#Workers

Toni

toniwriter

It's Friday night which means we've lost another 40 construction workers to suicide this week.Here's a quick thread on the topic:The reason we don't hear about these suicides as much

Eagle Eye

SortedEagle

After filing a complaint against the illegal use of Herald House in the National Herald case, Subramanian Swamy in 2015 filed a petition to Urban Development Ministry for taking back

Justin Parmenter

JustinParmenter

There’s been a rash of unprincipled folks working behind the scenes to silence educators lately. It’s unfortunate that we have to deal with that on top of everything else that’s

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: December 5, 1894. Alabama repealed its child labor law in order to convince the Dwight Manufacturing Company, a textile corporation, to move its mill operations

Rep. Pramila Jayapal

RepJayapal

Repeat after me: the stock market is NOT the economy.FACTS:The wealthiest 10% of US households own 84% of value of stocks. The top 1% controls 40%. The wellbeing of vast

Liana Brooks

LianaBrooks

The only person you hurt when pirating books is the author.Big corporations can get new authors.Amazon will find other workers to exploit. But authors publish books because the have rent

Paul M. Talboo

thepaultalboo

.@indians Hear me out. Those screaming about losing the team’s history: one of the former names of this same franchise is the Blues. You could return to it without “erasing”

Coalition of Immokalee Workers

ciw

1/ In this next chapter of the pandemic, we must ensure that farmworker communities — arguably among the most essential and most vulnerable worker communities — get early access to

Laurie Pohutsky

lpohutsky19

Yesterday the House once again failed to vote on any legislation to deal with COVID. In fact, we adjourned session so the GOP could offer Rudy Giuliani a platform to

Gig Workers Are Voting No On Prop 22

GigWorkersRise

Tomorrow, Uber & Lyft are shutting down.Eliminating thousands of drivers’ income during COVID to avoid following labor law is cruel. Shutting down & laying off workers to scare them into

Dasha Burns

DashaBurns

THREAD: I learned the nitty gritty details behind how one of the nation’s leading hospitals @DukeHospital is preparing for the vaccine and I am floored by the logistics. Some

KrazieChain

kraziechain

Revolutions don't reward those who are in the frontline. It rewards those who seize the opportunity created by those whose blood and sweat are spilled. Those who already have privilege.Those

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

If you only learn one technical term from labor economics, make it "chickenization" - @CLeonardNews's term for the way that the Big Three poultry processors have structured the chicken-farming industry

Clara Weiss

claraweiss20

You cannot speak about #ICE and #Nuremberg without mentioning what the main charge at Nuremberg was: the the waging of aggressive wars. Not just the Trump administration, but the Obama

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

A wonkish thread on the economics of unemployment insurance. Why? Because Republicans are talking nonsense, but also because it seems to me that even some of the people calling for

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exavierpope

For awhile I’ve wondered why are the vast majority of people who are most against social distancing and masks racist? It hit me yesterday. Us being restricted prevents people from

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