Big shoutout to 5,000+ Penn State faculty members who just WON their union! Faculty members across all ranks & departments, tenured & contingent, full-time & part-time, at Penn State University Park & across the Commonwealth Campuses achieved a historic victory. When we fight, we WIN! #UnionsForAll
Carl’s Jr workers in North Hollywood marched on the boss last week due to workplace safety issues. After a co-worker of ours was burned by a piece of chicken at the fryer, she was told to use mustard; when that didn’t work, she was required to finish the shift - remaining in pain for over 6 hours!
This was after we organized a strike against workplace violence and paid sick leave violations.
We’ve been fighting against the fast food industry telling us to put mustard on burns for over a decade, but the bosses have kept feeding us the same lies. Time for that to end!
This is the reality of working in the fast food industry in Los Angeles. As the industry lobbies against workers like us knowing our rights, our hard won laws are hidden from us. We’re the ones who suffer. We won’t allow the suffering to continue.
This action was in @cd2losangeles ' district. We look forward to continuing to work with him to ensure Los Angeles fast food workers receive mandatory, independent, in person Know-Your-Rights training.
Governor Spanberger’s decision to veto public sector collective bargaining is a betrayal to Virginia’s workers who were promised change.
We are done settling for crumbs while politicians campaign as allies and govern like obstacles.
Swipe for our full statement.
May is AAPI Heritage Month. This mix and playlist honors the legacy of Luisa Blue — Filipino American nurse, union worker, organizer, and hell raiser.
It opens with her words:
“Nurse. Union Organizer. Hell Raiser. Labor History. Delano. Strike. Respect. Justice. Unite. Fight. Win.”
Luisa Blue’s legacy is worker power in motion.
AAPI history. Union history. Worker history.
All in one dope mix. 🎧✊🏽
The last time America had Robber Barons — men who hoarded obscene wealth while workers struggled to survive — was the Gilded Age of the late 1800s.
Carnegie built libraries. Rockefeller funded medicine and education. Were they generous souls? No. They were scared. Workers had organized into unions like the Knights of Labor, and the threat of collective power was real enough to force action. The rich gave back — not out of decency, but because workers demanded it.
Fast forward to 2026. Bezos is worth $290 billion — enough to spend $10 million on the Met Gala, $120 million on a penthouse, and $500 million on a yacht — while planning to replace 600,000 Amazon workers with robots. Musk sits at $778 billion. These aren't just the new Robber Barons. They're something worse: Robber Barons with zero shame and zero fear.
And here's the difference: the original Robber Barons at least understood they needed an exit strategy from public rage. Today's billionaires buy the narrative. They own the platforms, the newspapers, the politicians. They don't fear us — yet.
But labor is still fighting back. When Bezos sponsored the Met Gala last week, unions held a "Ball Without Billionaires" — with Amazon, Whole Foods, Starbucks, and Uber workers walking their own runway. Amazon Labor Union co-founder Chris Smalls was arrested outside the Met Gala for daring to protest. Let that sink in.
History shows us what works: organized, relentless, loud collective action. It worked in the 1880s. It's the only thing that's ever worked.
Immigrants didn't take your job. Single moms struggling to feed their kids didn't drive up grocery prices. And the person working three jobs just to survive didn't make gas $5 a gallon.
You're thinking of billionaires.
Mexico just guaranteed FREE healthcare to ALL 130 million of its citizens — regardless of your job, your insurance, or your income. President Claudia Sheinbaum signed a decree making universal healthcare LAW. Registration already started. Rollout begins January 2027. Every. Single. Person. Covered.
Meanwhile, in America:
-People are rationing insulin because they can't afford it�-Millions are drowning in medical debt from a single hospital visit�-Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" just slashed $1 TRILLION from Medicaid — the CBO estimates nearly 15 MILLION people will LOSE their coverage�-Workers stay trapped in jobs they hate because quitting means losing their health insurance�-The elderly and the poor are one vote away from having their healthcare ripped away entirely
And before the "but how will they pay for it?" crowd shows up — ask yourself why we're the only wealthy nation on Earth where people die because they can't afford to see a doctor.
They've been doing this since Reconstruction.
After enslaved Black people were freed and began voting, white Southern Democrats redrew the maps to make sure Black votes didn't count. Cracking, packing, stacking — splitting Black communities across districts or cramming them into one so their voices couldn't spread.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 made racial gerrymandering illegal. But in 2013, the Supreme Court gutted the pre-clearance requirement in Shelby County v. Holder — the rule that stopped Southern states from changing voting maps without federal approval.
And now? Republicans are sprinting to finish the job. Just this month, Southern Republican legislatures in Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Louisiana, and Mississippi launched special redistricting sessions — their stated goal: eliminate majority-Black congressional districts before the 2026 midterms.
In Tennessee, Republicans are splitting Memphis — a majority-Black city — across THREE majority-white districts to wipe out the 9th congressional district entirely. In Alabama, they're trying to reverse a federal court ORDER that protected Black voter representation.
This is a 200-year-old playbook. Same tactics. New maps.
Black political power didn't survive Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement, and decades of legal battles just to be erased by a redistricting session in 2026.
Only about 20% of American households earn any passive income at all — through dividends, interest, or rental properties. That means 80% of households receive zero. And among those who do earn passive income, the median is just $4,200 a year — roughly $350 a month.
So when workers demand that the tax dollars we put into this system go toward things like universal healthcare, housing, or food stamps, billionaires call it "something for nothing."
Then they turn around and brag about their passive income.
