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1/ Want to help US workers? Enforce labor law, not deportation orders. Undocumented immigrants are not the problem. The problem is the govt’s inadequate response to structural shifts in the economy that undermine worker power. NEW REPORT: smlr.rutgers.edu/sites/defaul...

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Republicans changed the rules, & now practically any action the executive branch takes can be challenged in Congress. Any 30 Senators can bring up a vote, & get a guaranteed 10 hours of floor time. Meaning that Democrats could hold the floor indefinitely, if they wanted. prospect.org/politics/202...

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📺Watch and share last night's Strategy Series, the rise of worker to worker organising with @ericblanc.bsky.social and @sarahwoolley1.bsky.social : youtu.be/6JEd2bjfG7M?... #Organising #Workers #Power #Unions #TradeUnions #TUed #UnionRenewal #GFTUET #GFTU

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Read my statement on the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza⬇️

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Far from the cure to authoritarianism, the U.S. constitutional system is driving our democratic decline. The forum in our new issue—led by Lisa L. Miller, with @ericblanc.bsky.social @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @mayaschenwar.bsky.social @lilygeismer.bsky.social + others:

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🚨 New @therealnews.com: Less than 10% of American workers are now unionized. I talk to @ericblanc.bsky.social about how, to reverse decades of decline & bring millions of new workers into the labor movement, unions need to embrace the worker-to-worker organizing model therealnews.com/this-new-mod...

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Breaking: 74% of workers have voted YES to joining the @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social union

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Less than 10% of American workers are now unionized. To reverse decades of decline and bring millions of new workers into the labor movement, unions need to embrace the worker-to-worker organizing model. W/ @ericblanc.bsky.social & @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

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I'll be speaking on beating the billionaires and Trumpism in Philly on May 28 with Workers United, @phillydsa.bsky.social , and @phl-cpusa.bsky.social, hope to see some friends and comrades there :)

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Why isn’t there a “coalition of the willing” to stop the mass starvation and genocide in Gaza?

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You don’t need to be a blue-collar worker to have real power Tech workers who run the central operating systems of major corporations and the government have immense power to paralyze production and distribution, as DOGE has recently demonstrated in the US convergencemag.com/articles/whi...

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Just a matter of time before we have to only give in-class papers/exams to our students, and weigh classroom participation much higher in final grades It's not that insurmountable a hurdle tbh, I'm already doing the latter and it really helps undercut AI reliance

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It's not true that only logistics & manufacturing workers have enough power to win big. And that’s good news, because most workers don't work in those industries. If we’re going to unionize tens of millions, we need a strategy that can speak to all of them convergencemag.com/articles/whi...

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Important win Even under Trump, the NLRB remains a key tool for protecting union rights

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4,000 student workers at the University of Oregon are on strike to demand a fair contract Admin has retaliated harshly against worker organizers, please donate to the strike and hardship fund! givebutter.com/UOSW

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Happy May Day to the 20,000 workers at the University of California who are striking today

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Here's my reply to critics of my new book, tackling some key questions: Should unions focus on the most economically powerful workers or a broader range of targets including services & gov? Can we link union seeding to strategic targeting? What will it take to scale? jacobin.com/2025/04/blan...

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Join @ericblanc.bsky.social for a timely discussion on the main lessons of the bottom-up unionization surge that has swept the US since 2021. This session is organized in partnership with @organizeworkers.bsky.social socialismconference.org

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“I think the pattern in organized labor is generally that when rank-and-file workers lead, then risk-averse official union leaders tend to eventually follow.“ Whether you’re a federal worker or not, this discussion between @bcmerchant.bsky.social and @ericblanc.bsky.social is worth your time.

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Elon's influence in Trumpworld may be waning, but the DOGE wrecking ball is still going full speed. Yet this is a good window for federal workers to organize to stop it. Labor studies prof @ericblanc.bsky.social has ideas, drawn from past successful labor movements, for how they might do so:

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Excited to be discussing the present & future of worker-to-worker organizing with @jazbrisack.bsky.social & Jane Slaughter Tonight April 21, 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PT, RSVP at: tinyurl.com/UnionsIn2025

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When we fight, we win

submitted 38 days ago • 11 comments

Seems like we're way past due for widespread non-violent disruptive civil disobedience against Trumpism

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You don’t have to work in a factory to be a “real worker” or to economically prosper. But you probably do need a union. www.laborpolitics.com/p/unions-not...

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Need this every time

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Factory jobs aren’t inherently good jobs: the pay of manufacturing work in the US is now on average worse than other occupations Manufacturing jobs become good jobs when workers unionize 🧵

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Want to build a strong labor movement? Join us for a conversation with Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social about his new book on the worker-to-worker organizing model with Alex Caputo-Pearl of @utlanow.bsky.social

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Trump and Musk are actively trying to destroy unions When will organized labor start fighting back accordingly?

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Elon Musk is doing his best to destroy Social Security

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

People should listen to what Shawn Fain actually has to say about about Trump and tariffs It's not easy to support targeted tariffs while opposing Trump's otherwise reactionary agenda, but the UAW is threading that needle pretty well

submitted 48 days ago • 4 comments

Though Trump backed down from his steepest tariffs (China excepted), worth noting that the 10% baseline tariff he's maintaining everywhere else is actually pretty steep by historical standards

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This 29 point swing of young people against Trump seems like a pretty definitive refutation of the idea that American youth have made a hard ideological turn to the right

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Manufacturing jobs in the US have been growing... in the US South It's these types of non-union, dangerous, relatively low-paid jobs that Trump wants to expand

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