October 15, 2022 by V Leigh

Americans WANT: —to raise the minimum wage —strengthen social safety nets & unions —make the wealthy & corporations pay their fair share —and much more Why won’t Congress get it done?

These UW librarians say they won’t be shushed when it comes to calling for fair pay. https://t.co/IWccLeyshd
— The Seattle Times (@seattletimes) October 14, 2022

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Congratulations to the faculty unions at Rutgers who were able to reverse the lifting of the university’s mask mandate after filing a legal challenge.https://t.co/Y8ljOqRagg
— Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran) October 5, 2022

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— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) September 30, 2022

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Starbucks fires yet another outspoken pro-union barista—supposedly for wearing a suicide awareness pin

Will Westlake was once summoned to an hourlong anti-union session where it was just him & 6 managers

The union says Sbucks has fired 100 baristas who helped lead union efforts https://t.co/OCfpV0qpky
— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) October 5, 2022

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Corporations: “We have no choice but to raise prices due to inflation!”

Also corporations: pic.twitter.com/hvfD35Qn9E
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) October 13, 2022

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Amazon’s products can collect data about you when you

Talk
Sleep
Walk by
Show your face
Cough
Snore
Come home
Leave home
Turn on the lights
Turn up the heat
Play music
Watch TV
Join Wifi
Wash your hands
Cook popcorn
Receive a package
Drive places
… https://t.co/ZvlpnFnGcG
— Geoffrey A. Fowler (@geoffreyfowler) October 12, 2022

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Americans WANT:
—to raise the minimum wage
—strengthen social safety nets & unions
—make the wealthy & corporations pay their fair share
—and much more

Why won’t Congress get it done?

Because their corporate donors tell them not to.#UnionStrong
— SEIU (@SEIU) July 18, 2022

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September 28, 2022 by V Leigh

This year has seen a wave of union activism after decades of declining membership. Workers have won elections to form unions in industries that have never had them, including at Starbucks and Amazon. Meet the leaders powering the movement

This year has seen a wave of union activism after decades of declining membership.

Workers have won elections to form unions in industries that have never had them, including at Starbucks and Amazon.

Meet the leaders powering the movement. 👇https://t.co/Ks1NwRBu99
— Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) September 10, 2022

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This family of billionaires owns all the food in your house.

Their company has been named “the worst company in the world” and they once had an intelligence operation “bigger than the CIA.”

So who are they? pic.twitter.com/tRWQqVsW1c
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) September 17, 2022

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Kroger sent this ‘no one wins with a strike’ memo out to workers ahead of the strike vote overwhelming approved by workers in the Columbus, Ohio area pic.twitter.com/DOAHrm4uYC
— Michael Sainato (@msainat1) September 16, 2022

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“While we struggle to heat our homes, we have to pay for your parade…”

Charles confronted by a member of the public about the cost of living crisis pic.twitter.com/yl19KjTBKc
— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) September 16, 2022

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When we say “There are no ethical billionaires, because if they were ethical they would no longer be billionaires,” here’s proof. https://t.co/QOTm4nbsA9
— Gwen C. Katz (@gwenckatz) September 15, 2022

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Hey, friends, we just gave our company to planet Earth. OK, it’s more nuanced than that, but we’re closed today to celebrate this new plan to save our one and only home. We’ll be back online tomorrow.https://t.co/fvRFDgOzVZ
— Patagonia (@patagonia) September 14, 2022

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Netflix just dropped a new series about money management in the middle of an economic crisis. All I can do is laugh at this point. https://t.co/a4rgKKwpa0
— Heaux House™️ (@MadeInHawaii___) September 11, 2022

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1/8 I want to share a few stories from this year that will call attention to the irreversible havoc rail carriers have placed on their employees, customers, and the nation. #railstrike https://t.co/q2TZLL0SHR
— Jason Doering (@jtdoering) September 12, 2022

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BREAKING: Nearly 300 workers at Home Depot in Philadelphia have filed to unionize.

This would be the first union at Home Depot in the United States.
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) September 20, 2022

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How does @Starbucks treat workers? Shareholders want to know! A group of investors—led by @NYCComptroller Brad Lander/NYC pension funds—filed a shareholder proposal seeking an audit of @Starbucks labor practices on @SBWorkersUnited. By @josheidelson https://t.co/OYYwf4vNss
— Terri Gerstein (@TerriGerstein) September 19, 2022

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CEO of $12 billion company told investors he’s “praying for inflation,” an unusually candid admission of a dirty secret in the business world: corporations use inflation as a pretext to jack up prices. https://t.co/fKyLnjdlig
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) September 28, 2022

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“UPMC opened a food bank for employees who were struggling to make ends meet. It was staffed by employees, and stocked by donations from employees.

It should not be this way.” pic.twitter.com/pqCaKVOGhY
— Hospital Workers Rising (@PGHHospitalWork) September 26, 2022

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Home Depot managers have poured into the Philly store where a worker recently filed a union petition. One worker told me eight managers pulled them aside to talk in the past week: “Before this, I didn’t even know what my district manager looked like” https://t.co/Z0uUSCgaXs
— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson) September 27, 2022

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August 25, 2022 by V Leigh

To me nothing beats this union messaging. All the anti-union propaganda fades in front of a giant raise

To me nothing beats this union messaging. All the anti-union propaganda fades in front of a giant raise pic.twitter.com/XgDxtbSCOE
— Read Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns (@JoshuaPotash) July 31, 2022

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Which stage of capitalism is this? pic.twitter.com/nZwJQCOXW2
— Keston K. Perry (@radical_carib) July 25, 2022

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Scoop: Amazon warehouse workers who commute several hours from Tijuana, MX to San Diego on foot are organizing for better working conditions & winning concessions from Amazon!

I visited in May to talk about their grassroots campaign. Here is my dispatch:https://t.co/iiVveVdzyk
— Lauren Kaori Gurley (@LaurenKGurley) July 8, 2022

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Unions on brink of ‘synchronised’ strikes, says RMT’s Mick Lynch https://t.co/L0yAN83yq2
— The Guardian (@guardian) August 18, 2022

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Ignore the anti-union propaganda from corporate America.

If unions were actually bad for workers, corporations wouldn’t need to spend millions of dollars on union-busting.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 17, 2022

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Starbucks ordered to reinstate US workers fired amid union campaign https://t.co/8NTaLwveUi
— The Guardian (@guardian) August 19, 2022

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May 7, 2022 by V Leigh

Employees everywhere are organizing.

NEW STUDY: Amazon, Starbucks, and 20 other major corporations made a $1.5 trillion fortune during the pandemic. Only 2% of it went to workers. pic.twitter.com/DWw3b0zYG3
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) May 6, 2022

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BREAKING: @JackBox workers in Sacramento have walked off the job on strike

After a pregnant co-worker was threatened at gunpoint, she was told to finish her shift & her hours were cut when she refused. This is obscene.

We’ve filed a complaint with CalOSHA. #UnionsForAll pic.twitter.com/CbQwdTpoO7
— Fight For 15 Nor Cal (@NorCalFF15) April 26, 2022

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Partners at the East Robinson Starbucks just walked out over short-staffing, unsafe working conditions, and the cumulative eight months of union-busting they’ve endured from corporate. Please support them here:https://t.co/wKA09bHBiM
— SBWorkersUnited (@SBWorkersUnited) May 7, 2022

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Starbucks has cut our labor so much that our customers have to wait 30, 40 mins for their orders. This is a picture taken *after* our morning rush, this is all the food & drinks people *abandoned*. But Starbucks still makes sure to hang up fresh anti union propaganda in the back. pic.twitter.com/YCISehdiIg
— G. Gamache (@The_G_Genie) May 6, 2022

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Starbucks is running a scorched earth union busting campaign all over the country, feel like this should be a bigger story pic.twitter.com/k9g7mKCdpc
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) May 6, 2022

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Lolz pic.twitter.com/BsRlaPOtVE
— Eric Blanc (@_ericblanc) May 7, 2022

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This is what Oligarchy and corporate greed are all about. Two large and profitable corporations, owned by billionaires, spend millions to illegally deny their workers the right to organize. No corporation that breaks the law should get a federal contract. https://t.co/uOky6yO3kz
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 7, 2022

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U.S. labor board prosecutors have determined that anti-union meetings held by union-buster Amazon in Staten Island, New York, violated federal law, according to an agency spokesperson. #UnionsForAll https://t.co/isa0AhDF7k
— Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) May 7, 2022

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AMAZON FIRES SIX TOP MANAGERS at its Staten Island warehouse where workers unionized

This shows corporate America’s extreme dislike of unions—Amazon, like many corporations is sending a strong message to managers: if your facility unionizes, you’re firedhttps://t.co/OINTTphyPm
— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) May 7, 2022

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Never forget what the teachers unions were saying for two years pic.twitter.com/2tZR3YWSXj
— Tommy Schultz (@Tommy_USA) May 6, 2022

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In 2020, Joe Biden pledged to ensure that companies would only get federal contracts if they remained neutral in union elections. But Amazon was just reawarded a $10 billion federal contract — despite the corporation’s vile union busting. https://t.co/X9c1hpolwj
— Jacobin (@jacobin) May 7, 2022

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Joining an explosion of undergraduate student worker organizing across the country, student workers at Kenyon College are currently on indefinite strike to demand union recognition. https://t.co/y31VTeIFGW
— Jacobin (@jacobin) April 29, 2022

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VBNMW, am I right? NO.

“A majority of Senate Democrats joined with Republicans to block an effort by Bernie Sanders to stop corporations from outsourcing U.S. jobs and preventing workers from forming labor unions.”https://t.co/NCRWIncXyB
— Armchair Commie (@hats_n_politics) May 6, 2022

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Christian Smalls, President of the Amazon Labor Union, schooling Lindsey Graham on labor unions – is my new favorite song. pic.twitter.com/GDmuAI10ed
— Chris Strider (@stridinstrider) May 5, 2022

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During the past 6 months, NLRB unionization petitions have increased 57% when compared to last year. Polls also show 68% percent of ppl approve of labor unions, the highest rate since 71% in 1965! The working class is winning rn, and that’s something we can all get behind ✊🏼❤️ pic.twitter.com/SxHoERQ3XB
— Mario 🍪🌻🇻🇪🇵🇸 (@marionumber4) May 7, 2022

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When the folks at CNBC have to admit that #labor #unions are on the rise.https://t.co/Uk6tOtRXf7
— Chris Khalil (@CKProgressive) May 7, 2022

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