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@lfelizleon.bsky.social
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Journalist. Staff writer at Labor Notes. Solidarity! Contact: lfelizleon@gmail.com. Substack: open.substack.com/pub/lowerfrequenc…

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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 6h
Amazon workers in Germany say they are organizing to take back every minute the logistics giant has stolen from them. labornotes.org/2026/09/germ...
Amazon workers marching Amazon workers picket in BerlinAmazon workers post for a photo after a meeting
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Why does a corporation like Amazon need to steal a few euros from me every day?” Carrara asked. labornotes.org/2026/09/germ...
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German Amazon Workers Organize To Get Paid for Every Minute
Amazon workers at four delivery and sorting warehouses in Germany are organizing to make every minute count. They’re demanding that Amazon pay them for every minute of work, saying in a petition that ...
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The powerful generally do not want a free press to exist. This is not a matter of political partisanship so much as it is an observation of reality. And a more urgent one to acknowledge today, because they are closer to winning. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...
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The Free and Unfree Press
Journalism, and its adversaries.
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Amie Rivers @amierivers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Journalists may not have much. But we retain the right to call the frauds and bootlickers masquerading as the pillars of the media industry a bunch of scumbags."
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Breaking: AutoZone workers won their union in 6-4 vote to join UAW Local 259. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
Meme making fun of AutoZone spending $210,000 million to bust a unit of 11 workers
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s funny how long the left has been arguing about the PMC… “Early in the twentieth century, commenting acerbically on the appeal of the Socialist Party of America to professionals, Leon Trotsky called it a party of dentists.“ dissentmagazine.org/article/muti...
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The Party of Baristas - Dissent Magazine
Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When workers file for a union election, it’s like a Bat-Signal goes off: a column of light cuts through the night sky, summoning not Bruce Wayne but a swarm of anti-union managers and consultants who reap tens of thousands of dollars from sowing fear and doubt. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
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AutoZone Workers Are Trying to Form the Company’s First-Ever Union
When workers file for a union election, it’s like a Bat-Signal goes off: a column of light cuts through the night sky, summoning not Bruce Wayne but a swarm of anti-union managers and consultants who ...
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Three years ago, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain called for American unions to line up contract expirations for May Day 2028 to set the stage for a potential mass strike. How are the prospects of this coordinated action looking now? jacobin.com/2026/09/fain...
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The Prospects for a 2028 May Day Mass Strike
Three years ago, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain called for American unions to line up contract expirations for May Day 2028 to set the stage for a potential mass strike. How are the prospect...
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Some 11,000 Teamster mechanics at United Airlines voted down a TA by 53 percent. These Teamsters have been trying to reach a deal for two years. Why was it voted down?
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Teamsters Land Industry-Leading Deal at United Airlines
(WASHINGTON) – The Teamsters Union has reached an agreement in principle with United Airlines (UA) on a new contract for more than 11,000 mechanics and relate
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"She *lived* for her job. "For 40 years. "And now it’s gone." -- Dave Barry, writing about how his wife, longtime Miami Herald sportswriter Michelle Kaufman, just got laid off by "two corporate guys she did not know, who did not know her." davebarry.substack.com/p/michelle
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Michelle
A tribute.
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 18/09/2026
we are on track to be pretty similar to 2023. notes.labordata.bunkum.us/2021/12/11/p...
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@unionelections.bsky.social how would you characterize election filings under Trump 2.0 compared to highs in 2023?
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Eight hundred workers at a Walmart distribution center in Canada succeeded where others have not: they are now working under a two-year contract with North America’s largest logistics giant labornotes.org/2026/09/cana...
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Canadian Walmart Workers Make History: A Union Contract
Eight hundred workers at a Walmart distribution center in Mississauga, Ontario, succeeded where others have not: they are now working under a two-year contract with North America’s largest logistics g...
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Who Moves America chronicles the Teamsters’ 2023 near-strike at UPS. It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse group of workers building themselves into a fighting force, who then must wrestle with a different version of victory than they expected.
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A Portrait of How Workers Build a Strike
Who Moves America chronicles the Teamsters’ 2023 near-strike at UPS. It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse group of workers building themselves into a fighting force, who then must wrestle with a different version of victory than they expected.
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Who Moves America chronicles the Teamsters’ 2023 near-strike at UPS. It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse group of workers building themselves into a fighting force, who then must wrestle with a different version of victory than they expected. jacobin.com/2026/09/docu...
jacobin.com
A Portrait of How Workers Build a Strike
Who Moves America chronicles the Teamsters’ 2023 near-strike at UPS. It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse group of workers building themselves into a fighting force, who then must wre...
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yael Bridge’s new documentary “Who Moves America?” about the UPS contract fight offers a window into the the class culture of one of the country’s largest unions. inthesetimes.com/article/team...
UPS Teamsters in uniform
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How does it always get worse?
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I wrote a review of the documentary Who Moves America, which chronicles 2023 UPS contract fight. lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/the-teamst...
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The Teamsters Who Move America: Class Solidarity at Big Brown
Yael Bridge’s documentary offers a window into the the class culture of one of the country’s largest unions.
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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Until coverage of new technologies, from AI developments to automation to robotics, returns to its proper domain of the labor-and-capital relationship, I fear we’ll be fed a steady diet of doomsday scenarios.”
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A worker fixes a machine.
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For a bigger impact, we’ll need to go even further than Twin Cities workers did: preparing for open-ended & full workplace strikes, not one-day partial strikes, and hitting the big capitalist firms nationally, rather than a handful of name-brand companies in one state. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
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Persecuted by Trump, Will Unions Build Towards May 2028?
Three years ago the United Auto Workers, glowing with confidence after a successful strike at the Big 3 and pledging ambitious new organizing drives, put out a call for a national strike on May 1, 202...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
applying "Make ___ Great Again" to Germany really does kinda give the game away
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Essential reading…
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Workers around the country experienced brutal heat this summer, and yet U.S. employers still face no national heat safety regulation! The good news is that where workers have fought for and won heat safety regulations, they work: labornotes.org/2026/08/will...
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Will Republicans in Congress Torch OSHA’s Heat Standard?
Workers around the country experienced brutal heat this summer, with July the hottest month on record. It’s creating a safety crisis on the job, as workers report severe nausea, dizziness, exhaustion,...
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"How Minnesota Unions and Community Groups Stood Up to an ICE Occupation" - by Greg Nammacher, president of SEIU Local 26. Really glad to see @labornotes.bsky.social reprint this excerpt from This Is How We Win.
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How Minnesota Unions and Community Groups Stood Up to an ICE Occupation
In this excerpt from the new book This Is How We Win: A Guide to Building Working-Class Uprisings, SEIU Local 26 President Greg Nammacher describes how his union, its members battered and exhausted fr...
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The institutional response to Trump’s attack on mail voting seems to be entirely limited to lawsuits. What else is happening?
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CNN @cnn.com · 03/09/2026
President Donald Trump's administration has asked the Supreme Court to give the US Postal Service sweeping power to withhold delivery of mail ballots, setting up an extraordinary showdown over voting at the high court less than two months before the November midterm election. cnn.it/4qWnfwb
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How are CA unions faring in the face of an unfriendly federal administration, a militarized deportation campaign, and a continuing cost-of-living crisis? Check out this new report from UCLA IRLE, with contributions from 7 UC labor centers (including us). laborcenter.berkeley.edu/state-of-the...
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State of the Unions: California Labor in 2025
A report from the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, including research from the UC Berkeley Labor Center. This edition of the “State of the Unions” report offers readers insight int...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
12/ This is the railroaded future that US tech oligarchs want. Trump says popular opposition to data centers is from those who “want to end up backwards and poor.” And suggests that slowing down the frenetic buildout of data centers in the US would benefit China. @katemac.bsky.social
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf
A seed art entry in the 2026 Minnesota State Fair based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica. It features a loon, the words "Ice Out" and two representations of Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s. Notably, the mouths of Good and Pretty include their last words in Morse code:
‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” The artist is Jennifer Nelson.
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Again, I can’t sleep. I emptied the brain on the page. lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/on-looking...
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On Looking Over My Shoulder for ICE
No one is safe from ICE terror.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Tuesday: The US govt offers its “deepest condolences to the victims and their families” after armed gangs storm a mountainside town in Haiti, killing dozens and kidnapping more than 50, including infants. Thursday: The govt deports 57 people, including a 3-year-old born in the U.S., to Haiti. 1/
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There’s a nonzero chance that that telephone is made by Mattel.
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The journalist and polemicist Alexander Coburn is said to have once asked Ed Miliband at The Nation magazine, “Is your hatred pure?” lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/dsa-rich-k...
DSA Rich Kids: Is Your Hatred Pure?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thread: The enormous unprecedented SCALE of the American AI investment boom is "crowding out" investment going into any other sector of the economy. At this point in mid 2026, it is literally sucking away all factors of production -capital, land, labour, knowledge, ecology. @katemac.bsky.social
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New from me with Jane Slaughter: United Auto Workers members are voting by mail ballot for their top officers, for the second time in the union’s 91 years. Ballots went out August 21 and are due back by October 5. labornotes.org/2026/08/uaw-...
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UAW Members Voting for International Officers
United Auto Workers members are voting by mail ballot for their top officers, for the second time in the union’s 91 years. Ballots went out August 21 and are due back by October 5. The contest will de...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/08/2026
In Gary, Indiana, without refrigeration insulin supplies are being spoiled, and people who depend on oxygen cannot pump it from their tanks due to lack of electricity. A public health disaster.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
All rich kids should be socialists. It is good actually. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/never-apol...
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Never Apologize For Being a Class Traitor
All rich kids should be socialists.
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Jessica Schulberg @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Today is my last day at HuffPost. After 11 years, I was laid off as part of the 33% cuts at BuzzFeed. My team, the National desk, was cut from 7 reporters to 3, after being cut from 14 to 7 just over a year ago
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There it is. While you struggle to afford groceries, or find any that are edible, and pay thousands more every year in gas, rent, utilities, childcare, and healthcare, they are laughing all the way to the bank. 
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Truthout @truthout.org · 20/08/2026
In late July, Raul Calvo, a well-known California union-buster, called workers at the Rodney Strong Vineyards into a meeting. “He said he was just going to give us the information that he got in an email three days ago, that ICE was here outside.”
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Union-Busters Are Using ICE to Intimidate California Wine Industry Workers
California’s wine industry runs on immigrant exploitation. Now migrant workers are unionizing.
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’m open for freelance assignments. Let’s talk.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 21/08/2026
#OtD 21 Aug 1791 the Haitian revolution began as 100,000 enslaved people rose up and eventually overthrew both slavery and French rule, creating the world's first Black republic shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/a-h...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"As of Wednesday morning, NIPSCO had restored power to 282,000 customers across Northwest Indiana. But more than 83,000 buildings and homes remained in the dark." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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More than 83,000 buildings, homes still without power in Northwest Indiana
As of Wednesday morning, NIPSCO had restored power to 282,000 customers across Northwest Indiana​. But more than 83,000 buildings and homes remained in the dark.
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
How the labor movement is responding to reports of a sweeping investigation by the Department of Homeland Security into organizations and members resisting ICE: labornotes.org/2026/08/fede...
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Federal Spies Hunt Minnesota Unions in Search of Conspiracy, But Find Solidarity
Yesterday news broke of a sweeping undercover investigation by the Department of Homeland Security in Minnesota early this year to infiltrate and surveil meetings and obtain the financial records of n...
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Toby Higbie @thigbie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In Minnesota feds sent undercover agents to public meetings, tried to entrap organizers, scoured union financial records, and used facial recognition AI to link union leaders and activists to a so-called ”conspiracy.” Nothing but solidarity
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Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Here is another article from @labornotes.bsky.social that’s more comprehensive on the issue. 2/2 labornotes.org/2026/08/fede...
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Federal Spies Hunt Minnesota Unions in Search of Conspiracy, But Find Solidarity
Yesterday news broke of a sweeping undercover investigation by the Department of Homeland Security in Minnesota early this year to infiltrate and surveil meetings and obtain the financial records of n...
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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Always count on @lfelizleon.bsky.social for your labor news.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Loving all the cheesy puns in response to this. But to be serious for a second, "Europe's cheese market makes more profits than the entire high volume steel industry of China and India...80% of the steel market makes very low margins (only special steels make decent margins)." x.com/ZeitgeistExp...
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