🧨Chas Walker💥
@chasbwalkerformer @seiu1199_ne organizer, now PhD candidate @BU_PoliSci researching union upsurge | @gradworkersofBU @seiu509 member | dad joke praxis
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This story makes me wonder why we don't put the 2000 "Brooks Brothers Riot" on a par with Jan. 6. After all, it ACCOMPLISHED what the J6 insurrectionists dreamed of - stopped the counting of votes, and made the guy who should have lost become the president cnn.com/2024/10/03/pol…
Once again, the police version of events turns out to have been an utter self-serving fabrication.
Footage of two New York City police officers opening fire at a subway station as they confronted a man holding a knife shows they fired at him as he was standing still, his arms by his side and his back to a train. apnews.com/article/nyc-su…
Jews were accused in pre holocaust Europe of being a drain on public resources, of being a vector for disease, and having offensive dietary practices. The stuff you said about Haitian Americans is a lie and Americans are in danger now.
This week, I had the great honor of meeting and spending time with Jerry Wartski, a 94-year-old Auschwitz survivor. It's difficult to fathom the courage and strength demonstrated by Jerry and so many others who suffered through the unspeakable depravities of the Holocaust. I'm…
Huge news: The NLRB today ruled that Starbucks illegally closed all three stores in Ithaca. The agency ordered that those stores be re-opened, with the unionized staff re-hired and given 16 months of backpay. This is why Starbucks is suing to destroy the NLRB.
You may have heard that public support for unions “has been increasing”—but you probably haven’t heard just how big a deal that is in the context of the last 15 years. Since the Great Recession, we’ve seen the credibility of, and approval for, just about every major institution…
Following strike, @UAW has reached tentative contract deal with Cornell including “record wage increases of up to 25.4%, a cost of living adjustment, and the elimination of the two-tier wage system,” union says
Here is the union approval rating going all the way back to 1936, per Gallup. The union *disapproval* rating, now at 23%, hasn’t been this low since 1967.
Ok labor movement, tag yourself in this Eugene V. Debs quote
Ta-Nehisi Coates on the DNC’s refusal (so far) to give a single Palestinian American voice any airtime: vanityfair.com/news/story/dnc…
Hundreds of @UAWregion9 workers at Cornell University are rallying on campus to demand a fair contract following a landslide strike authorization vote which saw 94% of union members vote to strike if necessary. #StandUpUAW
BREAKING: Starbucks has abruptly ousted its CEO who approved negotiations on a landmark labor contract with Starbucks workers. His replacement is Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol, who has fought unions aggressively and said he's “disappointed to see” employees organize.
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Heading home with my copilot after a fantastic visit @KheelCenter plumbing the depths of public sector unionism and strikes, capped off by an illuminating chat this morning with the one and only @KBronfenbrenner!
Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter and his ensuing descent into madness is proof that the horror genre is based on real life: It's not just in books that someone makes an expensive and hubristic purchase of a cursed item that causes their life to unravel. And I think that's neat.
Tapping the sign
Self-portrait with Death playing the fiddle, by Arnold Böcklin, 1872
SCOOP: The Amazon Labor Union Democratic Reform Caucus has won the leadership election of ALU-IBT Local 1. Story forthcoming.
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