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@keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social
labor-climate organizer for Labor Notes / oakland
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Listen to the full episode, with our labor-climate organizer @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social joining the pod: labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/construction-unions-face-a-choice-cave-or-defend-members/ 1/2
July 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Listen to the full episode, with our labor-climate organizer @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social joining the pod: labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/construction-unions-face-a-choice-cave-or-defend-members/ 1/2
california's enviro/public input law was huge leverage to unionize 90% of big solar workers here, when the rest of the US was <5%. building trades🤝greens!
Newsom + state Dems just gutted it. their "abundance" strategy is "removing regulatory barriers" for developers.
calmatters.org/environment/...
Newsom + state Dems just gutted it. their "abundance" strategy is "removing regulatory barriers" for developers.
calmatters.org/environment/...
Last-minute California budget includes sweeping environmental law rollbacks
Major changes include an exemption for high-tech industrial plants and other projects. The move, fast-tracked under pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom, sparked fierce pushback from environmental, communi...
calmatters.org
July 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
california's enviro/public input law was huge leverage to unionize 90% of big solar workers here, when the rest of the US was <5%. building trades🤝greens!
Newsom + state Dems just gutted it. their "abundance" strategy is "removing regulatory barriers" for developers.
calmatters.org/environment/...
Newsom + state Dems just gutted it. their "abundance" strategy is "removing regulatory barriers" for developers.
calmatters.org/environment/...
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Farmworker organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez was detained by ICE agents this week in what many believe to be retaliation for organizing.
3 things you can do in solidarity:
- Attend a vigil or action
- Call elected officials
- Donate to his legal defense
labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
3 things you can do in solidarity:
- Attend a vigil or action
- Call elected officials
- Donate to his legal defense
labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
Three Ways to Support Detained Farmworker Organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez
Longtime farmworker organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents this week in what many believe to be retaliation for his organizing. Juarez was pulled ov...
labornotes.org
March 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Farmworker organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez was detained by ICE agents this week in what many believe to be retaliation for organizing.
3 things you can do in solidarity:
- Attend a vigil or action
- Call elected officials
- Donate to his legal defense
labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
3 things you can do in solidarity:
- Attend a vigil or action
- Call elected officials
- Donate to his legal defense
labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
new from me on a fav topic:
how have jet mechanics and refinery workers opened up union convos on changing what they make — to fight the boss for a livable environment?
how have jet mechanics and refinery workers opened up union convos on changing what they make — to fight the boss for a livable environment?
Mid-size planes fly < a mile/gallon of fuel, bosses may use pollution laws as an excuse to cut jobs, and climate chaos is causing riskier turbulence for flight crews.
Some aviation union members are trying “worker assemblies.” @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social reports:
labornotes.org/2025/03/stew...
Some aviation union members are trying “worker assemblies.” @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social reports:
labornotes.org/2025/03/stew...
Stewards Corner: Organizing to ‘Green’ Your Job: What Works?
Stewards often build fights around small issues, and they need to. But stewards also have a special charge to stay ahead of the boss—to think big about shifting power on the job, including by driving ...
labornotes.org
March 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
new from me on a fav topic:
how have jet mechanics and refinery workers opened up union convos on changing what they make — to fight the boss for a livable environment?
how have jet mechanics and refinery workers opened up union convos on changing what they make — to fight the boss for a livable environment?
"Moved by her story, members resolved to confront management immediately... and presented management with a signed petition that same afternoon. The following morning, management... emerged with a decision to grant Jane a combined 18 weeks of postpartum leave" labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
Army Corps Workers Defend Parental Leave with Direct Action
The doctor recommended at least 18 weeks to recover from childbirth. But Jane (whose name was changed for this article) was entitled to only 12 paid weeks under the Federal Employee Paid Leave Act. So...
labornotes.org
March 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"Moved by her story, members resolved to confront management immediately... and presented management with a signed petition that same afternoon. The following morning, management... emerged with a decision to grant Jane a combined 18 weeks of postpartum leave" labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
curious how auto worker reform activists are strategizing for power in an electric transition that just got twice as chaotic us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
March 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
curious how auto worker reform activists are strategizing for power in an electric transition that just got twice as chaotic us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Don't miss out on our event with @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social this month! He will talk about his research with construction laborers in the solar industry and how the green sector could offer an opportunity for union revitalization! Register here: yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi... March 20, 1pm EST.1/
March 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Don't miss out on our event with @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social this month! He will talk about his research with construction laborers in the solar industry and how the green sector could offer an opportunity for union revitalization! Register here: yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi... March 20, 1pm EST.1/
big L for accelerationists
The recently discovered, much-hyped Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has almost zero chance of hitting Earth in 2032, according to the latest astronomical observations.
Odds of recently discovered asteroid hitting Earth drop nearly to zero
Another night of observations revealed there is little to fear from the football field-sized Asteroid 2024 YR4.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
big L for accelerationists
they're evicting the labor law enforcers right where starbucks workers first won.
it's not just about enriching elon, it's about emboldening all bosses to work you like a serf
it's not just about enriching elon, it's about emboldening all bosses to work you like a serf
Elon Musk is trying to make it impossible for the National Labor Relations Board to do its job of protecting workers and their right to organize. It's especially worth noting that Tesla workers in Buffalo tried to form a union and were met with relentless union-busting.
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Yesterday, the NLRB’s Buffalo office (Region 3) received word from its landlord that GSA—acting on behalf of DOGE—had unilaterally cancelled the Region’s five-year lease, without any prior notice to the Agency. The Region has been given 90 days to vacate the building.
Yesterday, the NLRB’s Buffalo office (Region 3) received word from its landlord that GSA—acting on behalf of DOGE—had unilaterally cancelled the Region’s five-year lease, without any prior notice to the Agency. The Region has been given 90 days to vacate the building.
February 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
they're evicting the labor law enforcers right where starbucks workers first won.
it's not just about enriching elon, it's about emboldening all bosses to work you like a serf
it's not just about enriching elon, it's about emboldening all bosses to work you like a serf
no IBEW strike yet at National Grid, but chance bumped up imo—in rare move, union officers say they’re “not able to immediately endorse” the company’s contract offer, will hold member discussions on it. promising sign of debate, not a rubberstamp, in this powerful union.
IBEW utility workers just voted 99% (!) to authorize a strike at 6 gas power plants – a majority of electric generation on Long Island – if megacorp National Grid doesn't come back with a fair contract by 11:59pm, Valentines.
February 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
no IBEW strike yet at National Grid, but chance bumped up imo—in rare move, union officers say they’re “not able to immediately endorse” the company’s contract offer, will hold member discussions on it. promising sign of debate, not a rubberstamp, in this powerful union.
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Don't miss our first event with @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social on his research with solar and building trades! March 20, 1pm EST. Registration: yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
February 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Don't miss our first event with @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social on his research with solar and building trades! March 20, 1pm EST. Registration: yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
debuting new research on solar & building trades, 3/20. it takes more than a contract to build a powerful union in a green transition. moderated by @nicolekhkgonzalez.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
debuting new research on solar & building trades, 3/20. it takes more than a contract to build a powerful union in a green transition. moderated by @nicolekhkgonzalez.bsky.social
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The super rich are in command, as Donald Trump and Elon Musk run a rampage on the working class. To stop them, the labor movement needs to lead. inthesetimes.com/article/labo...
It’s Time for a United Front to Take on Billionaire Rule
The super rich are in command, as Donald Trump and Elon Musk run a rampage on the working class. To stop them, the labor movement needs to lead.
inthesetimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The super rich are in command, as Donald Trump and Elon Musk run a rampage on the working class. To stop them, the labor movement needs to lead. inthesetimes.com/article/labo...
IBEW utility workers just voted 99% (!) to authorize a strike at 6 gas power plants – a majority of electric generation on Long Island – if megacorp National Grid doesn't come back with a fair contract by 11:59pm, Valentines.
February 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
IBEW utility workers just voted 99% (!) to authorize a strike at 6 gas power plants – a majority of electric generation on Long Island – if megacorp National Grid doesn't come back with a fair contract by 11:59pm, Valentines.
happy Flint Sit-Down Strike UAW victory day to all who observe!
looking for inspo on fighting corporate-run government? love this action-packed account of the leader of the Women's Brigade that helped beat GM and the National Guard 💪 historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/doll...
looking for inspo on fighting corporate-run government? love this action-packed account of the leader of the Women's Brigade that helped beat GM and the National Guard 💪 historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/doll...
Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike ... as told to Susan Rosenthal
historyisaweapon.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
happy Flint Sit-Down Strike UAW victory day to all who observe!
looking for inspo on fighting corporate-run government? love this action-packed account of the leader of the Women's Brigade that helped beat GM and the National Guard 💪 historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/doll...
looking for inspo on fighting corporate-run government? love this action-packed account of the leader of the Women's Brigade that helped beat GM and the National Guard 💪 historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/doll...
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Contracts expire next month for 47,000 Kroger + Albertson’s subsidiary workers across UFCW locals in SoCal, along with contracts for 20,500 Kroger workers w/ UFCW Local 1996 in Georgia, Labor Notes Organizers Joe DeManuelle-Hall + @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social report: labornotes.org/2024/12/big-...
February 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Contracts expire next month for 47,000 Kroger + Albertson’s subsidiary workers across UFCW locals in SoCal, along with contracts for 20,500 Kroger workers w/ UFCW Local 1996 in Georgia, Labor Notes Organizers Joe DeManuelle-Hall + @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social report: labornotes.org/2024/12/big-...
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Germany's Left Party has a new goal of cutting the wealth of billionaires in half within a decade.
Ultimately, they "believe there should not be any billionaires."
They aim to implement a wealth tax and raise inheritance and income taxes on the rich.
www.dw.com/en/germanys-...
Ultimately, they "believe there should not be any billionaires."
They aim to implement a wealth tax and raise inheritance and income taxes on the rich.
www.dw.com/en/germanys-...
Germany's Left Party wants to halve billionaires' wealth – DW – 02/08/2025
The Left Party says "there shouldn't be any billionaires." With Germany gearing up for an election, the far-left force has launched a new tax plan — though it will most likely never get a chance to im...
www.dw.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Germany's Left Party has a new goal of cutting the wealth of billionaires in half within a decade.
Ultimately, they "believe there should not be any billionaires."
They aim to implement a wealth tax and raise inheritance and income taxes on the rich.
www.dw.com/en/germanys-...
Ultimately, they "believe there should not be any billionaires."
They aim to implement a wealth tax and raise inheritance and income taxes on the rich.
www.dw.com/en/germanys-...
in the biggest US private sector union, heartening signs of a coordinated bargaining / striking / democratic reform coalition taking shape labornotes.org/2025/02/firs...
First Skirmish: Ten Thousand Grocery Workers Strike Kroger
Ten thousand members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 are on strike all across Colorado. They work for King Soopers grocery stores, owned by Kroger, the largest supermarket chain i...
labornotes.org
February 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
in the biggest US private sector union, heartening signs of a coordinated bargaining / striking / democratic reform coalition taking shape labornotes.org/2025/02/firs...
will be sending this every time an academic asks me "how can I help labor?": help figure out organizing targets, based on worker insights! labor leverage depends on how the job isolates or connects coworkers. you gotta learn that firsthand. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
Viewpoint: There’s More to Amazon Organizing Strategy Than Choke Points
As a longtime Amazon warehouse worker and union activist, I was glad to see Professor Ben Fong’s strategic analysis calling on the union movement to focus Amazon organizing on the Sortation Centers. B...
labornotes.org
February 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
will be sending this every time an academic asks me "how can I help labor?": help figure out organizing targets, based on worker insights! labor leverage depends on how the job isolates or connects coworkers. you gotta learn that firsthand. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
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The King Soopers workers on strike today are among the tens of thousands of grocery workers at the country’s largest supermarket chains fighting for new contracts in 2025 and taking on issues like understaffing. By Joe DeManuelle-Hall and @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social: labornotes.org/2024/12/big-...
The Big Union Contract Fights Coming in 2025
In some of the most exciting fights of 2024, strikers shut down ports on the East Coast and backed up plane orders on the West. The coming year is full of expiring contracts that could keep the strike...
labornotes.org
February 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The King Soopers workers on strike today are among the tens of thousands of grocery workers at the country’s largest supermarket chains fighting for new contracts in 2025 and taking on issues like understaffing. By Joe DeManuelle-Hall and @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social: labornotes.org/2024/12/big-...
this climate diagnosis is right. to begin to build power that beat the unholy fossil + silicon capital alliance, I think our best shots are union revival (ala UAW) and insurgent electoral campaigns (ala Bernie / Rashida)
February 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
this climate diagnosis is right. to begin to build power that beat the unholy fossil + silicon capital alliance, I think our best shots are union revival (ala UAW) and insurgent electoral campaigns (ala Bernie / Rashida)
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This is a time for the labor movement to choose sides: between deeper class unity and solidarity, or shortsighted conciliation with Trumpist power brokers. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Solidarity in Retreat | Luis Feliz Leon
Labor’s future will also be decided by its response to a reactionary political climate, and whether it can overcome two sinister and mutually reinforcing dynamics that are now at play in the movement:...
www.nplusonemag.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is a time for the labor movement to choose sides: between deeper class unity and solidarity, or shortsighted conciliation with Trumpist power brokers. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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New Labor Notes Workshop: Steering Green Transitions
Talk to rank-and-file union members organizing collective action for better jobs and a livable climate.
Monday, Feb. 3, 8 p.m. ET | Online
Sign up today! labornotes.org/events/2025/...
Talk to rank-and-file union members organizing collective action for better jobs and a livable climate.
Monday, Feb. 3, 8 p.m. ET | Online
Sign up today! labornotes.org/events/2025/...
January 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
New Labor Notes Workshop: Steering Green Transitions
Talk to rank-and-file union members organizing collective action for better jobs and a livable climate.
Monday, Feb. 3, 8 p.m. ET | Online
Sign up today! labornotes.org/events/2025/...
Talk to rank-and-file union members organizing collective action for better jobs and a livable climate.
Monday, Feb. 3, 8 p.m. ET | Online
Sign up today! labornotes.org/events/2025/...
climate wins in union contracts are a vital path forward, with national climate laws way off the table. join me and @labornotes.bsky.social monday for a workshop on union climate demands, learning from a Chicago teacher and Canadian autoworker who've lit the way. labornotes.org/events/2025/...
Steering Green Transitions (February)
Real solutions to the climate crisis depend on workers' know-how. CEOs usually cling to their dirty profits, or try to cash in on green technology to bust our unions and degrade our jobs. In this new ...
labornotes.org
January 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
climate wins in union contracts are a vital path forward, with national climate laws way off the table. join me and @labornotes.bsky.social monday for a workshop on union climate demands, learning from a Chicago teacher and Canadian autoworker who've lit the way. labornotes.org/events/2025/...
new from me. unions face scary new pressures towards selfish collaboration with trump: business unionism on uppers.
but only fighting solidarity – across unions, with immigrants, in politics – can sustain & grow the fragile labor upsurge. socialistcall.com/2025/01/30/c...
but only fighting solidarity – across unions, with immigrants, in politics – can sustain & grow the fragile labor upsurge. socialistcall.com/2025/01/30/c...
Cranking Up the Labor Upsurge - The Call
Labor's recent advances vindicate the hope that rank-and-file movements can transform sleepy unions into sharp tools against the billionaire class.
socialistcall.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
new from me. unions face scary new pressures towards selfish collaboration with trump: business unionism on uppers.
but only fighting solidarity – across unions, with immigrants, in politics – can sustain & grow the fragile labor upsurge. socialistcall.com/2025/01/30/c...
but only fighting solidarity – across unions, with immigrants, in politics – can sustain & grow the fragile labor upsurge. socialistcall.com/2025/01/30/c...