# Luis Feliz Leon

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Under Trump's Anti-Worker Landscape, Employers are Testing the Limits of What They Can Get Away With

Workers at Mauser Packaging Solutions in Chicago, who handle dangerous chemicals with what they’ve said is insufficient safety equipment, have been on strike since June 9. These workers, members of Teamsters Local 705, have been on an unfair labor practice strike after Mauser also illegally survei…

Unions face extinction under Trump. What the hell is labor doing to fight back? (w/ David Huerta & Everett Kelley)

Every single one of us who considers ourselves part of the labor movement has some real deep, serious, and urgent soul searching to do this Labor Day. After already falling to historically low levels of union density, public and private-sector unions are facing an extinction-level event under the n…

NYC taxi drivers remember: Mamdani didn’t forget them

In 2021, when New York City taxi drivers were dying by suicide and others were going on hunger strike, begging City Hall for relief from the debt trap that had set them up for failure and financial ruin, a young NY Assemblyperson named Zohran Mamdani stood with them. Now, taxi drivers are standing …

Amid federal invasion, Minnesota calls for mass strike on Jan. 23

The state of Minnesota is under siege by our own federal government, and residents—immigrant and US-born alike—are living in fear. With the deployment of over 3,000 federal agents to Minnesota in recent weeks,  this is the Trump administration’s largest and most violent so-called “immigration enfor…

"Shut everything down": Minnesota calls for mass strike on Jan. 23

The state of Minnesota is under siege by our own federal government, and residents—immigrant and US-born alike—are living in fear. With the deployment of over 3,000 federal agents to Minnesota in recent weeks, this is the Trump administration's largest and most violent so-called "immigration enforc…

How Workers Pulled Off a Mass Strike in Minnesota

More than 75,000 people, including teachers, food service workers, Uber drivers and many others marched through downtown Minneapolis on January 23, where federal agents have staged a military occupation in the Twin Cities since December.  The march was part of a day of action in Minnesota, and the…

Jacobin Radio: From Outrage to Power in Minneapolis w/ Luis Feliz Leon

When federal immigration raids went from brutal to deadly in Minneapolis, the epicenter of Trump’s escalating war on immigrants and Blue cities, residents responded with coordinated “no work, no school, no shopping” shutdowns that drew tens of thousands into the streets there and around the country…

NO DEAL: Nurses at NY-Presbyterian overwhelmingly vote to stay on strike

The longest-running nurses strike in New York City history has come to an end—for some. Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, however, overwhelmingly voted this week to reject a tentative agreement and to stay on strike until their demands for safer staffing and more job security are met. In thi…

NO DEAL: Nurses at NY-Presbyterian overwhelmingly vote to stay on strike

The longest-running nurses strike in New York City history has come to an end—for some. Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, however, overwhelmingly voted this week to reject a tentative agreement and to stay on strike until their demands for safer staffing and more job security are met. In thi…

Unions Aren’t Backing Down Amid Reported Federal Infiltration Efforts

The Trump Administration has been surveilling and investigating unions including the Communications Workers (CWA) and Service Employees (SEIU), as part of its targeting of groups resisting immigration raids, according to a report this month in the New York Times. But union members and representati…