keith bb
@TRAILSANDWAYS
building trades & climate troublemaking @labornotes keith at labornotes dot org
proud as hell to share: i'm joining @labornotes as first ever Labor-Climate Organizer🌞 troublemakers in construction, manufacturing, energy, transit – hit me up with your stories of fighting the boss, esp. to lead a green transition your way. we'll help you fight ✊
"Employers can be jerks—slow to let workers leave work in the face of an impending storm, but quick to penalize those who can’t make it back in the immediate aftermath." an all-time roundup of how workers fight and survive boss-made climate disasters ⬇️
Organizing around the effects of climate change—heat, flooding and wildfire smoke on the job—presents opportunities to build union power by strengthening bonds among co-workers and getting folks into action together, writes @al_bradbury: labornotes.org/2025/07/coping…
blacksite kidnapping an organizer for the powerhouse pro-rent control/tenant rights community org in california. idk if mega-landlords like Blackstone requested this hit; either way it’s exactly what they want. every one who struggles to afford housing has a stake against this
versus building trades brass asleep or doing trump’s dirty work first, a rank and file rebellion for solidarity is waking up—16 locals standing up in unions where organized internal dissent is rare. me and @nataschaelena on the new cover of @labornotes labornotes.org/2025/07/confro…
a dizzying breach of union democracy and solidarity, and all NEA officers achieved was to back up -- not slow down -- the billionaire-funded attacks on the teacher delegate majority who rightfully want pro-genocide propaganda out of K-12 classrooms
Absolutely shameful, NEA leadership overrode its members. The head of the ADL went on MSNBC and compared a keffiyeh to a swastika and these are the clowns tasked with teaching our children about “hate.” Note how the “safety” of Palestinian kids never matters in any of this.
massive construction worker wildcat strike at a UK nuclear plant site this wk. to fight bully bosses and a rat's nest of safety problems, members claim over 3k walked off somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-new…
IAM Local 695 (@iam_district160) member Max Londonio is free after being wrongfully detained by ICE. IAM members and allies rallied, organized and stood in solidarity. We will continue to fight for all workers facing injustice, inside and outside the workplace.
blew my mind to learn the french wholly swung revolutionary war to the US: france had more troops at the final victory, paid the whole us army to show up, broke brit fleet beforehand. which fueled the revolutions in france & haiti happy freedom thru international solidarity day!
man just thinking about 17M ppl kicked off medicaid for pure cruelty and then about all the heartmelting albums that friends’ bands never would’ve made without their underpaid bartending or childcare gigs made survivable by ok public healthcare
california's enviro 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. "removing regulatory barriers" for bosses is their "abundance" strategy. calmatters.org/environment/20…
votes in, OR Carpenters reformers fall short but get over 30%. they plan to keep organizing bowling & family nights to bring rebel rank & filers together. 6% turnout. just 6hrs to vote on a workday, only in person at one hall, in a local spanning 150mi.
oakland’s childrens hospital workers on a daring strike to fight benefit cuts, AI and “technology creep” love this picket line coverage in @BayAreaCurrent that lets strikers take the mic bayareacurrent.com/on-the-picket-…
heat wave? how bout a march on the boss wave labornotes.org/2024/06/beat-h…
me and jane slaughter for @labornotes on UAWD, 2019-2025, and the work to be done for a deeply fighting UAW labornotes.org/2025/04/uaw-re…
remember when a ground invasion of Rafah was a “red line”? now it’s all a red “no go” or “displacement order” zone. there can be no fair term for this other than brazen ethnic cleansing, armed and funded by two US administrations.
In #Gaza, space for people is shrinking by the day. Vast areas have been taken over. Hundreds of thousands are being pushed into renewed displacement. Attempts by aid groups to reach people are facing #AccessDenied. #CeasefireNow #OpenUpGaza
how can labor go on offense, for real? rare chance to Q&A with one of the last living rank & file vets of the Green Bans (Australian construction strike wins for environmental/working class solidarity) at this @labornotes workshop weds ✊🛠️ labornotes.org/events/2025/st…
