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⚡️📢 Want to work in social justice & labor but don't know where to start? Join a virtual info session for the WILL Empower Apprenticeship Program!
🗓️Tuesday March 10th - 4pm ET
More details: bit.ly/4b5mysB⚡️RSVP to [email protected]
ALT Want to work in social justice & labor but don't know where to start? Join a virtual info session for the WILL Empower Apprenticeship Program! Tuesday March 10th - 4pm ET. RSVP to [email protected]. More details can be found at https://bit.ly/4b5mysB
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Interested in working in social justice and labor but don't know where to start?
Join @WELeadLabor's virtual info session [Tuesday 3/10 at 4pm ET] about the WILL Empower apprenticeship program!
More details here:
willempower.org/2026/02/27/w…
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Demanding Justice Then and Now: Black Women's Union Organizing and Intellectual Work
Join us for a book talk and a panel discussion - March 7th from 10am-1pm at Rutgers Labor Education Center! 🌟Refreshments will be served🌟
@LearnRutgers Greater NJ CLUW @RutgersCIWO @RU_SMLR
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The #SuperBowl halftime show, brought to you by America’s unions.
Congrats to all our members who put on an incredible halftime show with Bad Bunny!
Lo único más poderoso que el odio, es el amor.
The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate is Love. @sanbenito #AppleMusicHalftime
The 2025-2026 Emerging Leaders were ✨officially welcomed✨ into the WE network during the WILL Empower Awards Celebration on October 25th!
The Emergers were gathered in New Brunswick, NJ for their in-person cohort retreat 🌠🌈🎉
ALT A photo of the 2025-2026 WILL Empower Emerging Leaders Cohort in October 2025. WILL Empower is a joint program of the Rutgers Center for Innovation in Worker Organization and Georgetown Kalmanovitz Inititative for Labor and the Working Poor. For more information visit willempower.org/emerging-leaders
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The Trump admin is trying to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency that protects working people when big banks cheat them on mortgages, credit cards and more.
This is an attack on all workers and their financial security. politico.com/news/2025/11/11…
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On Red Cup Day at corporate Starbucks stores across the country, @SBWorkersUnited members are mobilizing and fighting for a fair contract.
No contract? NO COFFEE! ✊
Congratulations to @stacydavisgates, recipient of the 2025 WILL Empower Nannie Helen Burroughs Courageous Leadership Award!🎉🔥
"Pres. Gates, I believe if Burroughs was alive today you two would be sister comrades in the labor movement" -Dr. Danielle Phillips-Cunningham @RU_SMLR
Congratulations to the recipient of the 2025 Edna Berger Young Courageous Leader Award - Claudia Quiñones Torrico, Organizing Director @UNITEDWEDREAM🎉🎉
Claudia has been described as "the courageous fire of the movement" and we could not agree more! Thank you Claudia!🔥🎉
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Happening TODAY at 6pm ET! 📘 REGISTER: bit.ly/1021NW
Join @RU_SMLR faculty Dr. Naomi R Williams in a discussion of their new book A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity on October 21st at 6pm ET!
This virtual event is co-hosted by @RutgersCIWO and @LearnRutgers. 📘REGISTER: bit.ly/1021NW
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Today is #LatinaEqualPayDay, the day that Latina pay *finally* catches up to what White, non-Hispanic men made last year alone. That’s injustice—plain and simple.
America’s unions are fighting to end the wage gap for good, and a union contract is how we level the playing field.
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Join @RU_SMLR faculty Dr. Naomi R Williams in a discussion of their new book A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity on October 21st at 6pm ET!
This virtual event is co-hosted by @RutgersCIWO and @LearnRutgers. 📘REGISTER: bit.ly/1021NW
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LAST CHANCE TO NOMINATE! One young courageous leader will be awarded $15,000! go.rutgers.edu/sf3j15y3
Nominations EXTENDED to SEPTEMBER 1st for the WILL Empower (@WELeadLabor) Edna Berger Young Courageous Leader Award - $15,000!
✨Do you know a young courageous leader (age 30/under) committed to worker, racial, and gender justice?
🔥Nominate here by 9/1: go.rutgers.edu/sf3j15y3
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July 9 - Jacqueline Vaughn Leads the CTU
On this day in Labor History the year was1984. Jacqueline Vaughn became President of the Chicago Teachers’ Union. Jacqueline started out as a teacher and became a member of the collective bargaining team in 1968.
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Let's kick off #WomensHistoryMonth by shouting out Angelina Cruz, a past @WELeadLabor Executive Leader! 🎉Congratulations on being re-elected as President of @RacineEducators and being the first Latina to represent Racine in the Wisconsin State Assembly!❤️
lgbtqnation.com/2024/11/ange…
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FINAL DAYS - apply now‼️ go.rutgers.edu/1sbvcoui
🚩DEADLINE EXTENDED to Feb 26th🚩
Apply for @WELeadLabor WILL Empower Emerging Leaders TODAY: go.rutgers.edu/1sbvcoui
Applications for the WILL Empower Emerging Leaders Cohort CLOSE in two days - apply now! ➡️go.rutgers.edu/1sbvcoui
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Erica Iheme, Organizing Director @JobsMoveAmerica & @WELeadLabor Award Winner, has been organizing her community since childhood. "My dad had us organizing as long as I can remember. It was a way of life... I want to instill [this] in my children." 💜
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💥Become a WILL Empower Emerging Leader!💥
Applications for the 2025-2026 @WELeadLabor Emerging Leaders Cohort Program are now open!
APPLY HERE➡️ willempower.org/emerging-lea…
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What is possible when WE are in leadership? EVERYTHING!
As more Black and Latina women are leading unions, transformative leadership is emerging, union interest is increasing, and more gender-based protections are happening NOW
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