This should be illegal in every state!
#workerissues
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This should be illegal in every state!
#workerissues
"Why are investors so bullish on the AI boom? Partly because this technology promises to lay off more workers, more rapidly, than any innovation in recent memory."
#BanAI #workerissues #workers'rights
Federal employment dropped 15,000 jobs in August, totaling 97,000 jobs lost since January.
Manufacturing jobs went down by 12,000 in August and have tumbled 78,000 for the year.
Black Americans are seeing an unemployment rate of 7.5%....The unemployment rate for White Americans is 3.7% #workerissues
Working in general has become a nightmare in this country, but working for either of these two is even worse.
"Musk allegedly exposed his erect penis to a Space X contract flight attendant/masseuse and promised to buy her a horse if she’d give him a happy ending." #workers'rights #workerissues
Yes, persecution of undocumented migrants enables wage theft. Workers, documented or not, should be protected. #workerissues #worker'srights
We need progressive candidates in the Democratic Party to wrest control of Congress away from the right.
“Until they reconnect with real voters and working people on who they’re for and what their economic message is, they’re going to have problems.”
#Progress #SaveDemocracy #workerissues
'Trump is destroying working-class people and their communities, she said, but he’s chosen the wrong target: “The majority of us are working-class people who contribute to this country, so we aren’t the backyard nor the garbage dump of any politician.”' #work #workers #workerissues #unionstrong
These women had to come all the way from Indonesia to Oregon to demand the wages that they are owed. We need an international criminalization of wage theft. #solidarity #worker'srights #workerissues #wagetheft
Just don't shop at Target, everybody. #boycott #Target #workerissues #DEI #oligarchs
This benefited children, parents, and childcare workers. Win, win, win! #kids #parents #workerissues
Workers will pay for these cuts...and where are the "savings" going to go? #workerissues #resist
Moral of the story: don't take people who do important jobs for granted.
“We’re not asking for any more money, we just want what we were already getting.”
#resist #worker'srights #workerissues #unionstrong #solidarity
“This isn’t just about Republicans, either. We need a Democratic party that fights harder for us, too,” Ocasio-Cortez said in Arizona, drawing some of the loudest, most sustained applause of the event."
#democracy #progress #resist #workerissues
These layoffs saved tax payers exactly $0. The BPA is a non-profit that runs on charges for wholesale electricity, not taxpayer money. They risk leaving the Pacific Northwest in the cold and dark because...why? #DOGE #Trump #workerissues
Trump's tariffs will hurt consumers and businesses, Doge has laid off thousands of workers and hollowed out federal departments that provide public services, and the GOP Congress is trying to deprive people of the social safety net so the rich can get richer. A Dark New Deal. #resist #workerissues
"The unions that filed the lawsuit are seeking to block DOGE from accessing Labor Department data, arguing that access to such sensitive information systems would violate the Privacy Act and the Administrative Procedure Act." #resist #unionstrong #workerissues #workers'rights
"Myself as well as others in my branch were terminated which means less of us to assist in tracking and combating infectious outbreaks."
"When will this nation recognize us as indispensable and essential?"
#resist #publichealth #workerissues #workers'rights #veterans
We need more of this. #workerissues
"At one point, a former IRS employee tucked into a coffee shop couch disagreed with Alford's salary assessment of IRS workers and stood and yelled, "I made $40,000 a year! I made $40,000 a year! ... Why did you take my job?"'
#resist #worker'srights #workerissues
"Unions don't organize workers -- workers organize unions."
-- Martin Glaberman and Seymour Faber
Don't wait for a union to organize you. Learn how to organize one for yourself and your co-workers, or how to join an existing one in your industry. #resist #organize #unionstrong #workerissues
Yes.
Also, he admitted that Musk and Trump's plan is to replace workers with AI.
'McCormick responded that “a lot of the work they do is duplicitous with AI.”'
"Duplicitous" certainly is the word for it!
#resist #workers'rights #workerissues #redstateswakeup
"As they dream about making us superfluous, we should be emboldened, not frightened. If they think they no longer need us, we should seriously ask if we need their class at all."
#workers'rights #workerissues #unionstrong #resist #unionizetech
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#resist #workers'rights #workerissues #stopthecoup