Stephen Lerner
@stephenlerner.bsky.social
Labor/Community organizer Bargaining for the Common Good
In These Times has great new articles on how workers pension $$$ is being invested in corporations that are bad for workers, the economy and democracy.
inthesetimes.com/article/fina...
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Financing Our Own Destruction
How workers’ pensions fuel attacks on the working class—and how to reclaim them for the common good.
inthesetimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In These Times has great new articles on how workers pension $$$ is being invested in corporations that are bad for workers, the economy and democracy.
inthesetimes.com/article/fina...
inthesetimes.com/article/fina...
I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “#WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day Mass Call” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
#WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day Mass Call · May Day Strong
Join us to hear front line reports from Free DC and Chicago as working people across the country stand up to the billionaire agenda and demand a country that works for workers.
Get the details you ne...
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August 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “#WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day Mass Call” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
Great article on death of NRLA and need for unions to act now and give up fantasy about labor law reform passing.
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Requiem for the Wagner Act
Signed into law 90 years ago, labor’s onetime ‘magna carta’ is now a very dead letter.
prospect.org
July 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Great article on death of NRLA and need for unions to act now and give up fantasy about labor law reform passing.
prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
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So I'm on tour. Tickets just went on sale for 7/20 in DC and 8/3 in Philly. Also tickets are up for Sacramento, Fort Collins, Portland, and San Diego. More later. Tell all the people. More endless promotion coming soon.
July 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
So I'm on tour. Tickets just went on sale for 7/20 in DC and 8/3 in Philly. Also tickets are up for Sacramento, Fort Collins, Portland, and San Diego. More later. Tell all the people. More endless promotion coming soon.
I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Virtual Rally with May Day Strong” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
Virtual Rally with May Day Strong · May Day Strong
Join our Virtual Rally as we head into May Day! Get pumped and ready to hit the streets with an all star group of speakers.
Trump and his billionaire profiteers are trying to create a race to the bot...
www.mobilize.us
April 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Virtual Rally with May Day Strong” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
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See this upcoming event from @georgetownkilwp.bsky.social. "No Time for Caution: How Labor Should Meet This Moment." Webinar featuring Stephen Lerner, Stephanie Luce, @gabrielwinant.bsky.social, and @willpjones.bsky.social. Register using this link:
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April 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
See this upcoming event from @georgetownkilwp.bsky.social. "No Time for Caution: How Labor Should Meet This Moment." Webinar featuring Stephen Lerner, Stephanie Luce, @gabrielwinant.bsky.social, and @willpjones.bsky.social. Register using this link:
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A thoughtful and timely call to action from a labor visionary, @stephenlerner.bsky.social. We can’t rely on courts to protect our rights and democracy in this crisis. Lerner outlines the beginnings of the kind of strategy that meets this moment.
NEW from @stephenlerner.bsky.social:
The riskiest course is to stay the course. To meet today’s threats, the labor movement needs a new infrastructure built for struggle.
The riskiest course is to stay the course. To meet today’s threats, the labor movement needs a new infrastructure built for struggle.
For Labor, Caution Is Fatal
The riskiest course is to stay the course.
inthesetimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A thoughtful and timely call to action from a labor visionary, @stephenlerner.bsky.social. We can’t rely on courts to protect our rights and democracy in this crisis. Lerner outlines the beginnings of the kind of strategy that meets this moment.
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Thanks to @dissentmag.bsky.social for running this piece.
New online: Joseph A. McCartin on Trump and Musk’s war on workers.
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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Trump and Musk's War on Labor - Dissent Magazine
Organized labor and its allies can and must do much more to respond to the crisis created by DOGE and the Trump administration.
www.dissentmagazine.org
February 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Thanks to @dissentmag.bsky.social for running this piece.
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📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally.
The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com
The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally.
The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com
The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com
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If you don't know much about Marilyn Sneiderman's impact on the labor movement—and even if you do—I urge you to read this piece from @sarahljaffe.bsky.social in @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social. Sneiderman just retired, but her transformational impact is ongoing. A great read.
“You Have To Shake Up the Status Quo”: Marilyn Sneiderman’s Struggle To Transform Labor
“Marilyn stands out as a leader who not only recruited disruptors but spent a lot of her time and effort trying to figure out how to defend and maintain the space for disruptors.”
inthesetimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If you don't know much about Marilyn Sneiderman's impact on the labor movement—and even if you do—I urge you to read this piece from @sarahljaffe.bsky.social in @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social. Sneiderman just retired, but her transformational impact is ongoing. A great read.
Wonderful article by Sarah Jaffe about Marilyn Sneiderman ‘s life in the labor movement
inthesetimes.com/article/mari...
inthesetimes.com/article/mari...
“You Have To Shake Up the Status Quo”: Marilyn Sneiderman’s Struggle To Transform Labor
“Marilyn stands out as a leader who not only recruited disruptors but spent a lot of her time and effort trying to figure out how to defend and maintain the space for disruptors.”
inthesetimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Wonderful article by Sarah Jaffe about Marilyn Sneiderman ‘s life in the labor movement
inthesetimes.com/article/mari...
inthesetimes.com/article/mari...
New Labor Forum republished @JosephMcCartin interview, from a couple years ago, with me on reflections on Justice For Janitors.
Interesting to explore what lessons from J4J are relevant to current moment.
newlaborforum.cuny.edu/2025/01/06/l...
newlaborforum.cuny.edu
January 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
New Labor Forum republished @JosephMcCartin interview, from a couple years ago, with me on reflections on Justice For Janitors.
Interesting to explore what lessons from J4J are relevant to current moment.
newlaborforum.cuny.edu/2025/01/06/l...
December 6, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Labor & community unite to demand Ford’s blue oval plant address workers and community demands!
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Community coalition issues demands for BlueOval City benefits, calls on Ford to negotiate • Tennessee Lookout
A coalition of community members near Ford BlueOval City in West Tennessee have issued a list of demands for a community benefits agreement.
tennesseelookout.com
November 22, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Labor & community unite to demand Ford’s blue oval plant address workers and community demands!
tennesseelookout.com/2024/11/22/c...
tennesseelookout.com/2024/11/22/c...
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new report: "Investing for the Common Good: How Workers' Pensions Can Help Solve the Housing Crisis" from me & others @AFR & BCG
workers' pension fund assets are some of the biggest concentrations of $$ in the world
let's use them to solve big problems
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workers' pension fund assets are some of the biggest concentrations of $$ in the world
let's use them to solve big problems
georgetown.app.box.com/s/khfm0czel1...
November 19, 2024 at 8:21 PM
new report: "Investing for the Common Good: How Workers' Pensions Can Help Solve the Housing Crisis" from me & others @AFR & BCG
workers' pension fund assets are some of the biggest concentrations of $$ in the world
let's use them to solve big problems
georgetown.app.box.com/s/khfm0czel1...
workers' pension fund assets are some of the biggest concentrations of $$ in the world
let's use them to solve big problems
georgetown.app.box.com/s/khfm0czel1...
@GeorgetownKILWP & @RealBankReform's new report asks us all to reimagine how workers' pension fund assets could be used to transform our housing system, rather than continue to make the wealthy even wealthier. (LINK)
November 21, 2024 at 8:51 PM
@GeorgetownKILWP & @RealBankReform's new report asks us all to reimagine how workers' pension fund assets could be used to transform our housing system, rather than continue to make the wealthy even wealthier. (LINK)