We Innovate Labor Leadership (WILL Empower)

A bold initiative from @georgetownKILWP and @RutgersCIWO to identify and train a new generation of labor leaders.

[We Innovate Labor Leadership (WILL Empower) @WELeadLabor]

⚡️📢 Want to work in social justice & labor but don't know where to start? Join a virtual info session for the WILL Empower Apprenticeship Program!
🗓️Tuesday March 10th - 4pm ET
More details: https://t.co/1byigYbI6q⚡️RSVP to [email protected]

[Rutgers CIWO @RutgersCIWO]

Interested in working in social justice and labor but don't know where to start?

Join @WELeadLabor's virtual info session [Tuesday 3/10 at 4pm ET] about the WILL Empower apprenticeship program!

More details here:
https://t.co/omC59rkxDO

[Rutgers CIWO @RutgersCIWO]

Demanding Justice Then and Now: Black Women's Union Organizing and Intellectual Work

Join us for a book talk and a panel discussion - March 7th from 10am-1pm at Rutgers Labor Education Center! 🌟Refreshments will be served🌟

@LearnRutgers Greater NJ CLUW @RutgersCIWO @RU_SMLR

[AFL-CIO ✊ @AFLCIO]

The #SuperBowl halftime show, brought to you by America’s unions.

Congrats to all our members who put on an incredible halftime show with Bad Bunny!

[We Innovate Labor Leadership (WILL Empower) @WELeadLabor]

The 2025-2026 Emerging Leaders were ✨officially welcomed✨ into the WE network during the WILL Empower Awards Celebration on October 25th!
The Emergers were gathered in New Brunswick, NJ for their in-person cohort retreat 🌠🌈🎉

[AFL-CIO ✊ @AFLCIO]

The Trump admin is trying to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency that protects working people when big banks cheat them on mortgages, credit cards and more.

This is an attack on all workers and their financial security. https://t.co/nQSycEmnRH

[AFL-CIO ✊ @AFLCIO]

On Red Cup Day at corporate Starbucks stores across the country, @SBWorkersUnited members are mobilizing and fighting for a fair contract.

No contract? NO COFFEE! ✊

[We Innovate Labor Leadership (WILL Empower) @WELeadLabor]

Congratulations to @stacydavisgates, 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 @RU_SMLR

[We Innovate Labor Leadership (WILL Empower) @WELeadLabor]

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2025 Edna Berger Young Courageous Leader Award - Claudia Quiñones Torrico, Organizing Director @UNITEDWEDREAM🎉🎉

Claudia has been described as "the courageous fire of the movement" and we could not agree more! Thank you Claudia!🔥🎉

[Rutgers CIWO @RutgersCIWO]

Happening TODAY at 6pm ET! 📘 REGISTER: https://t.co/Onlm8IWxzP

[AFL-CIO ✊ @AFLCIO]

Today is #LatinaEqualPayDay, the day that Latina pay *finally* catches up to what White, non-Hispanic men made last year alone. That’s injustice—plain and simple.

America’s unions are fighting to end the wage gap for good, and a union contract is how we level the playing field.

[Rutgers CIWO @RutgersCIWO]

Join @RU_SMLR faculty Dr. Naomi R Williams in a discussion of their new book A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity on October 21st at 6pm ET!

This virtual event is co-hosted by @RutgersCIWO and @LearnRutgers. 📘REGISTER: https://t.co/Onlm8IWxzP

[Rutgers CIWO @RutgersCIWO]

LAST CHANCE TO NOMINATE! One young courageous leader will be awarded $15,000! https://t.co/PHFKeofJEn

[The Labor Radio / Podcast Network @laborradionet]

July 9 - Jacqueline Vaughn Leads the CTU

On this day in Labor History the year was1984. Jacqueline Vaughn became President of the Chicago Teachers’ Union. Jacqueline started out as a teacher and became a member of the collective bargaining team in 1968.
https://t.co/L4IpcvUX8c

[Rutgers CIWO @RutgersCIWO]

Let's kick off #WomensHistoryMonth by shouting out Angelina Cruz, a past @WELeadLabor Executive Leader! 🎉Congratulations on being re-elected as President of @RacineEducators and being the first Latina to represent Racine in the Wisconsin State Assembly!❤️
https://t.co/BGyCPU5Dxv

[Rutgers CIWO @RutgersCIWO]

FINAL DAYS - apply now‼️ https://t.co/EjK4rYaLYB

[We Innovate Labor Leadership (WILL Empower) @WELeadLabor]

Applications for the WILL Empower Emerging Leaders Cohort CLOSE in two days - apply now! ➡️https://t.co/gHZiYlW2MP

[Rutgers CIWO @RutgersCIWO]

Erica Iheme, Organizing Director @JobsMoveAmerica & @WELeadLabor Award Winner, has been organizing her community since childhood. "My dad had us organizing as long as I can remember. It was a way of life... I want to instill [this] in my children." 💜
https://t.co/FZiGJtVWHE

[Rutgers CIWO @RutgersCIWO]

💥Become a WILL Empower Emerging Leader!💥
Applications for the 2025-2026 @WELeadLabor Emerging Leaders Cohort Program are now open!
APPLY HERE➡️ https://t.co/Kk4epII4Rs

[We Innovate Labor Leadership (WILL Empower) @WELeadLabor]

🚨NEW BLOG ALERT🚨

What is possible when WE are in leadership? EVERYTHING!

As more Black and Latina women are leading unions, transformative leadership is emerging, union interest is increasing, and more gender-based protections are happening NOW

🖱️➡️https://t.co/j5IKSkvwfd