Hey Labor Notes folks! Gonna post up with my The Real News podcast stuff one more time in the front entryway to the Hyatt from 1:30 - 3:00 before heading to the airport. Come say hi and tell us about yourself, your struggle, & your experience at #LaborNotes2024 ❤️✊🏽🎤🎧

Our co-chair Abigail Higgins on the Organizing Remotely panel at #LaborNotes2024 : 'Working toward legislative wins through digital organizing has been a really great way for members to realize what they can do collectively.'

We had a great time at last night's happy hour with Headline Club! Best part (besides the company) was getting to share about the Freelance Worker Protection Act, going into effect in Illinois on July 1! #FreelanceIsntFree

Historic news! Journalism jobs in New York state will soon be supported by a first-of-its-kind tax credit. newsguild.org/new-york-legis…

Tonight w/ Headline Club!! Coming from Labor Notes? It's just a short ride on the blue line to Belmont. You can also find us at the conference meetup for media workers & join us from there! (We'll be in the cool black shirts sporting NWU's new logo.)

Breaking: In a watershed victory, workers at the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted tonight 'UAW, yes!' The company's sole non-union plant will finally join the rest of the world. labornotes.org/2024/04/histor…

Thinking about how to use policy & the legislative process to build worker power, to help with organizing, to protect workers like #safestaffing or domestic worker protection - great panel at #LaborNotes2024

'The most effective way to get people engaged is to explain why what they're doing is meaningful' - meaning machine on using legislative wins to build worker power at #LaborNotes2024 ! ✊🏼

What a day to be at #LaborNotes2024 . I’m in a workshop on free speech and Palestine. someone said being in this room is the least lonely they’ve felt. I feel the same way.

Our members are helping kick off #LaborNotes2024 with a panel on free speech & Palestine: 'As a union we're concerned with retaliation as a workplace justice issue, but we also understand organizing around retaliation as one way to fight back against the war machine.' Olivia Schwob

As Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸 said on last week's Journalism Futures panel, 'Working at a nonprofit newsroom is not a journalism paradise.' We need better solutions for the media industry that serve working journalists & working people, not billionaires and executives!

Going to Labor Notes, or live in the Chicago area? Join us for a Media Worker Happy Hour with the Headline Club! Sleeping Village on Saturday, April 20 at 7pm. RSVP: bit.ly/mwhh

We love to see it! Support local journalists who want to keep finding ways to do local journalism.

'A new media movement in the United States is overdue; and we need to build one that is collaborative, equitable, and premised on the belief of treating journalism as the public good it is. One that focuses not on saving what we’ve lost, but building something we’ve never had.'

We’re co-hosting a Chicago Media Workers Happy Hour! organized by National Writers Union & Freelance Solidarity Project to coincide with the national Labor Notes conference (April 19-21).

Join us Sleeping Village Saturday, April 20 at 7 p.m. RSVP at bit.ly/mwhh.