#Unions

40yrs ago today, FMLN launched it’s first large scale attack against the fascist government of El Salvador, called the “Final Offensive”. They believed people’s justice and democracy to be right
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In Ontario, the "massification" of long-term care and home care was a conscious strategy to cut hospital costs. Almost as soon as Ontario accepted federal money to create OHIP in
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SPOTTED! @Amazon HQ has been visited by The Ghost of #Christmas past! London transport is plastered w/ ads that finally show the disgusting practices that have made @JeffBezos filthy
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Well that’s it. I am quitting @UKLabour. I don’t expect anyone to care, but let me explain via this thread why, so as to act as a cathartic cleansing for
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Apropos of nothing: the dairy industry is so dependent on straight-up human trafficking, farmers have figured out the only way to avoid prosecution is constantly cry about how hard they
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Coal towns all across the Ohio river valley shifted towards Republicans compared to 2016. The valley is ground zero of a massive energy transition. Oil giants are banking on fracked
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There remains a deep level of denialism around both the magnitude of the crises confronting this country, incl. racism, & the reality that the bipartisan political establishment opposes the very
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i'm going to tell the true story of the Civil War. This is going to be a long trend, but worth reading. This is not coming from a Southerner by
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this is a telling & interesting storyupshot: lockdowns have caused a death spiral in cities like NYC. you cannot just "press pause" for 5 monthsthe restaurants, the theater, the city
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Promised: THREADhere’s a thread on just how intertwined disability issues are to Black issues and how, even if you’re not disabled, you as a Black or brown person NEED TO
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The Heathrow battle isn't over. Planning permission up next. It definitely shouldn't get it, principally due to its devastating climate impact. But also because it makes no economic sense. It's
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"Latinos" are not a single electorate; their political attitudes diverge based on where they live, ancestry, edu, income, gender, faith, etc. As it happen, the Trump campaign has been very
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California is on a legislative orgy. Drunk on bad assumptions, blind to unintended consequences, in denial of the concept of personal agency. It's funny how narrow the belief in "freedom
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This morning at #mydataonline2020 we're discussing different approaches to data stewardship and potential principles individuals and organisations can follow in their interactions with data w/ @KapoorAstha, @kaodro, @javicreus, Jessica
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80-90% of all sweatshop workers globally are women and girls."Around 90% of female readymade garment (RMG) workers face various kinds of mental torture at their workplaces, according to a recent
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It's worth looking at historical cases of how workfare programs displace public-sector union workers and suppress wage, even when the proponents initially claim this won't happen. The experience in NYC
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