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Workers at Half Price Books in KS & MO, unionizing for better wages, benefits, and workplace conditions! #HPBUnion

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 28/02/2026
“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
4,200 nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospitals are still on strike at their hospitals in upper Manhattan since they first walked out on January 12. They're calling for support on the picket lines from other nurses, union members, and the public labornotes.org/2026/02/nurs... 1/5
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Nurse Strike’s Focus Moves to Manhattan’s Richest Hospital Complex as Contracts Settle Elsewhere
The largest and longest nurses strike in the city’s history will continue at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospitals after nurses there decisively rejected the hospital chain’s contract offer 3,099 to 867. Abo...
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 14/02/2026
Since 1989, nearly all net job growth in America has occurred under Democratic presidents — about 97% of the 52 million jobs created. That’s not spin. That’s the data.
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HPBUnionKS @hpbunionks.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
A few of our comrades spoke with The Pitch about our recent union victory! www.thepitchkc.com/half-price-b...
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Half Price Books Westport ratifies union contract
Half Price Books in Westport // Photo by Samantha Russell Two years ago, workers at Half Price Books in Westport won their vote to unionize. Only now have contract negotiations with the corporation be...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Workers are increasingly seeing union contracts as a means to win the basic needs and protections being snatched away. They're also recognizing how robust contract campaigns can build up the labor movement to resist the Trump admin's broadside attacks labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/how-contra...
A title card featuring a photo of workers at a large demonstration, carrying signs that read "UAW Says: Fight For Our Future" and "Kill The Cuts, Save Lives." In the foreground are cut-out photos of Labor Notes pod co-hosts Danielle Smith and Natascha Elena Uhlmann. The title reads, "2026 Contract Fights."
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 30/01/2026
We are many, they are few
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I keep seeing posts going "when ICE comes to MY city, we'll be out in the streets even harder" and man, I get that sentiment but I need everyone to understand that the work in Minneapolis is partly confrontational but MORE IMPORTANTLY aaallll the stuff organized in the background to help neighbors
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HPBUnionKS @hpbunionks.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We're going to be talking at The Hearland Labor Forum tomorrow night at 6pm! Tune in @ kkfi.org
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KKFI 90.1 FM
Your choice for local music and public affairs radio shows broadcast on KKFI 90.1 FM, Kansas City Community Radio
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Over 20,000 New York nurses could strike to ring in the new year. 97% of the nurses at 12 NYC hospitals have voted to authorize a strike. And their contracts expire on December 31st.
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HPBUnionKS @hpbunionks.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Our Westport store just voted unanimously to ratify their union contract!
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a man in a green elf costume is standing in a hallway with his mouth open and screaming .
Alt: Buddy the elf is so excited that Wesport HPB has a union contract
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 28/11/2025
#WeAintBuyingIt
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 28/11/2025
Starbucks knows where we stand. We’ve been clear: more take-home pay, better hours, & resolution of 100s of ULPs. Bring us NEW proposals that address these issues so we can finalize a contract. Until then, we'll keep escalating. See you on the picket line! www.cnbc.com/2025/11/28/s...
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Starbucks workers' union escalates strike on Black Friday
The Starbucks workers' union said on Friday it is escalating an indefinite strike to more than 120 stores and 85 cities.
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Missouri Workers Center @moworkers.org · 28/11/2025
Remember Black Friday 2022? Amazon #STL8 workers went on a historic strike to demand safer work, higher pay, and more! By coming together, workers won *five* OSHA citations and FORCED management to address their safety violations 💪 #MOworkers #AmazonHurts #MakeAmazonPay
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Get Equipped With @getequipped.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
get equipped with full union
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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Don't judge a book by its cover...Who would guess these cutesy scrapbooks contain dramatic history of the early @uaw.org? From the John Eldon Papers at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social, they're scrapbooks of news clippings about 1930s autoworker organizing. 📰🐶 archives.wayne.edu/repositories...
Three scrapbook covers. One with an image of deer, another with a black and white dog, and the other with terriers.Newspaper clipping of people demonstrating outside a Dodge Motor plant in Detroit. 1939.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
 Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 06/11/2025
Last chance!
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
check it out
A yellow cover with a man in a mask and a debutante with a black line over her eyes. The book is titled "The Veiled Prophet"; subhead "Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis" by Devin Thomas O'Shea.
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 07/11/2025
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 05/11/2025
BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting. If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
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Starbucks unionized workers say they'll strike on Nov. 13 if coffee giant doesn't finalize contract
Union members say they are ready to strike on the chain's Red Cup Day if Starbucks doesn't finalize a contract with their union by then.
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Liz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Rent is due. Bills are mounting. There’s no money for groceries. It’s been a month since federal workers across the country were locked out of their jobs to break the Affordable Care Act. And it's way past time for Congress to put working people first. act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...
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CALL: Stop the Shutdown and the Cuts to Working Families
The federal government is shutting down because the Trump administration chose chaos and pain over responsible governing. Countless jobs, the essential government services we all rely on and the econ...
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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
In most states open enrollment for Affordable Care Act health insurance starts Nov. 1. This year 22 million people are about to see their premiums more than double, on average. At the heart of the government shutdown is the battle to keep these huge costs down.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Friends — these are terrible times, to be sure. But I believe we will triumph. Here’s why.
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The Pitch @thepitch.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
KC Sipps: Two drink-centered openings, 10 years of Heirloom Bakery & Hearth, and a beerfest www.thepitchkc.com/kc-sipps-two...
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KC Sipps: Two drink-centered openings, 10 years of Heirloom Bakery & Hearth, and a beerfest
Food Editor Sarah Sipple shares timely restaurant news and events for Kansas City.
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
@uaw.org president Shawn Fain laid out four priorities for a workers’ political program ✅Fair wages ✅Health care ✅Retirement ✅Winning back our time ...and a strategy to fight for those essential needs: building toward a mass strike in May 2028 labornotes.org/2025/10/labo... 1/2
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Labor Needs an Independent Political Program, Says UAW’s Fain
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain recently laid out four priorities he says should form the nucleus of a workers’ political program. And he said that a broad strike in May 2028 is one way to fi...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value. This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025. Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment. Be warned.
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The Italian General Confederation of Labour, Italy’s largest labor confederation, called a general strike for October 3 “in defense of the Global Sumud Flotilla, constitutional values, to stop the genocide, and in support of the people of Gaza.” labornotes.org/2025/10/mill...
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Millions of Italians Join General Strike for Gaza
More than 2 million people filled public squares across Italy on October 3 during a one-day general strike in support of the people of Gaza and against the ongoing genocide there. The strike, called b...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Corporate income taxes are $77 billion lower than last year, primarily due to the Republican tax cuts for the rich. itep.org/trump-tax-la...
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Well, That Was Fast: Trump Tax Law’s New Corporate Breaks are Already Worsening the Deficit
Corporate income taxes for the fiscal year that ended in September are $77 billion lower than in the previous year, a 15 percent drop.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 10/10/2025
Federal workers are locked out of their jobs or working without pay. These workers inspect our food, make it safe to fly and so much more. They’re not political pawns—they’re the backbone of our country. Fund the government. Fix the health care crisis. Put working people first.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Starbucks unions are practicing picketing as the company abuses its workers and denies them a fair contract. This is your reminder to not cross a picket line and support workers! NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move. 1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year. Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.
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Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Soon millions of domestic workers may lose their right to demand even the federal minimum wage—a mere $7.25 per hour—or any overtime. Trump’s Department of Labor is moving to rescind a 2013 rule, leaving millions of domestic workers without wage and hour protections.
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Texas Domestic Workers Face Trump Attack on Minimum Wage
Advocates warn a proposed rule by the Department of Labor will deepen the country’s “crisis of care.”
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The Kansas City Defender @kcdefender.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
North St. Louis is in the middle of a climate warzone. A tornado wiped out 5,000+ homes. Black residents are relying on mutual aid to survive. We went to document climate collapse, ICE kidnappings, and the people fighting back in a city that once sparked a global revolution. youtu.be/BhQjYxBcqxw
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The Tornado That Could Destroy St. Louis’ Black Community
YouTube video by The Kansas City Defender
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Missouri Workers Center @moworkers.org · 28/08/2025
MO lawmakers robbed us of our paid sick days, and now they want to reject the will of the people AGAIN with their illegal ploy to redraw our districts and deny us the freedom to choose our leaders!
MO lawmakers stole your paid sick days
What are YOU doing about it?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This Labor Day, I urge you to join a Workers Over Billionaires protest. We must continue standing together to show Trump that we, the people, have the power – not his billionaire buddies and corporate cronies. bit.ly/4lMgKaR
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 02/08/2025
Worker Power is the Heart of Democracy 🌱 Power is never given freely—it must be taken. Join MCF Summer School on Tuesday, August 5th for a conversation w/ Carmen Rojas, @lenorepalladino.bsky.social, Brendan Walsh, and @faiz.bsky.social RSVP: caseygrants.hubspotpagebuilder.com/worker-power...
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 02/08/2025
An awful, awful gut punch in an already profoundly shitty year www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down following funding cuts
Trump’s successful campaign to strip federal money to NPR and PBS effectively ended the public media middleman.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
What is freedom? Are you really free if your groceries or medicine are so expensive that you can’t afford them? Or if your boss can change your work schedule on a whim or block you from getting a new job? Lina Khan explains how excessive corporate power makes us less free.
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The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 25/07/2025
ICYMI: The rich have class solidarity. So should we. #SolidaritySeason
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/07/2025
“You don’t expect to see this here,” said a guest from Colorado. “But honestly, I support them. If they’re not being treated right, they should speak up. Even if it’s in the middle of Disneyland.”
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Downtown Disney Starbucks Workers Leave Their Jobs Without Notice | Disney Dining
Starbucks workers at Disneyland’s Downtown Disney just walked off the job. What sparked the protest—and what comes next—might surprise you. #Disneyland #Starbucks #WorkerStrike2025
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Women in the United Brotherhood of Carpenters said they've been infuriated by union brass shutting down longstanding union support for Sisters in the Brotherhood, the official women’s committee, along with smaller Black, LGBTQ, and Latino member groups 1/3
A photo of a building under construction, and two workers in hard hats standing on an elevated floor. The superimposed text  on the graphic reads, “The officers have been talking more progressively for years about supporting our sisters. Now the second the Trump administration starts pushing in an opposite direction, they fold immediately and throw in the towel?”
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 26/07/2025
ICYMI: The Read Bookshop is launching the inaugural Holmfirth Children’s Book Festival, a not-for-profit children’s book festival with a mission to promote reading for pleasure among children 👇 #BookSky
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Holmfirth Children's Book Festival launches to promote reading for pleasure
The Read Bookshop has launched the inaugural Holmfirth Children’s Book Festival, a not-for-profit children’s book festival with a mission to promote reading for pleasure among children.
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 28/06/2025
Arely Westley is a beloved trans Latina organizer and RFK Human Rights Award winner. She's spent her life fighting for others—and now she’s in an immigration detention facility in Basile, LA, without access to the care she needs. This Justice Journey is for her. #SolidaritySummer
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 28/06/2025
✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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