connor chapman
@cmchapman.bsky.social
Sociology PhD candidate, University of Pittsburgh | views are my own
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Here's a way to support our @steelworkers.bsky.social fam in and around Clairton: gofund.me/32d6b619
Donate to Help Families of USW Local 1557 Clairton works, organized by Travis Laing
The USW local 1557 will be raising funds for the families of the deceased … Travis Laing needs your support for Help Families of USW Local 1557 Clairton works
gofund.me
August 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Here's a way to support our @steelworkers.bsky.social fam in and around Clairton: gofund.me/32d6b619
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The PUP's Ed Blazina reports from Pittsburgh Regional Transit's monthly board meeting where "more than two dozen transit advocates ... encouraged the board to use some of its reserve funds to delay the scheduled [service] cutbacks until September 2026 ..." www.unionprogress.com/2025/07/26/a...
Advocates push Pittsburgh Regional Transit to delay cuts, but agency says it needs more money - Pittsburgh Union Progress
For nearly three weeks, Pittsburgh Regional Transit CEO Katharine Eagan Kelleman and her planning staff have been playing a daily waiting game, waiting for the state Legislature to adopt a new budget ...
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July 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The PUP's Ed Blazina reports from Pittsburgh Regional Transit's monthly board meeting where "more than two dozen transit advocates ... encouraged the board to use some of its reserve funds to delay the scheduled [service] cutbacks until September 2026 ..." www.unionprogress.com/2025/07/26/a...
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I've thought many times in the last 7 years that it's likely that the most impactful thing I will have done in my academic career was the work to organize the Tufts PhD student union.
But we, as organizers talked about extra protections for international PhD students, I never imagined this.
But we, as organizers talked about extra protections for international PhD students, I never imagined this.
"My union organized on behalf of me and other international students with so much effort, love, and care." Rümeysa Öztürk 😭😭🥰
May 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I've thought many times in the last 7 years that it's likely that the most impactful thing I will have done in my academic career was the work to organize the Tufts PhD student union.
But we, as organizers talked about extra protections for international PhD students, I never imagined this.
But we, as organizers talked about extra protections for international PhD students, I never imagined this.
Pittsburgh is a union town! #solidarity✊
BREAKING: Police have been called on current and former Starbucks workers in Pittsburgh. This store went on strike, with workers demanding the company finalize fair contracts - and now some are being arrested.
Shame on Starbucks for letting it get to this point.
#ToBeAPartner
Shame on Starbucks for letting it get to this point.
#ToBeAPartner
March 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Pittsburgh is a union town! #solidarity✊
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BREAKING: Police have been called on current and former Starbucks workers in Pittsburgh. This store went on strike, with workers demanding the company finalize fair contracts - and now some are being arrested.
Shame on Starbucks for letting it get to this point.
#ToBeAPartner
Shame on Starbucks for letting it get to this point.
#ToBeAPartner
March 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
BREAKING: Police have been called on current and former Starbucks workers in Pittsburgh. This store went on strike, with workers demanding the company finalize fair contracts - and now some are being arrested.
Shame on Starbucks for letting it get to this point.
#ToBeAPartner
Shame on Starbucks for letting it get to this point.
#ToBeAPartner
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Social movement scholarship is clear that both activist organizations (founded as explicitly political) and everyday organizations (eg NGOs, sports & recreational clubs, neighborhood committees) can all be useful for promoting collective action.
February 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Social movement scholarship is clear that both activist organizations (founded as explicitly political) and everyday organizations (eg NGOs, sports & recreational clubs, neighborhood committees) can all be useful for promoting collective action.
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Also, Ed Blazina isn't on here yet, except when I share his stories for the @pghguild.com strike paper, but if you see him in real life, congratulate him for earning the journalism award of the American Society of Civil Engineers Pittsburgh: www.unionprogress.com/2025/02/02/p...
Pittsburgh civil engineers announce 2024 awards, including one to PUP's Ed Blazina - Pittsburgh Union Progress
The American Society of Civil Engineers Pittsburgh Section has announced its annual awards “to celebrate and raise public awareness about civil engineering and the contributions that civil engineers m...
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February 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Also, Ed Blazina isn't on here yet, except when I share his stories for the @pghguild.com strike paper, but if you see him in real life, congratulate him for earning the journalism award of the American Society of Civil Engineers Pittsburgh: www.unionprogress.com/2025/02/02/p...
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Reporting live from Downtown this morning, the @pghguild.com strike paper's Ed Blazina has two stories on Pittsburgh Regional Transit. The agency has a severe financial shortfall. And a transit advocacy group takes issue with much of its proposed bus route redesign. www.unionprogress.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reporting live from Downtown this morning, the @pghguild.com strike paper's Ed Blazina has two stories on Pittsburgh Regional Transit. The agency has a severe financial shortfall. And a transit advocacy group takes issue with much of its proposed bus route redesign. www.unionprogress.com
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Here's @publicsource.org coverage of yesterday's Pittsburgh City Planning Commission meeting on inclusionary zoning — all 11 HOURS of testimony and public comment.
tl;dr: Gainey's plan won approval, Charland's plan was voted down. www.publicsource.org/inclusionary...
tl;dr: Gainey's plan won approval, Charland's plan was voted down. www.publicsource.org/inclusionary...
Inclusionary zoning prevails before Pittsburgh commission
Pittsburgh’s City Planning Commission endorsed Mayor Ed Gainey’s proposal to require affordable units in larger, new housing construction, after rejecting a less comprehensive version, at the end of a...
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January 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Here's @publicsource.org coverage of yesterday's Pittsburgh City Planning Commission meeting on inclusionary zoning — all 11 HOURS of testimony and public comment.
tl;dr: Gainey's plan won approval, Charland's plan was voted down. www.publicsource.org/inclusionary...
tl;dr: Gainey's plan won approval, Charland's plan was voted down. www.publicsource.org/inclusionary...
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workers coming together to fight for the wages they deserve?
OH THANK HEAVEN 🙏🔥🔥
From one of our Pittsburgh pickets:
OH THANK HEAVEN 🙏🔥🔥
From one of our Pittsburgh pickets:
December 21, 2024 at 8:48 PM
workers coming together to fight for the wages they deserve?
OH THANK HEAVEN 🙏🔥🔥
From one of our Pittsburgh pickets:
OH THANK HEAVEN 🙏🔥🔥
From one of our Pittsburgh pickets:
join the line in Pittsburgh ✊️✊️✊️
day 1 was amazing.......
but wait until you see day 2 😏
Here's today's anchor pickets! While many more stores are going on ULP strike today, workers want you to turn out for THESE pickets! ⬇️
Don’t live near a picket line? We still need you! Host a canvassing event - tinyurl.com/SBWU-canvass
but wait until you see day 2 😏
Here's today's anchor pickets! While many more stores are going on ULP strike today, workers want you to turn out for THESE pickets! ⬇️
Don’t live near a picket line? We still need you! Host a canvassing event - tinyurl.com/SBWU-canvass
December 21, 2024 at 2:15 PM
join the line in Pittsburgh ✊️✊️✊️
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As our strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette enters a third holiday season, we’re raising money to keep our strikers and their families supported.
Can you make a donation to show that the community has their backs as they continue to hold the line against the millionaire Block family?
Can you make a donation to show that the community has their backs as they continue to hold the line against the millionaire Block family?
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Striker Holiday Fund
Workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have been on strike for over two years. Contributions to the Holiday Fund will be used to purchase gas and union supermarket gift cards for striking workers.
actionnetwork.org
December 3, 2024 at 2:47 PM
As our strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette enters a third holiday season, we’re raising money to keep our strikers and their families supported.
Can you make a donation to show that the community has their backs as they continue to hold the line against the millionaire Block family?
Can you make a donation to show that the community has their backs as they continue to hold the line against the millionaire Block family?
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👇👇👇 Support the workers who grow all the food on your Thanksgiving table!
We are proud to share our skilled work and our knowledge about how your meal got to your table.
While we keep working, you can make a donation during this season of thanks and giving and help fund change all year long: ufw.org/thanksgiving... or paypal.com/paypalme/ufw...
While we keep working, you can make a donation during this season of thanks and giving and help fund change all year long: ufw.org/thanksgiving... or paypal.com/paypalme/ufw...
November 28, 2024 at 12:33 PM
👇👇👇 Support the workers who grow all the food on your Thanksgiving table!
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Great news from Pitt, where graduate workers voted to unionize with @steelworkers.bsky.social in a landslide! More than 97% supported forming a union to negotiate better pay, benefits, and working conditions. Another big step forward for workers in higher ed.
November 26, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Great news from Pitt, where graduate workers voted to unionize with @steelworkers.bsky.social in a landslide! More than 97% supported forming a union to negotiate better pay, benefits, and working conditions. Another big step forward for workers in higher ed.
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BREAKING! University of Pittsburgh grad students just voted to unionize with United Steelworkers, following the Staff doing the same in September and Faculty also doing the same two years ago. Pitt is now fully a union shop 💪 and I will this one time only allow myself to unironically say Hail 2 Pitt
November 22, 2024 at 6:37 PM
BREAKING! University of Pittsburgh grad students just voted to unionize with United Steelworkers, following the Staff doing the same in September and Faculty also doing the same two years ago. Pitt is now fully a union shop 💪 and I will this one time only allow myself to unironically say Hail 2 Pitt
Graduate workers at the University of Pittsburgh voted overwhelmingly to unionize.
Over 97% of Graduate Teaching Assistants, Teaching Fellows, Graduate Student Researchers, and Graduate Student Assistants voted to join the @steelworkers.bsky.social
Tally: 1033 YES - 28 NO
Over 97% of Graduate Teaching Assistants, Teaching Fellows, Graduate Student Researchers, and Graduate Student Assistants voted to join the @steelworkers.bsky.social
Tally: 1033 YES - 28 NO
November 23, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Graduate workers at the University of Pittsburgh voted overwhelmingly to unionize.
Over 97% of Graduate Teaching Assistants, Teaching Fellows, Graduate Student Researchers, and Graduate Student Assistants voted to join the @steelworkers.bsky.social
Tally: 1033 YES - 28 NO
Over 97% of Graduate Teaching Assistants, Teaching Fellows, Graduate Student Researchers, and Graduate Student Assistants voted to join the @steelworkers.bsky.social
Tally: 1033 YES - 28 NO
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Working on a starter pack of union folks in PA. Reply if I missed you. 👇👇 go.bsky.app/QXEknha
November 13, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Working on a starter pack of union folks in PA. Reply if I missed you. 👇👇 go.bsky.app/QXEknha
grad unions keep racking up wins! next week 2000 grad workers at the University of Pittsburgh will vote to join @steelworkers.bsky.social !
Graduate student workers at George Washington University have overwhelmingly voted to unionize.
GWU Grad Workers United announced that 99.4% of doctoral- and master’s-degree students working in campus jobs voted to join the union.
The tally was 347 YES - 2 NO.
GWU Grad Workers United announced that 99.4% of doctoral- and master’s-degree students working in campus jobs voted to join the union.
The tally was 347 YES - 2 NO.
November 14, 2024 at 5:33 PM
grad unions keep racking up wins! next week 2000 grad workers at the University of Pittsburgh will vote to join @steelworkers.bsky.social !
very proud of a friend who helped organize on this campaign ✊️✊️✊️
NEW: 132 food service workers at Muhlenberg College in Allentown are unionizing with SEIU/Workers United.
November 13, 2024 at 7:12 PM
very proud of a friend who helped organize on this campaign ✊️✊️✊️
intro post! I'm a sociology PhD candidate at the Univ. of Pittsburgh, researching how grassroots movements for labor and climate justice shape urban development by working with local public transit advocates.
I also double as a union organizer in higher ed
looking forward to connecting with folks!
I also double as a union organizer in higher ed
looking forward to connecting with folks!
November 13, 2024 at 5:23 PM
intro post! I'm a sociology PhD candidate at the Univ. of Pittsburgh, researching how grassroots movements for labor and climate justice shape urban development by working with local public transit advocates.
I also double as a union organizer in higher ed
looking forward to connecting with folks!
I also double as a union organizer in higher ed
looking forward to connecting with folks!
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We are the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, representing the striking journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the full-time faculty at Point Park University.
November 13, 2024 at 1:59 PM
We are the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, representing the striking journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the full-time faculty at Point Park University.
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The Coalition of Graduate Employees at Oregon State, AFT Local 6069, is on strike! OSU is bargaining in bad faith. Teachers can't teach if they can't buy groceries. Researchers can't research if they can't make rent.
Learn more here www.cge6069.org
And donate to the strike fund on Venmo @CGE-OSU
Learn more here www.cge6069.org
And donate to the strike fund on Venmo @CGE-OSU
Coalition of Graduate Employees
The Coalition of Graduate Employees at Oregon State University is the union that stands for the betterment of the research and teaching assistants' work conditions and rights by bargaining fair workin...
www.cge6069.org
November 12, 2024 at 6:15 PM
The Coalition of Graduate Employees at Oregon State, AFT Local 6069, is on strike! OSU is bargaining in bad faith. Teachers can't teach if they can't buy groceries. Researchers can't research if they can't make rent.
Learn more here www.cge6069.org
And donate to the strike fund on Venmo @CGE-OSU
Learn more here www.cge6069.org
And donate to the strike fund on Venmo @CGE-OSU
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Right-wing elites are more palatable because they promote the myth of meritocracy--that anyone can be elite if they work hard enough and if government gets out of their way.
This is a myth, but it gives people a sense of agency, and it appeals to those who feel government has burned them before.
This is a myth, but it gives people a sense of agency, and it appeals to those who feel government has burned them before.
either people specify what they mean when they say “elite” or the term is just meaningless pejorative. both parties are dominated by elites in any conventional sense of what that means! the question is: why are right-wing elites more palatable to voters than liberal ones?
November 10, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Right-wing elites are more palatable because they promote the myth of meritocracy--that anyone can be elite if they work hard enough and if government gets out of their way.
This is a myth, but it gives people a sense of agency, and it appeals to those who feel government has burned them before.
This is a myth, but it gives people a sense of agency, and it appeals to those who feel government has burned them before.