this historic win! 💜 32,000 Michigan home care workers just got their union back — proving what’s possible when workers stand united. This is democracy. This is solidarity. This is power. ✊🏽💪
Be sure to check out this upcoming virtual event featuring a round table with Dr. @emmaamador.bsky.social and her new book, The Politics of Care Work. @drsarahmac.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social
So proud of this class whose hosts include @unitehere.org, @opeiu.org, @jwj.org, @labwc.bsky.social, @powerswitchaction.org, @ncstateaflcio.bsky.social, @aflcio.org
@weleadlabor.bsky.social · 10mo agoWILL Empower is pleased to welcome its eighth class of the WILL Empower Apprenticeship Program that identifies, develops and convenes a new generation of women, non-binary and trans staff members for the worker justice movement. ▶️🖱️(www.willempower.org/2025/09/25/w... )
Very excited to be a part of WILL Empower again and to welcome our Communications Apprentice to the team!
@weleadlabor.bsky.social · 10mo agoWILL Empower is pleased to welcome its eighth class of the WILL Empower Apprenticeship Program that identifies, develops and convenes a new generation of women, non-binary and trans staff members for the worker justice movement. ▶️🖱️(www.willempower.org/2025/09/25/w... )
We are devastated at the news of the passing of our Vice President and leader of @ufcw324.bsky.social Andrea Zinder. This is a tremendous loss for the Federation, for UFCW, and most of all for her members.
UFCW 324@ufcw324.bsky.social · 10mo agoUFCW 324 mourns the unexpected passing of President Andrea Zinder. Andrea was a compassionate and fierce labor leader with a vision to improve the lives of not only UFCW members but all workers nationwide. We will keep you updated as we navigate her unexpected passing.
WILL Empower is pleased to welcome its eighth class of the WILL Empower Apprenticeship Program that identifies, develops and convenes a new generation of women, non-binary and trans staff members for the worker justice movement. ▶️🖱️(www.willempower.org/2025/09/25/w... )
The Kalmanovitz Initiative invites you to join Gloria J. Browne-Marshall (professor of law and Africana studies, John Jay College, CUNY) in a discussion on the significance of protest in American society, with particular focus on labor rights and unions. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-role-o...
The energy at Tradeswomen Build Nations was electric! Tradeswomen lead the way in our labor movement, and at Tradeswomen Build Nations, they showed the power of our solidarity. Union women get sh*t done! 💪
Miranda just started at the Charleston Workers Center (CAFE) in South Carolina. Congratulations, Miranda!
Mariam is a part of the WILL Empower 2025-2026 class of apprentices. Congratulations to Mariam who is working with @aaup.org in Washington, DC
Welcome and congratulations to Eve Fouchè. Eve just started at the Los Angeles Black Worker Center as a part of WILL Empower!
We're excited to announce that Noah has begun at TransSocial through WILL Empower. Welcome, Noah!
Daya is joining WILL Empower this year as one of our new apprentices in the class of 2025-2026 Congratulations and welcome to @unitehere.org!!
Welcome and congratulations to Edith! Edith will be working with Community Labor United in Boston, MA! To learn more about our apprenticeship program, check out WILLEmpower.org
Alexis has started at @opeiulocal153.bsky.social in New York, New York Congratulations, Alexis. Welcome to WILL Empower! #Labor #organizing #NYC #Unions
Across the country, WILL Empower apprentices are starting their apprenticeships at workers' rights and community organizations. Welcome, Gianna. Gianna will be starting with the Labor Network for Sustainability #Comms #Labor #LaborRights
We are so excited to announce the next class of WILL Empower apprentices are starting at their respective organizations across the country Welcome Nacaira! Nacaira will be working with Community Labor United in Boston, MA #Labor #organizing #Boston #WILLEmpower
Did you know we're on @linkedin.com? Check out exclusive profiles of leaders on the frontline of innovation for workers' rights - like Gianna Sansonetti, who just started with the Labor Network for Sustainability @ln4s.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/welead...
Did you know the WILL Empower class of 2025 are starting their journey in labor and worker justice at organizations like the Labor Network for Sustainability? Meet Gianna Sansonetti. Gianna is… | WIL...
Did you know the WILL Empower class of 2025 are starting their journey in labor and worker justice at organizations like the Labor Network for Sustainability? Meet Gianna Sansonetti. Gianna is combin...
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Women's Equality Day - August 26 New book from @illinoispress.bsky.social : Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics in Los Angeles, 1945-1981 by Marisela R. Chávez www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Nominations EXTENDED to SEPTEMBER 1st for the WILL Empower Edna Berger Young Courageous Leader Award - $15,000! ✨Do you know a young courageous leader (age 30/under) committed to worker, racial, and gender justice? 🔥Nominate here by 9/1: go.rutgers.edu/sf3j15y3
