keith bb

building trades & climate troublemaking @labornotes
keith at labornotes dot org

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

proud as hell to share: i'm joining @labornotes as first ever Labor-Climate Organizer🌞

troublemakers in construction, manufacturing, energy, transit – hit me up with your stories of fighting the boss, esp. to lead a green transition your way. we'll help you fight ✊

[Labor Notes @labornotes]

At a bus manufacturing plant in Alabama, longtime worker Stevie Joe Thornton said a manager tried to force workers into overtime daily, despite clear limits in the contract. Thornton walked out during the forced overtime, and persuaded others to join. 1/2
https://t.co/y30hcysRaX

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

@TheBoobla31 what source for the South Africa comparison claim?

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

segregation didn't die, it just became city boundaries

1/4

[Lemmings 2: The Tribes @lemmingstribes]

Why do you think we can't get anything done man look at this dogshit.

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

@LevellingSpirit true heads know

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

I've seen "union contract first, organize later" approaches fail to build a living union in construction and home care. I was skeptical of that approach for bus factories.

glad to say the badass welders and assembly line organizers of Alabama and Kentucky proved me wrong

[Labor Notes @labornotes]

What does it take to unionize factories today, especially in the South? In the last two years, bus manufacturing workers secured first union contracts and a national master agreement across New Flyer facilities in three states. @TRAILSANDWAYS reports: https://t.co/y30hcysRaX

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

if Jim Crow ain't dead can we at least get WEB DuBois and Ella Baker back too

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

every yard in Piedmont right now has two signs:
yes on H -- triple fund our kids!
dickson for DA -- jail the other kids!

[Neal Meyer @nealmeyer]

Jacobin published my review of Les Leopold's new book on why labor should power campaigns by independent populists. There are big opportunities in parts of the country where the Democratic Party brand is toxic. Plus what that means for DSA and where the effort can go long term.

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

these bus workers, creatively brilliant: "Union supporters in Kentucky found they could build on existing networks from a source rarely tried elsewhere: addiction recovery groups... public speaking experience and trust built in recovery helped workers take collective action."

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

my deep dive on the most inspiring new union win in years

how bus factory workers unionized a whole company, from Alabama to Kentucky to NY:

🤝 union rank & file leading new organizing
🚍 pressure from city bus buyers
⚔️ fighting stewards on shop floor

https://t.co/nIYe0hJcgh

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

@BumpyNUX just one M4A and billionaire tax supporter in the top 5 candidates-- gotta vote steyer, then hold his feet to fire

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

Mary sat in the front row at the @labornotes Durham Troublemakers School last Sept and volunteered for every organizing exercise

there is a living tradition of brilliant Civil Rights Mvmt and labor militants in this country. get in a room and learn from them!

[Radical Graffiti @GraffitiRadical]

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

[Shane @McClellandShane]

“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

[Laura Wadlin @explauratory]

in March I went on strike for 3 weeks. several of my coworkers joined DSA after. one of them co-wrote this article with me 🌹

Jane Slaughter is calling it "One of the most useful articles for rank-and-filers and union leaders ever."

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

@samuraiaztec1 these workers literally fix our streets, teach our kids, and you are a cesspool bot

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

Oakland May Day. members of ILWU 6, 10, OEA, SEIU 1021, IFPTE 21, DSA, ACCE and many community orgs prep for union-endorsed traffic blockade at airport, against its shipping of bomb loaders to the IDF. only worker power can win peace

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

second direct action targeting Delta terminal for its running of ICE deportation flights

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

more and more are saying it's time for a new frankfurt school (labor version)

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

i'm interviewed in the @fr today (major daily paper in frankfurt, germany) on the peril and promise of the US labor movement right now

did not expect a full page spread