Zakk Flash

Nonprofit pro, working class writer, professional driver, lapsed poet, foster dad. #UnionStrong #hotlaborsummer He/him. 🚩🏴

[Zakk Flash @ZakkFlash]

Before he co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement with Dorothy Day in 1933, the peasant Maurin had fled France to avoid mandatory military conscription, homesteaded in Saskatchewan until a hunting accident ended…

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[Zakk Flash @ZakkFlash]

@TheDuhalde @DemSocialists @TeamsterRnF Thank you for your service

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Organize with the Teamsters!

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[Zakk Flash @ZakkFlash]

National Nurses Week deserves more than a pizza party. Nurses deserve a union contract.

I’m a Teamster. My siblings are nurses. I know what it’s like to bargain, to picket, to enforce a contract. And I know what my siblings are up against — because I’ve been there too.

[Zakk Flash @ZakkFlash]

Ask instead: When are you going to agree to safe, enforceable staffing ratios in a collective bargaining agreement?

If they won’t answer, you know where to find us.

[Zakk Flash @ZakkFlash]

Next Nurses Week, don’t let hospital management off the hook with a greasy handshake.

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Tens of thousands of nurses wear the @Teamsters label. They didn’t join for the pizza. They joined because they wanted a union that treats patient safety like a working condition — and is willing to fight for it.

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In every job, I’ve seen bosses choose margin over safety and show up the next week with a sheet cake or a box of lukewarm pizza.

That’s not gratitude. That’s a buyout offer. And nurses shouldn’t settle for it.

[Zakk Flash @ZakkFlash]

I spent years as a social worker and patient care staff at an inpatient psychiatric hospital. I know what it means to come in short-staffed. I know how it feels to work doubles because patients needed someone there.

[Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh 🗞 @PGHGuild]

Venetoulis Institute (@BaltimoreBanner) CEO Bob Cohn says decisions on job cuts had *nothing* to do with strike history.

% of strikers cut: 80
% of scabs kept who publicly disavowed the union: 80

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[AFA-CWA @afa_cwa]

AFA President @FlyingWithSara on the Spirit shutdown and what it means for thousands of Flight Attendants. AFA’s Disaster Relief Fund is open https://t.co/fZiKPjvjhq and you can contribute directly to Spirit Flight Attendants. 💛🐝

[National Nurses United @NationalNurses]

Nurses joined @SenSanders in Detroit to fight back against the billionaire class that has rigged the economy and political system against working people.

"Our movement is growing! We will not back down! And the billionaire class is scared," said NNU President Jamie Brown, RN.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

For 400 years, this was the pope’s exclusive summer home. Now, it’s open to the public as a training center for migrants and locals in need. https://t.co/bdlOzwxuyV

[Zakk Flash @ZakkFlash]

Faith & Worker Justice — a May Day panel

For May Day 2026, Oklahoma Faith Network sat down me & Fr Lance for a conversation about the deep roots connecting faith traditions and the rights of working people. #MayDay #IWD

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[More Perfect University @MPUniversityUS]

NEW: More Perfect Union is opening up our newsroom, connecting with students everywhere, and equipping them with the tools needed to unrig our broken economic system.

[DOPE Magazine @DOPEmagazine_]

Help fund DOPE Magazine by getting a John Fleissner-designed solidarity T-shirt. John did this original design for us for the cover of Issue 29 👇

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[Labor Notes @labornotes]

🎙️ Hear the first of a three-part series on our “Secrets of a Successful Organizer” training on foundational organizing skills

In this first installment, we explore the idea that apathy isn't real, i.e. Your Co-Workers Actually Want a Better Workplace! https://t.co/xYpC7TvOoF

[Teamsters @Teamsters]

AMAZON TEAMSTERS BECOME FIRST UNION TO WIN BARGAINING ORDER AGAINST E-COMMERCE GIANT

In a historic decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that Amazon illegally refused to recognize the Staten Island-based Amazon Labor Union-International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 1 (ALU-IBT 1) and ordered it to begin negotiations with the Teamsters.

Over 5,000 warehouse workers at the JFK8 facility in Staten Island formed their union on April 1, 2022. In June 2024, they officially affiliated with the Teamsters Union, which officially chartered ALU-IBT Local 1. Over the past four years, NLRB has repeatedly found that Amazon has illegally and willfully ignored the union’s legitimacy while attempting to coerce JFK8 Teamsters into ending their organizing efforts.

"Four years ago, Amazon workers at JFK8 won an NLRB election. Now, on this monumental anniversary, they have become the first group ever to force the company to recognize their union, and they did so as Teamsters,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien. “This fight is far from over but this ruling from the NLRB is an historic victory for Amazon Teamsters nationwide and a testament to worker power.”

[Daily Union Elections @UnionElections]

2026 UNION MEMBERSHIP CHANGES:

@SEIU +87000
@AFSCME +47000
@LIUNA +18000
@UAW +17000
IUJAT + 7500
NPW +7000
@Teamsters +3400
@unitehere +3300
IUOE +3100
@UBCJA_Official +1700
FAAM +1600
@ALPAPilots +1400
UMWA +1100
@AGMusicalArtist +700
@NATCA +700
@InsulatorsUnion +500

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light. #HolyThursday