My union, the Wellesley Organized Academic Workers, is on strike. I'm not really participating, since I'm on leave due to the recent birth of my second child, but even just watching from the sidelines, it's an empowering experience. The admin is going to great lengths to try to break our strike, even though our demands are really quite reasonable. They haven't yet even offered us a contract that's as good as the status quo before we formed the union, which says a lot. They're inventing new, questionably-legal strike breaking tactics and are using international students as pawns to try to force the strike to end.
But we've gotten so much solidarity from tenure-track faculty, staff, and especially students (who are enduring a lot of scary stuff from the admin as classes have been reduced from full to half credit if the professor is striking). It's heartwarming to see that support, and to understand that collective action really is powerful.
Of course it's more difficult on a broader scale, but collective action is also the answer against Trump. Whether that's a May Day massive protest, or the #50501 movement slowly building up steam, or corporate boycotts shifting corporate interests (which would only ever be a short term win, but I'd take that right now), I'm hopeful that something is going to break through. Is going to turn hurt and scared and angry people into a mass that dictates change, because there already are plenty of us if we act with enough coordination.
#USpol #union
Shout out to the United Auto Workers #UAW who we're a part of. I was a member in grad school too.
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braucht keine Konservativen, die christliche Überzeugungen verkaufen, um ihre persönliche #Karriere und #Fossilismus zu befördern. Meine ich. https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/mit-den-kirchen-glaubwuerdig-gegen-geschichtsvergessenheit-und-verschwoerungsmythen/
mit allen Tassen! 
