Lowell Peterson
@lowellpeterson.bsky.social
Union activist and professional. Former Executive Director, Writers Guild of America East.
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As the brutality of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown grows, so does the resistance of the US labour movement. ✊
#ICEOUTNOW
https://uniglobalunion.org/news/u-s-unions-push-back-as-trump-escalates-attacks-on-immigrants-and-cities/
#ICEOUTNOW
https://uniglobalunion.org/news/u-s-unions-push-back-as-trump-escalates-attacks-on-immigrants-and-cities/
U.S. unions push back as Trump escalates attacks on immigrants and cities
As the brutality of the Trump administration's immigration raids grows, so does the resistance by the U.S. labour movement.
uniglobalunion.org
January 27, 2026 at 10:42 AM
As the brutality of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown grows, so does the resistance of the US labour movement. ✊
#ICEOUTNOW
https://uniglobalunion.org/news/u-s-unions-push-back-as-trump-escalates-attacks-on-immigrants-and-cities/
#ICEOUTNOW
https://uniglobalunion.org/news/u-s-unions-push-back-as-trump-escalates-attacks-on-immigrants-and-cities/
ICE has become such a band of violent extremists that even Rupert Murdoch's newspaper calls them out. www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents
See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation on Saturday.
www.wsj.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:34 PM
ICE has become such a band of violent extremists that even Rupert Murdoch's newspaper calls them out. www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
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In Minneapolis I saw a vision for an alternative American ethos, which is love and also the willingness to fight to protect that love. Niceness, not weakness.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-t...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-t...
Hate Has to Scatter When Minneapolis Arises
At the general strike.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:25 PM
In Minneapolis I saw a vision for an alternative American ethos, which is love and also the willingness to fight to protect that love. Niceness, not weakness.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-t...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-t...
A day to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was killed while standing up for the collective bargaining rights of sanitation workers. #buildunionpower
January 19, 2026 at 3:04 PM
A day to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was killed while standing up for the collective bargaining rights of sanitation workers. #buildunionpower
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United Airlines made over $3.1 billion last year. Instead of reaching a fair deal with its flight attendants, United paid its CEO almost $34 million and provided over $162 million in stock buybacks to shareholders.
United must respect its flight attendants and reach a deal NOW.
United must respect its flight attendants and reach a deal NOW.
January 16, 2026 at 1:49 AM
United Airlines made over $3.1 billion last year. Instead of reaching a fair deal with its flight attendants, United paid its CEO almost $34 million and provided over $162 million in stock buybacks to shareholders.
United must respect its flight attendants and reach a deal NOW.
United must respect its flight attendants and reach a deal NOW.
ICE out of Long Island! #buildlaborpower
January 10, 2026 at 7:55 PM
ICE out of Long Island! #buildlaborpower
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We join the international labor community in condemning President Trump’s unconstitutional actions in Venezuela.
www.ituc-csi.org/ituc-tuca-ve...
www.ituc-csi.org/ituc-tuca-ve...
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
We join the international labor community in condemning President Trump’s unconstitutional actions in Venezuela.
www.ituc-csi.org/ituc-tuca-ve...
www.ituc-csi.org/ituc-tuca-ve...
Soon NYC will have a new mayor. ID'd as democratic socialist and Muslim. Millennial. Mamdani is bold, pro-union, keen to make material gains for working New Yorkers. Focused on child care, transportation, and affordable housing. This is a 2026 we can get behind! #buildlaborpower
December 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Soon NYC will have a new mayor. ID'd as democratic socialist and Muslim. Millennial. Mamdani is bold, pro-union, keen to make material gains for working New Yorkers. Focused on child care, transportation, and affordable housing. This is a 2026 we can get behind! #buildlaborpower
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“We’re organizing as we speak,” said Shuler. “We can move actual people, in workplaces, in every city, in every state, across the country.”
December 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
“We’re organizing as we speak,” said Shuler. “We can move actual people, in workplaces, in every city, in every state, across the country.”
In my upcoming book I argue that the labor movement cannot rely on the federal government, including the NLRB. We must build power from the ground up, ourselves. #buildlaborpower www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘A very hostile climate for workers’: US labor movement struggles under Trump
National Labor Relations Board, the federal watchdog for workers’ rights, has been rendered toothless as employees grapple with corporations
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
In my upcoming book I argue that the labor movement cannot rely on the federal government, including the NLRB. We must build power from the ground up, ourselves. #buildlaborpower www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
If government attacks workers, Portuguese unions shut things down. #buildlaborpower www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Portugal general strike stalls transport, closes schools in labour reform protest
Train services ground to a halt across Portugal on Thursday, hundreds of flights were cancelled, and schools closed as unions launched a first general strike in over a decade and thousands of workers ...
www.reuters.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
If government attacks workers, Portuguese unions shut things down. #buildlaborpower www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Wallace-Wells notes that most politics "take a pretty narrow view of the appropriate scope of state action". To achieve progress, we must be bold enough to reject these limits on what is possible, politically. #buildlaborpower. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
Opinion | To Understand America’s Border Surge, You Have to Look Elsewhere
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Wallace-Wells notes that most politics "take a pretty narrow view of the appropriate scope of state action". To achieve progress, we must be bold enough to reject these limits on what is possible, politically. #buildlaborpower. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
We need an @bsky group to discuss collective bargaining strategies on AI. Working people are in the best position to figure out how AI can devalue or eliminate their jobs - or maybe even to enhance them. #buildlaborpower
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We need an @bsky group to discuss collective bargaining strategies on AI. Working people are in the best position to figure out how AI can devalue or eliminate their jobs - or maybe even to enhance them. #buildlaborpower
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Today in NYC #LaborHistory: Some 400 New York City photoengravers working for the city’s newspapers, supported by 20,000 other newspaper unionists, begin what is to become an 11-day strike, shutting down the papers - November 28, 1953
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Today in NYC #LaborHistory: Some 400 New York City photoengravers working for the city’s newspapers, supported by 20,000 other newspaper unionists, begin what is to become an 11-day strike, shutting down the papers - November 28, 1953
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Check out this upcoming event with @profwolff.bsky.social & C. G. Beck on #Labor, #Capitalism, #Architecture & the economy at the Peoples Forum based on Beck's new book! @democracyatwork.bsky.social @archworkersunited.bsky.social RSVP here: tinyurl.com/bde8atx7
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Check out this upcoming event with @profwolff.bsky.social & C. G. Beck on #Labor, #Capitalism, #Architecture & the economy at the Peoples Forum based on Beck's new book! @democracyatwork.bsky.social @archworkersunited.bsky.social RSVP here: tinyurl.com/bde8atx7
One day longer! www.wsj.com/business/boe...
Boeing Defense Workers Approve New Five-Year Contract
Roughly 3,200 St. Louis-area machinists ended a nearly 15-week strike that curbed jet-fighter production.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
One day longer! www.wsj.com/business/boe...
Big Dem victories, but not in Nassau County LI, where the Dems tried to run on the GOP agenda. Voters will always choose the real thing not the generic substitute. Nassau Dems need an agenda, not a mimic. Maybe not the DSA agenda in the suburbs, but one that moves people forward not backward.
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Big Dem victories, but not in Nassau County LI, where the Dems tried to run on the GOP agenda. Voters will always choose the real thing not the generic substitute. Nassau Dems need an agenda, not a mimic. Maybe not the DSA agenda in the suburbs, but one that moves people forward not backward.
No Kings Port Washington NY
October 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
No Kings Port Washington NY
MAGA comes unhinged:
Trump Wades Into Bailout Politics in Offering a Lifeline to Argentina www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
Trump Wades Into Bailout Politics in Offering a Lifeline to Argentina www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
Trump Wades Into Bailout Politics in Offering a Lifeline to Argentina
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
MAGA comes unhinged:
Trump Wades Into Bailout Politics in Offering a Lifeline to Argentina www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
Trump Wades Into Bailout Politics in Offering a Lifeline to Argentina www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
Even the Cato Institute says right-wingers committed most political violence in the U.S. But Trump is shutting down even the most moderate progressive voices. Nothing but a power grab. www.wsj.com/us-news/poli...
The Shifting Ideology Behind Political Violence
Researchers see a departure from a pattern that held for nearly 50 years. “This era of violent populism will get worse before it gets better.”
www.wsj.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Even the Cato Institute says right-wingers committed most political violence in the U.S. But Trump is shutting down even the most moderate progressive voices. Nothing but a power grab. www.wsj.com/us-news/poli...
Here's what's real: MAGA means worsening inequality. Source: Bank of America and Wall Street Journal. www.wsj.com/economy/us-e...
The Two-Speed Economy Is Back as Low-Income Americans Give Up Gains
High-earners and older Americans are faring better than ever, while fortunes are sliding again for low-wage and young workers
www.wsj.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Here's what's real: MAGA means worsening inequality. Source: Bank of America and Wall Street Journal. www.wsj.com/economy/us-e...
The guy who accused Lisa Cook of filing bad mortgage applications is the guy in line to take her job at the Federal Reserve (His name is Bill Pulte; he's a stooge.) It's pulp fiction, my friends. Low-minded grift. MAGA's assault on unions, cities, courts - all bad. But corruption also stinks.
August 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The guy who accused Lisa Cook of filing bad mortgage applications is the guy in line to take her job at the Federal Reserve (His name is Bill Pulte; he's a stooge.) It's pulp fiction, my friends. Low-minded grift. MAGA's assault on unions, cities, courts - all bad. But corruption also stinks.
Bold strategy, powerful solidarity. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/w...
Air Canada and Striking Flight Attendants’ Union Reach Tentative Deal
www.nytimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Bold strategy, powerful solidarity. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/w...
Trump says D.C. has been taken over by violent thugs, but he doesn't realize they have gone home to their districts to do fundraisers.
August 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Trump says D.C. has been taken over by violent thugs, but he doesn't realize they have gone home to their districts to do fundraisers.
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All working people deserve the freedom, fairness and security that comes from a union contract. That’s what America’s unions are fighting for every day. #BetterInAUnion
August 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
All working people deserve the freedom, fairness and security that comes from a union contract. That’s what America’s unions are fighting for every day. #BetterInAUnion