Reposted by Work Stoppage Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 20hTo recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states 123711091
Reposted by Work Stoppage Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 16hStarbucks workers have organized and won over 700 union elections. Why? Because working people know companies CAN do better, but choose not to. We know it's time to push back against corporate greed! CONGRATS to partners who recently won unions in ✊Ponca City, OK ✊Jasper, IN 16014
Reposted by Work Stoppage Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 29/09/2026EPA workers' union sues the federal agency over the termination of its union contract www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comEPA union sues Trump administration to restore collective bargaining contractFederal workers’ union alleges EPA illegally terminated agreement with the goal of repressing political dissent 02914
Reposted by Work Stoppage Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A new report from the Government Accountability Office found key data is missing in the effort to combat child labor violations, including for more than half of the child workplace fatalities in the US from 2013 to 2023 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comKey data missing for half of US child labor deaths, official report findsOver half of 260 workplace child fatalities between 2013 and 2023 lacked data on cause of death or the industry worked 01412
Reposted by Work Stoppage Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Shining a spotlight on this never ending crime: Three deaths, three states, 24 hours www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comThree deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surgeThese men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign 01212
Reposted by Work Stoppage Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Alpha School she is talking about www.the74million.org/article/insi...the74million.orgInside Alpha School’s ‘Bootcamp’: Heart Monitors, Unpaid Labor & Many, Many TweetsStudents at the AI-powered private school are chronicling grueling tests of composure, endurance and grit. 2237
Reposted by Work Stoppage Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.texastribune.orgICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identifiedThe federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte... 20566373336
Work Stoppage @workstoppage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ep 327 - Real Unions Don't Need AI Signs www.patreon.com/posts/170902... tinyurl.com/WSEP327 Mass General B, Prime Healthcare, Henry Ford Genesys Hospital, Sam Adams Brewery, AutoZone, Canadian Taft Hartley, AFA, Colombia, surveillance, company unions 032
Reposted by Work Stoppage SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 28/09/2026Hats off to 150 Allina hospital doctors who won a tentative agreement on their first labor contract that ensures pay increases and better benefits!seiu.coUnionized doctors reach deal with Allina Health after strikeThe union representing about 150 Allina hospital doctors announced on Wednesday a tentative agreement on a first labor contract covering wages and benefits. 0235
Reposted by Work Stoppage Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026They cited nobody, and I wondered what kind of a monstrous sociopath would welcome this. Folks, 43628167
Reposted by Work Stoppage The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 28/09/2026ICE agents terrorized this suburban neighborhood in Frederick, Maryland, and beat peaceful protestors while local cops just watched. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with an eyewitness who saw and filmed everything.therealnews.com'Like the Gestapo': ICE brings terror and violence to MarylandICE agents terrorized this suburban neighborhood in Frederick, Maryland, and beat peaceful protestors while local cops just watched. We speak with an eyewitness who saw and filmed everything. 13324
Reposted by Work Stoppage Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ctrl-F “Laquan McDonald” <Not found>nytimes.comRahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 PlayThe longtime Democratic insider has emerged as a behind-the-scenes force in his party’s push to win back Congress. After that, he’ll think about 2028. 28980199
Reposted by Work Stoppage Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 26/09/2026Starbucks is ending their DEI initiatives nationwide. If you’re a customer, BOYCOTT STARBUCKS. If you’re a Starbucks worker, organize your union to protect you and your coworkers before things get even worse. 618080
Reposted by Work Stoppage Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103374398
Reposted by Work Stoppage Amir Khafagy @amirkhafagy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Scoop 🚨 Why is one of New York's most notorious union-busters forming independent unions? Cesar Alarcón, an anti-union consultant, showed up at Golden Krust with a new union, Local 311. Was it a sham? New investigation for @documentedny.bsky.social documentedny.com/2026/09/23/u...documentedny.comCesar Alarcón Dismantles Unions — Why Is He Now Creating Them?Golden Krust workers had issues with their union. Then a seasoned anti-union consultant showed up. 3109
Reposted by Work Stoppage Cathy Otten @cathyotten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In 2025, Omer Shatz and colleagues submitted a second communication to the ICC: "European officials suspected of Crimes Against Humanity against ‘migrants’ on the Central Mediterranean route" www.crimesagainsthumanity.eu/encrimesagainsthumanity.euEU Crimes Against HumanityExposing Crimes Against Humanity of European Officials 0149
Reposted by Work Stoppage More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Nearly 190,000 home health workers in New York could unionize in one of the biggest U.S. labor drives in decades. SEIU Local 1199 says they've gotten almost 70,000 signatures, enough to trigger a union vote, and now the union has petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election. 4450110
Reposted by Work Stoppage University of Oklahoma AAUP @uoklahomaaaup.bsky.social · 20/09/2026www.oudaily.com/news/aaup-su... "A log of responses from Oklahoma professors shows 64% of respondents reported they would not recommend working in Oklahoma to colleagues or graduate students."oudaily.comAAUP survey reveals growing concerns of political influence in higher education among instructorsAn American Association of University Professors survey of faculty in southern states, now including Oklahoma, reveals growing concerns about political influence in university curriculum. 11510
Reposted by Work Stoppage The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 22/09/2026A “forensic method” scientists call unreliable helped convict Moira Akers of killing her newborn. Prosecutors planned to use it again—even though the Maryland Department of Health has officially disavowed the practice.therealnews.comMaryland used discredited “science” to convict a woman of murdering her fetus. Reproductive rights groups are raising alarms.A “forensic method” scientists call unreliable helped convict Moira Akers of killing her newborn. Prosecutors planned to use it again—even though the Maryland Department of Health has officially disav... 1178
Work Stoppage @workstoppage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Ep 326 - Lawless Lawmen www.patreon.com/posts/170260... tinyurl.com/WSE326 Amazon, Samsung, Howard House Manufacturing, the entire French economy, Bradford White, CharterCARE, Allina Health, CVS looming strike, beverage distribution union busting, class struggle against ICE 020
Reposted by Work Stoppage AAUP @aaup.org · 22/09/2026"The elimination of entire departments to achieve relatively modest short-term savings risks long-term damage to research capacity, student enrollment, and institutional reputation." – Todd Wolfson, AAUP Presidentjournalstar.comFaculty group urges AAU to deny UNL readmission over budget cutsThe American Association of University Professors called the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's push to gain readmission to the AAU into question following last year's program and position eliminations. 02614
Reposted by Work Stoppage Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026These allegations are a bombshell: the FBI informant claims Collins was in a pay-to-play scheme where donors to her Super-PAC were rewarded with government contracts. Trump stopped the investigation when he came into his office second term. As Collins would say, "concerning" 411595529
Reposted by Work Stoppage Stuart Aken @stuartaken.bsky.social · 22/09/2026And we can do without this company running anything to do with our NHS in the UK, too! 054
Reposted by Work Stoppage alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves. 91425519
Reposted by Work Stoppage Amberger @naughtynocturn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Democracy is when people ignore marginalized groups having their rights ripped from them and instead do whatever the fuck this is to defend a building 112925
Reposted by Work Stoppage Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Starbucks workers are reporting being priced out of Starbucks' health insurance coverage, with premiums more than doubling in some cases www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comStarbucks baristas reel from surges in health insurance costs: ‘I’m considering a second job’Several workers say they’re opting to go without health coverage due to premium costs soaring this year 1268
Reposted by Work Stoppage The Intercept @theintercept.com · 20/09/2026Billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft wants you to know he has spent “decades” supporting the Palestinian people. But The Intercept dug into his claim and found that he actually has spent years donating to.... Friends of the IDF and AIPAC? buff.ly/0Msn7t7 1818996
Reposted by Work Stoppage Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Most of the point of this shit is to render monstrous choices more easily and less accountably available to institutional authorities so we should expect this kind of thing, and if left to their own devices the people developing and pushing it will never ever course correct. 1175
Reposted by Work Stoppage Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is eugenics 301659775
Reposted by Work Stoppage Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Eight 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...labornotes.orgCanadian Walmart Workers Make History: A Union ContractEight 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... 7579270
Work Stoppage @workstoppage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Everyone hyperventilating about the uncontroversial fact that the US has slaughtered orders of magnitude more people than every non-state actor in history are just doing genocide denial. Even leaving out the 10 million+ killed violently in US wars, whole generations have been killed by sanctions. 110
Reposted by Work Stoppage lumie's dad @classhuggle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026But why set aside the actual merits? They matter! Like, the argument against what Piker said depends on you not having eyes or a functioning brain. If you have either of those things, then you can clearly see what's happening every day on your television. 1162
Reposted by Work Stoppage The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 14/09/2026“This is full-throated climate denial while the climate crisis happens in real time and a shocking betrayal of the American public.”therealnews.com‘Actively malevolent’: Trump EPA to eviscerate rules on planet-heating pollution from power plants“This is full-throated climate denial while the climate crisis happens in real time and a shocking betrayal of the American public.” 02520
Reposted by Work Stoppage UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Lou Leon Guerrero is the Governor of Guam, a US territory. But she and the rest of the people there have no say in who mines its waters. Modern-day colonialism is enabling Trump's deep-sea mining ambitions in the Pacific. grist.org/energy/deep-...grist.orgShe governs a US territory. But she has no say in who mines its waters.Modern-day colonialism is enabling Trump's deep sea mining ambitions in the Pacific. 02311
Reposted by Work Stoppage Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Robert Kraft's PR vs Robert Kraft's on-the-ground agenda: 11491131
Reposted by Work Stoppage Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026New from me. Union nurses warn 🚨 Big Tech and Big Brother are invading our healthcare system, which was already in crisis. I speak with a panel of @nationalnurses.bsky.social from Maine, Missouri, and Illinois. This is a must-listen! @therealnews.com therealnews.com/palantir-nur...therealnews.com'Purge Palantir!': Union nurses warn Big Tech and Big Brother are invading our healthcare system“Palantir has no place in our hospitals, no place in our community... Nurses are advocates first. We're trained to advocate and to speak up when something is wrong, and that's what we're doing.” 5627431378
Reposted by Work Stoppage AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“At a time when a major party nominee for statewide office can look at a diverse crowd of young Texans and see an invasion, students need more opportunities to understand one another. UT is giving them fewer.” 💯 02814
Reposted by Work Stoppage #StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 15/09/2026An extensive Financial Times investigative report, done in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports, demonstrates that more than SIXTY FIVE PERCENT of Israeli damage and destruction done to Lebanese population centers occurred AFTER the so-called ceasefire agreement of April 16th. 71228554
Reposted by Work Stoppage Jordan Barab @jbarab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026How workers died last week: Skid loader incidents, airplane crash, lawn mower, explosions, industrial incidents, firefighting, drowning, heat, shootings, and vehicular collisions: The Weekly Toll jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...jordanbarab.comThose Who Didn't Come Home: The Weekly Toll - Confined SpaceOn average, 100 workers die every week from traumatic injuries on the job in the United States. Here are how a few died last week. 134
Reposted by Work Stoppage Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com 8433641202
Reposted by Work Stoppage Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026In a Los Angeles courtroom this winter, after a back-and-forth with a judge about estimating the number of people likely to die from exposure to silica, Hyundai L&C lawyer Rey Yang mused, “You could live life without any risk, and then where would you be?” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.com‘Death Sentences’: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing WorkersHundreds of workers who’ve contracted silicosis are suing the artificial stone industry for billions. While California weighs a ban on fabricating the product, the manufacturers’ defenders in Congress... 034
Reposted by Work Stoppage alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026At this vital time in understanding propaganda and authoritarianism, a reminder that we have free copies of Copaganda for teachers, students, and anyone who sends books to people in prison. If you want copies, link is in next post! My grandma says the book is amazing. 115864
Reposted by Work Stoppage Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It was overtly racist. He couldn't be anymore racist. It wasn't even trying to hide the racism. Bo French posted a photo of college kids and whined that they weren't white enough. Here is the Wall Street Journal trying to launder it as "tests boundaries" of political speech. 073
Work Stoppage @workstoppage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Convincing people is important, it's the bedrock of political change, but we also have to take a stark look and recognize that there are millions of Americans who actively support, even love, this. They love concentration/death camps and they are going to have to be *defeated*, not convinced. 012
Reposted by Work Stoppage Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026BREAKING: Records obtained through a FOIA lawsuit shows that despite record number of pregnant women are in detention, ICE has lost count of the number of miscarriages. A Deleted Data/Immigration/Guardian investigations collabtheguardian.comRevealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant womenICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b... 1468293
Work Stoppage @workstoppage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Ep 325 - Organizing Orgrimmar www.patreon.com/posts/169608... tinyurl.com/WSEP325 Prime Healthcare nurses, Boston Medical Center, RI Amazon drivers, Brazilian postal workers, Dutch transit workers, Kenyan healthcare workers, Frontier flight attendants, McClatchy, Blizzard, MOWP 030
Reposted by Work Stoppage Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026Ed Sheeran is a spineless coward. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...rollingstone.comMacklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Onstage 'Free Palestine' StatementsMacklemore is being dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour after several venues allegedly said they would not allow a concert with the rapper to take place. 711942434
Reposted by Work Stoppage AAUP @aaup.org · 13/09/2026“You have people who are furthest from the classroom, curriculum design, and the subject area of a subject saying all students must take this thing. How is that good for students? How does that suggest they will get the best education?” #academicskyal.comProtesters speak out against ‘climate of fear’ after Auburn University dissolves faculty senateAuburn’s decision came after the Alabama Legislature put limits on the powers of faculty senates. 27239
Reposted by Work Stoppage Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Late last year we were shocked to learn that a 10-lb tumor was strangulating my partner's heart. One Sat morning in early January, at 7am, as he sat in a hospital bed waiting for the oncologist, his insurance co called to inform him that they'd be denying his scans + hospital stay. America! 🇺🇸 14916