Well, it's official: REI has yet again put forward only corporate candidates for the REI Board of Directors, rejecting two pro-worker candidates in the process. We're calling on REI members to vote "withhold" to all three of REI's corporate candidates: votenorei.com

HAPPENING NOW: In Los Angeles, hundreds of USC custodial workers are marching with students and unions for a fair contract and immigrant worker rights.

SESAME STREET WORKERS ARE UNIONIZING!!! ✊ This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management. Follow and support their campaign: Sesame Workers Union

More than 450 members of Teamsters Local 773 who work at the Nestle Purina plant in Whitehall, Pa., are on strike for a fair contract at the largest pet food company in the United States. Teamsters are fighting for better wages and benefits at Nestle Purina, which made nearly $21

Again for those in the back. Government workers paid by strict scale. GS-1 up to GS-15. Doesn't matter if you have decades of experience or several degrees, scale tops out at GS-15. And young DOGE employees are being paid GS-15 salaries. Why isn't there bipartisan outrage?

Trump's budget will harm the working class to give massive tax breaks to billionaires. Republicans want corporate oligarchy. We need economic democracy. Read our op-ed: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Eric Blanc, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at Rutgers University and organizer with Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC), joined the America's Work Force Union Podcast to discuss his new book, “We Are The Union,” about worker-to-worker organzing. awf.labortools.com/listen/author-…

Free Mahmoud Khalil

Civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy, leader of the Poor People's Campaign after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, was born on this day in 1926. “Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, tend the sick, and house the homeless.”

Our labor movement will always stand up and protect public schools, teachers, staff, students, and their futures. We won’t allow this administration to gut the Department of education without a fight.

It's pretty incredible that such a broad coalition of unions has come together for this mass action campaign. Historic! See you tonight

Columbia fired our union president the day before we start bargaining—less than a week after allowing ICE to abduct our coworker. Join us tomorrow to make sure they can hear us from the bargaining table!

On average, union members earn 18% more than those who are not part of a union.

NEW: NJ Transit workers are on strike, shutting down the system. The locomotive engineers represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen went on strike early this morning, causing all NJ TRANSIT rail service to be currently SUSPENDED. Video By Diego

THANK YOU! #districtcouncil33 #dc33 #dc33publicservant #whenwefightwewin #strongertogether

Interested in what Building Working Class Power looks like? Check out Zev Rose Cook 🏳️‍⚧️, sharing how local organizing scored #Tacoma some of the most progressive tenants rights in the country! youtube.com/watch?v=9F1_LB…

Missed Rob Larson's (Rob Larson) discussion of Mastering the Universe back in the fall? Don't worry. The LSP UW Tacoma has got you covered. As always, Rob was as funny as he was incisive. Tune in and get radical! youtu.be/L0s65gQY3Us

Wrapping up the year by reflecting back on everything we did UW Tacoma. Organizing events, funding research, plugging students into the labor community. Thanks Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies for continuing to support our work!