@lfelizleon.bsky.social
Journalist. Staff writer at Labor Notes. Solidarity! Contact: [email protected]. Substack:
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@lfelizleon.bsky.socialCharles Denby, a fake name, real name Simon Owens, was a sharecropper in Alabama who later worked in Detroit auto. He was part of a Trotskyist group and edited paper called News and Letters. Historians, anything else I should read about him? I first learned about him in Jason Resnikoff’s book.
@lfelizleon.bsky.socialRough week. My computer died. I got Covid. Read my latest article on the UAW top officer election. It was reported with an impaired brain. But it’s still great, thanks to my co-author Jane.
@labornotes.bsky.socialReposted by @lfelizleon.bsky.socialIt’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse group of workers building themselves into a fighting force, who then must wrestle with a different version of victory than they expected, writes @lfelizleon.bsky.social labornotes.org/blogs/2026/1...
@labornotes.bsky.socialReposted by @lfelizleon.bsky.socialUnited Auto Workers President Shawn Fain looks poised to win a second four-year term, with an overwhelming lead in member balloting for the union’s top officers.
@lfelizleon.bsky.social and Jane Slaughter report labornotes.org/2026/10/uaw-...
@lfelizleon.bsky.socialAmazon doesn’t legally employ the workers who drive vans with the company’s logo. But that could change in New York City, under legislation that Teamsters and Amazon workers alongside the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are organizing to pass. labornotes.org/2026/10/amaz...
@jakemgrumbach.bsky.socialReposted by @lfelizleon.bsky.socialBrazilian economist Claudio Ferraz today: The big question for political scientists, economists, and psychologists is—why do corruption accusations affect left-wing candidates much more than right-wing ones?
@jschleuss.comReposted by @lfelizleon.bsky.socialSupreme Court rules in our favor. Struggling to find words. newsguild.org/post-gazette...
@proftwolf.bsky.socialReposted by @lfelizleon.bsky.social@lfelizleon.bsky.socialThanks for sharing, Sarah.
@lfelizleon.bsky.socialTech CEOs had lunch with Trump in D.C. this week. Workers were on the menu. lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/book-revie...
@lfelizleon.bsky.socialThe techies have been stripped of their halos; “once millionaires in waiting,” they are today no longer insulated from the ravages of capitalism and are reduced to the vagaries of wage labor like management control and layoffs. lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/book-revie...
@ucblaborcenter.bsky.socialReposted by @lfelizleon.bsky.socialAlmost 1 in 10 jobs in the Bay Area is in the manufacturing sector. But are these good jobs? For most blue-collar workers the answer is no: their median wage is only $24.50, and less than a third of production workers in the Bay Area are paid a living wage. laborcenter.berkeley.edu/making-it-in...
@sarahlazare.bsky.socialReposted by @lfelizleon.bsky.social"Amazon workers at four delivery and sorting warehouses in Germany are organizing to make every minute count. They’re demanding that Amazon pay them for every minute of work, saying in a petition that the company is stealing their time." Important reporting by @lfelizleon.bsky.social
@lfelizleon.bsky.socialAmazon workers in Germany say they are organizing to take back every minute the logistics giant has stolen from them. labornotes.org/2026/09/germ...
@lfelizleon.bsky.social“Why does a corporation like Amazon need to steal a few euros from me every day?” Carrara asked.
@hamiltonnolan.bsky.socialReposted by @lfelizleon.bsky.socialThe powerful generally do not want a free press to exist. This is not a matter of political partisanship so much as it is an observation of reality. And a more urgent one to acknowledge today, because they are closer to winning.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...
@amierivers.bsky.socialReposted by @lfelizleon.bsky.social"Journalists may not have much. But we retain the right to call the frauds and bootlickers masquerading as the pillars of the media industry a bunch of scumbags."
@lfelizleon.bsky.socialBreaking: AutoZone workers won their union in 6-4 vote to join UAW Local 259. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
@lfelizleon.bsky.socialIt’s funny how long the left has been arguing about the PMC…
“Early in the twentieth century, commenting acerbically on the appeal of the Socialist Party of America to professionals, Leon Trotsky called it a party of dentists.“ dissentmagazine.org/article/muti...
@lfelizleon.bsky.socialWhen workers file for a union election, it’s like a Bat-Signal goes off: a column of light cuts through the night sky, summoning not Bruce Wayne but a swarm of anti-union managers and consultants who reap tens of thousands of dollars from sowing fear and doubt.