Reposted by Nathe LawverLiz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Tearing up union contracts, taking Medicaid and SNAP away from millions of workers and gutting essential services is not putting “American workers first” — it’s protecting billionaires and greedy corporate CEOs while leaving working families increasingly vulnerable. 1128 0
Nathe Lawver @nathelawver.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Most under appreciated ingredient I am now using perhaps too much of: lemon zest. 000 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverIATSE // #IASolidarity @iatse.bsky.social · 28/07/2025No worker should live in fear for simply doing their job. We continue to demand Fernando’s immediate release and call on labor allies, community members, and elected officials to stand with us. 04716 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverLiz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 14/07/2025I’ve met with working people all across America. Every one of them — no matter where they live, where they work or who they voted for — thinks we should protect Social Security. DOGE’s attacks on Social Security are putting working families at risk.washingtonpost.comSocial Security pulls field office staff to answer overwhelmed phone lineThe agency, which serves 73 million beneficiaries, has struggled to improve customer service amid cutbacks, long wait times and a crashing website. 0135 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverLiz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 10/07/2025While corporations profit off the backs of working people and politicians cut essential services, America’s unions are hitting the road on our “It’s Better in a Union: Fighting for Freedom, Fairness and Security” bus tour to build worker power nationwide. aflcio.org/press/releas... 2284 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/07/2025AFL–CIO President: We’re taking this bus across the country to highlight what’s happening with these cuts we just saw in the worst job-killing bill in history. This bus is going to show up everywhere. We’ll be outside VA hospitals and grocery stores, showing how these SNAP cuts will impact families. 14768402061 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 09/07/2025America’s unions are getting ready to hit the road to fight for working people all across the country. 📺 Tomorrow 10382106 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 08/07/2025For the record: the average union member receives more paid vacation time (not “micro-retirement”) than non-union members do. aflcio.org/formaunion 38322 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverKim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 07/07/2025It’s honestly so disrespectful and irresponsible that the national media has mostly ignored the DC33 city worker strike in Philly so far. It’s a huge story with massive implications for the 6th biggest city in the country. Hell, I’ll write about it for ya! Email me! www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...inquirer.comPhilly is in its first municipal strike in the social media age. Does that affect how events are unfolding?So far, the national press has largely ignored Philadelphia's first strike by city workers since 1986. 221882610 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverLiz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 08/07/2025My thoughts go out to everyone impacted by the floods in Texas Hill Country, their families, and our @texasaflcio.bsky.social union family. We are holding them in our hearts during this tragic time.texasaflcio.orgCentral Texas Flood Resources & How to HelpAs Texans recover from the recent floods, the Texas AFL-CIO has compiled a list of resources for the affected counties for both union members and the general public. Thank you to all of our emergency ... 57425 0
Nathe Lawver @nathelawver.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Good. For the record, his administration has denied relief for Western Washington state for a disastrous wind storm from last year. 010 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverPeople Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 30/06/2025We’re headed back out on the road this summer to keep fighting for working people across the country!nbcnews.comFirst to NBC News: AFL-CIO to launch a summer bus tourThe AFL-CIO is hitting the road for a cross-country bus tour to oppose White House priorities that the union conglomerate believes hurt working people, 03713 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverJoyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 30/06/2025This is a list of all Americans who have been denaturalized. Most of them turned out to have been Nazi concentration camp guards. You don't need a whole denaturalization office for that. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...en.m.wikipedia.orgList of denaturalized former citizens of the United States - Wikipedia 283 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverKim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 28/06/2025🚨 For the first time since 1986, Philly’s AFSCME DC 33 is going on strike. The union represents thousands of blue collar city workers (including street pavers and sanitation workers) and is the city’s largest—and lowest paid—municipal workers union. The strike will begin at 12:01am on July 1st. 🚨 4537141 0
Reposted by Nathe Lawver@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 24/06/2025How do you write an entire piece about the need to train more blue collar workers for factory jobs & fail to mention the role labor unions play in doing just that? Sure seems like a stunning oversight by @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/b...nytimes.comWhy Factories Are Having Trouble Filling Nearly 400,000 Open Jobs 1115639 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverNate Bowling @natebowling.com · 22/06/2025My employment situation limits my commentary on certain topics. But y'all... right now, I have some thoughts. 2804 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverThe Needling @theneedling.com · 14/06/2025NPR Budget Cuts Spawn ‘Some Things Considered’ Program: tinyurl.com/hnuwzbpm 310916 0
Nathe Lawver @nathelawver.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I keep thinking how the current President undermined Congress passing bipartisan immigration reform under President Biden. 010 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverLiz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Congress' budget bill would gut Medicaid and Affordable Care Act coverage for 16 million people – and raise insurance prices for everyone else. Call the Senate and say: No cuts that hurt working families! 231-400-0602 12214 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 11/06/2025Across the country, America’s unions peacefully stood in solidarity with @seiuca.bsky.social President David Huerta & showed that if you come for one of us, you come for all of us. The labor movement will keep mobilizing until all our union siblings are home. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/... 619766 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverSEIU California @seiuca.org · 09/06/2025UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody! 6005778910473 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 09/06/2025The agenda of mass deportations is deeply anti-worker. One in five workers in America is an immigrant. They’re vital to the fabric of our communities. The real threat workers face is corporate greed, not immigrants.deptofpeoplewhowork.orgImmigrationOne in five workers in America wasn’t born here. Immigrants are America’s workers, vital to the fabric of our communities, our economy and our labor movement. 515957 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 09/06/2025An injury to one is an injury to all. Release our union brother David Huerta NOW! #FreeDavidEndRaids 5544155 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverPeople Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 09/06/2025An injury to one is an injury to all. Release @seiuca.bsky.social President David Huerta NOW! 0136 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverSEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 08/06/2025An Attack on One Is an Attack on All. Stand Up. Speak Out. Defend Workers. Protect Immigrants. Fight for Our Freedoms. 📍 Find an action near you and show up to demand: ✊The release of David Huerta 🛑 An immediate end to ICE raids 📣 The right to protest without fear 🔗 bit.ly/FreeDavidEndRaidsseiu.co#FreeDavidEndRaidsOn Friday afternoon, military-gear-clad ICE agents launched aggressive raids throughout Los Angeles. At one location, SEIU-USWW President David Huerta was assaulted, injured and detained while advocat... 10402204 0
Nathe Lawver @nathelawver.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Once again, I am in training for a trip to Italy. Cappuccio every morning. 020 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverLiz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Job Corps has given thousands of young people a safe place to live, learn, and build a future. Suspending it would push many back into crisis. We need to strengthen programs that deliver stability and opportunity, not abandon them.wbng.comDept. of Labor to suspend Job Corps programs across AmericaStudents at Oneonta Job Corps Academy said this program gave them a safe space and path to career development. 065 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/06/2025MURRAY: Will you allocate the $220m for literacy programs that Congress appropriated? McMAHON: We're looking at the unallocated dollars to determine which of those programs we can best spend on MURRAY: Those funds were appropriated. It looks to me like the dept is illegally impounding funding 862207105722 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 31/05/2025Working people are fed up with a system where CEOs make 238x what workers make. That’s not the future that working people deserve, and we’re fighting for a better one. America’s unions are standing up against corporate greed every day. 515542 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverMelissa Santos @melissajsantos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Infant day care prices now average over $21K per year in Washington state. That's over $8K more than in-state tuition and fees at the University of Washington. www.axios.com/local/seattl... #walegaxios.comInfant care in Washington state averages more than $21K a yearThat's more than $8,000 above annual in-state tuition at the University of Washington. 198 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverLiz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 23/05/202542% of Project 2025 is already being implemented, and it’s cutting jobs, delaying services, and putting lives at risk. The workers who keep this country running: VA nurses, Social Security staff, food safety inspectors are speaking out. Read their stories in a new @deptofworkers.bsky.social report:deptofpeoplewhowork.orgWorker Hearings ReportThe AFL-CIO’s Department of People Who Work for a Living (DPWL) recently held a series of hearings across the country to provide a platform for working people to express their views on the current adm... 37532 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverNate Bowling @natebowling.com · 22/05/2025Around 80,000,000 people in the US are on Medicaid. Many don't even realize it because it's called something different in every state: KanCare MassHealth MedQuest Apple Health These cuts will: A. Plunge states into deficit B. Force states to slash enrollment C. Likely, both of the above 21509160 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverPeople Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Hospitals closed. Health care workers laid off. Babies born without coverage. That’s what cutting Medicaid looks like. The House budget trades care and jobs for tax breaks the wealthy don’t need. We can’t let this stand. Call Congress TODAY.act.aflcio.orgCALL: No Cuts to MedicaidRight now, Congress is considering a reckless budget package that would make the 2017 tax giveaway to billionaires and giant corporations permanent, and expand the tax cuts for the rich by cutting $1.... 0115 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 21/05/2025The proposed House budget would cause 477k health care jobs to vanish. Medicaid cuts would shut down rural hospitals and drive up costs for everyone. SNAP cuts would leave millions of children without enough to eat. The damage to working families would be catastrophic. 58542 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/05/2025A reminder that if the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour. 438168625615 0
Nathe Lawver @nathelawver.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Kinda weird that there are billions in uncollected taxes from the wealthiest, but, sure, let's cut healthcare, starve children, and stop watching severe weather. 050 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverKim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!” 287314926573 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 14/05/2025Each year, 5,000 workers die from injuries on the job. DOGE’s cuts to essential research at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health will put more workers in danger. We’re suing the Trump admin to reverse the illegal dismantling of NIOSH. aflcio.org/press/releas... 15819 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverTexas AFL-CIO @texasaflcio.org · 08/05/2025Let’s Stamp Out Hunger! 🥫📬 This Saturday, you can leave a bag of nonperishable food near your mailbox for letter carriers to donate to local food pantries. It’s an easy way to help our neighbors! @lettercarriers.bsky.social #FeedingTexas www.kens5.com/article/news...kens5.com'Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive' celebrates 33rd anniversary SaturdayThe National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Alamo Branch 421 hopes to collect 500,000 pounds of food on Saturday, May 10. 074 0
Nathe Lawver @nathelawver.bsky.social · 08/05/2025In the grocery store, there are the eggs under the Oak Glen label. These are repacked eggs from dozens that had cracked eggs. Usually, these are $0.99 a dozen. Great price point for a dozen eggs at any time. Yesterday, I noticed these were more than $5 a dozen. 020 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverEFFAT @effat.org · 06/05/2025✊Solidarity with McDonald's workers in Italy! 📍Tomorrow, 7 May 2025, 35.000+ workers strike at McDonald's franchisee meeting in Rimini. 📣EFFAT affiliates Filcams CGIL, Fisascat CISL & Uiltucs UIL jointly demands a fair company agreement. 0264 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverThe Needling @theneedling.com · 03/05/2025WSDOT Investigated for Alleged Ties to MS Paint: tinyurl.com/frx2nwv 10544109 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverPoint Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Hi, Ume! 👋 📹: Assistant curator Shannon 443098 0
Nathe Lawver @nathelawver.bsky.social · 03/05/2025"Support our troops" always has been only an empty slogan. 020 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952 422251777840 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverKim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 01/05/2025🖤 May Day means solidarity with ALL workers, including sex workers, incarcerated workers, undocumented workers, criminalized workers, and disabled workers. When we say “an injury to one is an injury to all,” we’d better fucking mean it. 🖤 91978755 0
Reposted by Nathe LawverAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 30/04/2025It’s #NationalApprenticeshipDay! Apprenticeships give workers life-changing, earn-while-you-learn opportunities to build a career in the trades with union wages, benefits, and more. Find an apprenticeship that works for you: aflcio.org/issues/bette... 22813 0