Believing in science means believing scientists should have a voice on the job. NIH is trying to strip collective bargaining rights from their fellows, yet another attack on lifesaving research www.aaup.org/news/aaups-w...
BREAKING: Wienerschnitzel workers in Los Angeles are on strike after a series of health and safety issues, followed by attempted union busting.
After we learned our rights and joined the CAFFWU, the company threatened to cut the hours of workers who are union leaders in our store. 🧵
#UnionsForAll
According to the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), the historical daily average for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz is around 138 commercial ships.
Nearly 6 hours since a GOP congressman said “Muslims don’t belong in American society,” not a single member of Republican leadership in the House will weigh in.
Letter from UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova to JBS USA informing the company they are giving notice to cancel the contract extension agreement
3,800 meatpacking workers, represented by UFCW Local 7, could go on strike as early as March 16
The union canceled their contract extension agreement. 99% of workers voted to authorize a strike
It would be the first strike at the plant, the largest to hit the industry in decades
Louisville and Lexington players paused the USL Championship season opener for 60 seconds after kickoff, letting the clock run without play. A fearless show of unity from the USL Players Association as negotiations reach a critical stage. It’s time for the league to act. #StandUpForStandards
Letter from UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova to JBS USA informing the company they are giving notice to cancel the contract extension agreement
3,800 meatpacking workers, represented by UFCW Local 7, could go on strike as early as March 16
The union canceled their contract extension agreement. 99% of workers voted to authorize a strike
It would be the first strike at the plant, the largest to hit the industry in decades
The economy is really strong, just take my word for it, please ignore all the mounting data showing otherwise
Oof
The US lost 92k jobs in February
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The US lost 92k jobs in February
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Heartbreaking testimony yesterday in the MN House Children and Families Committee. Parents are begging for childcare centers to be protected from ICE activity, and too many elected officials don't seem to care...
Workers at top 20 US low-wage firms rely on public assistance, report says www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Noem is speaking live now in Nashville as she was fired
www.kvue.com/video/news/l...
Noem speaking now in Nashville as she was fired
www.kvue.com/video/news/l...
From DOGE to now JD Vance, the Trump administration has been crying fraud everywhere while pardoning all of Trump's fraudster friends who owe millions of dollars to the victims they ripped off
NEW: From 2019-2024, average median worker pay at the 20 largest low-wage U.S. companies DECLINED by 4.6% when adjusted for inflation, from $30,474 to $29,087. Their average CEO pay in 2024 was $18.9 million.
@msainato.bsky.social on new IPS @inequality.org findings in @us.theguardian.com:
Workers at top 20 US low-wage firms rely on public assistance, report says www.theguardian.com/business/202...
ICE is still terrorizing Minnesota
This is obvious in every TV interview she does, it's all bad paraphrasing of Trump admin talking points about workers, no substance, no basic understanding or care for what the agency does
"I'm so grateful to the membership of SAG-AFTRA, to the membership of all of our sibling unions, especially our cast and crew, and to labor unions everywhere"
Noah Wyle shouts out organized labor in his Actors Awards acceptance speech last night
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqZN...
"I'm so grateful to the membership of SAG-AFTRA, to the membership of all of our sibling unions, especially our cast and crew, and to labor unions everywhere"
Noah Wyle shouts out organized labor in his Actors Awards acceptance speech last night
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqZN...
I'm sorry what? I guess it depends on your definition of captured. CBS has most certainly changed its editorial point of view from middle of the road to strategically pro-MAGA/ pro-Trump went it really counts. The examples are everywhere & even confirmed from inside the newsroom like here:
Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
“Epstein files released at the end of January also showed that the first lady was once in direct contact with Maxwell in 2002, more than two years before she married Trump.
One email between Trump and Maxwell was signed ‘Love, Melania.’”
Ms. Wilkins, the daughter of a financial specialist in the aerospace industry (her mother) and a global consumer products executive for Gillette (her father), had lived in London and Switzerland, and for a time attended elementary school at Collège du Léman in Geneva. She is originally from the Boston suburb of Weymouth, but likes to emphasize her time living in Arkansas. “There are just some things the limousine liberal will never understand from the coasts,” she recently wrote. As a child, she sought work as an actor in Los Angeles, where a high point was appearing in small parts in two episodes of the sitcom “Modern Family.”
Patel's girlfriend is a combo of multiple different types in MAGAworld:
*the failed entertainer looking for an audience
*the person from an elite background cosplaying as a heartland populist
*an aspiring online celeb who is using government security and transport to pretend to be a VIP
