75% of Austin transit workers can’t afford to live in the city where they work.
@ATUComm members keep Austin moving. It’s time for Keolis, MTM, and CapMetro to make sure workers have adequate training, fair paid time off, and a reasonable pay increase schedule!
There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power
(video: defiancedispatch/IG)
Tuesday, May 12, 12:45PM: Join St. John’s faculty unions to call out the administration for their union busting!
Outside St John’s gate 1, 8000 Utopia Parkway in Queens.
#1u
New York City’s Mayor just said what most elected officials won’t.
“We always seem to have money for war. But not to feed the poor.”
Mamdani didn’t stop there.
Thousands of civilians killed. Tens of billions spent. And every program that gets called “unrealistic” — housing, healthcare, schools — costs a fraction of what this war has already burned through.
He’s right.
American Axle worker Andrea had to walk over 2 miles to work every day for a year straight because she was paid so little by the company that she couldn't afford a vehicle. No worker should struggle to make ends meet when the company they work for is making billions. That’s why UAW Local 2093 members like Andrea are ready to fight for the contract they deserve at American Axle!
Mass firing of judges in San Francisco has decimated the immigration court, with 21 judges fired or forced out this year, leaving only four judges in the city to handle a 120,000-case backlog for 2026. The Bay Area has lost nearly its entire immigration bench in a nationwide purge of over 100 judges, according to reporting by ABC News. Some analysts say this is politically motivated.
For more on this story: https://t.co/7OC0W4tJXt
On December 30, 1936, thousands of General Motors auto workers courageously sat down on the job inside the plants in Flint, MI, and shut down the most powerful corporation in the world.
The workers, fighting against inhumane working conditions and recognition of their union, would occupy the plants for 44 days, and walked out victorious on February 11, 1937, having changed the auto industry and the labor movement forever.
Recalled UAW organizer Victor Reuther: "The sit-downers endured what seemed an unending nightmare; they suffered terror, broken heads, their families' hunger, and extreme risk, not just for another nickel an hour, but for the dignity and individuality denied them by an arrogant corporation. They won a richer life for millions of industrial workers in other towns and cities. They exhibited the most selfless quality men can possess: the ability to sacrifice immediate material security for desirable but as yet unrealized goals for humankind. They were the real heroes; it was our (the Ruether brothers) privilege to help them chart the narrow passage between defeat and victory."
📸 @ReutherLibrary
Masked men disappear U.S. citizens into an unmarked van—for protesting ICE in Chicago.
"Who are you? Where are you taking them?" people cry out. "You are kidnapping them!"
Agents attacked at least 3 protesters using batons—pinning them face down into concrete according to witness Bianca Paiz.
ICE later confirmed that it was their agents who detained the protesters—claiming they were "impeding federal operations."
All 3 individuals were finally released without charges in downtown Chicago, Illinois. #DemsUnited
This isn’t Moscow or Beijing. It’s Chicago. Masked federal agents grabbed U.S. citizens protesting ICE and threw them into an unmarked van.
“Who are you? Where are you taking them?” people shouted. “You are kidnapping them!”
What has America become?