#Workers

Diane Swonk

DianeSwonk

Warning about the weekly UI claims data out today. The data is an a mess. Many UI claims now represent multiple attempts by workers still unable to get the UI

Sally McManus

sallymcmanus

A message to Sydney from Melbourne ---Five things that must be done NOW to stop Covid19 spreading which will save hundreds of lives, hundreds of thousands of jobs and avoid

No Sweat

No_Sweat

A message to all the big fashion brands, especially @Topshop, @Primark and @boohoo, from a small volunteer-run campaign group with its own T-shirt project and the worker-owned factory that makes

Adam Dean

AdamDean34

New in @Health_Affairs: Can labor unions reduce COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes? @atheendar @simkimmel and I find that unions were associated with a 30% relative decrease in COVID-19 mortality rates

Jennifer McClellan

JennMcClellanVA

My mom, aunts, grandmother, & great grandmother were all domestic workers for white families in segregated Mississippi for white families. As Mom tells it, that’s all they could do. As

Nisa Malli

nisamalli

I'm reading @annehelen's "Can't Even" and keep thinking about how the myth of do what you love is layered on top of the myth that if you work hard, you

NY Taxi Workers

NYTWA

New York’s Uber and taxi drivers are now eligible for the vaccine! Excluding these essential frontline workers was gross neglect, and we are heartened this has been corrected.NYTWA’s statement: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/NYTWA-

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

Lots of discussion about injustice for minorities- here's an issue which certainly affects a lot of our minority workers. It's something I'm detecting increasing disquiet about in the Commons.The free

against utopia 🏴🟢

againstutopia

I'm not interested in re-litigating Lenin and the soviet revolution but I'm apparently about to do just thatI think everyone should read Lenin. I think the problems of bourgeois capitalism

OSBCU-CSCSO

osbcucscso

To say that we are disgusted is beyond - 1000s of the lowest paid workers, who cannot work virtually, tasked with feeding, toileting, suctioning, sanitizing - unable to social distance

Dr. Thrasher, jouRNAlist

thrasherxy

Undertheorized: Vaccine hesitancy is tied to *Democrats* like Cuomo, Newsom & Lightfoot impatiently sending workers back to work w/o vax—even as the bodies stack up fast than ever. "If vax

Veena Dubal

veenadubal

I just gave a talk on how gig worker carveouts (thru Prop22 or proposed 'sectoral bargaining' initiatves) from labor laws is a continuation of New Deal facially-neutral carveouts for highly-racialized

Tovarisch

nwbtcw

Amazon's anti-union website is a great lesson in the talking points you can expect if you try to organize where you work. Bosses in every industry say the same things,

Mark Toshner

mark_toshner

Have to admit I have eased off on talking about vaccine safety. In my bubble everyone is just desperate for a vaccine. Thought job done. Reminded it is not. 1/nhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/10/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-hesit

🌌 Comrade Collective Mind 🧠

peakcapitolism

All sorts of ppl say that the Left is disconnected from the working class and must be abolished, and this argument presents itself as some hopeful step forward. In actuality,

Senator Megan Hunt 😷

NebraskaMegan

Amazing, the public health outcomes we can accomplish when it comes to Husker football. Month 6.https://twitter.com/owhnews/status/1304182652120031242 We couldn’t even get testing in the Capitol when we had to finish our

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