SO BASICALLY PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE JUST 0.4% OF THE NEW YORK CITY BUDGET, BUT THE MAYOR IS TRYING TO CUT THE LIBRARY'S BUDGET WAY BACK. I’M TALKING $58.3 MILLION! LIBRARIES ARE ALREADY CLOSED ON SUNDAYS BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS CUTS AND MOST BRANCHES WILL BE OPEN FOR JUST FIVE DAYS A
Irish tenant farmers in pre-Famine Ireland had a form of rent control called “burn your landlord’s barn down and leave a note that you’ll be back if he doesn’t lower the rent.”
I think about that a lot.
The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control.
Today’s ruling represents an assault on American democracy. It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture.
I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.
underrated that Hakeem Jeffries is, instead of focusing on leading a minority that’s a minority because of Kathy Hochul and the New York Democratic machine, stumping for a garbage anti-worker nominee advanced by Kathy Hochul and the New York Democratic machine
If Biden loses re-election, partisans are going to blame progressives. They're going to blame Arab voters.
They're going to point fingers everywhere but Biden, who believes he's the only one that can beat Trump, when all evidence says he's the only person that can lose to him.
biden ending his speech with "i dissent" is a perfect encapsulation of his approach to the court—he sees himself as akin to a dissenting justice who only has the power to complain, rather than a politician with the ability to do—or even try to do—something about the court
Every GOP candidates talking about breaking teacher unions.
Why? Because education unions are the backbone of organized labor, and they're the sole force fighting for public education and American students, and these ghouls can't stand either thing.
"'The Drew Barrymore Show' is a WGA covered, struck show," a spokesperson told THR after Barrymore said her show would be returning. "It has stayed off the air since the strike began on May 2nd, but has now (unfortunately) decided to return without its writers"
personally I think it's fairly concerning when elected officials start saying that American citizens are "unfit to govern themselves" because they don't like the democratic decisions that are made
So let me get this straight. People actually believe that voters in swing states are supporting Democratic Senate candidates to the tune of +6 or more but they are going to then vote for Trump because Biden is old? You think that's what's going to happen in the voting booth?
The
@UAW
is throwing out a 70 year playbook on how to run bargaining and strikes, and completely blindsiding the Big Three while doing it. Every labor leader and member should be watching and taking notes.
This is amazing stuff, and it's possible because of
@UAWD_Reform
.
it shouldn’t be a difficult left wing case to make that Harris is an imperfect candidate that is likely to be marginally better on some issues, potentially worse on some, but possesses the virtue of actually having a prayer of beating an actual fascist
look i don't care if people love biden or not, i certainly don't, but tomorrow we're gonna have pictures of an American president on a picket line and that objectively fucking owns
FIRST SCOTUS ruling: Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. Teamsters, an 8-1 decision with Justice Jackson the sole dissenter. Court loosens standards by which companies can sue workers for causing damage to company property via strikes. Barrett writes.
Unions file with OLMS and disclose literally all of their expenditures.
Organized labor engages in, as a matter of law, a level of transparency and disclosure that no other private organization engages in.
Every GOP candidates talking about breaking teacher unions.
Why? Because education unions are the backbone of organized labor, and they're the sole force fighting for public education and American students, and these ghouls can't stand either thing.
Only 3 Democrats refused to sign on to the Pro Act, one of whom was Mark Kelly. The right to organize unions is the most important thing to labor so that's a hard no.
Breaking news: Los Angeles City workers represented by SEIU 721 are set to strike on Tuesday - the first major labor protest of its kind in over 40 years.
🚨The Supreme Court overrules Chevron deference, wiping out 40 years of precedent that required federal courts to defer to expert opinions of federal agencies. All three liberals dissent. This is a HUGE decision.
Unions don't fight for workers. Workers fight together, in their unions. Those fights are often fraught, flawed, and imperfect. Collective action is messy. But there's no choice but to continue fighting.
I think one of the most stunning moments I had in my 20s was when I realized just how deeply stupid people in positions of authority and prestige often are
With SEIU's ceasefire statement, the two largest labor unions in the United States -- NEA and SEIU -- have both called for ceasefires.
Those two unions alone represent something like a quarter or a fifth of all union members.
Want to be crystal clear about this.
@TeamsterSOB
is a scab for even setting foot in the RNC, let alone the both sides bullshit he had to say, and he's selling out his own members by cozying up to anti-worker extremists.
I think it’s becoming more clear that the Teamsters may actually be serious about an endorsement for Donald Trump, and I’m trying to brace myself for the liberal meltdown and how all unions are going to get hit in the blast radius.
Last week, Fetterman got on Fox News to criticize Biden's liquified gas export pause.
In 2018, he had joined Sunrise and
@RepDanielle
to rally against fracked gas pipelines.
When a constituent asked why he flipped, he mocked her, then walked into a member-only elevator.
His message wasn’t class war, it was fascist tinged America First chauvinism, and the fact that so many self-declared leftists can’t recognize it is genuinely a cause for alarm.
I think Sean O'Brien was right to address the RNC—you carry the class the war to every front you can.
But it's a piece of political theater, not a real embrace of the GOP's hollow labor populism. Dino Guestalla is clear-eyed about both parties here
every time someone asks me to “compare the jobs” in explaining why execs deserve bigger raises than UAW members, I think to myself “you’re right, UAW members work way harder than some Harvard legacy failson jackass, 40% really is lowballing it.”
.
@SenatorDurbin
told reporters today that Dems would not seek accountability for Sam Alito because “there’s no recourse other than impeachment.” That’s wrong—a dodge to justify his and his party’s abdication of oversight.
Any article on American political violence that spends half its word count on Leon Czolgosz and the Years of Lead, with only a throwaway reference to lynching and no explicit mention of the Klan, is fundamentally unserious.
This is a huge deal because it makes farm workers in California -- along with some farm workers in other states -- the only private sector workers in the nation with a statutory right to form a union via card check.
The thing that kills me is that when Biden and Democrats talk about democracy, they’re talking about it in the narrowest sense possible: whether we have functional elections.
It’s divorced from the deeper democratic questions that got us here in the first place.
This is literally the only response a lot of liberals have to SCOTUS assaulting the fabric of democratic governance.
It’s a sarcastic, self-congratulatory callback to eight years ago.
It seems like it should be bigger news that the NYPD is publicly attacking a newspaper union because some of their members wrote critical coverage of the NYPD.
Kind of concerning when the police openly and officially threaten journalists!
I don't think it's unrealistic to say that
@SEIU
is on the verge of winning one of the most important pieces of labor legislation since the NLRA.
A little bit on why. 🧵
#AB257
, which just passed CA Senate, gives workers a seat at the table with employers.
"It means workers can both put food on the table and put gas in the tank."
"I'm overjoyed...(AB257) would change my life completely."
It's time for
#UnionsForAll
across the country.
We need clearly reject the legitimacy of calls to "dial back the rhetoric" from people that have spent years assaulting basic democratic rights, demonizing migrants, trans youth, and the LGBTQ+ community, and characterizing political opponents as servants of evil.
what does it say about "organizing culture"?
what's the target? what's the demand? what's the point of leverage? the entire problem is that SCOTUS has been rendered "above" politics, especially by democrats, when it's clearly not.
That nobody has/is/and likely will mount huge sustained protests over SCOTUS indicates something deeply asymmetrical or amiss about organizing culture.
This court has gutted the rule of law and the fate of ordinary people on so many levels and...🦗🦗🦗
One of the greatest misconceptions of the war, in my view, is that Hamas has taken heavy losses and is somehow on the ropes.
It is not. Hamas has returned to 90 percent of Gaza, mostly because Israel left every place it "cleared." The evidence for this is that Israel has gone
Personally, as a union guy, I would like less of this and more of "my fucking union rights are on the ballot."
Who the hell is the audience for this, especially right now?
It’s honestly astonishing to watch sectarians and armchair left-liberals come for UAW 4811 when they’re doing more than any other union local in the country to directly support Palestinians in Gaza.
They’re literally calling for a political strike, which is nearly unheard of.
O'Brien tripping over himself to heap praise on GOP politicians that do even less for workers than the worst corporate Democrats is the most pathetic display by a labor leader I've witnessed in my lifetime.
JD Vance, Josh Hawley, and Roger Marshall, all praised by O’Brien, haven’t secured paid sick leave for a single rail worker nor secured a union contract for a single Amazon worker.
with strikes, please keep an eye for what the union is asking for people to do. not individual members of the union, not supporters, the union itself, because the union is the only thing that’s collectively answerable to the people on strike.
A boss is an unelected dictator exploiting workers for personal gain. The NPC is an elected body of unpaid volunteers representing tens of thousands of people who actually pay DSA out of their wages for the privilege of being a member.
TODAY:
After refusing to follow the ordinance banning such stops, Pittsburgh Police pulled over a Black man in Homewood for using his turn signal late.
Six officers searched the car.
Police resumed these stops because the police chief claims they are a morale boost for officers
Sen.
@JohnFetterman
tells me he “1000%” still supports funding the expansion of LGBT community center in Philadelphia, and blames staff for slip-up:
“It wasn’t my decision.. it was a perfunctory letter that was issued by the staff. I was not part of the process”
a lot of folks seem to think that if you keep repeating job statistics it’ll magically make people feel differently about how difficult it is to pay their bills
The cost of housing: one very big reason that people don’t *feel* as good about the economy as the rest of the economic data (and many liberals) suggest they should—one that has nothing to do with partisan polarization.
there used to be a pretty large union for barbers and I really just want in depth histories of how unions established footholds/declined in industries that aren’t usually associated with strong unionism
BREAKING 🇧🇴 Bolivia’s trade union confederation COB has called for an emergency mass mobilization and a general strike in response to the ongoing coup attempt.
Rutgers got literally all of their demands except one, and they got a path forward on that. I was there when they struck the deal.
What is going on here with people turning wins into defeats?
I'm going to bet that UAW is going to argue this is a lockout, which (at least in many states) allows workers to claim unemployment. Not sure about Michigan.
I don’t think folks fully appreciate how systematized UAWs approach to bargaining is, especially at the Big Three, and how big a departure this is from their normal mode of doing things.
I don’t know that any other union has as programmatic an approach to collective bargaining.
"I was deeply disheartened by the shocking settlement reached by the Teamsters Local 211/205, a once-respected union. In exchange for severance payments, the Teamsters agreed to dissolve their union at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and end their strike."
notable that John Fetterman’s legislative director is blaming Jamaal Bowman for giving AIPAC openings to hit him
luckily, Fetterman will never have to worry about that!
I like Bowman. If I lived in NY-16, I would’ve voted for him. I’m sad to see him lose. But a cardinal rule in politics is to *never* give your opponents openings to hit you—especially when they’ve got money.
Bowman did so bluntly + repeatedly. That’s just political malpractice.
Want to echo
@JonahFurman
’s point and emphasize that a tentative agreement is called tentative for a reason.
Workers have the final say, and a victory lap on the TA is intended to put pressure on them to ratify.
Absolutely garbage shit from
@axios
. They’re letting the DeSantis administration dictate their coverage.
Reporters need to be able to push back and have the backing to do so, or it’s not a free press.
Folks that spend enough time in organizing either grow to understand they don’t need to be friends with or even like someone to be in solidarity with them, or they burn out.
UAW is in a hugely unique position to wreck some shit because they organized the entire production, assembly, and distribution networks under a single contract, and can gum it up with strategic strike action.
the bargaining flexibility that provides is unreal.
personally i don't think that a union official needs to meet with a fascist three days before the anniversary of their attempt to overthrow democratic governance but ymmv
The talking points against union staff or nonprofit staff having union rights are identical to the talking points against public sector employees having union rights.