Nothing is more important for labor activists than forming a union at your job or becoming active in your union and getting involved with this effort ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

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FTC moving to ban noncompetes today is good for everyone. But also such a no brainer. Hard to have free markets with shackled labor.

Excited to speak tomorrow alongside with Teamsters Local 25 and @Teamsters on our efforts to improve and protect gig workers’ labor rights & livelihoods in MA. Tomorrow 10 a.m. at the Teamsters Union Hall in Charlestown. Read ⬇️ for more info: shorturl.at/oACUW
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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…

Congratulations to the courageous Volkswagen workers in Tennessee for overwhelmingly voting to join the United Auto Workers. They have stood up for economic justice and have made a historic breakthrough in the South. When workers stand together against corporate greed, we win.

I am enormously proud of my daughter isra hirsi.
She has always led with courage and compassion, from organizing a statewide school walk out on the 20th anniversary of Columbine at the age of 15, to leading the biggest youth climate rally at our nation’s Capitol at 16, and now

Is this department unionized?

Incredible

Heading out to Labor Notes tomorrow. Hope to see many of you!

BREAKING: 1,700 actors at Disney Land are forming a union and joining Actors' Equity.

Before the financial crisis not a single llc, person, reet, nor hedge fund owned 1000 single family homes. On a single day in 2011, Blackstone purchased 1000 single family homes. To celebrate, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, threw a lavish party.

NOW: Bernie Sanders:
'I’ve spoken with doctors who returned from Gaza. They operated in crowded hospitals without electricity, clean water, or supplies. They have to perform surgeries with no anesthesia. They have to try to sterilize and reuse medical gauze. It is a nightmare.'

Canada to increase capital gains tax on firms and individuals, per Bloomberg.

Tax policy can—and should—be used as an anti-monopoly tool.

Dive into how current tax policies favor big corporations over workers and small businesses and how rethinking the tax code, alongside other antimonopoly measures, can rein in corporate power ⬇️ rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/t…

Join me TODAY at 4:15 p.m. ET for a livestream discussion about taking on monopolies with Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan.

Volkswagen workers in Germany make video message of solidarity to UAW ahead of union election this week in Chattanooga

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People want change. The question is: What kind of change will it be? Will it be a change dominated by the wealthy and the powerful? Or will it be a change that creates a more just and democratic society, based on solidarity and compassion? twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Arizona just revived a near-total abortion ban from 1864. In 1864:

- Only white men could vote
- Slavery wasn't fully abolished
- Most women could not own property
- The age of consent was 9-years-old

Republicans want to take away our rights & freedoms. We cannot let them.