Luis Feliz Leon

New York

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Associate Editor at Labor Notes

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Articles

Louisville Meets Trump’s Deportation Threats With Solidarity

1 month ago | jacobin.com | Luis Feliz Leon

Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances–Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice last month that the Trump administration is revoking their work authorizations. The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation — hostility from some coworkers and an outpouring of support from their union and the local labor movement.
May Day Rallies Confront Billionaire Assaults

1 month ago | scheerpost.com | Luis Feliz Leon

By Luis Feliz Leon / Labor NotesHundreds of thousands of people across the United States rallied, engaged in civil disobedience, or struck on May 1, International Workers’ Day, joining hundreds of thousands around the world. Overall, actions organized by the May Day Strong coalition numbered more than 1,300 across all 50 states in over 1,000 cities and towns, extending into Saturday, May 3.
May Day Rallies Confront Billionaire Assaults

1 month ago | labornotes.org | Luis Feliz Leon

Hundreds of thousands of people across the United States rallied, engaged in civil disobedience, or struck on May 1, International Workers’ Day, joining hundreds of thousands around the world. Overall, actions organized by the May Day Strong coalition numbered more than 1,300 across all 50 states in over 1,000 cities and towns, extending into Saturday, May 3.
Workers Defy the Billionaire Takeover on May Day

1 month ago | portside.org | Luis Feliz Leon

Workers Defy the Billionaire Takeover on May Day Published April 30, 2025 Where are the pitchforks? President Donald Trump’s administration has declared open season on the working class.
Workers Defy the Billionaire Takeover on May Day

1 month ago | portside.org | Luis Feliz Leon

Workers Defy the Billionaire Takeover on May Day Published April 30, 2025 LUIS FELIZ LEON APRIL 30, 2025In Chicago, the teachers union will lead a march starting at 11a.m. in Unity Park. This story will be updated as May Day actions take place. Where are the pitchforks? President Donald Trump’s administration has declared open season on the working class.
Workers Defy the Billionaire Takeover on May Day

1 month ago | inthesetimes.com | Luis Feliz Leon

Luis Feliz Leon April 30, 2025 This story will be updated as May Day actions take place. Where are the pitchforks? President Donald Trump’s administration has declared open season on the working class.
The Education of a Teamster Rebel: Antonio Rosario

1 month ago | inthesetimes.com | Luis Feliz Leon

This article is part of the In These Times Labor Organizer of the Year series. The award honors emerging leaders building worker power across the country. Antonio Rosario is one of our three inaugural winners. In September 2024, Teamsters organizer Antonio Rosario gathered 80 workers at Highland Park in Brooklyn, N.Y., to celebrate a union campaign going public after nine months underground. To mark the occasion, Rosario roasted a pig, christened “Little Bezos” after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Fiction: No Collar

1 month ago | lowerfrequencies.substack.com | Luis Feliz Leon

The End and the BeginningAfter every warsomeone has to clean up. Things won’tstraighten themselves up, after all. Someone has to push the rubbleto the sides of the road,so the corpse-laden wagonscan pass. Someone has to get miredin scum and ashes,sofa springs,splintered glass,and bloody rags. Someone must drag in a girderto prop up a wall. someone must glaze a window,rehang a door.
A World Beyond Tariffs

1 month ago | portside.org | Luis Feliz Leon

A World Beyond Tariffs Published April 22, 2025 In 1966, at the height of the labor movement’s postwar power, Walter Reuther, then president of the United Auto Workers, helped establish the first four “World Auto Councils.” Workers at General Motors, Volkswagen-Daimler-Benz, Fiat, and Chrysler (now Stellantis) could now meet across borders and, it was hoped, establish common international contract expiration dates.
ICE Sets Its Sights on Massachusetts Immigrant Workers

1 month ago | rsn.org | Luis Feliz Leon

This week, ICE snatched an immigrant seafood worker in Massachusetts at an employer whose workers have engaged in nationally celebrated collective action for years — the kind of collective action that, on a mass scale, would be a major threat to Trump.