Shawna Bader-Blau
@shawnasolidarity.bsky.social
Executive Director, Solidarity Center
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🚨 The ITUC is deeply alarmed by the escalating attacks on trade union freedoms, democratic space, and social dialogue in #Tunisia.
UGTT & the labour movement face a coordinated campaign to silence and isolate them — a clear attack on democracy. #ForDemocracy
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UGTT & the labour movement face a coordinated campaign to silence and isolate them — a clear attack on democracy. #ForDemocracy
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December 8, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🚨 The ITUC is deeply alarmed by the escalating attacks on trade union freedoms, democratic space, and social dialogue in #Tunisia.
UGTT & the labour movement face a coordinated campaign to silence and isolate them — a clear attack on democracy. #ForDemocracy
🔗 buff.ly/4rgxXgP
UGTT & the labour movement face a coordinated campaign to silence and isolate them — a clear attack on democracy. #ForDemocracy
🔗 buff.ly/4rgxXgP
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Digital labor platforms are used in more industries than you think.
@ilawnetwork.bsky.social recently launched a report that explores how workers are systemically exploited by digital labor platforms beyond transportation. Check out "Taken for a Ride 3" at the 🔗 sclinks.co/4lJ3NiW
@ilawnetwork.bsky.social recently launched a report that explores how workers are systemically exploited by digital labor platforms beyond transportation. Check out "Taken for a Ride 3" at the 🔗 sclinks.co/4lJ3NiW
July 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Digital labor platforms are used in more industries than you think.
@ilawnetwork.bsky.social recently launched a report that explores how workers are systemically exploited by digital labor platforms beyond transportation. Check out "Taken for a Ride 3" at the 🔗 sclinks.co/4lJ3NiW
@ilawnetwork.bsky.social recently launched a report that explores how workers are systemically exploited by digital labor platforms beyond transportation. Check out "Taken for a Ride 3" at the 🔗 sclinks.co/4lJ3NiW
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This week, a federal judge affirmed jurisdiction in our lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s cancellation of funding for our international labor rights programs, paving the way for court review and potential reinstatement ✊
Read our full statement here 🔗 sclinks.co/4kqelCb
Read our full statement here 🔗 sclinks.co/4kqelCb
July 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This week, a federal judge affirmed jurisdiction in our lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s cancellation of funding for our international labor rights programs, paving the way for court review and potential reinstatement ✊
Read our full statement here 🔗 sclinks.co/4kqelCb
Read our full statement here 🔗 sclinks.co/4kqelCb
Thank you @labourstart.bsky.social for highlighting Solidarity Center on your podcast ! One day longer, one day stronger 💪🏼 #solidarity
"What unions can build together is a beautiful vision of equity & fairness in the economy & democracy that actually delivers for normal people."
Powerful words from Shawna Bader-Blau, the Solidarity Center's Executive Director, shared during LabourStart's latest podcast episode. Listen at the link.
Powerful words from Shawna Bader-Blau, the Solidarity Center's Executive Director, shared during LabourStart's latest podcast episode. Listen at the link.
USA: Interview with Shawna Bader-Blau from the Solidarity Center - LabourStart: Where trade unionists start their day on the net.
Shawna Bader-Blau heads up the Solidarity Center in Washington DC which has for many years been one of the great sources of support for workers around the world trying create and sustain independent, ...
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June 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Thank you @labourstart.bsky.social for highlighting Solidarity Center on your podcast ! One day longer, one day stronger 💪🏼 #solidarity
Wow, just a TON of Congressional support for Dept of Labor global programs in this letter - 72 members of Congress!! Thank you Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social and Rep. Linda Sanchez for your leadership, standing up for workers in the U.S. & everywhere!
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Democratic Members call on Appropriators to protect ILAB funding, American workers
WASHINGTON – Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Linda T.
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May 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Wow, just a TON of Congressional support for Dept of Labor global programs in this letter - 72 members of Congress!! Thank you Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social and Rep. Linda Sanchez for your leadership, standing up for workers in the U.S. & everywhere!
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When we strengthen labor rights abroad, we protect jobs here at home. The Bureau of International Labor Affairs fights to level the playing field for America’s workers. Cuts to the agency will hurt workers here and around the world.
May 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
When we strengthen labor rights abroad, we protect jobs here at home. The Bureau of International Labor Affairs fights to level the playing field for America’s workers. Cuts to the agency will hurt workers here and around the world.
Solidarity is about movements and it’s about people. Our union friends at LO Norway are helping continue Solidarity Center programs in Palestine and Ukraine to ensure workers have a voice, fair wages and safe jobs.✊🌍 #GlobalSolidarity #WorkerRights
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Solidarity Center - Norwegian Unions Champion Solidarity Across Borders
In recent months, the rollback of U.S. foreign assistance has forced the Solidarity Center to scale back our programs in Palestine and Ukraine, but not our commitment to our partners. Today…
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May 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Solidarity is about movements and it’s about people. Our union friends at LO Norway are helping continue Solidarity Center programs in Palestine and Ukraine to ensure workers have a voice, fair wages and safe jobs.✊🌍 #GlobalSolidarity #WorkerRights
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We’re challenging the unlawful termination of all international worker rights programs funded by the US Dept. of Labor. These programs helped workers organize, raise wages, end child labor and hold powerful corporations accountable.
Visit www.solidaritycenter.org to read the complaint & learn more
Visit www.solidaritycenter.org to read the complaint & learn more
The Solidarity Center - Promoting Worker Rights Worldwide
Helping workers attain safe and healthy workplaces, family-supporting wages, dignity on the job and greater equity at work and in their community.
www.solidaritycenter.org
April 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
We’re challenging the unlawful termination of all international worker rights programs funded by the US Dept. of Labor. These programs helped workers organize, raise wages, end child labor and hold powerful corporations accountable.
Visit www.solidaritycenter.org to read the complaint & learn more
Visit www.solidaritycenter.org to read the complaint & learn more
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DOGE's decision to cut over $500 Million in ILAB grants was unconstitutional, illegal, and arbitrary, and the cuts must be reversed. @solidaritycenter.bsky.social and other grant recipients are making the world better for all workers, including workers in the US. Their work needs to continue.
The Solidarity Center and other groups have filed a lawsuit today over DOGE's cancellations of all International labor programs aimed at fighting child and forced labor
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US labor groups sue over ‘ignorant’ cuts of programs fighting child labor abroad
Musk’s Doge team announced in March it had canceled about $577m in grants for programs it labeled ‘America last’
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April 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
DOGE's decision to cut over $500 Million in ILAB grants was unconstitutional, illegal, and arbitrary, and the cuts must be reversed. @solidaritycenter.bsky.social and other grant recipients are making the world better for all workers, including workers in the US. Their work needs to continue.
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Today we filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Labor's unlawful termination of congressionally authorized international labor rights programs. Visit sclinks.co/ilab-lawsuit to read our full statement.
April 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Today we filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Labor's unlawful termination of congressionally authorized international labor rights programs. Visit sclinks.co/ilab-lawsuit to read our full statement.
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When workers can organize and join unions, they have the collective power to change their lives, build stronger communities and create fairer societies.
#WorkerRights #FairWork #1u #Solidarity
#WorkerRights #FairWork #1u #Solidarity
April 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
When workers can organize and join unions, they have the collective power to change their lives, build stronger communities and create fairer societies.
#WorkerRights #FairWork #1u #Solidarity
#WorkerRights #FairWork #1u #Solidarity
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Cutting these programs abandons workers & rolls back decades of progress combating forced & child labor.
Scoop: Labor Department emails show that Trump admin has plans to immediately end U.S.-backed programs that combat child labor, forced labor, & other abuses in more than 40 counties.
"This will affect some of the world’s most vulnerable children.”
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"This will affect some of the world’s most vulnerable children.”
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Trump administration moves to cut programs that fight child labor abroad
The Labor Department is canceling $500 million allocated to programs that combat child labor, forced labor, human trafficking and abusive practices in more than 40 countries.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Cutting these programs abandons workers & rolls back decades of progress combating forced & child labor.
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Scoop: Labor Department emails show that Trump admin has plans to immediately end U.S.-backed programs that combat child labor, forced labor, & other abuses in more than 40 counties.
"This will affect some of the world’s most vulnerable children.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
"This will affect some of the world’s most vulnerable children.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump administration moves to cut programs that fight child labor abroad
The Labor Department is canceling $500 million allocated to programs that combat child labor, forced labor, human trafficking and abusive practices in more than 40 countries.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Scoop: Labor Department emails show that Trump admin has plans to immediately end U.S.-backed programs that combat child labor, forced labor, & other abuses in more than 40 counties.
"This will affect some of the world’s most vulnerable children.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
"This will affect some of the world’s most vulnerable children.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Eliminating programs will:
🚨 Leave workers & children vulnerable to forced labor
🚨 Silence efforts to improve working conditions peacefully
🚨 Ignore root causes of migration: poverty wages & unsafe work
🚨 Enable a race to the bottom, lowering labor standards everywhere
🚨 Leave workers & children vulnerable to forced labor
🚨 Silence efforts to improve working conditions peacefully
🚨 Ignore root causes of migration: poverty wages & unsafe work
🚨 Enable a race to the bottom, lowering labor standards everywhere
March 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Eliminating programs will:
🚨 Leave workers & children vulnerable to forced labor
🚨 Silence efforts to improve working conditions peacefully
🚨 Ignore root causes of migration: poverty wages & unsafe work
🚨 Enable a race to the bottom, lowering labor standards everywhere
🚨 Leave workers & children vulnerable to forced labor
🚨 Silence efforts to improve working conditions peacefully
🚨 Ignore root causes of migration: poverty wages & unsafe work
🚨 Enable a race to the bottom, lowering labor standards everywhere
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We don’t just support worker rights – we help workers turn those rights into reality. We provide the training, resources & legal support workers need to push for fair pay, demand safe working conditions & ensure they are treated with respect.
#Solidarity #WorkerRights #1u #WorkersUnite
#Solidarity #WorkerRights #1u #WorkersUnite
March 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We don’t just support worker rights – we help workers turn those rights into reality. We provide the training, resources & legal support workers need to push for fair pay, demand safe working conditions & ensure they are treated with respect.
#Solidarity #WorkerRights #1u #WorkersUnite
#Solidarity #WorkerRights #1u #WorkersUnite
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Each year on March 25 we commemorate the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. This tragic event took the lives of 146 mostly young, immigrant women workers in 1911.
March 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Each year on March 25 we commemorate the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. This tragic event took the lives of 146 mostly young, immigrant women workers in 1911.
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"Since then, through every strike, every contract fight and every arrest, the Solidarity Center has been there—offering support, expertise and solidarity... Without them, workers like me wouldn’t just be unheard; we’d be invisible.” Read more 🔗 sourcingjournal.com/topics/labor...
The Solidarity Center is On the Brink. Where Does That Leave Garment Workers’ Rights?
The Solidarity Center is the largest U.S.-based international worker rights organization that partners directly with workers and their unions. Now it's seeing its funding stripped away in the name of ...
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March 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"Since then, through every strike, every contract fight and every arrest, the Solidarity Center has been there—offering support, expertise and solidarity... Without them, workers like me wouldn’t just be unheard; we’d be invisible.” Read more 🔗 sourcingjournal.com/topics/labor...
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Over 1,000 garment workers are demanding Nike give them the recognition and pay they deserve. We stand with them. #SeeUsNike
March 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Over 1,000 garment workers are demanding Nike give them the recognition and pay they deserve. We stand with them. #SeeUsNike
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In 2021, state-organized forced labor - including child labor - in Uzbekistan’s cotton sector ended. Since then, workers have been organizing for fair wages, safe conditions & a real voice on the job - creating a path for cotton products that benefit working people, brands & the global market.
March 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
In 2021, state-organized forced labor - including child labor - in Uzbekistan’s cotton sector ended. Since then, workers have been organizing for fair wages, safe conditions & a real voice on the job - creating a path for cotton products that benefit working people, brands & the global market.
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Great to see The Solidarity Center join the Bluesky family! ✊🏼✊🏾💙
Across the world, they fight for workers’ rights, fair pay, and safe workplaces.
➡️ @solidaritycenter.bsky.social
#WorkersRights are #HumanRights
Across the world, they fight for workers’ rights, fair pay, and safe workplaces.
➡️ @solidaritycenter.bsky.social
#WorkersRights are #HumanRights
March 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Great to see The Solidarity Center join the Bluesky family! ✊🏼✊🏾💙
Across the world, they fight for workers’ rights, fair pay, and safe workplaces.
➡️ @solidaritycenter.bsky.social
#WorkersRights are #HumanRights
Across the world, they fight for workers’ rights, fair pay, and safe workplaces.
➡️ @solidaritycenter.bsky.social
#WorkersRights are #HumanRights
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In too many places, workers stand alone – fighting for fair wages, safe workplaces and basic dignity. We make sure they don't have to. #Solidarity #WorkerRights
March 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
In too many places, workers stand alone – fighting for fair wages, safe workplaces and basic dignity. We make sure they don't have to. #Solidarity #WorkerRights
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Connect with @solidaritycenter.bsky.social to stand with workers facing some of the world’s toughest working conditions.
Visit sclinks.co/connect to join ✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻 #1u
Visit sclinks.co/connect to join ✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻 #1u
March 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Connect with @solidaritycenter.bsky.social to stand with workers facing some of the world’s toughest working conditions.
Visit sclinks.co/connect to join ✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻 #1u
Visit sclinks.co/connect to join ✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻 #1u
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The @solidaritycenter.bsky.social, part of the @aflcio.org family, stands with workers across the 🌎 facing some of the toughest working conditions. Their work is driven by labor's shared vision: all workers have the right to organize, earn fair wages & work with dignity. More ➡️ solidaritycenter.org.
March 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The @solidaritycenter.bsky.social, part of the @aflcio.org family, stands with workers across the 🌎 facing some of the toughest working conditions. Their work is driven by labor's shared vision: all workers have the right to organize, earn fair wages & work with dignity. More ➡️ solidaritycenter.org.
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Wherever workers are silenced, mistreated or denied their rights, we stand with them – because when workers have the power to improve their own lives, democracy is stronger, economies grow & society becomes more just for everyone.
Learn more about our work at solidaritycenter.org.
Learn more about our work at solidaritycenter.org.
March 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Wherever workers are silenced, mistreated or denied their rights, we stand with them – because when workers have the power to improve their own lives, democracy is stronger, economies grow & society becomes more just for everyone.
Learn more about our work at solidaritycenter.org.
Learn more about our work at solidaritycenter.org.