BREAKING: The
@UAW
is calling for a cease-fire, the largest U.S. union to do so. This is major news for both labor and the larger movement calling for a cease-fire, and could mark a sea change in what has so-far been the modest support from national labor unions for a cease-fire.
In Mexico, a number of autoworkers are refusing voluntary overtime in support of the U.S. strike.
Bosses want to pit us against each other. They won’t win.
Amazon spent over $3 million on anti-union consultants last year, per new disclosures filed yesterday.
More than $1 million of that went to/through Penne Familusi, whose firm received nearly $12 million from Amazon over 3 years.
Lucrative work.
“I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause. There will be no peace in this land until slavery is done for.”
On May 9, 1800, abolitionist John Brown was born.
Under new rules, Congressional Progressive Caucus members must:
+ tell whip
@IlhanMN
where they stand
+ vote with the Caucus 2/3 of the time
+ adhere to this rule at least two-thirds of the time
Or face expulsion.
BREAKING: UPS + TEAMSTERS HAVE REACHED A DEAL.
+The deal includes pay increases of $7.50 over the length of the contract.
+Existing part-timers will be raised up to no less than $21 per hour immediately.
+An end to tiers.
Organizing gets the goods.
Being Black is not a crime.
Being poor is not a crime.
Being hungry is not a crime.
Jordan Neely should be with us today. We need to fight for the world he deserved.
Delta, Waffle House, and Chick-Fil-A are big donors to the Atlanta Police Foundation, the force behind Cop City. How do they afford these lavish donations? (Surprise: the answer is wage theft.)
Unfriendly reminder that U.S. billionaires added $2.1 trillion dollars to their collective wealth during the first 19 months of the pandemic.
Corporate greed is killing us.
@RBReich
A new survey by In These Times finds that CNN’s coverage of Sanders was 3 times more negative than its coverage of Biden following their big primary wins--despite the two wins being by similar margins. via
@juankafkacedo
and
@sarahlazare
We’re thrilled to announce
@GrimKim
as our new Labor Writer!
Kim’s reporting centers the lives and aspirations of working people, with a rigorous eye for the structural conditions that shape their lives.
Pitch her: kim
@inthesetimes
.com
"Workers who are in a union have the ability to have their voices heard and to express their discontent in terms of working conditions. Unions empower ordinary people to have a little bit more control over their lives." —
@BernieSanders
New from Shawn Fain:
“We are fully preparing to strike on May Day 2028.”
The UAW President is calling on unions everywhere to align their contract expiration dates for mass impact. Here, he explains why.
Elizabeth Warren has no path to the Democratic nomination, but by dropping out and endorsing Bernie Sanders she can still help make her egalitarian vision a reality. via
@hamiltonnolan
Johnson ran on a platform of affordable housing, gender equity, police reform and good union jobs.
Pundits claim that left candidates are unelectable, but Johnson’s win shows that you can run an unapologetically progressive campaign—and win.
Chilean President Salvador Allende was the first democratically-elected Marxist president in Latin America. Here is his final speech on Sept. 11, 1973 before his death in the U.S.-backed coup by Augusto Pinochet.
After workers staged a “Strikesgiving” protest at a Whole Foods store in Chicago, employees were offered more leniency in choosing whether to work on Thanksgiving—and were given double their regular pay if they did.
The lesson: go on strike.
May Day is also MY BIRTHDAY! If you would like to give me a present please follow the link and make a May Day donation to
@UFWupdates
. If you donate $15 or more, United Farm Workers will send you a digital copy of Jean’s Zine!
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an outspoken democratic socialist who believed that a multiracial working-class movement was required to overcome the failings of capitalism.
Amazon made $9.9 billion in profits in the last quarter. After a 20 year old worker was killed due to their negligence, regulators issued a whopping $7,000 fine. Capitalism doesn't just tolerate unsafe working conditions—it incentivizes them.
Caes Gruesbeck, just 20 years-old, died on the job at Amazon distribution center in Fort Wayne, Indiana after he got trapped by the machinery.
He died of blunt force injuries.
Amazon was fined only $7,000.
The mainstream press has worked overtime to provide cover for Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza.
We’re proud to announce Media Against Apartheid and Displacement, a new platform from a coalition of movement journalism orgs working to uplift urgent reporting on the genocide.
Meatpacking companies systematically closed union factories and hired immigrant workers they could intimidate with deportation.
Now, in Iowa, those immigrant workers are braving retaliation to fight for a union.
BREAKING: Baristas at 21 Starbucks stores are filing for union elections today. It's the largest single day filing since the campaign began.
Starbucks, when will you come to the table?
Just before the Fourth of July weekend, three UCSD academic workers were arrested by campus police on charges of felony vandalism and conspiracy to commit a crime.
Their crime? Writing pro worker slogans—in washable markers and chalk.
The wheelchair industry is now controlled by two private equity firms.
They won't prioritize repairs, which aren't as profitable. So countless users have broken chairs and can't afford new ones.
"My bones are deforming," said one senior who's waited for a repair for 3 years.
"Biden had the support of much of the corporate-aligned party establishment, as well as the billionaire class that correctly saw Bernie as an unprecedented existential threat to their economic interests." —
@davidsirota
“I take the lesson we were all supposed to learn from the Holocaust—that of 'never again'—to heart. It means never again not just for Jews, but never again for anyone.”
@mindyisser
When MSNBC’s primetime pundits do cover Bernie Sanders, they cover him more negatively than Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden. An investigation by
@BMarchetich
.
@Ocasio2018
, a 28-year-old Latina democratic socialist, is on her way to defeating one of the most powerful establishment Democrats in Congress. This could change everything for the Democratic Party.
Trump and the GOP have falsely tried to slam
@RashidaTlaib
as anti-semitic, but her constituents are standing by her side: "We are grateful to have someone in Washington fighting for us and our neighbors on health, environment and economy."
Our friends
@Mondoweiss
published this illustration of Refaat + we're sharing with their permission. One thing that is so powerful about it, is how Refaat is depicted— raising a pen and so many others following suit. That tracks with something else
@YousefAljamal
told us:
“There are few things as dehumanizing as when a politician you voted for greenlights the genocide and purposeful starvation of children who could be your own. For many, like me, Gaza is the last straw.”
Last night, progressive Paula Jean Swearengin won West Virginia’s Democratic Senate primary—meaning the state could soon get a Bernie Sanders supporter, and coal miner’s daughter, in the U.S. Senate.
When “people claim that
@HelenGymPHL
doesn’t get anything done, what they’re often implying is that low-income renters, immigrant families, service workers, children in juvenile detention centers, and educators don’t matter." 🔥 Viewpoint by
@schooldaves
The union has charged Young Turks boss Cenk Uygur with firing an employee and withholding raises in retaliation for the union drive. via
@hamiltonnolan
With massive teacher walkouts in Oklahoma and Kentucky today, and more potentially to come in Arizona and other states, strike fever appears to be spreading across the country.
A complex web of private companies are profiting off of ICE's immigrant detention—from building facilities to providing tech infrastructure and financial services.
@ddayen
reports:
“When corporate donors are able to fund militarized training facilities for the police, they are essentially buying off the police. They are making it clear who the police work for.”
For the first time in U.S. history, today the Senate voted to advance legislation to withdraw the military from an unauthorized war using the War Powers Resolution.
#Yemen
via
@MilesKLassin
and
@sarahlazare
Coming off their historic strike, the
@UAW
has joined the call for a cease-fire. It’s a major sea change for the labor movement—and the fight for peace and justice in Palestine and Israel.
We’re thrilled to announce that
@alex__han
will be our new Executive Director! At a time of incredible labor militancy, Alex’s ties to unions and grassroots social movements will help us grow the media we need to fight corporations and the Right.
“Ecosocialists in New York won because they’d built a bench of elected leaders. They won because their goal was unabashedly socialist. They also won, because they were willing to try everything, even when it was risky.” NEW from
@lfeatherz
: