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Eric Dirnbach

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Labor Movement Researcher, Activist, Campaigner, Organizer, Educator, Writer & Socialist, Philly born, NYC now. https://ericdirnbach.medium.com ✊ operarios omnia vincent ✊

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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · Feb 20

This is my annual roundup of labor data on union membership, elections and strikes. How is the U.S. labor movement doing? What should it do in this new political era? #UnionYes #UnionStrong
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State of the U.S. Unions 2025

This is my annual roundup of labor data on union membership, elections and strikes. How is the U.S. labor movement doing? What should it do…

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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 1h

Double standards abound. Who is listened to? Who has to explain themselves? Who gets the benefit of the doubt? Whose ideas are treated as normal? Who gets to joke around? Who gets to exaggerate? Who gets to lie with no consequences? Who has to apologize?

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

The reason for this is that this class of people has internalized the idea of conservatives as the American Volk, an idea downstream of the senate and EC giving them more power than their numbers that has somehow become a quasi spiritual belief about the nature of the country

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Truthout @truthout.org · 21h

Wall Street destroyed New York City’s social welfare economy in 1975. Can mass movements stop it from defeating Zohran Mamdani’s agenda?
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The Biggest Threat to Mamdani’s Agenda Isn’t Hochul or Trump — It’s Wall Street

Wall Street destroyed NYC’s social welfare economy in 1975. Can mass movements stop it from defeating Mamdani’s agenda?

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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 1h

"What Mamdani is really testing is whether Democrats can still generate attention through conflict on their own terms."
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The Mamdani Method

Five lessons to anchor a Democratic Party adrift at sea

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15h

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 1d

In Philadelphia, #nokings goes back a long way.

sign says "I said no kings" in eighteenth-century typeface

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23h

Today’s No Kings protests could be the biggest in US history.

I’ll be speaking in front of tens of thousands here in Washington DC onstage alongside Senators Bernie Sanders and Chris Murphy, and Bill Nye and others.

Watch the livestream from 12pm ET:
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Millions rise up at over 2,500 peaceful protests to say: No Kings

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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah sounds good, I took the photos and video, protest was here.
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NO KINGS Rehoboth Beach · Mobilize

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

This week:

-Three more universities rejected Trump's extortion compact
-Over a dozen airports refused to play Kristi Noem's propaganda video
-30+ press outlets refused to comply with Pete Hegseth's new restrictions

The only way to rebuke Trump's authoritarianism is solidarity.

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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 23h

#NoKings in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

#NoKings protest sign. I'm a Furious Scientist.

#NoKings protest sign. Honk if you're not on the Epstein List.

#NoKings protest sign. No Kings, Yas Queen

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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 23h

#NoKings in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

#NoKings protest sign. The only orange monarch we need.

#NoKings protest sign. Hey MAGA go fact yourself, king free since 1776.

#NoKings protest sign. 2 Term Limit, except for FDR, violators will be imprisoned

#NoKings protest signs. Fascism is prehistoric, No Kings.

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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 23h

#NoKings in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 23h

#NoKings in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, almost 1,000 folks!

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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 1d

"The notion that Kirk was simply a person with a conservative viewpoint misunderstands both why Kirk was involved in public debates and why they were successful as political theater."
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Charlie Kirk and the Free Speech Hoax

The Right doesn't really care about free speech, and their reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk proves it.

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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 1d

"Workers must organize for power, while capitalists wield it individually through property rights. This fundamental asymmetry, as German sociologist Claus Offe explained, creates a chain of obstacles that make working-class collective action uniquely difficult."
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Why the Deck Is Stacked Against Workers Under Capitalism

Workers must organize for power, while capitalists wield it individually through property rights. This fundamental asymmetry, as German sociologist Claus Offe explained, creates a chain of obstacles t...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d

It's telling that Vance's first instinct following the Politico leak was to tell his sons to be wary of what they write in group chats--to assume “some scumbag is going to leak it in an effort to try to cause you harm.”

His message here is basically--be racist; just don't get caught.

Vance said he planned to warn his children—“especially my boys”—to be cautious about what they share in group chats or online, advising them to assume “some scumbag is going to leak it in an effort to try to cause you harm or cause your family harm.”

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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 1d

Those folks can leave, no problem, but they won't, and they will be fine. They aren't getting the deference they need though.
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New York’s Richest Ask ‘How Dare He?’ as Mamdani Closes In on City Hall

The city’s 1% realize their influence is waning: “It’s hard to be chill and relaxed.”

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Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh @pghguild.com · 1d

Tomorrow, our unfair labor practice strike against @post-gazette.com marks it's third full year. Three years of fighting the most lawless union-busting campaign can be tiring, but we're never going to quit fighting.

Last night, we were uplifted to see a new sign adorning the Pittsburgh skyline...

Three banners, two black with white text and one red with white text, that read POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN hang from a yellow bridge with the Pittsburgh skyline in the background.

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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 1d

Just listened to the last ep of Fragile Juggernaut about the CIO, what an amazing series, congrats to @haymarketbooks.org and the folks who worked on this, I'll miss it!
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1. Why the American Working Class Is Different

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Waging Nonviolence @wagingnonviolence.org · 3d

To limit the spread of misinformation, we need to increase our digital literacy skills and be brave enough to have hard personal conversations.

Halting misinformation in its tracks

To limit the spread of misinformation, we need to increase our digital literacy skills and have hard personal conversations.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2d

2014 me: come on tell me ONE thing about the future

2025 me: Ok fine, John Bolton gets indicted

2014: Holy shit, seriously?!!!!! They're holding him accountable for the million people who died in the Iraq war?

2025 me: Well, no

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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 2d

We're a few days away from two masked, unidentified ICE agents arresting eachother.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

ICE agents arrested a police officer Thursday morning in the Chicago suburb of Hanover Park, accusing him of being an unlawful immigrant from Montenegro https://cnn.it/3KUlfn5

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Daisy Pitkin @daisy-pitkin.bsky.social · 2d

When even the investors believe the company ought to finalize a contract:

Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 2d

NEW: In a new letter, Starbucks investors are expressing concern over the company's sustainability, "as evidenced by more than one hundred Unfair Labor Practice complaints filed this year, worker protests, and threats to strike."

Read their letter to the board:

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Starbucks Investors Call on Company to Restart Negotiations with Union Baristas - Starbucks Workers United

“We write as long-term shareholders of Starbucks Corporation to express our concern regarding the current state of Starbucks’ labor relations and urge the company to restart negotiations and promptly ...

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“War Ravaged” Portland Jobs with Justice @jwjpdx.bsky.social · 2d

Great video! Councilor Tiffany Koyama Lane talks to Daniel, Turf Maintenance Technician, member of Laborers Local 483, and member of JWJ about his job stewarding Parks vast green spaces, and the power of a union.

"I want to lift them up, they want to lift me up." www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaBG...

Tiffany Koyama Lane’s Portland Parks Profiles: Daniel and the Grass That Holds It Together

YouTube video by Councilor Koyama Lane

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 3d

New from @capitalandmain.bsky.social:
Dollar Store Workers Fight to Improve Jobs, Even Without a Union

“We’re all fighting for the same thing,” said Williams. “You know you’re sick and tired of how you’re being treated.”

Read how these workers are organizing even without official NLRB recognition:

Dollar Store Workers Fight to Improve Jobs, Even Without a Union

With unionization dropping under Trump, experts say “premajority” campaigns can help workers score wins.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 3d

Article from @capitalandmain.bsky.social about dollar store workers organizing but not moving through the NLRA.

Dollar Store Workers Fight to Improve Jobs, Even Without a Union

With unionization dropping under Trump, experts say “premajority” campaigns can help workers score wins.

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