Eric Dirnbach
@ericdirnbach.bsky.social
Labor Movement Organizer, Researcher, Campaigner, Educator, Writer & Socialist, Philly born, NYC now.
https://ericdirnbach.medium.com
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https://ericdirnbach.medium.com
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Union Election Wins Decrease in Trump’s First Year Back, But I’m Not Worried Yet
I reviewed U.S. union election wins during the recent federal fiscal year. What are recent labor movement trends and how has the Trump…
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NEW analysis: I reviewed U.S. union election wins during the recent federal fiscal year. What are recent labor movement trends and how has the Trump regime impacted union organizing?
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NEW analysis: I reviewed U.S. union election wins during the recent federal fiscal year. What are recent labor movement trends and how has the Trump regime impacted union organizing?
ericdirnbach.medium.com/union-electi...
ericdirnbach.medium.com/union-electi...
Union Election Wins Decrease in Trump’s First Year Back, But I’m Not Worried Yet
I reviewed U.S. union election wins during the recent federal fiscal year. What are recent labor movement trends and how has the Trump…
ericdirnbach.medium.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:08 PM
NEW analysis: I reviewed U.S. union election wins during the recent federal fiscal year. What are recent labor movement trends and how has the Trump regime impacted union organizing?
ericdirnbach.medium.com/union-electi...
ericdirnbach.medium.com/union-electi...
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Our latest discussion on “Unite & Win” with @haymarketbooks.org features @kimkelly.bsky.social, Atulya Dora-Laskey, and Clarissa Redwine talking about union-busting: how can you get ahead of it and prepare for your boss’s reaction? 🔗👇
February 11, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Our latest discussion on “Unite & Win” with @haymarketbooks.org features @kimkelly.bsky.social, Atulya Dora-Laskey, and Clarissa Redwine talking about union-busting: how can you get ahead of it and prepare for your boss’s reaction? 🔗👇
At what point do we call them the Trump files?
Donald Trump is in the unredacted Epstein files more than 1,000,000 times. A million times. He's the main character.
February 11, 2026 at 6:10 PM
At what point do we call them the Trump files?
NEW analysis: I reviewed U.S. union election wins during the recent federal fiscal year. What are recent labor movement trends and how has the Trump regime impacted union organizing?
ericdirnbach.medium.com/union-electi...
ericdirnbach.medium.com/union-electi...
Union Election Wins Decrease in Trump’s First Year Back, But I’m Not Worried Yet
I reviewed U.S. union election wins during the recent federal fiscal year. What are recent labor movement trends and how has the Trump…
ericdirnbach.medium.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:08 PM
NEW analysis: I reviewed U.S. union election wins during the recent federal fiscal year. What are recent labor movement trends and how has the Trump regime impacted union organizing?
ericdirnbach.medium.com/union-electi...
ericdirnbach.medium.com/union-electi...
We can name a port-a-potty after him.
"...President Donald Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last month that he was prepared to release the funding if Schumer agreed to rename New York’s Penn Station and Virginia’s Dulles International Airport after him."
www.cnn.com/2026/02/09/p...
"...President Donald Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last month that he was prepared to release the funding if Schumer agreed to rename New York’s Penn Station and Virginia’s Dulles International Airport after him."
www.cnn.com/2026/02/09/p...
Judge gives Trump administration more time to unfreeze billions in funding for NY tunnel project | CNN Politics
The Trump administration will need to unfreeze more than $16 billion earmarked for a major New York infrastructure project by Thursday unless a federal appeals court allows the government to continue ...
www.cnn.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:15 PM
We can name a port-a-potty after him.
"...President Donald Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last month that he was prepared to release the funding if Schumer agreed to rename New York’s Penn Station and Virginia’s Dulles International Airport after him."
www.cnn.com/2026/02/09/p...
"...President Donald Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last month that he was prepared to release the funding if Schumer agreed to rename New York’s Penn Station and Virginia’s Dulles International Airport after him."
www.cnn.com/2026/02/09/p...
Sigh, Zo has to respond to all his great ideas I'm sure.
"Since their meeting, Trump and Mamdani have continued to discuss the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure over text message, according to two people familiar with the exchanges who were granted anonymity."
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
"Since their meeting, Trump and Mamdani have continued to discuss the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure over text message, according to two people familiar with the exchanges who were granted anonymity."
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Trump and Mamdani find unlikely common ground on New York City zoning
The president’s long history in New York City real estate looms large over the ongoing conversation with Mamdani.
www.politico.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Sigh, Zo has to respond to all his great ideas I'm sure.
"Since their meeting, Trump and Mamdani have continued to discuss the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure over text message, according to two people familiar with the exchanges who were granted anonymity."
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
"Since their meeting, Trump and Mamdani have continued to discuss the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure over text message, according to two people familiar with the exchanges who were granted anonymity."
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
DELETED! ✊
If Starbucks won’t respect workers at the bargaining table, they don’t deserve our clicks or orders.
Our call to action is simple:
📱 Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp
bit.ly/deletetheapp
Our call to action is simple:
📱 Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp
bit.ly/deletetheapp
February 10, 2026 at 3:32 PM
DELETED! ✊
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To think we dismantled the world’s finest research machine to build fucking concentration camps.
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 9:27 PM
To think we dismantled the world’s finest research machine to build fucking concentration camps.
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Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
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First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
February 9, 2026 at 2:33 AM
First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
A fascinating story & it's a shame this only lasted 8 years.
"Meidner estimated that if companies were required to discharge 20% of gross profits as shares to wage earner funds each year, the entire Swedish economy would be majority worker-owned within just a few decades"
onlabor.org/a-swedish-an...
"Meidner estimated that if companies were required to discharge 20% of gross profits as shares to wage earner funds each year, the entire Swedish economy would be majority worker-owned within just a few decades"
onlabor.org/a-swedish-an...
A Swedish Answer to Labor’s $8 Trillion Question ✦ OnLabor
It may come as a surprise that a substantial portion of America’s economy is worker- and union-owned — technically. Private sector and public sector union members’ pension funds collectively manage ro...
onlabor.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:08 PM
A fascinating story & it's a shame this only lasted 8 years.
"Meidner estimated that if companies were required to discharge 20% of gross profits as shares to wage earner funds each year, the entire Swedish economy would be majority worker-owned within just a few decades"
onlabor.org/a-swedish-an...
"Meidner estimated that if companies were required to discharge 20% of gross profits as shares to wage earner funds each year, the entire Swedish economy would be majority worker-owned within just a few decades"
onlabor.org/a-swedish-an...
Congrats MAGA, I believe this document is a long way of saying that workers on federal contracts used to get at least $15.00/hr under Biden, and now get a lower $13.65/hr under Trump. Brilliant move folks!
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Minimum Wage for Federal Contracts Covered by Executive Order 13658, Notice of Rate Change in Effect
The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the U.S. Department of Labor (the Department) is issuing this notice to announce the applicable minimum wage rate for workers performing work on or in connection wi...
www.federalregister.gov
February 9, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Congrats MAGA, I believe this document is a long way of saying that workers on federal contracts used to get at least $15.00/hr under Biden, and now get a lower $13.65/hr under Trump. Brilliant move folks!
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
"Bad Bunny (aka Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) vibed with Meléndez-Badillo’s acclaimed 2024 book “Puerto Rico: A National History,” and the rapper’s team proposed that the scholar write historical narratives to accompany videos for the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS”"
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 PM
"Bad Bunny (aka Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) vibed with Meléndez-Badillo’s acclaimed 2024 book “Puerto Rico: A National History,” and the rapper’s team proposed that the scholar write historical narratives to accompany videos for the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS”"
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
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The labor movement isn’t just weak, it’s approaching an event horizon: the point at which unions become so small they lose the political, cultural, and institutional mass to successfully reverse their own decline. 🧵 jacobin.com/2026/02/unio...
Unions Are Going to Die Unless Something Big Changes Soon
The labor movement isn’t just the weakest it’s been in a century. Without a radical and aggressive shift in organizing, US unions could effectively cease to matter in the very near future.
jacobin.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:06 AM
The labor movement isn’t just weak, it’s approaching an event horizon: the point at which unions become so small they lose the political, cultural, and institutional mass to successfully reverse their own decline. 🧵 jacobin.com/2026/02/unio...
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February 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM
YES COMRADES! 🔥
Democratic Socialists of America — We are at 100,000 members!
🌹 dsausa.org/join
🌹 dsausa.org/join
February 7, 2026 at 6:58 PM
YES COMRADES! 🔥
Of course.
"The trip actually took place in South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where collecting fossils on reservation land without explicit tribal permission is considered looting."
"The trip actually took place in South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where collecting fossils on reservation land without explicit tribal permission is considered looting."
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
RFK Jr.’s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files
The trip took place on a Native reservation where collecting fossils without explicit tribal permission is considered looting.
trib.al
February 7, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Of course.
"The trip actually took place in South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where collecting fossils on reservation land without explicit tribal permission is considered looting."
"The trip actually took place in South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where collecting fossils on reservation land without explicit tribal permission is considered looting."
Huge swaths of the maga project are of course phony grifts, but the trad corner of it is quite something.
"Sex, lies, and audiotape—and the hypocrisy of the trad lifestyle project."
www.thebulwark.com/p/shocking-s...
"Sex, lies, and audiotape—and the hypocrisy of the trad lifestyle project."
www.thebulwark.com/p/shocking-s...
A Shocking Sex Scandal Rocks the Trad Right
Sex, lies, and audiotape—and the hypocrisy of the trad lifestyle project.
www.thebulwark.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Huge swaths of the maga project are of course phony grifts, but the trad corner of it is quite something.
"Sex, lies, and audiotape—and the hypocrisy of the trad lifestyle project."
www.thebulwark.com/p/shocking-s...
"Sex, lies, and audiotape—and the hypocrisy of the trad lifestyle project."
www.thebulwark.com/p/shocking-s...
What a pivotal year this will be. He's unable to course correct in any sane manner, it will only get worse.
"Trump is retreating into a fantasy world in which he remains an all-conquering strongman. Yet the American people are rejecting him over and over again."
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
"Trump is retreating into a fantasy world in which he remains an all-conquering strongman. Yet the American people are rejecting him over and over again."
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Trump’s Dictatorial Mania Is Increasing—but So Is the Public’s Fury
Trump is retreating into a fantasy world in which he remains an all-conquering strongman. Yet the American people are rejecting him over and over again.
www.thenation.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM
What a pivotal year this will be. He's unable to course correct in any sane manner, it will only get worse.
"Trump is retreating into a fantasy world in which he remains an all-conquering strongman. Yet the American people are rejecting him over and over again."
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
"Trump is retreating into a fantasy world in which he remains an all-conquering strongman. Yet the American people are rejecting him over and over again."
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The NY Times obit for Parenti is snarky AF.
"...his books were read alongside those of Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, two better known (and better selling) left-wing authors."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
"...his books were read alongside those of Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, two better known (and better selling) left-wing authors."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
Michael Parenti, Unapologetic Marxist Theorist and Author, Dies at 92
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:25 PM
The NY Times obit for Parenti is snarky AF.
"...his books were read alongside those of Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, two better known (and better selling) left-wing authors."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
"...his books were read alongside those of Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, two better known (and better selling) left-wing authors."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
I try to go to LRAN every year, and this one will be extra good as it's part of the JWJ national conference.
Registration is open for the LRAN/JWJ National Conference in Atlanta, May 14-16, 2026.
@jwj.org #LaborResearch #UnionYes
www.lranetwork.org/news/registr...
@jwj.org #LaborResearch #UnionYes
www.lranetwork.org/news/registr...
Registration Open for LRAN/JWJ National Conference
Registration is open for LRAN/JWJ National Conference in Atlanta, on May 14-16, 2026.
www.lranetwork.org
February 6, 2026 at 4:19 PM
I try to go to LRAN every year, and this one will be extra good as it's part of the JWJ national conference.
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Registration is open for the LRAN/JWJ National Conference in Atlanta, May 14-16, 2026.
@jwj.org #LaborResearch #UnionYes
www.lranetwork.org/news/registr...
@jwj.org #LaborResearch #UnionYes
www.lranetwork.org/news/registr...
Registration Open for LRAN/JWJ National Conference
Registration is open for LRAN/JWJ National Conference in Atlanta, on May 14-16, 2026.
www.lranetwork.org
February 6, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Registration is open for the LRAN/JWJ National Conference in Atlanta, May 14-16, 2026.
@jwj.org #LaborResearch #UnionYes
www.lranetwork.org/news/registr...
@jwj.org #LaborResearch #UnionYes
www.lranetwork.org/news/registr...
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After making history as the first Southern autoworkers outside the Big Three to join the UAW, the 3,200 workers at VW Chattanooga have won a tentative agreement that provides 20 percent across-the-board wage increases, affordable health care, real job security, and more.
🔗 uaw.org/uaw-reaches-...
🔗 uaw.org/uaw-reaches-...
UAW Reaches Tentative Agreement with Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Marking Historic Breakthrough for Southern Autoworkers - UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of Americ...
Autoworkers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant have won a historic tentative agreement with the company. After making history as the first Southern autoworkers outside the Big Three to join the UAW, th...
uaw.org
February 5, 2026 at 4:35 AM
After making history as the first Southern autoworkers outside the Big Three to join the UAW, the 3,200 workers at VW Chattanooga have won a tentative agreement that provides 20 percent across-the-board wage increases, affordable health care, real job security, and more.
🔗 uaw.org/uaw-reaches-...
🔗 uaw.org/uaw-reaches-...
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Updating the @prospect.org tracker of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die and I'm heartbroken to say that we have sixteen more entries. SIXTEEN.
Our total is now 24 deaths since January 2025 -- not counting the dozens who died in custody.
Our total is now 24 deaths since January 2025 -- not counting the dozens who died in custody.
February 5, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Updating the @prospect.org tracker of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die and I'm heartbroken to say that we have sixteen more entries. SIXTEEN.
Our total is now 24 deaths since January 2025 -- not counting the dozens who died in custody.
Our total is now 24 deaths since January 2025 -- not counting the dozens who died in custody.
