Eric Blanc
Assistant Prof Rutgers Labor Studies;
author We are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big
www.ucpress.edu/books/we-are-the-union/
Red State Revolt,
laborpolitics.substack.com;
EWOC, Rutgers AAUP-AFT, 🌹
- Reposted by Eric BlancWhy isn’t there a “coalition of the willing” to stop the mass starvation and genocide in Gaza?
- You don’t need to be a blue-collar worker to have real power Tech workers who run the central operating systems of major corporations and the government have immense power to paralyze production and distribution, as DOGE has recently demonstrated in the US convergencemag.com/articles/whi...
- Just a matter of time before we have to only give in-class papers/exams to our students, and weigh classroom participation much higher in final grades It's not that insurmountable a hurdle tbh, I'm already doing the latter and it really helps undercut AI reliance
- It's not true that only logistics & manufacturing workers have enough power to win big. And that’s good news, because most workers don't work in those industries. If we’re going to unionize tens of millions, we need a strategy that can speak to all of them convergencemag.com/articles/whi...
- Important win Even under Trump, the NLRB remains a key tool for protecting union rights
- 4,000 student workers at the University of Oregon are on strike to demand a fair contract Admin has retaliated harshly against worker organizers, please donate to the strike and hardship fund! givebutter.com/UOSW
- Happy May Day to the 20,000 workers at the University of California who are striking today
- Here's my reply to critics of my new book, tackling some key questions: Should unions focus on the most economically powerful workers or a broader range of targets including services & gov? Can we link union seeding to strategic targeting? What will it take to scale? jacobin.com/2025/04/blan...
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- Excited to be discussing the present & future of worker-to-worker organizing with @jazbrisack.bsky.social & Jane Slaughter Tonight April 21, 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PT, RSVP at: tinyurl.com/UnionsIn2025
- When we fight, we win
- Seems like we're way past due for widespread non-violent disruptive civil disobedience against Trumpism
- You don’t have to work in a factory to be a “real worker” or to economically prosper. But you probably do need a union. www.laborpolitics.com/p/unions-not...
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- Factory jobs aren’t inherently good jobs: the pay of manufacturing work in the US is now on average worse than other occupations Manufacturing jobs become good jobs when workers unionize 🧵
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- Trump and Musk are actively trying to destroy unions When will organized labor start fighting back accordingly?
- Elon Musk is doing his best to destroy Social Security
- People should listen to what Shawn Fain actually has to say about about Trump and tariffs It's not easy to support targeted tariffs while opposing Trump's otherwise reactionary agenda, but the UAW is threading that needle pretty well
- Though Trump backed down from his steepest tariffs (China excepted), worth noting that the 10% baseline tariff he's maintaining everywhere else is actually pretty steep by historical standards
- This 29 point swing of young people against Trump seems like a pretty definitive refutation of the idea that American youth have made a hard ideological turn to the right
- Economist/YouGov Poll Net favorability of Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among U.S. adult citizens by age 18-29: +5 | -29 30-44: -6 | -14 45-64: +12 | +1 65+: -4 | -8 d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...
- Manufacturing jobs in the US *have* been growing... in the US South It's these types of non-union, dangerous, relatively low-paid jobs that Trump wants to expand
- US factory jobs only became synonymous with middle-class prosperity because of mass unionization Trump's mirage of a re-industrialized America covers up this central fact 🧵
- The only minority destroying America is billionaires
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- "Elon Musk is a Terrible President" 😂
- Trump and Musk should be scared When this many people rally against you in Brunswick, Maine, your days are numbered
- Massive turnout at today's #HandsOff! rally against Musk and Trump in St. Paul, Minnesota 🔥🔥🔥
- Ames, Iowa showing up to say #HandsOff! to Musk and Trump Our country is not for sale
- Look at the size of today's #HandsOff! protest in Topeka, Kansas 👀 Turns out people don't like billionaires stealing their government
- Big turnouts for today's #HandsOff! protests nationwide, including in smaller towns and cities — here's Portland, Maine We have the momentum
- The April 5 Hands Off! day of action against Trump & Musk's attacks isn't just yet another protest: it's the first time all the big progressive orgs and large numbers of unions have united to to fight back together Unity in action is how we win
- Keep up the pressure folks, it's working www.politico.com/news/magazin...
- Turns out working people don't really like the richest man on earth trying to buy their democracy
