Labor journalists and writers
This Starter Pack has people who report and write primarily about labor unions and working-class power. Feel free to send me suggestions. I'm leaving out a lot of good journalists and academics who sometimes talk about labor issues in order to keep this list a little more focused.
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@dskamper.bsky.social
@nataschaelena.bsky.social
The worker shall have bread but she shall have roses too.
@albradbury.bsky.social
Editor at Labor Notes. Occasional songwriter (and member of AFM Local 1000, the Traveling Musicians Union.)
@ehellerstein.bsky.social
Oakland-based investigative reporter/feature writer. Senior labor & immigration reporter @eltimpano.bsky.social. Labor, migration, memory politics, surveillance, gender. Past @codastory & beyond. Say hi ehellerstein@eltimpano.org www.ericahellerstein.com
@msainato.bsky.social
Labor reporter @theguardian.com https://www.theguardian.com/profile/michael-sainato
@radishresearch.bsky.social
Research-tivist with stops @ IBT, UNITE HERE, Culinary 226, AFL-CIO, worker centers, and 50/50 Climate Project
@robinks.com
Freelance journalist (NYT, Baffler, etc) / Writing a book about the American workplace for Harper Books / organizer with National Writers Union / Newsletter of updates: http://bit.ly/2YtKtND / robinks.com
@tah.bsky.social
Fighting for stronger workers, unions, cities, and transit. Editor-in-Chief of TheLaborBeacon.com - KC’s 30,000+ strong labor newspaper. Chair of the KC Regional Transit Alliance. (kcrta.org) Director of Comms for KC AFL-CIO. Proud union member. Jew.
@kimkelly.bsky.social
labor journalist and author of ‘FIGHT LIKE HELL’ 🏴 big on metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. my books: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kim-Kelly/178891913 my lefty heavy metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io rep: The Shipman Agency
@thehousered.bsky.social
Member, TNG-CWA. President, @7mountainsafl.bsky.social. Posts strictly my own, especially the bad ones. Let's go Buffalo. he/him
@brycecovert.bsky.social
Journalist writing about the economy. Contributing writer at @thenation.com, member of @fspnwu.bsky.social. Send tips to brycecovert@protonmail.com or on Signal: brycecovert.25 she/her
@adamquinn.bsky.social
History PhD candidate @ University of Oregon and union member (AFT 3544). Writing a labor & environmental history of the computer industry. Comms & organizing with EWOC.
@greenhousenyt.bsky.social
Retired New York Times labor reporter, senior fellow Century Foundation, author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
@catconlan.bsky.social
Editor of a Labor newspaper. Union card, clinic escort, Nebraska roots, now Minnesota. Hockey, abortion, cake, abolition, liberation. I love it when goalies lose in OT. She/they. Radicalizing over time. Banner photo: IG @havington
@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
Read me: HamiltonNolan.com My book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hamilton-nolan/the-hammer/9780306830921/
@melbuer.bsky.social
Reporter at @therealnews.com | Co-Host, Working People podcast | Union member @newsguild.org | Writes a labor newsletter. Writing and podcasting about labor, media, and progressive politics. Currently living in Chicago. https://linktr.ee/mel_buer
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social
- Editor in Chief & Co-Executive Director, @therealnews.com - Host, Working People podcast - Author, The Work of Living - Dad to many cats
@shaunrichman.org
Labor guy in higher ed. Author, "Tell The Bosses We're Coming" (Monthly Review, 2020) & "We Always Had a Union" (U. of Illinois, 2025). Contributing writer: In These Times, Jacobin, American Prospect.
@ericdirnbach.bsky.social
Labor Movement Researcher, Activist, Campaigner, Organizer, Educator, Writer & Socialist, Philly born, NYC now. https://ericdirnbach.medium.com ✊ operarios omnia vincent ✊
@reuning.bsky.social
politics, protests, quant methods, bad takes, labor, etc https://kevinreuning.com/ https://almanacofuspolitics.com/ https://unionelections.org/
@unionelections.bsky.social
Workers organize every day, I spread the news. All election related DMs confidential. He/Him. https://linktr.ee/unionelections
@epi.org
We're a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank using the tools of economics to defend & promote the interests of workers in economic policy discussions. epi.org Podcast: epi.org/podcast/ Newsletter: epi.org/signup/ Federal Policy Watch: epi.org/policywatch
@ericblanc.bsky.social
Assistant Prof Rutgers Labor Studies; author We are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big www.ucpress.edu/books/we-are-the-union/ Red State Revolt, laborpolitics.substack.com; EWOC, Rutgers AAUP-AFT, 🌹
@josheidelson.bsky.social
Senior reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek, covering the present of work
@erikloomis.bsky.social
Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social
Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people. Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion
@dskamper.bsky.social
Avuncular unionist, uxorious husband, labor historian, cat guy. "Who's Got the Power?: The Resurgence of American Unions" coming in 2025 from New Press. Lives in Minnesota. Posts are personal. The cat in the profile pic is Laverne, aka Peanut.