Emily Markwiese

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ICE has detained one of our IRC Workers Unite members in Texas that has spent his entire time in this country helping other refugees find stability.

Stand with our union brother and donate to help us bring him home: gofund.me/60aa0259

JUST IN: Three days after a judge awarded $6.6 million to whistleblowers fired for reporting him to the FBI for allegedly using his office to protect a prominent real estate developer in exchange for helping him cheat on his state senator wife, Ken Paxton announces he is running for US Senate.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting IRS commissioner to resign over deal to share immigrants’ tax data with ICE to help deport them, AP sources say.

SESAME STREET UNION LFG!!!

We condemn the decision to fire these safety inspectors. Everywhere I go I am asked, “is it safe to fly?” My response is yes because thousands of frontline workers ask that all day long. If federal workers can’t do their jobs, we can’t do ours. 1/2
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Want to Defend Immigrant Workers in Your Contract? Here Are Some Suggestions. The following language was compiled from a series of unions and labor activists. It is intended as a resource for workers looking to include pro-immigrant provisions in their collective bargaining agr...

Unions have won language to protect their immigrant members from ICE interrogations at work, to safeguard their privacy, to prevent retaliation, and more. @nataschaelena.bsky.social and @sarahlazare.bsky.social compiled details from collective bargaining agreements: labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Unions Get Bigger in Texas Open hostility to unions has left the Lone Star State largely without worker power. Until now.

"The Texas labor movement has a fighting heart in large part because our state has failed working people so completely. It’s what organizers say at the beginning of every campaign: Nobody is coming to save you."
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Unions Get Bigger in Texas Open hostility to unions has left the Lone Star State largely without worker power. Until now.

“Where Texas workers are being given dedicated organizing resources, they are winning. Meeting this moment demands a movement-wide commitment to organize in Texas, and all Southern states, that matches the will of the workers here.”

read Emily's article! "That community is punching above its weight by any standard. Rank-and-file union members in Texas are not just beating the odds; they’re spearheading national campaigns, winning historic contracts, and calling for justice beyond the borders of their state and country."

Unions Get Bigger in Texas Open hostility to unions has left the Lone Star State largely without worker power. Until now.

New for @theprogressivemag.bsky.social

I spoke with the Texas workers that are defying our state’s anti-union history via transformative organizing.

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Few are doing it like this

Breaking: Amazon tried to dampen the resolve of its striking workers. But the Queens picket line is denser than it was yesterday. Workers remain unbossed and fearless. Hearing reports of an alleged record number of Amazon drivers calling out!

“But I like my job and get along with my boss, why should I bother joining a union?”

Poultry Bosses Benefit from Trump’s Threats Even before he takes office, the Trump victory has given more power to poultry corporations. They’re using the political environment to intimidate workers. I’ve been organizing with poultry processing...

The Deferred Action for Labor Enforcement (DALE) program—which lets workers file for temporary visas if their employer violates their rights, including in retaliation for organizing—may be in jeopardy during Trump's second term: labornotes.org/blogs/2024/1... 1/2

Across a Hundred Muddy Hollers How mutual aid is filling the gaps in the recovery of North Carolina mountain communities after Hurricane Helene.

Beautiful, important piece on the incredible acts of solidarity that brought the community devastated by Helene together in the aftermath of the destruction when aid was slow to arrive.

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More members of the public and the press are showing interest in the possible role of border militias in Trump's mass deportation scheme.

I've reported extensively on border militias this year and I have some thoughts and anecdotes to share. 🧵

We've been publishing stories all year related to our 70th anniversary, but today marks the actual date that the @texasobserver.org published its first issue in 1954, with the top story dedicated to a retail workers' strike in Port Arthur: archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1954/1...

A sweet potato field workers just finished harvesting

Maria shared a pic of the sweet potato field once she and her co workers were done harvesting in Merced CA. Maria woke at 230am to drop off her kids with a babysitter so she could make her 4am shift this day. #WeFeedYou

🚨BREAKING: The NewsGuild of New York (@newsguildny.bsky.social) has reached a tentative agreement with the New York Times on a historic first tech contract for workers at the NYT Tech Guild (@nytguildtech.bsky.social)!

One of the most consequential labor struggles of the entire year is happening right now in Dallas. Solidarity with the dancers who fought hard and won big.

Texas workers aren’t messing around.

If you are an IRC employee that wants a voice on the job for yourself, your coworkers, and your clients—get in touch: ircworkersunite.org/join-our-mov...

This marks the -8th- unionized IRC location since our members in Dallas organized their office in 2023.

Endlessly inspired by the nationwide network of solidarity IRC workers have built through their union.

Guy who writes the laws: Don't worry we'll only torture and imprison you if you break the laws.

Texas Republicans Are the New Big Government Establishment - The Barbed Wire It’s old hat to say everything is bigger in Texas. True connoisseurs know that things in the Lone Star State are also often wilder and weirder than what you see on the evening news. Every two weeks, S...

My latest for @thebarbedwire.bsky.social is about how Ken Paxton's lawsuit aimed at halting decriminalization of cannabis possession in Dallas is the latest example of a budding trend in Texas where Republicans are using state power to crack down on local government
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If you’re book shopping in Austin, stop by BookPeople & show the staff love as they prepare to head into negotiations in the new year.

Wall Street Took Over a Vital Sign Language Service—And Started Union Busting Workers fighting to improve video interpretation services for Deaf people face a huge obstacle: the private equity groups with a stranglehold on the market.

Despite past retaliation from their employer, interpreters across the country are organizing against the disastrous impact private equity has had on their profession and the deaf community at large.

VRS interpreters deserve a union.

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The Deep Roots of Deportation In a divided political climate, many now hold their breath, waiting to see if deportation rhetoric becomes reality.

Donald Trump campaigned hard demonizing immigrants, a strategy that helped catapult him into the White House in a U.S. election unlike any other. Now, the nation’s history of deportation and its consequences merit the closest scrutiny.

Few ideas are more key to social movements than SOLIDARITY, a word that conjures interdependence and shared fate.

Solidarity can be our power and our purpose, a means of change and a way to describe the world we want. But it won't arise spontaneously. We must ORGANIZE.

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